Cooperative Program, Richard Land, Rove and BP

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=16200

[Big Daddy Weaver]

As Brian Kaylor notes in the column, Russell Moore has taken a decidedly different approach to this crisis than Sir Richard.

Here is his widely-read blog post titled

Moore's title is a play off of Carl Henry's The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Henry, like Moore, took care of Creation seriously and was one of the few conservative evangelicals to write at length on environmental issues.

[Sandy]

Land never lets the facts interfere with what he wants to write, does he?

[Jim]

The president made one of his more profound statements the other day in explaining why he was surrounding himself with the experts, to wit, simply so that he would acquire enough gravitas to know whose ass to kick. This is not hard to believe in that his supply of gravitas up to this point is marked by a meagerness that’s incomprehensible vis-à-vis the election of the acclaimed American messiah with smarts supposedly acquired at no less an establishment than Harvard Law, this country’s Oracle at Delphi.

He gives an idea of the amount of gravitas he possesses in that he has already – apparently without benefit of his surrounding of experts – kicked ass when he kicked Mines/Minerals Chief Elizabeth Birnbaum under the bus a few days ago even though she had nothing to do with the oil-rig explosion and knew as much about the situation in the Gulf as he does…virtually nothing in both cases. The president said in his “Gulf Oil” news conference the other day that the administration had been in charge of the oil-spill developments from the first hour, which means, considering the results, that he ought to pulverize his own derriere, except that he could throw out a knee in the process, making pickup basketball games only a remote possibility.

[KeithE]