James Carville Blasts Obama Again On BP Oil Spill (Is He Auditioning For CNN 8pm?)

Not to be a cynic, but it’s starting to feel like James Carville is attempting to restart his pundit career (or perhaps has an eye on the 8 o’clock CNN spot) on the back of the BP Oil Spill catastrophe.

Carville, who has been making the media rounds this week, was back on the air this morning talking to former Clinton campaign co-worker George Stephanopoulos about the lack of action and accountability on both the part of BP Oil and the administration. Actually he was less talking than railing.

Eleven hard working people blown up as a result of corporate malfeasance, maybe criminal negligence of inept bureaucrats…maybe blame the previous administration for this and the president doesn’t get down here in the middle of this! His approval ratings would be up seven points right now if he’d come down here.

Emphasis mine, because that’s the sort of talk that actually motivates politicians. Carville’s practical advice continues: “Very seldom do you get really good politics and really the right thing to do.” Also: “[Obama] can’t exactly be filling the hole himself, but he can be commandeering tankers!” There’s more. Carville gets quite steamed up over the course of the segment. So much so, it makes me wonder if there is a show to be had for CNN wherein Carville and his wife Mary Matalin give the president dueling strategy advice. You can get a sense of what I am talking about below.

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