Crude Coating Sea Birds And Sugary Beaches Is Ours

After more than 40 days and 40 nights, disaster hits home

Americans are starting to snap that it's their oil gushing
out of that hole in the floor of the Gulf.

Like Walter Cronkite's running tally on the number of days
the Iranian hostage crisis had gone on, the CNN shot of the
oil spewing out of the well is starting to make an
impression on people.

Yes, British Petroleum acquired the property, and yes,
Transocean furnished the rig, but - hey - the oil belongs to
the People of the United States of America.

It's their property.

How much of their property has spewed out into the
environment? BP seems to estimate a lot less than what the
amount claimed by the government and scientists consulted by
such luminaries as The Wall Street Journal, The Discovery
Channel and other major media outlets.

Suddenly, the pendulum starts to swing, the shift is
profound and so-called liberal causes don't look so liberal
any more. Could it be that long-held "conservative core
values" are starting to "go with the flow," to change with
the flow of crude coating the Gulf Coast?

Considereth:

Media Matters released the following statement attacking Fox
News from a law office in Washington, D.C., just yesterday.

"Over the long fight for health care reform, Fox News has
been a constant source of misinformation, distraction, and
smears. We at Media Matters for America have spent more than
a year cataloguing and correcting the errors and lies that
have come from both the 'opinion' side and the 'news' side
of Fox's programming.

"In the past year, Fox News has shown that it is not a news
network, it's a political operation. And it threw every
tactic and every lie it had against health insurance reform.

"In its attempt to 'kill the bill,' Fox failed, thanks in
part to the work Media Matters did in refuting Fox's lies
and exposing its agenda. We'll keep up this fight on all the
issues that matter to this country -- and you can help.

"Here are just a few of the ways Fox News lied, misled, and
whipped up anti-health care activism over the past year:

"Promoting terrifying myths about 'death panels,'
euthanasia, abortion, 'government takeovers,' and doctors
quitting the profession

"Advancing false claims about the bill's cost, deficit
impact, CBO score, and tax impact

"Reporting inaccurate claims of 'corruption,' 'special
deals,' and rule-breaking in the legislative process

"Allowing hosts and contributors such as Mike Huckabee,
Glenn Beck, and Dick Morris to promote campaigns to call
members of Congress in opposition to reform."

The press release calls for donations, as do those issued by
conservative candidates for office, and says it was
sponsored by the law firm of Kazan, McLain, Lyons, Greenwood
& Harley, P.L.C., KazanLaw.com

Similarly, the Department of Health & Human Services sent
out a mass mailing to Medicare recipients recently.

A glossy piece, it points out the views of Kathleen
Sebelius, Secretaryof Health & Human Services, that
ObamaCare will guarantee more affordable prescription drugs;
improvements to the Medicare Advantage Plan; better access
to care and better chronic care, as well as improvements to
long-term care choices, a guarantee of medical care for
people with pre-existing conditions and an expansion of
health care for younger people.

Congressman Chet Edwards mailed a slick campaign collateral
detailing his opposition to the Affordable Care Act of 2010
and why he voted against it.

He listed massive federal deficit spending, a pending
reduction of 21 percent to the fees doctors are paid to see
Medicare patients and a ban on re-importation of
prescription pharmaceuticals from Canada and Mexico.

Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership and Gun
Owners of America sent interested subscribers a notice
warning of H.R. 5175, sponsored by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-
Md) and co-sponsored by 114 other Representatives.

The proposed legislation would require gun advocacy groups
to turn over the names of contributors who sponsor their
electioneering announcements and lengthens the period from
60 days before an election to 120 as the time considered to
be political campaigning for an election.

It is termed by the lobbying organization as a bid to
require that the advocates turn over lists of their
membership as well as spend as much as half of a 30-second
political spot airing government disclosure statments.

The title of the bill: "Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting
Light on Spending in Elections Act."