People seem more worked up about that wonder-child than the devastation of the entire Gulf.  Bukowski sure did nail it in "The Shoelace"...I tell ya.

it's not the large things that
send a man to the
madhouse. death he's ready for, or
murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood...
no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies
that send a man to the
madhouse...
not the death of his love
but a shoelace that snaps
with no time left ...

In the Obama era, the "The Left's" destructive, party-over-principles motivation has become impossible to hide, especially recently.

Behold, for instance, major environmental groups' attitude toward the Gulf oil spill.

We know that before the disaster, Obama recklessly pushed to expand offshore drilling. We also know that his Interior Department gave British Petroleum's rig a "categorical exclusion" from environmental scrutiny and, according to The New York Times, "gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf without first getting required (environmental) permits." Worse, we know that after the spill, the same Interior Department kept issuing "categorical exclusions" for new Gulf oil operations, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar still refuses "to rule out continued use of categorical exclusions," as the Denver Post reported (heckuva job, Kenny!).

Undoubtedly, had this been the behavior of a Republican administration, "The Left's" big environmental organizations would be scheduling D.C. protests and calling for firings, if not criminal charges. Yet somehow, there are no protests. Somehow, there have been almost no calls for the resignation of Salazar, who oversaw this disaster and who, before that, took $323,000 in campaign contributions from energy interests and backed more offshore drilling as a U.S. senator. Somehow, facing environmental apocalypse, there has been mostly silence from "The Left."

MT has an abundance of something--tolerance of ambiguity--in which you are famously deficient.

Theodor Adorno said it best:

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Of course, that's meant only one front-row appearance for her in the past 10 months, given this was Obama's first wide-open presser in all that time.

The others, especially Dems like Clinton and Carter, were almost considered Nixonesque unhinged when they got miffed in public.

Otoh, you might want to check out Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech for unintended examples of hilariously forced and rehearsed "anger" -- as if he'd just been briefed about how to show it in a tv speech by media handler Jerry Rafshoon, then had "Pound Fist on Desk" inserted in the teleprompter.  It's nearly Pat Paulson goofy as the faux pounding seems to lack the sincerity and energy to match the words.  

I absolutely think players should decide the games, but there are certain ref's who will T you up for looking at them wrong.  You've got to know that going in and adjust accordingly.  

There's also the problem that if there's oil in the marshes, before or after the berms are erected, the berms may keep the oil inside.