Dems’ Motto: Never Let a Wildfire Go to Waste

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National Review:

Did you know that President Obama has been incommunicado with Colorado’s governor for more than two weeks as the nation’s worst wildfires rage across the state? Maybe he thought we were all “doing fine.” After an embarrassing Beltway press briefing that revealed a spectacularly out-of-touch White House, the administration finally decided to divert the campaigner in chief from his nationwide fundraising frenzy for a quick look-see at our devastated city on Friday. It’s leadership-from-behind you can count on.

On Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney acknowledged that Obama hadn’t talked to Colorado’s Democratic governor, John Hickenlooper, in 15 days. Holy smokes. The High Park fire, which has consumed nearly 90,000 acres and claimed nearly 257 homes west of Fort Collins, ignited on June 9 and is still active. During a campaign swing just last week, first lady Michelle Obama made a brief mention of the High Park fire before launching into her standard GOP-bashing stump speech.

On June 23, the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs erupted. An estimated 19,000 acres and nearly 350 homes burned to the ground on Tuesday. More than 32,000 people have been displaced so far. My family was forced to abandon our home on Saturday, and our neighborhood remains in a mandatory evacuation zone. On June 27, Boulder’s Flagstaff fire broke out and has so far blazed through 300 acres.

Obama made no public statements prior to the announcement of his visit, but an irritated Carney told reporters on Wednesday that Obama was being “updated regularly” on the wildfires in Colorado and across the West. Carney then rushed out a face-saving press release that heralded the president’s hasty phone call that afternoon to Hickenlooper and Colorado Springs’ mayor, Steve Bach. The release says Obama “expressed his concern about the extent of damage to homes in the Colorado Springs area, and informed both the governor and the mayor that he plans to travel to the area Friday to view the damage and thank the responders bravely battling the fire.”

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As Obama sightsees overhead in this key swing state and surrounds himself with first responders for campaign-ready photo-ops, his supporters on the ground are busy spewing excuses, attacks, and death wishes on their political opponents. I know. I’ve received countless numbers of them. New-civility Dems hoped that firefighters would let my “mansion” burn down and gloated that God was punishing Colorado’s conservative population. Liberals took to Twitter to bash local GOP officials as “fire retardants” who should be dropped over the blaze. And jokes about Colorado social conservatives proliferated, such as this one: “If this Colorado fire takes out the Focus on the Family campus, then God really exists.”