Reply #12: I've got a different theory.

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The BP crisis seems to have mobilized critics of the administration, and from people who are still advocating drilling.

It seems weird that all of a sudden people are making excuses for Bush. That Dickinson article is suspect. Joan Walsh calling it damning. Seriously, WTF?

Frankly, I think a lot of people in the media, among the wealth and connected to special interests don't like the direction Obama is going in. It's all I can come up with because the disconnect between the OP statement and reality is very strange.