The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
BP vs. ACA
A reader passes along a Reuters story from June 2010, during the BP oil spill:
Responding to critics who say his response to the spill should be more engaged and forceful, Obama said: “I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf.”
“And I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar; we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick,” he added.
A New York Times story from the preceding month quotes then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar: “Our job is basically to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum.”
Our reader wonders why Obama and Kathleen Sebelius have been so much more muted in their response to the ObamaCare fiasco. No doubt the answer is that for them to kick the ass or put a boot on the neck of the responsible party would require an impossible degree of physical flexibility.
For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists. [Note: the excerpt above is from the 10.22 Botw archives.]
