Those who know me are aware of my love for Jimmy Buffett’s music. Part of the difficulty of being a fan of Mr. Buffett is that, as gifted as he is in crafting catchy pop-tunes, he also has a gift for supreme inanity and amazingly stupid boneheaded remarks such as the following, regarding the Gulf oil spill:

"To me it was more about eight years of bad policy before Obama got there that let this happen. It was Dracula running the blood bank in terms of oil and leases," he said. "I think that has more to do with it than how the president reacted to it."

Forget that the government agency charged with overseeing offshore drilling pre-dates the Bush presidency by several decades; and nevermind that the lax oversight occurred well into the current administration’s term; and please ignore the fact that Bush had been out of office for fifteen frickin’ months before the explosion; and pay no mind to the two months of federal inaction, bureaucratic B.S., and empty posturing by Obama and his crew before substantive action was even considered.

Forget all that because it’s just easier (and less taxing to your addled brain) to blame everything on Bush.

Hey, Jimmy! Baby! Love the music, now please just shut up and sing.