Michael Steele statement on Obama's oil spill address

I had a wild twelve hour day at work, so I missed Dear Leader's speech on the BP oil spill. It was also the latest incarnation of the Democrats' "never waste a crisis" mentality. Republican National Chairman Michael Steele issued the following statement a few hours ago.

Manipulating this tragic, national crisis for selfish political gain not only demonstrates President Obama's inability to aptly lead our nation out of a disaster, but also reveals the appallingly arrogant political calculus of this White House. Exploiting the tragedy in the Gulf to try to ram through a devastating job-killing national energy tax is more of the same Chicago-style politics that has the president's approval ratings plummeting to an all-time low. Instead of leveraging this crisis to manufacture knee-jerk political support for cap-and-trade energy taxes, President Obama should focus on providing the people of the Gulf with real and honest solutions to this horrible environmental disaster that this Administration has been slow in waking up to.

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