Romney: Obama Looking for Someone "To Blame" For Oil Spill

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday June 10, 2010

In an op-ed in USA Today, Mitt Romney targeted President Obama's leadership, arguing that the president was looking for a scapegoat to blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Has it come to this again? The president is meeting with his oil spill experts, he crudely tells us, so that he knows "whose ass to kick." We have become accustomed to his management style — target a scapegoat, assign blame and go on the attack. To win health care legislation, he vilified insurance executives; to escape bankruptcy law for General Motors, he demonized senior lenders; to take the focus from the excesses of government, he castigated business meetings in Las Vegas; and to deflect responsibility for the deepening and lengthening downturn, he blames Wall Street and George W. Bush. But what may make good politics does not make good leadership. And when a crisis is upon us, America wants a leader, not a politician.

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Category: Middle Rail