Rachael Maddow pretending to be the president

On the Ed show the next day, Ed said that the speech didn't matter so much, but that Obama had stuck it to em in the meeting at the white house and that was what really counted. Naah, not correct. 20 billion bucks is a drop in the bucket. If Obama had gotten say a half trillion out of BP, I would have given him a pass on the speech, but 20 billion over the next 3 to 5 yrs? That totally sux, too...
Nothing the lying liars at BP say means anything anyway...

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation

BTW, Gail Collins of the NYT did a column about The Boring Speech.  Here's a teaser:

On Monday night in Ohio, a 62-foot-tall statue of Jesus got hit by lightning and burned to the ground. (The adult bookstore across the street was unscathed.) Less than 12 hours later, Gen. David Petraeus - who is not God, although certain members of Congress have been known to worship at his altar - semifainted at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

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So you sort of knew from the portents that President Obama's big Oval Office speech was not going to be a terrific game-changer. The way things had been going, the president was lucky that a man-eating pterodactyl didn't come crashing through the window during his opening remarks.

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The way things have been going, you can't be too careful. If the portents keep piling up, it's easy to envision a headline like: "Lone Tourist in Pensacola Eaten by Visiting Walrus Herd."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06...

When Collins is "on" she's one of the best writers out there: go read the whole thing.  You won't be sorry.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White