KommonCents: Reagan and Bush were ‘cowboys’, Obama is a ‘mobster’

Playing the bully is fun

Was Rep. Joe Barton's comment that the White House is conducting a funds 'shakedown' from BP insensitive?

Since he doesn't know what else to do about the Gulf oil spill, Barack Obama plays the schoolyard bully. By throwing sticks, stones and the occasional grenade at British Petroleum, the president diverts public attention from his own considerable shortcomings.

It's working, sort of, but only for the short run, which is sometimes enough to get a politician out of a rough patch. The public, being as frustrated as Mr. Obama, dutifully joins the mindless din of threats, imprecations, insults and other affronts to the only people, bad or not, who know how to cap runaway oil wells. Seeking relief in the short run is tempting because presidents, like fake messiahs and other con artists, come and go. The consequences of presidential calamities and catastrophes, like the destruction of the American health care system, stay with us well into the long run

Obama finds an a-- to kick‎ - WND.com

From bully pulpit to bully‎ - Boston Herald