OBAMA AND BP BOTH GET THUMBS DOWN ON GULF SPILL – AT 8:38 A.M. ET:  I admire the American people.  No matter how much the establishment media tries to protect The One (And Only), Americans see through the haze. 

A new Fox poll makes it clear that our people do not approve of Obama's handling of Katrina II, the sequel, the oil spill:

Large majorities of American voters think the federal government and the oil company BP could be doing more to halt the disaster on the Gulf Coast.

A new poll released Friday by Fox News shows that few voters -- less than one in four -- think the federal government (24 percent) and BP (23 percent) are doing everything possible to combat the oil spill.

About 7 in 10 think there is more each organization could be doing to stop the leak and clean up the mess.

Even so, about twice as many voters approve of the how the Obama administration (41 percent) is dealing with the spill than with how BP is handling it (19 percent).

But approvers are in the minority. Just over half of voters disapprove of how the administration is handling the spill, while most voters -- 73 percent -- rate the job BP is doing negatively.

COMMENT:  We've speculated here, and I believe the facts support the speculation, that the radicals behind Obama rather like the oil spill.  The more damage, the better.  More damage, more support for environmental extremism.  Some will call that a conspiracy theory, but how else do we explain the utter sluggishness and marked indifference of the federal response?

July 3, 2010