Driving Around With NPR On The Radio: Even They're Beginning To Question...

...how this BraveNewObamaWorld thing is working out.

Mr. and Mrs. OldSouth had a couple of errands to run--pick up Mrs. OS's car from the shop, purchase a tarp from the farm supply place, even got a lunch at the diner for all that driving around. Life is good today...

NPR was on the radio--always interested to hear what the nation's most enthusiastic Kool-Aid drinkers are up to. And, it is interesting, more interesting now than ever. It's dawning on a few of them that maybe (just maybe!) they've been had, and The One is actually doing more harm than good, and they are His useful idiots.

Since the early 70's, the NPR spiel has been predictable: There's this terrible situation involving (fill in the blank), caused by all those greedy WASP's determined to enslave and starve the victims of (fill in the blank). If only we had another government program, and raised taxes a teeny-weeny bit more, why this problem could be solved. OS used to be able to time the final thirty seconds or so of each presentation, because right after the erudite opinions of Professor (fill in the blank) of (fill in the blank) State U, came the inevitable assertion that more government and more spending were our only solution and salvation.

Today was different: The report on Obama's attempt to shut down the Gulf Coast oil industry points out in stark terms the massive (and permanent) dislocation that will result if Himself prevails (and sho'nuff, He's in court, tryin' to locate a judge who will collude with Him--do I smell an appointment to the appeals court quietly being proffered?)

It's not pretty--and pretty unflattering to The Winner of the 2010 Noble Peace Prize.

The second feature was an interesting conversation between BP's COO Doug Suttles and NPR's Melissa Block, who took the opportunity to really to skewer him. He took it in stride, and unlike The One, never lost his temper, or became petulant. Further, NPR knew how to locate BP's COO and actually have a conversation with him. Suttles was willing to endure a long interview with someone from an organization known for its hostility to the private sector. That's more than Obama ever bothered to do, on either count.

Suttles held his own, with uncomfortable questions peppered at him. On the whole, he displays a lot more qualities of leadership than The Beloved Leader. BP really screwed the pooch in the Gulf. He admits it, and talks in specifics about what is being done to remedy their screw-up. OS invites you to listen, and compare him to the Corp of Engineers and EPA dolts who are preventing Gulf Coast communities from saving themselves. OS was surprised to hear the interview aired, with no introductory or trailing vitriolic comments.

Remember, ya'll: BP has no upside in a huge disaster--they have to pay for it. Obama and company are presented with a huge opportunity to seize power and bleed BP dry if things truly come unwound. Where does the moral hazard lie?

Again, the signs are subtle, and there are more examples, but slowly slowly slowly, the doubts are beginning to surface, as NPR presenters talk with authors about the reality of evil, school board members in small towns about the impossibility of paying for compliance with Federal mandates while keeping the doors open, about pension funds that are eroding, violence on the border, unemployment as a way of life, businesses shuttering. After all those years of shilling for the Left, NPR is now stuck with reporting the results.

Their discomfort is becoming palpable.

OS just grins and drives.

'Chicken, meet roost'...