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BUT OF COURSE: POLITICO: Environmentalists give Barack Obama a pass on oil spill. Some say ther?

By Glenn Reynolds

BUT OF COURSE: POLITICO: Environmentalists give Barack Obama a pass on oil spill.

Some say there?s little doubt that if a spill like the one in the Gulf took place on former President George W. Bush?s watch, environmental groups would have unleashed an unsparing fury on the Republican in the White House. For their liberal ally, Obama, they seem willing to hold their tongues.

?These guys have bet the farm on this administration,? said Ted Nordhaus, chairman of an environmental think tank, the Breakthrough Institute. ?There has been a real hesitancy to criticize this administration out of a sense that they?re kind of the only game in town. ? These guys are so beholden to this administration to move their agenda that I think they?re unwilling to criticize them.?

Environmentalists, like feminists, are just another arm of the Democratic establishment: “running dogs” to be loosed or reined in as politics require. It is thus unnecessary to pay attention to what they say, since it’s just politics anyway.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 12, 2010 (boomark / email).