Obama tells the truth, wingnuts say he's lying.

Obama points out that the anti-government/anti-regulation/drill, baby drill Teabaggers might wanna STFU about BP.

“I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending.”

The president also implied that anti-big government types such as tea party activists were being hypocritical on the issue.

“Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said. “Some of the same people who are saying the president needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.”

Yep, that's fair to say. Unless you're crazy.

Patently false. If the Tea Party mentality held sway, we'd be drilling in ANWR and closer to the shore in shallower water, so this disaster would never have happened. He's opening the door for even more attacks over how government overreach creates problem like this.

Right. Because if McCain/Palin had won, the very first thing they'd do they'd do is shut down all the offshore drilling.

What an asshat.