Last Saturday, the headline on The Drudge Report was "Where's the oil?!" Rush Limbaugh was going off about how people were blowing this out of proportion and that we aren't even seeing any dead birds or oil on the shorts.

Today? The headline on Drudge is "Oil Emergency Miami". Suddenly, conservatives are pointing fingers and acting like this is a natural disaster on the same level as Katrina.

Have things gotten that worse? No. Have they found a way to spin it in their favor? There ya go! It's depressing how something this serious can be so jaded by politics. When the oil spill was a stain against off-short drilling, the conservatives downplayed it. Now that the spill can be used as a way to condemn the Obama administration, it's a disaster. The irony, of course, is that the main accusation is that Obama took to long to react to this horrific spill, even though the Right was downplaying the horror of it a week ago.

And like all things in American politics, both sides have a kernel of truth in their arguments. The spill is a disaster. It does show the major risk with off-shore drilling and it also shows that, if the government doesn't regulate companies, they will put profits over public safety. At the same time, the Obama administration hasn't grabbed the bull by the horns and really taken control of this situation. I know that they don't want to take ownership of it but it's better to admit a mistake and fix it quickly than try to avoid guilt by association and then watch things spiral out of control.

I've long held the belief that the two biggest threats to America (and two things that we HAVE to change our approach on) are terrorism and corporations. I'm coming very close to adding "politicians" to that list.