On Monday President Barack Obama named the last members of his commission to investigate the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. On Tuesday he announced that on Wednesday he "will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company's recklessness." Why appoint a commission or even have a meeting if the verdict is already in?

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President Barack Obama's most recent piece of performance art has him saying his meetings on the oil spill crisis are to figure out "whose ass to kick." According to Louisiana's LaFource Parish President Charlotte Randolph, he's already started kicking and the target is not the hindquarters of any oil company exec, contractor or corrupt government official - it's the people he's supposed to be helping.

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In keeping with their "never let a crisis go to waste" policy, the Obama administration has used the BP oil spill as the rationale for blocking all new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. And in keeping with the administration's record of wreaking economic havoc and killing jobs with every new policy, the ban could cost the state of Louisiana up to 6,000 jobs this month, 10,000 jobs over the next few months and up to 20,000 existing and new jobs by next year.

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From the beginning, the Obama administration's way of dealing with criticism of the president's policies and decisions has been to claim that whoever is criticizing is just too ignorant to understand how brilliant President Obama is. It didn't matter whether it was the majority of the American people or political opponents, the counter attack was always the same. Now the tactic is spreading to his own supporters.

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