Posted on 06/11/2010 6:37:08 PM PDT by pissant
President Barack Obama said Friday that some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
In an exclusive one-on-one interview with POLITICO, the president said: I think its fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending.
The president also implied that anti-big government types such as Tea Party activists were being hypocritical on the issue.
Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying do something are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much, Obama said. Some of the same people who are saying the president needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.
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He’s so precious. LOL
Yes, but sadly he votes. And currently, 53 cents out of every federal dollar spend is not borrowed from the Chinese. Even China doesn’t have that much money. China’s total holding of US Debt is under $1 trillion. We have increased our debt three times that since Obama took office. So the bottom line is that no one is financing our debt. The Fed is simply expanding the money supply just like in Zimbabwe. The only thing keeping the currency steady right now is our double-digit unemployment rate.
And when questioned about the observation that increasing taxes leads to reduced government revenue (and vice versa), he said that he didn’t care, the tax code was just unfair. Blithering idiot.
These people are pure, unmitigated evil.
Someone is buying our Federal bonds. The Chines hold closer to 2 trillion (give or take a few zillion) so...who is buying? Legitimate bond holders who, apparently, have excess savings from somewhere or...as you likely and correctly point out... the Fed. With newly printed money. An audit might reveal a truth stranger than fiction... Apparently, your young friend doesn’t realize that his best lifestyle years are behind him and that he will likely not enjoy the same standard of living as his parents due to higher taxes, a smaller economy and fierce global competition for jobs. His generation is screwed. Oh Bam Ah...Oh Bah Mah...Oh Bahm Ha! Wasn’t that the chant?
It's called appeasement and stall tactics. Being done deliberately in order to trash the country.
WE NEED TO START HITTING THE PHONES SCREAMING FOR IMPEACHMENT AND HIS REMOVAL.
Articles of Impeachment should be filed immediately.
Yeah, 0bama is a real mental wizard.
Great strategy, to tell voters that the Congress that has been controlled by his party for 4 years and is up for reelection this year shares the blame with him!
BP stands for “Buck Passing”.
This is leadership? LOL! No wonder the Iranians and North Koreans are on the march....
Send the clean-up bill to the environmentalists who have brought us to this sorry state. We are defeating our own nation under the cause of “ecology”....and you can tell by THIS spill, that pushing the drilling way out to sea is not the answer either.
Lately I am finding it extremely difficult to show respect to you or even to the office you hold at the moment. On this one point we can agree, government holds a certain level of responsibility to the BP Spill or any major environmental disaster.
There were and are a number of ongoing failures on the part of your government. These failures range from not accepting international assistance to clean-up the spill, mitigate the spill, and minimize the damage from the spill to the EPA and DHS having spill plans in place without appropriate allocation of equipment and I will refer to the policies put in place by Congress that have forced oil companies into positions of high risk due to over regulation.
Some of us Mr. president, understand that major natural resources such as oil are required by our nation. They are required because oil isn't just about transportation and gasoline. Oil and its byproducts touch our lives in millions of places we would never even consider. It is that understanding in which we, We the People, have worked with oil companies to create, maintain, and grow our economy. This understanding leads or should lead to the cooperation that these risks are indeed carried by not only the oil companies and stakeholders, but every citizen.
If we want, if we need these resources then we all must accept and bear the responsibility for when disaster strikes. Mr. president that responsibility has not been upheld by your administration in the face of this crisis. Mr. president that responsibility which you are legally bound to implement in response to this spill has not been implemented and this citizen views as “willful negligence” on the part of your office, the EPA, and Homeland Security.
BP Oil had a horrible accident. An accident so egregious is may cost them their entire operation from the fines, fees, and litigation. Mr. president, you had it within your power to minimize the damage, to be of heroic assistance and instead you chose “willful negligence” to let the crisis fester to advance an unsustainable agenda.
Mr. president, you have breached the trust every citizen expects to be able have in their leaders during a time of crisis.
If even a lowly EHS Field Tech can see your “willful negligence,” then it rises to the level of criminal behavior and you should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. You see Mr. president, under the environmental laws of the United States of America it is not just the companies that can be prosecuted. Individuals who were “willfully negligent” in the delegated duties can be held criminally liable.
He alone is responsible for his sagging poll numbers.
The man is a childish and dangerous disgrace.
Everyone else is to blame but the Marxist in Chief now sitting in the White House.
The actions of POTUS Obama are typical of a person, man or woman, in over their head. Obama has lost it and cannot function in a rational manner. Everything that comes out of his mouth is either protective of himself or just useless blabbler. He is not a leader of any significance and should be removed from office by his own Democrat political party!!!
Love your consensus on the past Dem presidents, brilliant!
In addition to being left-wing, the guy’s a jerk.
If one of my staff had made an excuse like Obama is stating, I’d have fired him.
This is a terrifying situation. God help us if the Boy-Queen is faced with an attack on American soil.
The guy is a complete and utter joke! Has the maturity of a 3 year old who wets his pants all day long.
Obama is a classless, marxist muslim queer thug from Chicago who needs to be impeached, tried for treason and shipped to Gitmo to rot with his buddies.
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