Posted on 06/05/2010 11:44:10 AM PDT by Welshman007
Gulf Oil Crisis + cap and Trade + Worlds Largest Ponzi Scheme brought to the USA by Balaam Hussein Obama better known as Obozo
bloggers..............jees.
For starters he could have actually got down here on Monday instead of when he did. Brown ended up taking the fall for what was really his failure.
I voted for him two times. I still won’t give him a pass on that our how he ignored the problems with the economy and the deficit. The biggest problem with how he responded was that he refused to accept the enormity of what was going on and he did not have FEMA prepared as they should have been.
My God, this was like one of the biggest big one scenarios in the history of mankind. FEMA trucks should have been stationed in Jackson, Little Rock, Montgomery, etc with orders that they were to be deployed the minute the all clear was given and outside of New Orleans the all clear was given that Monday afternoon.
Just because someone belongs to your party or shares your political philosophy doesn’t mean you give them a free pass when they screw up. One of the reasons our country is so messed up is that we’ve been doing it for a very long time.
The reason they will not try it is that 25 super tankers emptying their contents into the appropriate American refinery and then heading to the Gulf for sludge and slurry pick-up is that this would so glut the market short-term that prices would be adversely affected. In fact, if 25 supertankers were to show up together there's a good question about where that stuff could be stored!
The oil in the Gulf is less retrievable than the situation the Saudis faced, and, thanks to Obama delaying response to the emergency, which by LAW is his to command, it is now in "plumes" as long as 100 miles.
This method cannot be the only answer, but it is one that will work where applicable, near shore.
There is absolutely no shortage of crude oil on this planet, nor will there be for the next 150 years, at least. There is a shortage of refining capacity which is used to "schedule" deliveries and keep prices up. It still costs the Saudis less than $5 per barrel to produce and deliver to the tanker fleet.
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco Democrat. President Bush offered assistance before it hit and was refuted.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barber Republican, gee I don't seem to hear much pissing & moaning from this state.
Who is incompetent?
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it is working that is what they are doing now, I would say it is the dems fault that we are so reliant on oil now because they sqaushed all new nuke plants for the last 30 years.
of course BP would not want to cap it because they would lose the money AND pay for the cleanup, this way they still get the oil
The day that it became apparent that this thing was coming in (Saturday) I would have ordered the military to begin stockpiling supplies in every major city in the region that was not going to be hit with Cat 5 conditions so that the minute that the meterological all clear was given those supplies would have been ready for people.
In New Orleans and Mississippi people went for days without help from FEMA. There are people who probably died that could have been saved if only teams had been there.
Biloxi was a mess after the storm yes. Every sign was gone and whole sections of it were nothing but rubble. The guys should have still been down here that Monday cleaning up and Bush should have found a way to make it to Mobile or Baton Rouge by Tuesday and he should have stayed personally overseeing the efforts.
Thats what leadership is and thats what I would have done. It would have been my priority. If necessary I would have called every unit we could spare from overseas back home to help with the recovery.
Take what Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell did during the Gulf War and apply that to the preparations for the storm. That’s what should have been done.
That is NOT TRUE George Bush was incompetent. I lived on the gulf for 10 years. I went through hurricane, after hurricane. Before those hurricanes hit the gulf you prepare, everyone prepares and then you decide to leave or stay or seek shelter. Our house was so locked down, I was able to chat on the internet during every storm. LOL I knew people whose houses were flooded with snakes in the cubbards. They didn’t call on the govt. It was baloney what I saw in New Orleans. People were not prepared and wanted the govt to take care of them...and where was the state too?
There are plenty of things to be upset with Bush over, the Kennedy Education Bill, Drug prescription Bill and immigration.
This is not!
Hindsight is supposed to be 20/20. Not wishful thinking.
Barbour and Riley got little to no help from the feds in the early stages but still got things done. That’s why their leadership was praised (and that’s the only reason either of them got a second term)
Ray Nagin had been a Republican and only switched parties in 2002 to run for mayor. I’m not talking partisanship here I’m talking leadership.
Riley, Barbour, Landrieu, Vitter, Jindal, Lott, AJ Holloway, Taylor all showed good leadership during the thing. They remained calm and composed and got a lot done.
I never said it was “all Bush’s fault” which is just stupid. However, the fact that FEMA trucks and crews were not pre-deployed was very clearly a failure on his part and the reason that I am criticizing him on this is that he comes from Texas, which gets hurricanes all the time and which he had handled well in the past.
He should have been willing to have been more forceful then he was and he should have been quicker in the response.
The oil spill is a convenient scapegoat for putrid economic policies. Soetoro is a pathetic half-wit and a loser.
BTTT
My posting history will show that I am no George Bush fan. But Katrina was not his failure.If you truly believe so, you have bought some MSM bullshiite that is now well-aged and the stuff of urban legend.
In any natural disaster, it is the responsibility of LOCAL first responders to put in place the disaster planning which every state and city has on the shelf, ready to go.
The Mayor of NOLA, Ray Nagin, was an incompetent crack-addled, loud-mouthed drunkard, who actually maintains his primary residence in Houston! The Police Chief of NOLA had phantom officers on his rolls, and disappeared immediately, The Governor (Ms. Blanco) was shown to be an idiot of the first rank. George, whose major flaw was and is an inability to speak, did make a big mistake. He should have had Nagin and Blanco shot, federalized the city, and moved its inhabitants to Alaska, or at least its government officials.
Every American ought to paste on the refrigerator door that for the first three days in a big disaster ... you're on your own, and if the people you have elected are incompetent, you could very well die.
Obama did not give official notice to this spill for 38 days. That's Thirty-Eight Days. He received notification from the USCG in regard to its magnitude and seriousness immediately!
Why are you making all these excuses for the leaders of Louisiana?
It’s not Bush’s responsibility to be like a parent to remind his kids to close the door when they go out. For cry’n out loud. That’s why this people were elected.
Barber & Riley did what they were responsible for, take care of their own states. That’s called LEADERSHIP!
My property flooded during Katrina. I’m the last person you need to lecture on this.
And I’m not saying that the government should have handed everyone a check (which they ended up doing anyway). What I am saying is that he should have shown more qualities of active leadership during this.
Every single time we’ve had a hurricane under Riley the governor has always managed to have these press conferences. He will come down to the coast and have press conferences with all of the local officials present and they will pre-empt pretty much all TV during the conferences and I think that at least for one Riley stayed in the region as it came in.
Where Bush failed in Katrina was not in as much of what he did but how he let himself be portrayed. Basically, he never appeared on top of things and that he has in common with Blanco and Nagin. Riley and Barbour on the other hand always appeared like they knew what they were doing from day one. That’s why both of them who had poll numbers sub 35 had huge bursts of popularity after it was all said and done.
Waht it actually shows is:
1) The federal government is not all powerful and can't be counted on to handle a crisis like tis in a rapid manner.
2) Ray Nagin, and Kathleen Blanco are political hacks. Nagin had the opportunity to get the Citizens of NO out using school buses instead he let the busses be damaged by the flood waters and the citizens were trapped in a city that was below sea level and amounted to a fish bowl. Blanco refused to federalize the Guardsmen in her state becuase Bush was a Republican, and the feds can't go in with out permission.
3) Obozo is as big a political hack because Bobby Jihndal requested that the state be allowed to form sand barriers, and the EPA refused to allow it.
In Florida we are told that it will be a minimum of three days before help may come, and may be as long as seven days. So our State EM says each person needs to be able to survive for at least seven days without help. Plan accordingly.
We were two days without help when Wilma struck later in 2005. We made it back to our nearly destroyed house and immediately commenced repairs with supplies we had on hand. I used my pickup truck to clear roads for others ... Some areas of the east coast were without power for near three weeks after Wilma.
When the roads are down, as what happened with Katrina, what you going to do, rebuild the bridges as you advance? Our ham radio group went to try and help, and were unable to get there because the roads were not available because of mostly bridge damage.
From our vantage point, watching the stooges in New Orleans tell the government they weren’t leaving was comical ... they must not have figured out what the levies were for.
Bush’s fault, oil spill Obama’s fault.
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