"McCarthy: Obama hasn't returned call of lawmaker representing district of rig"

“He was called back by a staffer on Friday who said that the president was too busy to talk to him. He understood that until I turned on the TV and saw that he was golfing and went out to California to do a fundraiser. He said — six days now and he’s never even spoken to him," McCarthy said.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...-gulf-lawmaker

"I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment and instincts.

There was the tearing and unnecessary war over his health-care proposal and its cost. There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration. And now the past almost 40 days of dodging and dithering in the face of an environmental calamity. I don't see how you politically survive this.

The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...ctions_opinion


Not much more to add or say !!!

The thing is; if any of this had happened while Bush was President, every major news outlet would have covering the people screaming at Bush 24/7. Two days after Katrina the media was excoriating Bush for his "inaction".

Now, the only reason you hear even an inkling of criticism on the major networks of Obama is because a few notable sycophants like James Carville have come out with some negative comments about Obama's response to this crisis.

If it wasn't for talk radio and the Fox News networks political opinion shows; criticism would have been effectively buried.