In his column today, Deroy Murdock writes about Obama’s refusal to waive the anti-competitive, pro-union Jones Act so as to allow foreign ships to help contain and remove oil from the BP spill.
This should be devastating. Bush II suspended the Jones Act (which ought simply to be repealed) almost immediately after Hurricane Katrina. I’d love to see someone ask Obama to explain why that was a bad move and why his refusal to allow foreign vessels to assist is really the intelligent policy move.
Obama likes to use the self-pitying line that he has to “clean up the mess” left by his predecessor. For whomever succeeds Obama, it will literally be true to say that.
