Back in April, for example, Rep. Ron Paul (R., Texas) greeted the president’s drilling policy with the suggestion that the Environmental Protection Agency be abolished and “the energy market” freed from bureaucrats so that it might answer to “the demands of the people and the decisions of private investors.”
But what say the tea partiers today? Who will step forward now and demand that the “energy market” be rescued from regulatory bondage?
Other than Rand Paul, who will honor the snakeflag slogan and demand that the government stop treading on BP? Who will unmask the Gulf situation as just another fake crisis manufactured by power-hungry liberals? Who will lament the persecution of productive business executives by the looters of Washington, D.C., posturing so arrogantly in their hearing rooms but trembling in private as they contemplate the tsunami of liberty heading their way this November?
Most importantly, who will find an inventive way to blame government for the disaster? Not blame it for reacting too slowly after the spill—that is merely a statist reflex in disguise—but for somehow causing the spill with its meddlesome concerns for safety and the environment?
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