Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on June 13, 2010 by Allahpundit
Sounding reflective as he heads into a bruising electoral season, President Barack Obama told POLITICO columnist Roger Simon that the Gulf disaster “echoes 9/11” because it will change the nation’s psyche for years to come…
“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11,” the president said in an Oval Office interview on Friday, “I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.”…
“What the public wants to see is us solving this problem. And that may not make for good TV. Me sitting in a meeting with [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu and [Gulf national incident commander] Thad Allen and looking over maps and figuring out how boom gets someplace, that’s not something that is high theater. But ultimately that’s going to make the biggest difference in terms of whether or not the Gulf recovers.”
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President Barack Obama spent four hours on the golf course Sunday in temperatures that peaked in the low 90s.
The White House pool reported that they left Andrews Air Force Base as it started to rain after 4 p.m.
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[A] year and a half into this presidency, the contemplative nature that was so appealing in a candidate can seem indecisive in a president. His promise of bipartisanship seems naïve. His inclination to hold back, then ride to the rescue, has sometimes made problems worse.
It certainly should not have taken days for Mr. Obama to get publicly involved in the oil spill, or even longer for his administration to start putting the heat on BP for its inadequate response and failure to inform the public about the size of the spill. (Each day, it seems, brings new revelations about the scope of the disaster.) It took too long for Mr. Obama to say that the Coast Guard and not BP was in charge of operations in the gulf and it’s still not clear that is true…
These are matters of competence and leadership. This is a time for Mr. Obama to decisively show both.
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The former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by blog-around-the-clock deadlines…
But that’s the world we live in. It hurts Obama to be a crybaby about it, and to blame the press and the “old Washington game” for his own communication failures.
“On health care, Obama told single-payer liberals that they had to deal with the world as it is, not as they wanted it to be,” said Jonathan Alter, the author of “The Promise,” about Obama’s first year in office. “But he doesn’t take his own advice when it comes to the media. Obama refuses to deal with the media world as it is. He’s holding out for the media world that he wants. But that will never be. That disdainful attitude toward 24-hour cable culture is slowing his political reflexes. We’re seeing that in the oil spill. I don’t think it’s personal with him. It’s not that he despises reporters as human beings, like Nixon. He does scores of interviews and he doesn’t rage behind closed doors. But if he doesn’t make more concessions to Washington as it is, he’s going to hurt his presidency.”
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When did that ever happen? I mean the part about him riding to the rescue… He jumps in his bus and rides over people, jumps in AF1 and jets around like a rock star, and jumps in a golf cart for a round of chasing the lill white ball… But to the rescue….. Never happened.
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RalphyBoy on June 13, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Perhaps with that awesome brain of his, he is doing the mathematical computations as to how to plug that frigging hole!
D’oh!
DSchoen on June 13, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Just as his “I’m the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks”, and “I won”, he’s telegraphing his next move. He is going after the energy sector and the energy portion of the economy using this as an excuse. The bigger the disaster, the more use he can make of it.
AZfederalist on June 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM
looking over maps and figuring out how boom gets someplace
LBJ!! selecting bombing targets in North Vietnam….
Skandia Recluse on June 13, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Skandia Recluse: I have said that a few times about Obama
micro-manageing,like target selection that
the Libs were doing during VietNam,it sound
s more plausable,thats what Hopey has been
busy,a do’n,I think your right!!
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM
That’s a problem.
Campaigning, golf and parties just don’t get the job done.
justltl on June 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM
This b****** has been laying back on this disaster in order to get cap and trade passed and make the Chicago Climate exchange, Jeffrey Immelt, and all the Green Energy investors rich…no matter how it harms America.
kingsjester on June 13, 2010 at 11:07 PM
The jive-ass jack-ass should have called for all petro companies to send all available tankers and suction and skimming technology to ground zero. And he should have done it on day one. If this wasn’t an Obama/BP scheme to create an excuse to shut down US drilling, that is.
Buddahpundit on June 13, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Meanwhile Palin just destroyed Obama!
Sarah Palin: Fuel America with Terrorist-Tarred Oil Instead of Drilling Our Own, Baby?
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=398548958434
Mitt Romney hardest hit.
gary4205 on June 13, 2010 at 11:08 PM
This is some sort of fantasy psychological profile, and it ain’t healthy.
DSchoen on June 13, 2010 at 11:09 PM
I was really disappointed with how the left attacked Bush and didn’t respect the office of president, but after Clinton and Obama, it is clear that the left has nothing but contempt for the office of president.
This guy needs to be gone ASAP.
Inanemergencydial on June 13, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Former constitutional lawyer? When? Like the time Harvard stuck him in a part-time Con Law lecturer seat for political reasons?
Stop cheapening the concept of Con Law with this halfwit. He was NEVER a constitutional lawyer.
Pavel on June 13, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Barack HighTheater Obama.
At least we now know his true priorities.
“Get me some styrofoam
columnsbooms, stat!”profitsbeard on June 13, 2010 at 11:11 PM
I sure am glad Steven Chu and Barak Hussein Obowma have those degrees…
… Maybe they can tell Sarah Palin a thing or two.
Oh, wait!
Seven Percent Solution on June 13, 2010 at 11:14 PM
That’s like calling a retired EMT van driver a former neurosurgeon and Indy 500 racer.
profitsbeard on June 13, 2010 at 11:15 PM
“But Gary, the Allahpundit idn’t gonna like it.”
Lanceman on June 13, 2010 at 11:16 PM
There are stories that we are not being told the entire truth about the extent of the damage, and why the media are being turned away, and even air planes are not allowed to photograph the site…
… and Obowma is in charge.
Sleep on that, and be glad he took the weekend off to play golf today.
Seven Percent Solution on June 13, 2010 at 10:08 PM
Seven Percent Solution: A great site SPS,if you want to learn about more whats not going on,visit the oil worker
sites!!:)
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 10:28 PM
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The “tingle” is gone.
Dire Straits on June 13, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Dire Straits: The KOOL_AID,wear’th off finally,maybe!:)
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 11:24 PM
SOLID B+!!!!!11111!!!1!!eleventy
jukin on June 13, 2010 at 11:27 PM
I guess the symbolism of the picture attached to this thread, with Obama standing among the WH pillars, is suppose to represent him as though he’s some kind of great pillar of strength too?
Kinda reminds me more of something you get stuck in your teeth.
JellyToast on June 13, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Hey, New York Times, quit callin’ Barry a “fomer Constitutional lawyer.” He was a lawyer for about 5 minutes, has no record as a “Constitutional lawyer,” never argued a case, never wrote a brief, and has published not one law article. He spent the majority of his adult life unemployed, and then he went into politics. Quit lying.
Rational Thought on June 13, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Can’t you just imagine dear leader, Chu and Allen looking at maps trying to figure out where to place booms. The maps were probably upside down. If Memphis ever has an oil spill, Capt Kickass will be prepared.
Kissmygrits on June 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM
I know…
… the word is getting out slowly.
A question…
… Would you put this past Obowma to use this as his “excuse” for declaring ‘Martial Law’?
I know it is extreme, but the more I am educated on what is ACTUALLY going on, and what is NOT…
… I feel like Obowma is just waiting to throw a cigarette into the Gulf, and will wait to watch what happens.
Seven Percent Solution on June 13, 2010 at 11:35 PM
I got a crazy idea for helping to clean up the spill while giving the shrimpers and fisherman a way to earn a living. If there is a cost effective way for these people who own fishing boats to collect the oil, then the goverment should force BP to purchase the oil for double the going rate for each barrel. If we’d do that, there’d be a whole lot of people down in the Gulf collecting oil, and in true American fashion it won’t take long for someone to come up with a cheap, easy way to collect it.
OxyCon on June 13, 2010 at 11:35 PM
I’ve got a question!!
When a Deep Oil Well is being drilled,would it not be more
suitable for a Oil Rig platform that is secured and stable,
I don’t know!
DeepWater Horizon,is actually a ship,which uses GPS to hover
over the target on huge pontoons,now if it had a sudden dis
charge of oil,er gas bubble,er whatever,and no blow-out per
venter,would that not have rocked DeepWater enough to cause
the catostrophic failure that doomed it,I dunno!
Would a bigger and more stable platform fair better,I dunno!
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Contrary to popular belief SSV Deepwater Horizon is not a fixed drilling platform — she was a ship capable of 4 knots speed. SSV Deepwater Horizon would deploy over a drilling site and then use use GPS to hover over the well site.
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SSV Deepwater Horizon was a fifth generation, RBS-8D design ultra-deepwater dynamic positioned column-stabilized semi-submersible drilling rig, which drills wells in the floor of the sea, while other types of rigs are used to produce oil from the completed wells. The rig was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and according to Billy Nungesser, the president of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, was “one of the largest, deep water, off-shore drilling rigs.” It could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep,[10] and had a maximum drill depth of 30,000 feet (9,100 m). The rig could accomodate up to 146 crew members. The semisubmersible rig was floated to the drilling location; it had pontoons and four columns that partially submerged when the rig was ballasted down to drilling air gap. The rig was not supported by the sea floor but its pontoons sat under the water.
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http://www.cargolaw.com/2010nightmare_deep_horizon.html
http://www.cargolaw.com/
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Only when the Lefties realize that Bambi’s demeanor isn’t cool,confident or contemplative,but just plain confused will they understand what fools they have been for backing this con artist.
DDT on June 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM
He might..but we know better!
Dire Straits on June 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM
Fifty-two percent of “us” used to be idiots, but I think the percentage is declining steeply.
Cicero43 on June 13, 2010 at 11:41 PM
A question…
… Would you put this past Obowma to use this as his “excuse” for declaring ‘Martial Law’?
… I feel like Obowma is just waiting to throw a cigarette into the Gulf, and will wait to watch what happens.
Seven Percent Solution on June 13, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Seven Percent Solution:
Knowing that Barry Soetoro was chumming around with the
Weather Underground Gang,who have blown things up into tiny
pieces,and I’m not saying Hopey had any part of it,but,
instead of Dreams of My Father,maybe deep down,its Dreams
of my Remaking America into my Image,and for the first time
in my life,I will be pround of what America will become!!
Now the cigerrette thing,lets hope,no pray,that there is n
methane gas pocket,ot natural gas for that matter,near or
mixed in with the oil deposit!!:)
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 11:43 PM
I like the way you think…
… except for two issues.
There are Super Tankers built for this express reason alone that scoop up the sludge, separate the oil and water, pour out the water, then transport the oil to market.
Obowma has them in port, rusting as we speak…
There already are, but Obowma has yet to release the ‘red tape’. By law, he is in charge, and the authority rest solely upon him…
Golf day today…
… Get your priorities straight!
Seven Percent Solution on June 13, 2010 at 11:45 PM
And there’s the money phrase, folks – and explains exactly why he and his administration have been dragging their feet regarding doing anything about the spill, even though the evidence shows that they knew early on that it was bad.
They’ve intentionally let it stay out of control, precisely so they can use it as a big plunger to shove even more government control crap down our throats.
Midas on June 13, 2010 at 11:46 PM
Looks like Captain Kickass has chosen a role model for his Presidency. Maybe his crack team of advisors should tell him how that one turned out.
Cicero43 on June 13, 2010 at 11:46 PM
Plus the fool has put a moritorium on drilling in the gulf for 6 months..Why??
Dire Straits on June 13, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Obama has stopped smoking, hasn’t he ?
Now Rhambo…..hmmmmmmmm
macncheez on June 13, 2010 at 11:50 PM
:O)
Seven Percent Solution on June 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM
There is the small matter of the U.S. Constitution – Article 1 Section 9
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
Congress can’t do too much to change current law that will affect BP regarding the Gulf.
Virtually anything that even vaguely looks punitive will scream “Bill of Attainder”.
J_Crater on June 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Pavel on June 13, 2010 at 11:11 PM
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That’s like calling a retired EMT van driver a former neurosurgeon and Indy 500 racer.
profitsbeard on June 13, 2010 at 11:15 PM
profitsbeard:Here is Obama’s Lecture Exam Questions for his
students,notice that he apologizes for being
a little late getting around to it!!:)
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Barack Obama Lectures on Constituonal Law
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13516100/Barack-Obama-Lectures-on-Constituonal-Law
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Well, it’s midnight. Should I watch ‘The Nanny’ or ‘Joyless Boarhair’?
Lanceman on June 14, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Maybe part of the problem really is messaging…
BKeyser on June 14, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Barack HighTheater Obama.
At least we now know his true priorities.
“Get me some styrofoam columns booms, stat!”
profitsbeard on June 13, 2010 at 11:11 PM
profitsbeard: I can see a video going viral,as,
The Hopey/Changey Roman Temple Pillars of
Perpetual Hope and NeverEnding NeverLasting
Change fall into the ocean with the oil smat
tering all over the white pillars in slow-mot
ion,and have the Native Indian in his canoe,
with the tear running down,from the old comm
ercial from years ago gone by!!:)
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM
OT: Since it’s Monday for some of y’all, happy Flag Day. Fly ‘em high.
publiuspen on June 14, 2010 at 12:10 AM
You know, the liberal media’s admission of Barack’s incompetence only assures the resurgence of socialism at a later date under the guise of the next messiah.
Speakup on June 14, 2010 at 12:10 AM
BREAKING: A message from the White House Press Office…
“I’m proud to report to the American people that the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon incident has been efficient, painstaking and comprehensive. I have been advised that tomorrow morning I will have on my desk in the Oval Office the Final Report of the Bipartisan Buttock Identification and Isolation Commission, which I am told contains the names of at least twenty asses that I should kick.”
Cicero43 on June 14, 2010 at 12:13 AM
20 @sses ?
Thats just 10 people, right ?
macncheez on June 14, 2010 at 12:21 AM
Kinda says it all, doesn’t it?
missl on June 14, 2010 at 12:30 AM
It’s the Queen’s Birthday, today and, no, she doesn’t want another bleeping iPod!
OldEnglish on June 14, 2010 at 12:35 AM
O/T
Jimmy Dean died
It will be a sad breakfast tomorrow
:-(
macncheez on June 14, 2010 at 12:47 AM
There is a saying in law, “duty to mitigate damages”. I’m not a lawyer, but I know dereliction of duty and criminal negligence when I see it. The federal Oil Protection Act specifically calls for the president to act quickly, decisively and with all means available in just such a circumstance as this.
obama has violated his obligations under this act, as well as I’m sure under many other statutes. With the unbelievable inaction on obama’s part, there must be a very strong legal case to be made against him. He said he was responsible, time for him to be removed for his rape of the Gulf. We must not let the crisis go to waste!
We the people must start demanding his investigation and removal – we have to set the agenda, start playing offense instead of constantly reacting to zero’s evil actions like abused women who, “can’t believe he did it again.”.
And, how is it that he has blacked out all media coverage by air (the Gulf is now a no fly zone) land and sea and has the nerve (shows how little he fears the people) to go national on Tuesday in order to demand control of the energy industry and put another nail in our coffin?
If we were doing our conservative jobs, he would be in terror for his job and hoping to avoid a life sentence. Instead, he will be treating us to another mussolini moment on Tuesday.
Where, how, does it end?
If we can’t or won’t use this un-frikkin-believable evil that zero has caused through not allowing a multi-million gallon spill to be cleaned and contained, then I don’t believe we will ever be rid of him. If he can blackout all coverage of the worst natural catastrophe in our nation’s history, AND sabotage the containment of it while he uses it to empower himself and weaken us beyond belief, then there are no words to describe our lost opportunity. WE MUST REMOVE HIM NOW. WE MUST CONTROL THE AGENDA AND PUT BARRY ON THE DEFENSE. NOW AND UNTIL WE DRIVE HIM FROM OFFICE AND INTO LEAVENWORTH WHERE HE BELONGS.
tigerlily on June 14, 2010 at 12:50 AM
The federal Oil Protection Act
tigerlily on June 14, 2010 at 12:50 AM
tigerlily:Obviously you have the link,but here it is,if you
don’t!!:)
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US Environmental Protection Agency
Oil Pollution Act Overview
http://www.epa.gov/emergencies/content/lawsregs/opaover.htm
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 1:13 AM
Indeed it will!
Dire Straits on June 14, 2010 at 1:16 AM
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 1:13 AM
Thanks, canopfor. If I can’t get the name of the statute straight, obama could get off on a technicality! >:(
tigerlily on June 14, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Deepwater horizon is like 9/11 somehow?
Thank god he wast pres for 9/11
just like his idiotic statement of how the last 18 months were the worst since 1930
for him obviously but in the real world no
this guys a bedwetter
Sonosam on June 14, 2010 at 1:23 AM
And how unbelievable that he talks about sitting in a room with Chu and Allen trying to figure out where to place booms?
What planet are we on? He’s about 2 months late and of course the fool shouldn’t, and couldn’t if he wanted to, be the one personally placing booms.
The booms, tankers, sand barriers, etc. should have all been there and continuing to come since week one, and would have been, if obama hadn’t deliberately sabotaged the cleanup.
Does anyone know if zero has even called a state of emergency yet?
Are we like addicts whose tolerance for obama’s sh$t just grows and grows? Let’s get ANGRY, not jaded and overwhelmed.
He must go, NOW!
tigerlily on June 14, 2010 at 1:49 AM
…and 99% of Americans.
Django on June 14, 2010 at 1:59 AM
Here is BP’s Official (OSRP)(583 Pages)
Regional Oil Spill Response Plan–Gulf of Mexico
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http://info.publicintelligence.net/BPGoMspillresponseplan.pdf
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Here is Court Documents,Hearings,and Investigations.
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Deepwater Horizon Hearings – Live Blogging
http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/deepwater-horizon-hearings-live
Environmental Groups taking Salazar Secretary of the
Department of Interior on Laz Oversight.
http://www.earthjustice.org/library/legal_docs/grn-sierra-apa-complaint.pdf
DeepWater Horizon Joint Investigation
(Transcripts,witness lists,etc.)
http://www.deepwaterinvestigation.com/go/site/3043/
Deepwater Horizon oil spill(From A to Z)
(Timelines,overview,etc)
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Louisiana
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KATHERINE FIRPO, Derivatively on Behalf of
BPPLC,Plaintiff vrs.
ANTHONY B. HAYWARD, IAIN C. CONN,ROBERT W. DUDLEY, BYRON E. GROTE, ANDYG. INGLIS, CARL-HENRIC SVANBERG, PAUL M.ANDERSON, ANTONY BURGMANS, CYNTHIAB. CARROLL, SIR WILLIAM M. CASTELL,GEORGE DAVID, IAN DAVIS, DOUGLAS J.FLINT, DEANNE S. JULIUS, H. LAMAR MCKAY, TRANSOCEAN LTD., TRANSOCEAN DEEP-WATER, INC., TRANSOCEAN OFFSHOREDEEPWATER DRILLING, INC., CAMERONINTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, HALLIBUR-TON ENERGY SERVICES INC., “A, B, AND C”INSURANCE COMPANIES AS INSURERS OFTRANSOCEAN, “L, M, AND N” INSURANCECOMPANIES AS INSURERS OF CAMERONINTERNATIONAL, AND “X, Y, AND Z”INSURANCE COMPANIES AS INSURERS OFHALLIBURTON,Defendants,
andBP PLC,Nominal Defendant.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A55WU3A3vwIcJ%3Ahightowerlegal.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fbpderiv.pdf+a+congressional+memo+has+revealed+that+there+were+multiple+warning+signs+before+the+explosion+occurred+at+the+Deepwater+Horizon(pdf)+%22BP+leased+%22&hl=en&gl=ca
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canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 3:26 AM
DeepWater Horizon
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Rumour has it that the flow rate is 4 Million gallons of
Oil/per/day!
It is a Super Deep Oil Well!
The pressure coming out of the well head is between
20,000-70,000 PSI!!!!
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 3:43 AM
tigerlily on June 14, 2010 at 1:49 AM
I don’t think he has called a state of emergency yet, either. And thanks for your info (and canopfor) on the Oil Pollution Act. We’re “Nessers” and we’ll find something to impeach him on yet.
It’s Saboteur Hour at the White House.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on June 14, 2010 at 4:00 AM
Oil Spill: Who’s to Blame?
1. BP
2. Nature
3. Government Regulation and oversight
There was obviously a dereliction of duty and negligence. BP and contractors failed in real time. The uncovered story is in the dereliction of duty with the government oversight of the safety plan, disaster plan, and their rubber-stamping of the job and all they do is give an excuse that 30 days is not enough time to complete a thorough review.
wonk-a-donk on June 14, 2010 at 4:22 AM
On another note, I hear Hillary Clinton was re-dispatched to deliver the Queen a new iPad for her birthday. It’s pre-programed to deliver a live feed to the BP deepWater Horizon leak.
wonk-a-donk on June 14, 2010 at 4:27 AM
Heres a good Oil Well Drilling video,ground operation,
from start to finish!!
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Oil Well Drilling Stages
http://therealeweezy.blogspot.com/2010/04/oil-well-drilling-stages.html
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM
Errrrrrrrrr, what Emergency Plan?
Obama exempted BP from having an “Emergency Plan”
No spill likely, therefore no spill response is required
DSchoen on June 14, 2010 at 5:11 AM
the oval office address will be a bloody hoot….
I,I,I,I,I,I, me, me me, me, me
Blame bush, bp, bush, and bp….should be fun for the whole family
cmsinaz on June 14, 2010 at 6:02 AM
i’m afraid they will never come to that realization…all things good come from dear leader…
cmsinaz on June 14, 2010 at 6:10 AM
What ever happened to BP’s Emergency Plan?!
canopfor on June 13, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Errrrrrrrrr, what Emergency Plan?
DSchoen on June 14, 2010 at 5:11 AM
DSchoen: Found it!!:)
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BP
Regional Oil Spill Response Plan-Gulf of Mexico
http://info.publicintelligence.net/BPGoMspillresponseplan.pdf
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Radio Interview (Transcript) of a witness off of Deep
the water Horizon
Deepwater Horizon: A Firsthand Account
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=92765&rss=true
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 6:20 AM
good one C…thank you!
cmsinaz on June 14, 2010 at 6:25 AM
9/11? What is he going to do..declare war on BP?
Terrye on June 14, 2010 at 6:47 AM
Deepwater Horizon: A Firsthand Account
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 6:20 AM
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good one C…thank you!
cmsinaz on June 14, 2010 at 6:25 AM
cmsinaz:Your welcome:),the question should be,now that the
BP Oil Spill Plan does exist,who,in the Obama Admin
istration signed off on,BP not needing one!?
And,who signed off on a Oil Drilling Operation that
was going to drill,not a deep well,but a,Super Deep
Well,way out there with a mile to the seafloor,then
25,000 to 30,000 feet into the seafloor,and into a
an area where the psi pressure is coming out the
wellhead at around 20,000!!!
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 7:00 AM
9/11? What is he going to do..declare war on BP?
Terrye on June 14, 2010 at 6:47 AM
Terrye: Well,Obama got rid of the Winston Churchill bust,
and BP is owned by Britian,so I’m gonna bet the
farm that it looks like England!!(sarc):)
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 7:04 AM
Once again, it’s all about YOU being on TV? What a giant jerk. What we’d like is that the people YOU appointed taking care of this problem. YOU don’t have the slightest idea of how to deal with this, BO.
disa on June 14, 2010 at 7:20 AM
‘
guarantee it won’t fall on dear leader’s head, though it should be since the buck stops with him or so he has said…
this address will be such a sham….
cmsinaz on June 14, 2010 at 7:21 AM
he just might do it the way things are going…
cmsinaz on June 14, 2010 at 7:22 AM
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 7:04 AM
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he just might do it the way things are going…
cmsinaz on June 14, 2010 at 7:22 AM
cmsinaz:Ugh,I don’t think Lady Liberty would allow Hopey
to entertain that idiot idea,ahem!!:)
Speaking of BP Oil Plan sign off,its the duty of
the Minerals Management Service,Gulf of Mexico
Region,they are responsible for DeepWater Horizons
saftey cetification,so,somebody who works in this
Service,signed off on BP’s Oil Spill plan!!:)
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Minerals Management Service
http://www.gomr.mms.gov/index_common.html
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Deepwater Horizon Incident
Deepwater Horizon FOIA and Congressional Request Reading Room
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http://www.gomr.mms.gov/index.html
canopfor on June 14, 2010 at 7:41 AM
One of the kids said it best.
“o bo got into the prez thing cause it got a lota BLING“.
Oil blowouts are not blingy.Golf is blingy cause you don’t wear mom jeans,you look cool.
Col.John Wm. Reed on June 14, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Let me see if I have it straight. It is the same as 9/11 – the same 9/11 that the left excoriated President Bush for the few minutes he spent continuing to read to schoolkids, but Obama’s 9/11 (or Waterloo depending on your take of it)allows for him to go golfing, raise money for hurting political cronies, and avoid asking for weeks -”what the hell’s going on?”
I’ll say this for George Bush – He knew who’s ass to kick!
Don L on June 14, 2010 at 7:43 AM
This is absolutely true. They are more evil than most people know. Glenn Beck has the right angle on all of this.
Nalea on June 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM
In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, the ignorant a-holes at the NYT still don’t doubt Obama’s competence and leadership. They just don’t understand why he won’t stand up and show everyone the George Washington-like (Stalin-like?) qualities he possesses.
Like I said in another thread, they are welded to Obama. The best they can muster is to nag him.
SKYFOX on June 14, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Obama’s no scholar, he’s a politician. He’s never tried a constitutional case, and I wouldn’t trust him to, because he is totally disconnected from reality. His relationship with democratic institutions is perverted and destructive. The image of Obama with Columbia is a scene of abuse.
GTR640 on June 14, 2010 at 8:35 AM
Everything is politics with Obama like the campaign is still going on.
RobCon on June 14, 2010 at 8:36 AM
I wonder if they’ll ever figure out a way to get the booms down there or Kevin Costner’s oil extracting machines? Wouldn’t that be kind of a priority for this administration? It’s beyond being urgent. Squabble about who is going to pay for it later, just get the frigging things down to the gulf for crying out loud before it turns into this
http://www.aesopinstitute.org/index.html
scalleywag on June 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM
9/11, eh? Sounds like he’s gearing us up for another huge powergrab. Manufacturing sector: Check. Financial sector: Check. Healthcare: Check. Energy: Check. NEver let a good crisis go to waste.
dhimwit on June 14, 2010 at 10:12 AM
This isn’t Obama’s Katrina, hostage crisis, or 9/11.
This is Obama’s Reichstag fire.
This is the crisis he needed to mow over the last significant political opposition to his agenda.
bitsy on June 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM
What is bad for the Gulf is good for Obama. By using a national crisis to advance his personal agenda, he is exploiting the suffering of millions of people.
GTR640 on June 14, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Dowd –
It must be time to ditch the press archives of the 2008 campaign, and all those lovey-dovey, pandering, breathless, vacuous articles of adoration, with their constant cautions that any criticism of The One was somehow racist. It must be time.
Nichevo on June 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM
The guy is more of an empty suit than anyone ever believed possible. The epitome of a true liberal.
ultracon on June 14, 2010 at 5:02 PM
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