To the right, Obama will always be wrong

Can Obama do anything right? If you listen to people on the right, the answer is clearly no.

With 530,000 jobs added to the economy in the last two months, all the Republicans can say is, “Where are the jobs?”

Someone places a car bomb in Times Square. Fifty-three hours later he’s in custody and singing like a bird. All the Republicans can say is, “Why did you read him his Miranda rights so soon?”

A fire on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico results in a huge blowout and 5,000 barrels of crude a day gushing into the water. The Obama Administration is immediately on the case with FEMA, the Coast Guard, National Response Team, etc. All the Republicans can do is trot out Michael Brown (you’re doing a heck of job, Brownie) to criticize.

Of course, Rush Limbaugh made a clear statement early on that he hoped Obama failed and goes apoplectic every time something turns out well. He also took a cavalier attitude about the oil spill, suggesting that, as a natural substance it will clean itself up. After all, “Prince William Sound is now pristine.” It isn’t.

Congress is now faced with confirming Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, with no judicial record to evaluate. The last justice without a judicial record was William Rehnquist. He was easily confirmed and was a good justice. But the Republicans are already labeling Kagen as an “activist.” Interesting how one man’s activist is another’s strict constructionist, eh Justice Scalia? Republicans who voted to confirm her nomination as Solicitor General are already backpedaling. I guess arguing government cases before the court doesn’t qualify you to sit on the court.

The way conservatives respond to Obama, you’d think they were nostalgic for the Bush years.

BOB WYNHAUSEN

Sandpoint