Why, Oh, Why Doesn't Obama Save Us?  Steve Chapman  6/13/2010
12:01:00 AM - Steve Chapman  Not long ago, Barack Obama was
pilloried for being too activist, too meddlesome and too
inclined to see himself as the messiah. He was forcing health
care reform down our throats, running General Motors, wrecking
the financial system and promising to make the oceans recede.
But that was a different guy, from a parallel universe. The
President Obama we all know is a passive, detached do-nothing.
Or so we have been hearing since the British Petroleum oil spill
gained our attention.  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican
who once denounced Democrats for scheming to "increase
dependence on government," now demands that Washington do more
for his state.  Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who
recently called on Congress to zero out the Environmental
Protection Agency, challenges the administration to "save the
Louisiana coast, save the fisheries, save the wetlands."  Funny
how nobody said that at the 2008 Republica