Tiny Sportswriter: Subpoena Cheney Over BP Spill or Something

Poor little Mikey Lupica. So heartbroken his hero Obama has turned out to be an empty suit. Still that doesn't deter him from going on some rant about Sarah Palin, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Frankly, I'm amazed he somehow avoided taking a swipe at Rush Limbaugh for the BP mess. On the upside, even this most strident of Obama Kool-Aid slurpers has noticed the clay feet.

Barack Obama helps nobody, certainly not himself, biting his lip and doing some bad Bill Clinton impression. If he wants to channel a past President in his continuing response to the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico, it ought to be Harry Truman. Obama ought to start giving people hell instead of just talking about doing that.

The people in the gulf sure don't need an acting job from him, and a pretty bad acting job at that. Already over the past couple of months there have been too many times when the vacant look on the President's face has reminded you of a starlet trying to summon up the proper emotion to seeing something very, very sad.

Yesterday, Obama sent out another e-mail to the country, something else that helped him get elected. In it he is still trying to defend his administration's actions, as if somehow he knew from the jump that this explosion would poison the gulf for a generation.

"From the beginning, we have worked to deploy every tool at our disposal ..." the President writes.

No, he has not. This now sounds as pathetic as Bush desperately trying to bring himself back from "Heck of a job, Brownie." That ship has sailed, even as Obama talks about the 1,900 vessels he has in the water down there.

Then it's on to some cheap shots at the real enemies: The Republicans.

It is why the most shameless hypocrites on this thing, led by pep-squad captain Sarah Palin, are those from the "Drill, baby, drill" crowd. Most are hypocrites, anyway. The rest are probably criminals, those who have prospered in the culture of deregulation.

The rest are probably criminals. Nice to see thousands of people publicly indicted by a guy whose knowledge extends about two feet past the last locker room he's just inhabited.

So continue to give BP a much, much worse time, even after having spent too much time looking the other way on drilling like this the way Bush-Cheney did. Go after BP with every resource the government has, not just fines. Tell them that even if there are no criminal charges, they will never be allowed to drill so much as a golf hole in the waters of this country ever again.

Just wondering: How many major oil spills occurred during the evil Bush-Cheney reign?

Then hire a special prosecutor to look at every single step of the deregulation process of the past 20 years, all the way back to Clinton. The compassionate, feel-your-pain lip-biter.

Have that prosecutor finally disclose who participated in the National Energy Policy Development Group that Dick Cheney convened as vice president in 2001. Find out what special interests were represented and what deals were made and who might have gotten rich off them, just because nobody has been able to find out in nearly 10 years. Maybe a subpoena will make Cheney be more forthcoming.

I don't doubt for a second Obama and Holder would love to do just that. Anything to deflect attention from their incompetence.

One thing Lil' Mikey doesn't demand? That Obama give his BP money back. Probably has no clue about that, of course.