Florida senator: Obama told me we can’t deploy oil skimmers because they might be needed elsewhere
posted at 10:23 pm on June 21, 2010 by Allahpundit
A quickie but goodie courtesy of The Shark Tank, which wrangled this interview with LeMieux after a meeting of the Florida GOP. I’d be curious to know when, precisely, O told him that we can’t spare an all-hands-on-deck approach with American skimmers — although given the fact that that remains the policy today, their convo might as well have happened yesterday. As for foreign skimmers, Rob Bluey asks the question of the hour: Why hasn’t Obama waived the Jones Act yet?
Jones Act expert Charlie Papavizas said the 2005 Katrina waiver, which lasted from Sept. 1 to Sept. 19, was used primarily to move cargo between ports, but it didn’t result in any new foreign ships in the region. “Twenty days is not enough time to reposition and do anything useful,” he said…
Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) pressed the president on the Jones Act during a recent face-to-face meeting. LeMieux said the action would signal America’s allies that their help is wanted. Given the dire situation in the Gulf, what’s the harm?
Two other members from Florida, Reps. Corrine Brown (D) and John Mica (R), said their state is suffering while skimmers sit idle. At a hearing on Thursday, Brown held up photos of vessels in Mexico and Norway, asking, “What is the process for the state to take advantage of skimmers from other countries?”…
This, of course, is the primary criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the spill. While the president says he “will not settle for inaction,” his failure to waive the Jones Act — even if for the sole purpose of sending a message to our allies — suggests he’s not doing everything he can.
Remember, this is a guy who wants us to get started on “clean energy” today, even though it could take decades to develop, because there’s no time like the present to begin work. And yet the Jones Act remains in effect almost 10 weeks after the rig blew, presumably because it’ll “take too long” to get skimmers in there. As for the theory that Obama’s keeping foreign ships out to protect American unions, see Bluey’s piece for a debunking of that.
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trapeze on June 21, 2010 at 10:25 PM
If not the unions then who? PBHO is protecting someone or something.
Bishop on June 21, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Just look at the results…
Seven Percent Solution on June 21, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I`m seriously trending towards the “impeach him now” crowd.
ThePrez on June 21, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Maybe they come with the wrong color life jackets.
BKeyser on June 21, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Obama fiddles…
boomer on June 21, 2010 at 10:30 PM
W.P.E.
John the Libertarian on June 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Nah, someone forgot to dot the damn i`s on the order forms! Now they have to order the forms to re-issue the request for the skimmers!
ThePrez on June 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Obama is a stubborn, arrogant ass. He has painted himself into a corner of complete incompetence and his arrogant pride will not allow him to do the right things at this late date because he fears being viewed as a pushover to criticism. So instead we get the continued nonsense of blaming everyone and everything else for his failings.
I am amazed more everyday by this mans short comings. Not only the worst policy wonk in my lifetime, but the worst leader and now the most self destructive.
NotCoach on June 21, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Lot of congressmen going in for one on one discussions with Obama and coming out with other stories or non refuted comments made by the One that don’t match up with what’s being reported.
BowHuntingTexas on June 21, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Fair enough. Ask him.
http://lemieux.senate.gov/public/index.cfm
Time for original news reporting Allah.
AUINSC on June 21, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Maybe the skimmers are needed in Mexico. Or in Tehran? The situation in these countries is of grave concern to our young, inexperienced, naive, fumbling, awkward, big-eared, stumbling, apologetic President. Perhaps he thought it best to send all skimmer boats to Iran? God knows they need all the help they can get, right, Barrak? Or else send all available resources to the Latinos who are
invadingcrossing our border every day.God forbid you actually help the Gulf situation. After all, we must remember the Unions! As for the trailer trash watching their lives go down the drain, perhaps after a period of “adjustment” they will see your point of view.
GTR640 on June 21, 2010 at 10:35 PM
“Beyond comprehension…”
Sad, but true.
LASue on June 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Obama is a claim jumper — wanting to take over America — What would Randolph Scott and John ( The Duke ) Wayne say about it ..
wheels on June 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM
I thought this was just incompetence but no-one is *that* stupid. The only conclusion one can draw is that Obama is deliberately letting the spill get as bad as possible so he can shut down the oil industry.
gh on June 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM
wheels on June 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM
*Hat over heart* RAAAAAN-DOLPH SCOOOOOOOTT!
ThePrez on June 21, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Never let a crisis go to waste.
maybe he shaking down congress with pass cap and tax or I won’t use every available resourse to clenan up the gulf.
What is so sad is the fact we I never thought this way with Jimmie ir Billy Jeff.
Gracelynn on June 21, 2010 at 10:48 PM
First Jon Kyl, now Senator Lemieux.
It’s beginning to look like the Republicans are the party of lying racists.
notagool on June 21, 2010 at 10:51 PM
One word for you Barry: WORTHLESS
WisCon on June 21, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Everyday I turn on my radio in hope of hearing that The One has passed away in his sleep…tomorrow is another day.
Reality Checker on June 21, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Like where? Brazil?
Connie on June 21, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Allah says:
“As for the theory that Obama’s keeping foreign ships out to protect American unions, see Bluey’s piece for a debunking of that.”
From the article:
“Some critics have suggested that Obama is protecting the pocketbooks of his union allies by keeping foreign vessels at bay. But several Jones Act experts told me that makes little sense because unions have minimal influence in the Gulf.”
Unions may have minimal influence in the Gulf, but they have MAJOR influence with Obama. Don’t assume Obama knows or understands the ins and outs of the situation in the gulf. He hears the Jones act is in place to protect unions, so he keeps it in place.
So Allah, you have stated one man’s opinion as empirical fact which reveals mediocrity once again.
echosyst on June 21, 2010 at 10:55 PM
This President is all talk, blamming others particularly any non DEMOCRATES Crowd – Foreign or domestic. He wants to use catstrophic destruction of marine life, coast line and destruction of lives and lively hood of millions for ::
1. to demonstrate the environmental disaster to the extreme to pass his ” CRAP AND TAX’ initiative.
2. Extract ( Can Not say “SHAKE DOWN” any more!!) maximum amount of money from ” BP “( BRITISHERS) his new found spiggot of wealth to redistribute without increasing a single penny of our Ugly DEFICIT
“CLEVER ISN’T IT? BRAVO”(NO WONDER THE ACORN,SEIU, AFLCIO,TEAMSTERS AND BHO GET ALONG SO WELL!!)
3. SHREAD THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE FUTURE GENERATION POLITICIANS TO AVOID DISTRACTION IN GOVERNING AND SOLVE CRISIS WITH THE EVER EASY CHICAGO STYLE POLTICS. ALSO PROVE THAT AL CAPONE WAS A ‘SAINT’
deeshant48 on June 21, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Convo?
Ugh.
Jaynie59 on June 21, 2010 at 11:04 PM
We are beyond incompetence now.
I’m beginning to side with the “something nefarious is afoot” here crowd.
aquaviva on June 21, 2010 at 11:05 PM
I am generally reluctant to ascribe failings to some great nefarious plot. I think that personal character is usually a much better guide to why people do what they do.
I have never viewed this man as intelligent. I never felt I could because the only thing he is good at is avoiding specifics and hiding his past. He is much more concerned with perception and has an undue grandiose opinion of himself. He won”t bend to criticisms because doing so could potentially damage his pride.
I think the real danger of this man is an inability to be critical of himself. And if one can not be critical of themselves they will never comprehend the truth in any criticisms leveled by others.
NotCoach on June 21, 2010 at 11:07 PM
I, for one, am going to weatherize my windows.
PattyJ on June 21, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Obama wants these red states on the Gulf to die. And, he wants to kill offshore (and onshore) drilling as well. That’s his ideology.
In the meantime, he sends $2 billion to Brazil to help them drill an offshore well almost twice as deep as BP’s well, while claiming we’ve run out of “safe drilling places”.
Then again, last year Soros put almost a billion in Brazil’s nationalizIzed oil company, Petro-Bras, the same organization that’s getting $2 billion of our taxpayer money.
Connect the dots.
TXUS on June 21, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Obama claimed it was an all hands on deck situation. Clearly, this is not Obama’s goal.
Obama could have waived the Jones act for vessels involved in this oil cleanup effort FROM DAY ONE! This would have meant very little to any of the unions as there is clearly more work than they can handle.
Obama is totally INCOMPETANT in this entire matter.
Freddy on June 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Obama wants this! He hates this country, and he will destroy it in every way he can whether it be at the federal, state, or local level.
What more proof does anyone need?
SouthernGent on June 21, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Time for the Senator from Florida to be contacted by the Republican leadership for an apology.
mobydutch on June 21, 2010 at 11:35 PM
[Freddy on June 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM]
He’s not incompetent. He’s doing it on purpose and he’s being pretty competent about it with the aid of the LSM, who are rushing out “this spill isn’t really a big deal” stories and lefty political prostitutes are either keeping mum in exchange for slush fund cash or helping him fine tune his talking points.
It’s all about the narrative to cover for his true intentions: destroying the country.
Dusty on June 21, 2010 at 11:37 PM
[SouthernGent on June 21, 2010 at 11:33 PM]
Ditto. And he’s laughing at us all the way to the golf course.
Dusty on June 21, 2010 at 11:38 PM
I thought the apology tour was to stop our arrogance, to acknowledge we are not perfect and surely not better than anybody else. So wouldn’t the perfect gesture be to ask for help, show our frailty. This would make other countries feel big. I saved America.
serendip2b on June 21, 2010 at 11:39 PM
A quick google search on Mr. Expert.
He’s a D.C. lawyer.
Firm has strong ties to Chicago.
Their website reads like a who’s who of Democrat pet projects.
Including, but not limited too, pro bono work representing terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.
txhsmom on June 21, 2010 at 11:52 PM
He wants the destruction! Otherwise how would he get his cap and tax unless we are devastated? I would not put anything past him.
Bambi on June 21, 2010 at 11:53 PM
Obama wants the pelicans to die quickly.
TN Mom on June 21, 2010 at 11:59 PM
I realize this will be difficult for some to accept. It’s almost unfathomable, but Barack Obama does NOT want what’s best for the US. He wants to harm the US and he’s willing to sacrifice himself to do so.
He’ll have enough money when he’s out of the WH in January 2013 to last him and his children for the rest of their lives.
All the chaos? All according to his plan. Everyone needs to stop making excuses and giving him the benefit of the doubt. I no longer have any doubt.
Oink on June 22, 2010 at 12:02 AM
The Ayatollah Obama will do anything to bring the US down. I can’t wait till he’s unfunded in January 2011.
Mojave Mark on June 22, 2010 at 12:10 AM
Well, no shit!! Have a look at this article:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/06/21/kevin-mccullough-obama-bp-spill-february-salazar-resign-change/
LarryG on June 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM
Well, here’s some good new (for the eco-Left):
from wsj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704256304575321104202428906.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
But really, who’s big enough to survive all the force of the US government?
r keller on June 22, 2010 at 12:15 AM
Huh?
They don’t even try to come up with plausible excuese any more.
Sir Napsalot on June 22, 2010 at 12:39 AM
When is someone or some freaking organization going to bite the bullet and buy some damn airtime to publicize this crap? Shouldn’t the pathetic Republicans by pounding on this every minute of the day? Not just for themselves but to save the Gulf and our future. Please someone, grow a set and start pounding the Evil Clown squatting in the White House.
Oh yeah – it’s time to start building the case for Impeachment of the Traitor destroying the American economy!
Ogabe on June 22, 2010 at 12:41 AM
He is a pushover to criticism. It just happens to be restricted to criticism from Spike Lee, that’s all.
azkag on June 22, 2010 at 12:46 AM
Where are the skimmers daddy?
TN Mom on June 22, 2010 at 12:48 AM
Just remember we got sheriff Biden, not Sheriff Bart.
Fighton03 on June 22, 2010 at 12:50 AM
in chicago collecting my boodle dear…..
Fighton03 on June 22, 2010 at 12:50 AM
I wonder if he’s afraid to waive it now because it would be an admission that this could be helpful, which might immediately bring on a much bigger storm of criticism for not doing it earlier. This way he avoids admitting he made a mistake.
Funny, I thought it was Boooosh who was supposed to be the guy who did that. I guess that’s who Obama learned it from.
Hah! You see? It is all Bush’s fault.
RINO in Name Only on June 22, 2010 at 1:16 AM
.
We’re about to enter the
“Because I said so, that’s why”
phase of this administration.
mrt721 on June 22, 2010 at 1:16 AM
Not “who,” but “what.” Environmentalism and green energy. A lot of electoral clout in the first, and a lot of money he’s promised his big-ticket supporters in the second. The economy be damned and full speed ahead.
Nichevo on June 22, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Simple: This is a Three Mile Island/Chernoybyl meltdown for the oil industry. It is totally unsafe, completely ungreen, and cannot be tolerated. Once the devastation is complete, every schoolkid and young adult – tomorrow’s voters – will eschew oil like the plague.
TinMan13 on June 22, 2010 at 1:44 AM
I wish ObaMao was merely incompetent!
Slowburn on June 22, 2010 at 2:18 AM
If Obama were all that bright, he would have released his college transcripts. He’s quite glib and reads a great speech, and can own a room as long as the questions aren’t too tough. He had almost a free ride in 2007-09 and was never really tested.
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You just can’t hide from responsibility forever in the Presidency, though. Now he’s been tested, and found wanting.
Adjoran on June 22, 2010 at 3:22 AM
Maybe it has to do with Petrobras or maybe it doesn’t?
Conservative Samizdat on June 22, 2010 at 3:33 AM
B+
I think I threw up in my mouth a little.
Seriously, I can’t take this stupid anymore from this Admin.
I’m losing it. There isn’t enough alcohol to numb my brain from this kind of stupid that we have for “leadership”. my liver is about to go out from this. I may not make it to November but maybe like a good Democrat I can still vote when dead.
Yakko77 on June 22, 2010 at 4:25 AM
Remember the Crist poll?
Any bets on what the next FL poll will look like with this sort of thing coming out?
One poll doth not a trend make, unless its a BOGU going on… and FL is going to get greased for it.
ajacksonian on June 22, 2010 at 5:32 AM
I wonder if Obama will call this statement a lie too?
Obama didn’t just start saying these kinds of things behind the scenes in the last few weeks. And it hasn’t been going on for the last two years. Obama has talking out both sides of his mouth HIS WHOLE LIFE. People are going to start coming out of the woodwoork like crazy now.
Once the first little boy says the emperor has no clothes, the floodgates are opened. At some point Obama will just tell the press to consider everything everyone in the world besides Obama says is a lie, unless Obama specifically tells them otherwise.
logis on June 22, 2010 at 5:53 AM
Ok Rubio this is your cue to pounce. Let’s turn those poll numbers around.
Tasha on June 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM
For Obama, principles come before problems. He is programmatic in his response to domestic and foreign issues. The oil well crisis has become a greater disaster because of his deliberate policies and procedures.
He and his regents are ideological creatures who are focused on the “transformation” of America into their likeness, not on mitigating human and material tragedy.(Nashville anyone?)
All you need to do is compare the federal response to Katrina with Pres. Obama’s response to the well blow-out. Failure to lift the Jones’ Act is just one of the egregious failures of leadership.
Randy
williars on June 22, 2010 at 6:31 AM
Yup, and let’s loan Petrobras another $Billion or two just to be safe.
petefrt on June 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM
Destroy Hospitals and other healthcare delverers.
Destroy military with stupid stuff like “restraint” medals
Destroy the Internet with taxes and regs
Destroy the space program thru starvation of funds
Destroy states rights thru more and more power grabbing.
Destroy energy companies.
Destroy Gulf state Economies.
Destroy relations with Allies (Israel, UK, etc).
Destroy EU thru pressure on Merkel for huge bailout of Greece,etc
Destroy state budgets with new Healthcare pressures on budgets.
and I could go on!!!!
DOTUS………Destroyer of the United States hard at work every day!
PappyD61 on June 22, 2010 at 6:39 AM
Follow the money. Øbama bails out the unions, because they fund him. Øbama pads Petrobra/Soros’ pocket, because Soros funds him too. Using both conduits — unions and Petrobras/Soros — taxpayer money ends up in Øbama’s coffers. Clever, no?
Øbama wants a financial infrastructure to fund the left as a permanent majority.
petefrt on June 22, 2010 at 6:55 AM
Obama is nothing but a despicable community terrorizer-in-chief shakedown artist.
Jayrae on June 22, 2010 at 6:57 AM
All those white Republicans, white states around the gulf, I hold all your pelicans hostage. Do you actually think Obama wants to contain the oil spill? It’s obvious isn’t it.
So why does anybody doubt dear reader is holding border security off until he gets AMNESTY. Then who needs border security. Obama thinks Americans are as dumb as Kenyans.
BTW, in case you didn’t notice, the McCain-Bush AMNESTY plan was the same crap.
tarpon on June 22, 2010 at 6:57 AM
When we get bo out of office we must exile him to a cave in pokistan.
tim c on June 22, 2010 at 7:07 AM
WSJ report of it is good enough for me: Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
petefrt on June 22, 2010 at 7:12 AM
White House mocks BP CEO’s yacht race, defends Obama golf
(AFP) – 15 hours ago
WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman mocked BP’s chief executive Monday for attending a luxury yacht race despite the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but then defended President Barack Obama’s own weekend golf game.
Tony Hayward, the British energy giant’s embattled chief, drew fire from the White House over the weekend for having gone to the yacht race Saturday off the Isle of Wight.
White House spokesman Bill Burton took him to task again on Monday, suggesting that Hayward take part in the cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico with the 300,000 euro yacht he co-owns.
“You know, look, if Tony Hayward wants to put a skimmer on that yacht and bring it down to the Gulf, we’d be happy to have his help,” Burton said to laughter in the White House briefing room.
“But what’s important isn’t what Tony Hayward’s doing in his free time; it’s what BP is doing to take… responsibility for the mess that they’ve made,” he said.
His comments echoed those of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel who called Hawyard’s decision to go to the yacht race “part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes.”
But when asked about Obama’s day Saturday, in particular his four hour golf game at a course near Washington, Burton said the president had the right to decompress a bit after a hard week.
“I don’t think that there’s a person in this country that doesn’t think that their president ought to have a little time to clear his mind,” Burton said.
“I think that a little time to himself on Father’s Day weekend probably does us all good as American citizens,” he said.
byepartisan on June 22, 2010 at 7:15 AM
If not the unions then who? PBHO is protecting someone or something.
Bishop on June 21, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Its not who, but what.
Answer, Crap & Tax legislation.
C&T is the other shoe to drop in an absolutist assualt on liberty designed to assume control over EVERYTHING! To whit, if your your health can be defined as the totality of what exists inside the perimeter of your epidermus, then the enviroment consists of the totality of all that exists outside of it.
HCR + Crap & tax = cover all that can be imagined and regulated by Cass Sunstein.
Game Over!
Archimedes on June 22, 2010 at 7:34 AM
How long before Senator LeMieux will have to apologize for telling the truth?
JellyToast on June 22, 2010 at 7:44 AM
Oilbama.
Akzed on June 22, 2010 at 7:53 AM
That’s right: there’s a whole fleet of skimmers on full alert and ready to spring into action if Al Gore the Oleagenous happens to fall into any waterway in the U.S.
ya2daup on June 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM
LeMieux must be lying if the President told him that, doncha know. The One wouldn’t say anything stupid like that!!!
yoda on June 22, 2010 at 7:56 AM
In a normal news day, LeMieux’s report would be a bomb. But today, LeMieux and Kyl will be lost in the frenzy over McChrystal. It’s a shame to lose two stories like that, isn’t it.
petefrt on June 22, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Well then, why is he keeping them out? If there’s no political reasons(and there always are with Obama)and no practical reasons then why? Stupidity(I’m tired of hearing how smart this man is, he’s not!)and incompetence.
jeanie on June 22, 2010 at 8:23 AM
Yes, to all the folks that habitually hop up and down about the jawdropping ‘incompetence’ apparently on daily display from this administration, it’s advisable to stop making the mistake the left fell into a trap about (e.g. Bush is stupid), and consider that their actions are not without purpose, just towards a really, really ugly and undesirable set of goals.
And that they’ve actually been pretty damned successful at it.
And at this point I’m not sure which is more disheartening, their successes, or the apparently large percentage of our fellow citizens that are avidly cheering them on.
Wind Rider on June 22, 2010 at 8:32 AM
I was at that point one month ago. O is not incompetent or stupid or a clown, this is as cold and calculating as it gets.
elclynn on June 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM
and George Soros is heavily invested in it too.
elclynn on June 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM
‘clever and calulating’ is the meme we’ve beem hearing and the left(and some of the right!) re-inforces daily that is behind all obama’s seemingly pointless and stupid moves. Once upon a time I believed this but not any more. It’s true he has an agenda but these days he’s just stumbling ineptly toward it not caring how it looks or how the public reacts. That’s not clever, it’s blind suicide. He is incompetent, a bad CEO and extremely clownish much of the time. Only an unthinking fool would be making the mistakes he has/is making in the Gulf…and not to push cap and trade of other paranoid assumptions, he’s just plain stupid.
jeanie on June 22, 2010 at 8:45 AM
In an interview with one of the handful of serious newspapers that every informed person should read, Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told the (paywall-protected) Financial Times that Brazil would no longer seek a lead role in the diplomatic dispute between Iran and the United States. “We got our fingers burned,” Amorim told the FT. The Daily News, an English-language Turkish newspaper published by the Hurriyet group, tried to cast doubt on the story, saying that there were ‘conflicting’ reports about the Brazilian position. As the smoke cleared this morning, however, both the AP and Reuters confirmed the FT account.
Brazil’s defection from the ‘axis of fixers‘ leaves Turkey in an uncomfortable place. Limited Israeli concessions on the Gaza blockade have won praise from both the US and Tony Blair without bringing the blockade, including the naval blockade, to an end. The Security Council sanctions against Iran sailed through despite Turkish opposition and, led by the US Treasury Department and the Congress, it is likely that in both the US and the EU new, tougher sanctions will build on what the Security Council laid down.
Killing two birds with one stone? Two billion seems to have stopped the support of Iran by Brazil.
elclynn on June 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM
…’suggests he’s not doing everything he can’. Of course he’s doing everything he can…to move his green agenda forward. He can point to all the damage oil has caused, and use it for his own purposes. Meanwhile his puppet master is making money hand over fist. The whole regime is nothing but a bunch of crooks. All the coastal governors better wake up to the fact that the feds won’t help only hinder efforts.
Kissmygrits on June 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Adm. Allen has pointed out previously that at some point you start doing risk assessment on moving skimmers out of other vulnerable areas. I guess you can’t airlift a boat, but it seems to me like oil in the water is more of a problem than oil that MIGHT go in the water.
hawksruleva on June 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM
It seems more and more to me that Obama wants failure. He seems to want this spill to become as big a nightmare as possible.
Why would he want this? A complete ban on offshore drilling, “Green energy” mandates, energy taxes, or just as a club to beat Republicans with this November?
jpmn on June 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM
its becoming clear that Obama wants the damage to continue and to get worse. Manchurian candidate thy name is Obama
unseen on June 22, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Glenn Beck makes the excellent point that Brazilian national oil company Petrobras will be a beneficiary of Obama’s policies (and $2 billion in funds). Petrobras is the 2nd largest holding in George Soros’ portfolio at the moment.
One of Obama’s leading sources of advice is the Center for American Progress, which was founded by and is funded by George Soros. And of course Obama was looking for an excuse to push cap & trade, which would benefit Al Gore, GE and some of his Chicago cronies.
hawksruleva on June 22, 2010 at 9:59 AM
Someone doesnt WANT this spill to get cleaned up…as the economy tanks, inflation sits on the starting blocks, Arizona is getting overun but hey “jingle” “jingle” look over here, look at the oil spill..pay no attention to anything else.
Koa on June 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., recently blamed Bush appointees who “burrowed in” at the Minerals Management Service for the regulatory failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But as it turns out, not one of the officials responsible for overseeing the exploded rig was a Bush political appointee.
The Washington Examiner has obtained biographic information on the MMS officials responsible for overseeing BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig at the time it exploded, from the Gulf Region Director to the last inspector to set foot on the rig. Most of these federal employees started with the agency decades ago. Not one was a presidential appointment of George W. Bush, although one longtime MMS employee in question was promoted to his current position during the Bush Administration.
Obama owns this one, and Pelosi can’t change that, not one iota.
elclynn on June 22, 2010 at 10:17 AM
I don’t think your avg American understands the true meaning of these 2 words.
In fact, if you talk about traitors, many people just laugh at the notion of such an archaic term having any merit in today’s enlightenend & modern societies.
And many other’s confuse impeachment with illegal activities & wrongdoing i.e. Clinton’s affair w/ Lewinski wasn’t illegal, so he shouldn’t have been impeached.
Badger40 on June 22, 2010 at 11:17 AM
This is a normal news day with the Clueless One in charge. I keep waiting for the day when I wake up and don’t think I am in a nightmare in my own country.
txmomof6 on June 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM
CODE RED!!!!
CODE RED!!!!
This is not a drill
Sonosam on June 22, 2010 at 11:27 AM
Isn’t this (delays by Obama Admin) just a way to get the American people to really hate oil? It’s not in the far-away land of Alaska; the spill is in the Heartland. They are the ones that use the most oil and must be taught a lesson about how bad oil is.
I’d bet the environmental leftists are just enjoying this so much! They, like Obama, are using the crisis to make a point!
scottjenn on June 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM
every distraction from the economy
10+% unemployment is a win win for Obama
1/3 of the public is totally blind to the fact that Obama is behind all the poor response time to cleanup
The feds have made BP out to be the criminals
and demonized the oil industry at the same time
audiotom on June 22, 2010 at 1:14 PM
Obama won’t settle for inaction – he demands it!
Never let a circus go to waste.
Merovign on June 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM