Anonymous! What do "free markets and capitalism" have to do with the Chernobyl Accident? The "Great Recession" has done more financial damage than Chernobyl, admitedly not necessarily to human life unless of course you consider the harm the financial meltdown has done to countries on the precipitice of disaster already, driving millions into poverty. The Deepwater Horizon upset an entire ecosystem for which we have no way to ascribe a price tag and destroyed the livlihood of thousands on middle class hard working folks. You are trying to make a point but exactly what is that point? Neither a wholly unregulated capitalism nor a totalitarian dictatorship strangling an economy are desirable. The answer lies somewhere in between, a delicate balancing act between free enterprise and watchful oversight. Even Greenspan has belatedly agreed that pure capitalism does not work, that ultimately it fails. Fortunately, America's 3 Mile Island was not another Chernobyl.

The Democrats ran congress and the Senate at that time. No mention of that.

You missed the point.
The point is not, "Gee. Why does the GOP suddenly care so much that Obama clean up this mess?" Of course they do. Everyone does.
The point is, that GOP has been very much against government regulation. BUT if things like this, banking, and other things Mr. Fiore mentioned WERE regulated by the government, perhaps these disasters wouldn't have occurred in the first place. It's precisely disasters like these which motivate liberals to focus on government regulation. The disconnect between not trusting banks with bailout dollars while still wanting them to have free reign over their business is a laughable one.

"Obama is doing a good job, as well as any mortal man could in a position like he is in. I'm glad he is there and not Bush Jr no matter what his failings. Good lord, the man is a MAN, not "The Son of Jor-EL". If you think you can do better than get started!"

@Anonymous Um, hey, buddy. Are you, like, excusing Barry for how he's handling this f*cking BP mess? Right that he's not "The Son of Jor-El", i.e. Superman, but what the f*ck, man?! He approved MORE f*cking oil leases in shallow water (if you call less than 500 feet shallow) even after he had just earlier announced that ALL NEW f*cking oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico were going to be put on hold. See, the problem with Barry is that he has NO F*CKING PRINCIPLES. None!

How can anyone respect a guy like Barry that's such a lying, unprincipled hypocrite that doesn't do anything but pay lip-service to doing the right thing in a given situation? Publicly he states that X will be done, then behind the scenes he doesn't do X and does the polar opposite of X and expects everyone not to notice.

In many ways, Barry is far worse than W. ever was. How? At least with W. you knew where he stood and didn't think, "Oh, that W. is just saying that, but really we all know W.'s going to do just the opposite." With Barry, you can count on him screwing you in the end. He holds out the progressive pebble in his hand and tells you to take it, but then at the last second, he quickly snatches his hand away, leaving you filled with feelings of loss, betrayal and being played for a sucker. I don't like Barry at all.

Well MH, you're right...they are all clowns, Obama included. So the question is, when are the real clowns, the American People, going to STOP continually voting for these evil A-holes? I'll answer my own question---from the look of it, never! 95 percent of incumbent politicians get re-elected. We'll see if this changes this Fall with the midterm elections.

We've got a system that was rigged from the beginning. We've got a two party system that leaves no room for other "third" parties. As Ralph Nader said during the 2000 election season, they are just tweedle dumb and tweedle dee. Two halves of the same entity. Both halves keep supporting the continuation of the empire. We've got over 700 military bases stationed all over this planet; sucking up money from our treasury, thereby taking resources from much needed things like fixing our infrastructure, schools, switching to a carbonless energy system, etc.

Right now, we probably have the most corrupt governments of any time, federal as well as state. We've got all our politicians on the dole. This is a time were our representational democracy is least representing the citizenry. Where we the citizens have no voice.

Will our citizens wake up and start voting in candidates from new third parties who truly will attempt to combat the control corporations have over our system and represent their constituents? I do hope so. It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Then why is it that we have the tea party types, on the right, and those on the left, ready to re-elect those politicians who are responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place? Are we all insane?

Enough said.
CDA

Right,It's gonna take someone like Ralph Nader to fix the problems of the past 30 years of Ronnie Raygun and the Bush crime family!

Ron Reagan never put that into practice. Of course government is the problem. But that was never practiced. Now we have a 6 month moratorium coming up thats going to tank the gulf economy when we already have enough economic problems already.