Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill

How many times have you heard the current gulf oil spill referred to as Obama's Katrina?  I am getting a little tired of the comparison on several levels.  Let me explain.

When Katrina hit New Orleans, whiny liberals everywhere saw the suffering of the local New Orleans minorities and immediately blamed the Bush administration for not responding fast enough.  While mostly unsaid, they were charging racism.  They wanted the federal government nanny to swoop down and save Americans from their suffering.  No time was spent discussing whether the federal government should have led the relief effort, or simply support the state's and city's effort. 

Jump ahead several years to the current gulf oil spill.  Republicans are now taking their pound of flesh from Obama as retribution for the attacks on George Bush during Katrina.  Just as then, local efforts should lead,  with support from the federal government.

I for one do not want to solely rely on the feds to "take care of me", so I will remain consistent and not blame Obama for the federal response to the gulf disaster. While I feel the oil spill is not Obama's Katrina, there are plenty of things I do blame him for.  I would rather the national media focus on his health care legislation that will ruin the best health care system in the world, the piling up of the national debt and his socialist tendencies.  He deserves scathing criticism over these items, but not so much on the oil spill.

My tolerance of the tit-for-tat political wrestling matches is also at the end.  Fire them all.  Let's start with a new Congress.