White House 'satisfied' with its response to Gulf disaster

Texas for Sarah Palin ^ | June 22, 2010 at 8:35 AM CDST | Josh Painter

[Josh Painter]

Team Obama has responded to Sarah Palin's criticism via Twitter of White House chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's false claim that Texas Congressman Joe Barton's apology -- since retracted -- to BP's Chairman reflects GOP party philosophy:

Asked to respond to Palin, White House spokesman Bill Burton noted that some Republicans have defended Barton's comments about the $20 billion claims fund Obama negotiated with BP for victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill.

"We're satisfied that we're doing everything we can to take care of the folks in the Gulf region," Burton added, "and if she doesn't want to own Congressman Barton's comments, that doesn't surprise me."

The problem with Deputy Press Secretary Burton's comment is that while the Obama Administration may be "satisfied" that it is doing all it can to deal with the impact of the worst environmental disaster in the nation's history, most Americans are not at all satisfied with Team Obama's efforts.

Even a poll released Tuesday by CBS News and the NY Times, which oversampled Democrats in comparison to Republicans (by 432 to 302, after being weighted), found that a majority of Americans feel that the president's response was too slow (61 percent) and a plurality (47 percent) believe that he has no clear plan to deal with the crisis in the gulf.

- JP

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Sounds like Bubba Clinton kind of satisfied..

“you might wanna put some ice on that”

[Texas resident]

They are satisfied that they pulled off a shakedown of BP and shut down the gulf oilfields.

[chris37]

Suddenly, I feel as if I need to vomit.

[shadeaud]

comments about the $20 billion claims fund Obama negotiated with BP for victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill. negotiated is the operative word here. I don't trust this administration and I would have loved to be a fly on the wall as Rahm and Barry interrogated B.P. with bright spotlights and a non cushioned chair.

[jessduntno]

Hope they carry that satisfaction right into November...

[mak5]

These people are easily satisfied, aren’t they?

[Recon Dad]

Where are all the Skimmers? Until you address the 2,000 skimmers from around the US and the many countries that have offered help and been rejected you are responsible for the oil when it hits the beaches and marshes.

[Maverick68]

obama is scum...

[ThunderSleeps]

They are idiots. Just goes to show how far removed from the real world these big government socialists are. In the real world, you're never "satisfied" with your own performance. There is always an after-action, lessons learned, what worked, what didn't period of self reflection and evaluation.

These elitists know nothing of the real world of people that work for a living. These are blood sucking marxists patting themselves on the back. Even worse than their idiotic self aggrandizing is the fact they have absolutely nothing to feel good about. It is hard to imaging an administration handling an incident in a worse fashion. They took a serious industrial accident/incident, and have charlie-foxtrot'd it into a major league crisis for the Gulf Coast.

[NMEwithin]

and yet...the oil keeps pumping and the Jones Act remains in effect.

[LibLieSlayer]

Racist muzzie marxist has destroyed the Gulf... of course he is happy. FUbo!

LLS

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Of course they are: their motto is "Never let a crisis go to waste."

A corollary to that is "Always make a crisis worse. The worse you can make it, the more power you can consolidate to yourselves."

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

When Obamarx wants to go frolic on the beach, he heads to Hawaii. It's no skin off his nose if the Gulf states are impacted.

[LibLieSlayer]

I live here in the middle of the disaster... I know he hates whites and Christians!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

I live here in the middle of the disaster... I know he hates whites and Christians!

LLS

[Hoffer Rand]

Okey dokey. Just like, White House “satisfied” nothing improper occurred with Blogo. And after investigating, are satisfied that nothing illegal happened with Sestek. Uh huh. Tell us another one.