Liberals Should Stop Freaking Out Over Obama Speech  FILED TO:
Uncategorized  Gawker tries to put the President's speech into
perspective (thank God):  So if Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews,
Howard Fineman and pretty much every other liberal pundit who
freaked the fuck out over the quality or modesty of the
president's 20-minute television speech last night would like to
help the situation, they should direct more ire at the Senate.
That is where people write laws. And they don't have the
collective will or numbers right now to write a good law pricing
carbon.  But what of today's White House agreement with BP for
it to set up a $20 billion, independent escrow fund to pay
claims, cancel its dividends for at least the rest of 2010, and
set up another fund compensating oil workers for lost wages?
(And that $20 billion is not a cap, either — it can, and
probably will, go up.) Those seem like pretty strong results and
displays of leadership!  Getting $20 billion out of the mega
corporation is probably more than t