Please to explain?
As I write these words, thousands of barrels of oil are spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from a well dug and operated by a major global private enterprise, BP. Right wing commentators are taking President Obama to task for his alleged lack of intervention - or, as they put it failure to "take charge of the situation."
Leaving aside the question of what he could actually do, given that the government has neither the specialized equipment nor the specialized knowledge to do more than BP itself can do, one wonders what these self-described "small-government conservatives" really believe about the limits of government intervention, the evils of regulation and the freedom of the marketplace.
Leaving aside the question of what he could actually do, given that the government has neither the specialized equipment nor the specialized knowledge to do more than BP itself can do, one wonders what these self-described "small-government conservatives" really believe about the limits of government intervention, the evils of regulation and the freedom of the marketplace.