Told you so....
POTUS aka the "Saviour" is not going to lay any wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day. Our commander in chief (no caps, he does not deserve them) cannot do the right thing for the tens of thousands of service families in our country. Shame.
Instead, he is going home to Chicago for a little vacation, but first, he is swinging by the Gulf to do a stop-over -- the first one in the 37 days of crisis. James Carville, the political strategist that put Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton into the White House has something to say about this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P693DaOeQL8
And Carville knows his politics -- he is as firmly leftwing as anyone. He called this "political stupidity."I don't even like Carville, but he is clear as to what a decent POTUS should be doing and why. So instead of comforting the families of 11 dead rig workers, and the thousands of families whose livelihoods will be destroyed by the fishing disaster ... he was whooping it up with the Duke hoops team in D.C. Shows where the priorities are.
But now at his press conference today -- the first in over 300 days -- he claimed that the Government was now in charge. BP has to clear everything with the Bureau of Minerals, etc. and hence Obama. Great. How about some ideas, oh omnipotent one? Obama blamed practices of the previous administration for the poor regulation, citing a "cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship" between oil companies and regulators. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar instituted changes in the agency after taking over, the president said, but the "culture had not fully changed" at the agency's Minerals Management Service by the time of the spill. Dandy, Mr. Obama .. but it was YOUR administration that rubber stamped that rig and gave expedited authority to drill without supervision or extra safety requirements. THIS Charlie Foxtrot is YOURS.
AND NOW for my told-you-so spot of the week: a 22 mile long, 6 mile wide and 3000 foot deep oil plume has been "detected" emanating from the well head. You see, the Obama administration didn't want you to think it was as bad as it was. MY sources, however (read oil engineers and fishermen posting to the net) stated right from the start that the surface oil was just the marker. So the "official" tally is now something like two to three times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.
Oh, horror ... well it is a lot worse than the Exxon Valdez: sure that was into "pristine" Alaskan waters ... yada, yada, yada. THIS one is NOT contained. THIS one is let loose without the ability to place booms, sweep from contained shores, generally clean up after it. Clear thinkers are stating that oil will substantially contaminate the ENTIRE Gulf of Mexico, and eventually wind up in the Gulf Stream headed North past Florida .... You know the rest. And it is still not blocked.
And in the category of George Bush's "go shop at the Malls", Obama showed how desperately out of touch he and his administration actually are. At a White House news conference Thursday, Obama said while three beaches in Louisiana have been fouled by oil, the rest of the region's beaches are clean and safe. He says Gulf state governors have asked him "to remind everybody" the beaches are open.
Seriously ... he is the President of the United States. You can't make this up.
Instead, he is going home to Chicago for a little vacation, but first, he is swinging by the Gulf to do a stop-over -- the first one in the 37 days of crisis. James Carville, the political strategist that put Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton into the White House has something to say about this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P693DaOeQL8
And Carville knows his politics -- he is as firmly leftwing as anyone. He called this "political stupidity."I don't even like Carville, but he is clear as to what a decent POTUS should be doing and why. So instead of comforting the families of 11 dead rig workers, and the thousands of families whose livelihoods will be destroyed by the fishing disaster ... he was whooping it up with the Duke hoops team in D.C. Shows where the priorities are.
But now at his press conference today -- the first in over 300 days -- he claimed that the Government was now in charge. BP has to clear everything with the Bureau of Minerals, etc. and hence Obama. Great. How about some ideas, oh omnipotent one? Obama blamed practices of the previous administration for the poor regulation, citing a "cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship" between oil companies and regulators. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar instituted changes in the agency after taking over, the president said, but the "culture had not fully changed" at the agency's Minerals Management Service by the time of the spill. Dandy, Mr. Obama .. but it was YOUR administration that rubber stamped that rig and gave expedited authority to drill without supervision or extra safety requirements. THIS Charlie Foxtrot is YOURS.
AND NOW for my told-you-so spot of the week: a 22 mile long, 6 mile wide and 3000 foot deep oil plume has been "detected" emanating from the well head. You see, the Obama administration didn't want you to think it was as bad as it was. MY sources, however (read oil engineers and fishermen posting to the net) stated right from the start that the surface oil was just the marker. So the "official" tally is now something like two to three times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.
Oh, horror ... well it is a lot worse than the Exxon Valdez: sure that was into "pristine" Alaskan waters ... yada, yada, yada. THIS one is NOT contained. THIS one is let loose without the ability to place booms, sweep from contained shores, generally clean up after it. Clear thinkers are stating that oil will substantially contaminate the ENTIRE Gulf of Mexico, and eventually wind up in the Gulf Stream headed North past Florida .... You know the rest. And it is still not blocked.
And in the category of George Bush's "go shop at the Malls", Obama showed how desperately out of touch he and his administration actually are. At a White House news conference Thursday, Obama said while three beaches in Louisiana have been fouled by oil, the rest of the region's beaches are clean and safe. He says Gulf state governors have asked him "to remind everybody" the beaches are open.
Seriously ... he is the President of the United States. You can't make this up.
posted by Zaphod at Thursday, May 27, 2010
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