Sarah Palin, Cokie Roberts, Donna Brazile fault Obama administration’s response to oil spill
The Orlando Sentinel ^ | May 23, 2010
Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 12:29:26 AM by 2ndDivisionVet
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Sunday morning guests from Sarah Palin to Donna Brazile found fault with the way the Obama administration has responded to British Petroleum’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On “Fox News Sunday,” former Alaska Gov. Palin said she was still a “big supporter of offshore drilling” despite the spill. She wondered about President’s Obama’s “connection” to the oil companies.
“I don’t know why the question isn’t asked by the mainstream media and by others if there is any connection with the contributions made to President Obama and his administration,” Palin told Chris Wallace.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs shot back: “Sarah Palin was involved in that [2008] election, but I don’t think apparently was paying a whole lot of attention. I’m almost sure that the oil companies don’t consider the Obama administration a huge ally. We proposed a windfall-profits tax when they jacked their oil prices up to charge more for gasoline. My suggestion to Sarah Palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what’s going on in and around oil drilling in this country.”
On ABC’s “This Week,” Cokie Roberts and Democrat strategist Brazile said Obama wasn’t doing enough about the spill.
“The oil is gushing and we’re being lied to by how much oil is gushing … and the administration has now named a commission,” Roberts said. “Now this is what you do when you really don’t have anything else to do: You name a commission,” she said. “That’s not going to stop the oil.”
Brazile said: “One of the problems I have with the [Obama] administration is that they’re not tough enough.(continued)
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Jindal: We won’t wait for federal permission to start building sand berms
AP ^ | 5-23-10 | AP
Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 12:15:40 AM by joinedafterattack
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With oil pushing at least 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes and two major pelican rookeries now coated in crude, Gov. Bobby Jindal says the state is working on chain of sand berms that would skirt the state’s coastline.
Jindal visited one of the affected nesting grounds Sunday. Jindal and officials from several coastal parishes say the berms would close the door on the oil still pouring from a deepwater gusher about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.
The berms would be made with sandbags. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also is considering a broader plan that would use dredging to build sand berms across more of the barrier islands.
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