Allen: Uh, no one told me about Maine boom company
posted at 1:36 pm on June 11, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
The Obama administration continues to insist that they have full control over the Gulf oil spill, and that they are on top of all the potential solutions. Jake Tapper just punched a big hole in that PR effort. In an interview with Admiral Thad Allen, the man in charge of the federal effort to manage the crisis, Allen seems to have missed a big story about a Maine boom manufacturer who can’t get their phone calls returned:
TAPPER: I talked to a guy who runs a company in Maine that offers boom, and he has – he says – the ability to make 90,000 feet of boom a day. High quality. BP came there 2 weeks ago, looked at it, they are doing another audit today. He is very frustrated, he says he has a lot of high quality boom to go and it is taking a long time for BP to get its act together. Don’t you need this boom right now?
ALLEN: Oh we need all the boom wherever we can get it. If you give me the information off camera I’ll be glad to follow up.
Er, isn’t this the very information that the White House and Interior are supposed to know before we do? Yet three days ago, Allahpundit featured not one but two videos showing the frustation of Packgen’s management that their decision to produce high-quality boom to meet the expected demand has left them with a lot of unpurchased inventory, while the oil continues its way to Gulf coastlines. ABC also reported on Bobby Jindal’s demand for three million feet of absorbent boom material on May 24th. No one at the White House thought to Google for a manufacturer and start calling for sales?
Maybe Obama should appoint Jake Tapper to head up the effort. He seems to know more about what’s happening than the White House team.
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In some ways he could be operating as a stupid admiral. many are set in their ways with their pet military approved suppliers. They could buy the stuff if it was thru channels like Lockheed or Boeing but are not open to granting appointments to salesmen outside the circle.
Many companies go broke trying to do business with the gubment. Some go broke waiting for payment.
seven on June 11, 2010 at 2:15 PM
Kevin Costner made offers to bring in his equipment too. Where is it? Seventeen countries offered to bring in their equipment and expertise. Where is any of that? What is FEMA doing? This is beyond government incompetence, it’s criminally
negligencedeliberate.scalleywag on June 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM
FIFY!
Archimedes on June 11, 2010 at 2:15 PM
oops…did i fix that. my bad…
ted c on June 11, 2010 at 2:15 PM
Keep in mind that ADM Allen is operating under constraints imposed by Washington, DC. He’s a take-charge guy, but I’d bet next month’s pay that he spends most of his time stuck in meetings, getting briefed, or briefing someone else. He may have the authority to do stuff, but he can’t exercise that authority if he’s constantly wrestling with the administrivia tar baby.
OhioCoastie on June 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM
Glenn Beck also had a report that Royal Dutch Shell offered to help clean up (with absorbent booms) THREE DAYS after the accident, but OBAMA REFUSED.
Methinks Obama WANTED a huge environmental catastrophe here, to demonize the EEEEEEEEEEVIL BushHitlerHalliburton oil companies against Drill Baby Drill, even when other oil companies wanted to help clean up!
Bobby Jindal might want to give Royal Dutch Shell and these Maine boom people a call. The oil has reached his land, so he has the authority to protect his state.
Steve Z on June 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM
BOOMS ACROSS AMERICA
Line it up folks, bobby says he needs a few million feet.
Boom Can Do
ted c on June 11, 2010 at 2:17 PM
The owner of the company must have donated to a Republican in the past. You know, no need to give sales to an evil businessman!
Grafted on June 11, 2010 at 2:17 PM
Yeah. Most people who get their news online had heard about this a long time ago, but Jake’s still light years ahead of his competitors in the establishment press. I bet Christiane Amanpour would be too busy asking State how the BP spill might impact the Palestinians in Gaza, so he deserves a wet sloppy one for running rings around his less curious colleagues.
Next question Jake needs to ask this administration is why they turned down the Dutch Government’s catastrophic spill response apparatus. As everyone here knows, it’s on standby ready to go around the world any time, but the Obama Administration turned ‘em down flat three days after Deep Horizon blew:
If he does that, then the American people won’t need to have their question asked anymore. They’ll know then that this Administration deliberately bungled its response to exacerbate the crisis which could then serve as their pretext for taking over the oil industry just as they did with mortgage lending industry.
leilani on June 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM
Sponge ready green jobs?
shick on June 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM
No, but they know exactly where to put their heads.
CurtZHP on June 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM
It’s always someone else’s job, stop bothering them with trivial details. Maybe Obama will appoint a blue-ribbon committee next month to look into the issue. The White House is busy thinking big thoughts about how the world should work and how it will be a much better place when The One has even more power to make it work that way.
Socratease on June 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Innovating—entrepreneurs, motivating, patriotic and energetic. DC is stuck in the mud with their pricks in their hands. This country needs an enema….
ted c on June 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM
ALLEN: Oh we need all the boom wherever we can get it. If you give me the information off camera I’ll be glad to follow up.
Jaibones on June 11, 2010 at 2:23 PM
I did not realize that O’Zero was a clone of former governor Blank Zero (Kathleen Blanco).
Kermit on June 11, 2010 at 2:24 PM
These are red States, nothing to see here move along.
tim c on June 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM
Perhaps they thought that is was a reference to a boom box and were scratching their heads about how this could be used.
Kermit on June 11, 2010 at 2:26 PM
If an oil/petroleum services company as big as BP is being cast as “clueless,” why are we supposed to trust an administration full of wonks who have never held real jobs at all?
gryphon202 on June 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM
FYI, Bp’s stock regained 15 of it’s 30% drop yesterday and climbing still today. The surge is attested to by some that it is due to BP’s break-up value, another whisper around the trading floors is that China’s Sinopec is licking it’s chops and possibly launching a hostile take over.
Cosidering BHO’s many communist affiliations and Frank Marshall Davis’ extensive ties to the Moaist nation, if this comes to happen, anyone else smell a
democRAT?Jussaskin.
Archimedes on June 11, 2010 at 2:26 PM
That’s easy: If they had accepted the offer, it would look like they were’t ready to handle the spill and it would look bad politically. They’ll never accept it now because of the risk of the Dutch actually making a significant reduction in oil damage, thus putting a spotlight on Obama’s incompetence in not accepting it a month and a half earlier when it would have helped even more.
This is an administration that cares deeply about the environment. Unless, of course, it causes Obama’s poll numbers to drop.
Socratease on June 11, 2010 at 2:26 PM
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste, said Rahm. Perhaps they are trying to make things worse so they can force compliance with some insane green initative like cap and trade.
GTR640 on June 11, 2010 at 2:27 PM
This is not as simple as it sounded on TV. It has to do with how a ship is flagged, who owns it, who is responsible for it, etc. They need to check out each ship individually. No point in bringing in a ‘poor operator’ that may do more harm than good.
Also notice, Allen did not relay even getting any requests, while he did point out he has brought in foreign equipment.
Is Allen perfect? No, but he seems way more competant than anyone else this administration has!
Freddy on June 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM
Admiral Allen is not in the military, he’s in the Coast Guard (which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, not the Department of Defense)…
Khun Joe on June 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM
I’m guessing there’s going to be a mighty interesting Oil Spill Commission coming up next spring. I’ll bet there will be plenty of lying Democrats taking the fifth amendment to avoid testifying about their roles in this disaster. Oilybama owns this disaster and the traitor is trying to milk it to achieve his Marxist dreams.
Ogabe on June 11, 2010 at 2:29 PM
Every day things get worse with O as the ‘leader’. Really, does anyone else feel like weeping for our dear country?
Sure, I am angry, incredulous, frustrated etc. along with the rest of you, but I can’t see how we can stop this before November, if then. You just know that the ACORN types are going to be out in full force to steal the elections. Besides, we need a way to stop O and his henchmen now!
I am getting VERY depressed.
francesca on June 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Is anyone else surprised that so little (relatively speaking) of the oil has reached the shore?
I guess you can thank Gulf currents for that, but it’s still surprising.
YYZ on June 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM
What? CG is no longer DOD? When the h*ll did the coasties go civvy?
Archimedes on June 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM
GTR640 on June 11, 2010 at 2:37 PM
I think the media want to show how bad the lying BP is. The BHO administration relied upon BP’s estimates early in the disaster and therefore it was all BP’s fault that BHO was playing golf…something like that.
d1carter on June 11, 2010 at 2:40 PM
I bet the media would be surprised since they keep reporting that the Gulf coast is inundated in oil in spite of Gov. Haley Barbour’s protestations to the contrary. If they would get away from “geyser zero,” as it were, maybe they could report the truth, if they were so inclined.
.
Remember, this is not “a spill,” it’s an underwater petroleum geyser that can be fairly described as a “gusher.”
ExpressoBold on June 11, 2010 at 2:42 PM
You know what the Prezisadunce needs right now ?
A facebook post from Gov Palin telling him what to do. And how.
Thats the only way he will move his behind while the world cup is on. He’d rather be with his party-buddies doing “waka waka” and yelling gooooooooaaaaaaaaal than do stuff in which his bitter-half can’t show up with a new outfit.
macncheez on June 11, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Hey, what’s your problem?
We are busy KICKING ASS!
Opposite Day on June 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM
How in the heck can the command tasked by law/regulation to handle oil spills in Gulf waters not have a list of suppliers and cleanup specialists in their rolodex? The private sector oil well blowout/fire companies know all the suppliers and where equipment is warehoused and have them on speed dial. What a clusterfark. Ready for government healthcare now?
Laddy on June 11, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Soros and crew more likely. Goldman Sachs will handle the paperwork for a 10% cut, or there won’t be any deal.
pedestrian on June 11, 2010 at 2:49 PM
I envision Tapper and his ABC cronies figuring out how to ask this question, this old question from HA on June 8th three days ago, with the least damage to Obama. The have to try to preserve plausible deniability with respect to their severe bias. This was seen as the least damaging way of doing things. Political Puff, not Punch.
clnurnberg on June 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM
I have an honest question:
Why didn’t the Governor of Louisiana, knowing the catastrophic disaster coming towards his state, knowing the feds were doing nothing … take matters into his own hands and protect his state? Maybe he didn’t have the money. Maybe he was hopeful that some federal agency would protect the shoreline.
I think if this disaster was coming towards the shores of New Jersey, that governor would have taken action and told the federal government to go pound sand.
surfhut on June 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM
I think you guys are missing something here. . .
If BP/Barry O did buy boom from Packgen, that would mean that Packgen would suddenly start making windfall profits, and we can’t have that, can we?
Of course, what is really important is that Halleburton and Cheney don’t profit, even if it does destroy the gulf environment. . . . . .
Narniaman on June 11, 2010 at 2:51 PM
If it so darned important to them, they should go down there and put a meter on it. And while they are there, put a plug in also. I’m kidding but it is so like the media to focus in on the minutiae while the real stories are kept from most of the public. There is no telling what other information Admiral Allen is missing.
Cindy Munford on June 11, 2010 at 2:52 PM
I said when this news broke that the administration was trying to buy it from China.
Cindy Munford on June 11, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Apparently the people in DC don’t read the papers either.
crosspatch on June 11, 2010 at 2:54 PM
The country is in the very best of hands.
ajacksonian on June 11, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Maybe someone in the WH will come across this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM&playnext_from=TL&videos=sTN56dEI6cs&feature=recentlik
and take it from there to do some @## kickin
macncheez on June 11, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Wrong.
It’s still a branch of the US Armed Forces, and because of its legal authority can still operate under DOD.
Del Dolemonte on June 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM
The USCG is part of DHS and is one of the armed forces. Coasties are military.
We never “went civvy.” To wit:
Next question.
OhioCoastie on June 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM
See my 3:00 PM post.
Del Dolemonte on June 11, 2010 at 3:01 PM
I’ll keep you company. This administration’s collective reputation precedes it. And they aren’t even particularly subtle about it.
NoLeftTurn on June 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Great question. Allen responded to the Saudi vacuum plan, saying the oil is too dispersed, coming from so far down, for the large tankers to really be effective.
But I see it differently. If the supertanker gets up ANY oil, then there is less oil in the ocean. And that’s the goal, so the Saudi supertanker use would get us closer to our goal.
hawksruleva on June 11, 2010 at 3:05 PM
All you have to is watch the old 1959 Cary Grant movie ‘Operation Petticoat’ to learn about Navy requisitions. But the real responsibility here lies with Obama and his cabinet for not taking daring and imaginative action-bypassing, if necessary, stonewalling bureaucrats and military martinets.
MaiDee on June 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM
The worst part here is – if this spill had happened off the coast of Martha’s vineyards……it would have been stopped by now.
Those rednecks on the gulf coast don’t vote for me anyway !
B.Obama
RUReadingthis on June 11, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Fall guy. It should be expected that Zero and his media minions will try to steer this and any other presidential failing towards blaming the military.
viking01 on June 11, 2010 at 3:09 PM
I loved when they fixed the engine with a girdle.
SlimyBill on June 11, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Has the smell of coordinated effort about it. Let’s not be in a rush to give Tapper lots of applause. He’s pretty well connected in MSM dem circles and there is no reason to think he will break ranks or that he is even capable of it.
clnurnberg on June 11, 2010 at 3:17 PM
This goes to show what an ignorant fool Obama is about simple matters like investing, too. It isn’t just British pensioners relying on those dividends. I’d wager there are many retired folks in this country as well who have BP stock and rely on those dividends to help make ends meet. Esp. now, when there’s pretty much no where you can put your money where it will do anything for you, high-dividend yielding stocks like energy companies are about the only option. Are we going to hear a sob story on CNN about how Obama has bullied BP into suspending dividends and now Granny has to eat cat food? I’m guessing not. Because liberals are so effing clueless, they think everyone with any money in the stock market must be some rich Wall Street fat cat.
Azz clowns.
NoLeftTurn on June 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM
A friend, I knew in high school, used to watch TV at night for the FBI so they wouldn’t be caught “flat-footed” like Admiral Allen was in this case.
J_Crater on June 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM
I have thought the delay in response was a deliberate act almost since the beginning.The timing seems convenient
in light of the Toyota recall mess,the Govt. Motor’s so-called payback,cap and tax and the money being spent on promoting the Green Agenda.The Chevy Volt may sell in impressive numbers(when it comes to market)if the price of oil goes high enough.
I’m not a conspiracy freak,but sometimes I wonder about the coincidences.
DDT on June 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM
I’ve keep saying the same thing. Never waste a crisis.
bitsy on June 11, 2010 at 3:24 PM
PIMF. I’ve = I
bitsy on June 11, 2010 at 3:24 PM
during katrina you had people sitting around complaining that the fed gov was not helping enough, people sat on their bums demanding that someone come and save them
during the oil spill you have people sitting on their bums, but only because they are unable to get to the work . . .
seaniep on June 11, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Ding!
baldilocks on June 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM
I try to stay away from conspiracy stuff, too. My tinfoil helmet needs another layer, apparently.
Speaking of coincidences… remember the whole H1N1 panic right before/during the Obamacare debates? That, too, was pretty convenient timing.
bitsy on June 11, 2010 at 3:37 PM
Hell, I’m just a geezer doofus in the sticks of NC and even I knew about this company and their product weeks ago. But then, I do watch Fox.
Dingbat63 on June 11, 2010 at 3:39 PM
Hey, I have a great idea…
Let’s elect Barack Hussein Obowma as President of the United States!
… Who’s with me?
Seven Percent Solution on June 11, 2010 at 3:40 PM
Remember when 3 guys stuck out in space fixed their broken thingie and flew back to earth?
Know why? No bureaucrats to stop ‘em.
fivefeetoffury on June 11, 2010 at 3:43 PM
OMG, the Obama Gov is doing this on purpose. Jeez, “never let a crisis go to waste”. How else were they going to get a moratorium on drilling? How else would they get Cap and Tax passed and their “green jobs” bill? As an ex-Dem, I am telling you the foot dragging is to get their agenda passed on this whole energy bill. The most devious people on the planet are the Regressives. It’s a deliberate sabotage against the American public, not incompetence. That is what all the stonewalling is about, “fundamental change”, no matter what the cost.
elclynn on June 11, 2010 at 3:44 PM
I’ve wondered the same thing. I can’t for a second imagine that he wouldn’t do everything in his power. And maybe that’s the answer. Perhaps he knows that he would be brought up on charges for doing an end-run that are serious enough to get him booted from office. And financially ruin any private company and even citizen that took part in what would be characterized as ‘illegal’ activity. You know – “these were unproven and unapproved methods/materials that could have caused even more harm to environment/people blah blah blah…” You know the drill. And wouldn’t they just love to get Jindal?
shibumiglass on June 11, 2010 at 3:45 PM
Obama/Soros/Emmanuel/Reid/Pelosi, et al. do not want this crisis resolved. They want it to get so big and so ugly it will forever turn public opinion against the “Drill, baby drill!” enthusiasm, and cement their control over the energy industry. Any tactic to accomplish the Socialist Green agenda is acceptable. The end justifies the means.
infidel4life on June 11, 2010 at 3:45 PM
I still have not found anywhere stating that President Obama has declared the oil spill a national emergency disaster, which would immediately cut the red tape and release funding emergency funding, which would explain why we have situations like this.
Can anyone confirm if this has happened or if President Obama is going to continue to let the disaster happen with limited cleanup because resources can not be deployed immediately and lots of red tape?
If he is worried about the money being paid back to the government, we can make BP a low interest loans from the TARP fund because they stated the would pay the cost.
Again the question I ask is why has President Obama not declared a National Emergency with the oil spill?
The other question is why has no in the media asked him this question?
JeffinSac on June 11, 2010 at 3:47 PM
What with all the date nights, the Democrat fund raisers, golf, hoops, white-water rafting, vacations and beer pong, Oilybama and his regime just don’t have the time to Google ‘oil booms’ or ‘oil boom manufacturers’. Priorities dude!
Ogabe on June 11, 2010 at 3:48 PM
It’s not a conspiracy if it’s true.
elclynn on June 11, 2010 at 3:49 PM
have an honest question:
Why didn’t the Governor of Louisiana, knowing the catastrophic disaster coming towards his state, knowing the feds were doing nothing … take matters into his own hands and protect his state? Maybe he didn’t have the money. Maybe he was hopeful that some federal agency would protect the shoreline.
I think if this disaster was coming towards the shores of New Jersey, that governor would have taken action and told the federal government to go pound sand.
surfhut on June 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM
elclynn on June 11, 2010 at 3:52 PM
They don’t really care….after all it is only destroying Louisiana right now. These are people that don’t matter to this administration apparently.
SgtRed on June 11, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Again, I said he is not in the MILITARY…
Quoting the US Code
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
LAST ADD: THe Marines are part of the Department of the NAVY… That’s why the eagle on the DOD Seal has 3 arrows in its talon (Army, Navy, Air Force)…
Khun Joe on June 11, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Ahh , now the 6mo moritorium is accomplishing its intended effect, those that own the rigs cannot afford to leave them idle for anywhere near that amount of time. One was just on CNBC saying they’re prepping to wow their rig to west africa. For how long, till that contract expires, possibly years.
Once the rigs are tapping reserves outside of US waters, BHO can lift the moratorium, but it won’t do any good cuz there’ll be no rigs available.
Sec’y Chu’s $5-$10 a gal gas, mission accomplished, economy tanked with no near term releif, mission accomplished. People keep making the mistake of calling theses thugs idiots, they are not. The destruction of the nation continues right on schedule.
Archimedes on June 11, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Mission Accomplished !!!
Ogabe on June 11, 2010 at 4:20 PM
Psst Admiral….I know this is a tough job, but get your ass away from the camera lights, photo ops, Sunday talk shows, and start doing your f**king job.
byteshredder on June 11, 2010 at 4:23 PM
buring the crude at the surface is very effective
my friend on a rig nearby said it really contained the spill early on
the EPA shut this down under the grounds of it being a pollutant
the berns could have been there early
the thick oil is produced by smaller concentrations coagulating together as they hit the marshes and creating the dense materials
if obama wasn’t so busy doing ‘photo ops’ campaining against Arizona and vacations maybe this could have all been avoided
LA politicians were there from day one and ignored
once the msm jump on the hero at large
he put his clenched jaw forward not to lead and help certail containment but for political damage control
if it was a wild fire and a few hollywood homes
the government would go commando
viable industries – seafood, energy etc don’t merit attention. Nor major migratory grounds for birds and aquatic life
so sad
this idiot will spin it as big bad oil did this to us
and those republican drill baby drill folks should not be trusted. I know the young crowd ‘with no stakes in the game’ will buy it but will most people who pay taxes
audiotom on June 11, 2010 at 4:25 PM
“Incompetence’ isn’t adequate to describe the obama administration and every one in it or appointed by it. Can we survive until 2012 without imploding!!!
jeanie on June 11, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Del Dolemonte on June 11, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Actually private industry would handle both with much greater efficiency.
Slowburn on June 11, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Just had a guy on Cavuto who said the reason no foreign ships have been allowed in to help is because of the unions. Whatever law it is (been there for 75 years) can be lifted in an emergency, as Bush did during Katrina. Obama refuses to go against the unions. He’d rather have this disaster for all these states than go against them. Someone needs to wring Obama’s neck and shake some sense into him.
silvernana on June 11, 2010 at 4:43 PM
The Obumble administation strikes again.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on June 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM
PS
Translation-as of January 5, 2009, the US Coast Guard is still, as it always has been, a part of the US Military.
And from 2004:
Del Dolemonte on June 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM
NOTE: I said Obumble “administation” rather than “administration” because when the train leaves, they’re still there.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on June 11, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Again, there are subtle yet important definitions of the terms “armed forces”, “uniformed services”, and “military”…
33+ years wearing the blue suit, 3 deployments to WESTPAC, 4 ship tours including an aircraft carrier… I’ll stand by my original comments AND buy you a beer if I ever meet you… No worries…
Khun Joe on June 11, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Members of the Armed Forces are military, whether they’re serving in one of the Military Departments or not.
I hope that helps.
OhioCoastie on June 11, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Admiral Allen better watch his back for the thugs in Washington.
d1carter on June 11, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Uh-oh another one for Obama’s ass kicking list!
albill on June 11, 2010 at 4:58 PM
Seems the gentleman who makes the boom is a Scott Brown contributer, probably GOP (per Gateway Pundit). Maybe that is the answer as to why he has a full warehouse.
clnurnberg on June 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM
Glad others mentioned and linked to the report about the Dutch offer of aid and equipment offered 3 days after the explosion and a letter from the administration refusing it.
Since I read the story yesterday or the day before I have been obsessing on it.
The story, it should be noted, frames it as the aid was refused by the administration and BP but presents no evidence from BP in comment or documentation that they turned it down. It documents the letter and the fact that it would require government authorization.
KittyLowrey on June 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM
I can here it now:
“Rahm, what department is in charge of Google searches for supplies?
Ummmm, I think the secretarial pool handles supplies.
Note to secretary – order 20 miles of absorbent boom and have it shipped to New Orleans?”
hawksruleva on June 11, 2010 at 5:09 PM
But what about the pensioners depending on that money to pay for their medication?
Obama hates old people.
agmartin on June 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM
Humm. I haven’t watched them a lot since, oh, sometime in 2005. But aren’t a LOT of those folks black? Do you think it is Obama’s white half that is causing this to all stack up on those poor people because he really hates black people? Maybe just poor black people.
MikeA on June 11, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Time for the Republicans to man-up and start blasting the criminal incompetence of the Oilybama regime. Officially – not just depending on individuals like Sarah Palin to do the heavy lifting.
Ogabe on June 11, 2010 at 5:23 PM
They did a general waver after Katrina. Can be done, has been done, should have been done.
LarryD on June 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Ah, a jealous swab. That explains it.
Please stop splitting legal hairs and just admit the CG is part of the military.
Del Dolemonte on June 11, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Gee, if the administration would stop reading only Huffpo and lefty blogs … hey, isn’t that what The One recommended we all do?
LifeTrek on June 11, 2010 at 5:43 PM
The sad thing is that in Maine, the usual ‘entrepreneur’ is someone who, with the encouragement of a state grant and federal insurance against backstrain, will bend over to pick up a twenty dollar bill as soon as he’s seen someone else do it first.
Seeing what’s happened to Packgen so far, I’m beginning to understand why.
PersonFromPorlock on June 11, 2010 at 5:51 PM
No hairs to split, actually. He’s just jealous of us Coasties, I think. ;)
OhioCoastie on June 11, 2010 at 6:24 PM
“The United States armed forces are the overall unified MILITARY forces of the United States. they consist of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard…
“,,,all of the branches are under the Dept of Defense, except the Coast Guard, which is an agency of of the Department of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard may be transferred to the Department of the Navy by the President or Congress during time of war…..” Wikipedia
MaiDee on June 11, 2010 at 6:29 PM
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