WHAT?  YOU MEAN THAT THE REPUBLICANS STOLE IT AND GAVE IT TO THEIR CORPORATE FRIENDS?  I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN – AT 10:14 A.M. ET: 

A funny thing happened to most of the spilled oil in the Gulf.  It disappeared.  Now there is much to-do over this.  Where is it?  What will CNN do without oil pictures, now that Shirley Sherrod has had her 15 minutes?  Was the oil stolen by the GOP?  By Fox News?  ABC has the painful story:

For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems. BP and the federal government have amassed an army to clean the oil up, but there's one problem -- they're having trouble finding it.

At its peak last month, the oil slick was the size of Kansas, but it has been rapidly shrinking, now down to the size of New Hampshire.

Today, ABC News surveyed a marsh area and found none, and even on a flight out to the rig site Sunday with the Coast Guard, there was no oil to be seen...

...Even the federal government admits that locating the oil has become a problem.

"It is becoming a very elusive bunch of oil for us to find," said National Incident Cmdr. Thad Allen.

What's a liberal to do? 

Well, for starters, some of the libs who salivated over the oil spill might read some science.  Former Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a trained geologist, wrote just after the spill started that the oil on the water was not the problem.  It would disappear through the ocean's natural processes.

Schmitt's column was largely ignored.  Didn't fit the approved narrative.  But apparently he was right.  The oil at sea will be taken care of by nature.  The oil that reached shore is a more complicated problem.

We hate to break it to the liberals, but the world may actually survive.

July 27, 2010