Posted on 05/02/2010 12:16:54 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
20 April 2010: An oil rig rented and operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, killing 11 workers.
21 April 2010: All 115 workers are evacuated from the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.
22 April 2010: The Deepwater Horizon collapses into the sea and sinks.
22 April 2010: President Obama delivers a speech on Wall Street to advocate more government intervention in the country's financial sector, but offers no reforms for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which helped precipitate the 2008 meltdown. He also delivers a speech regarding the contributions of Earth Day to environmental awareness.
Meanwhile, 200,000 gallons of oil are spilling daily.
23 April 2010: President Obama blasts the Arizona governor, state legislators, police officers and residents for backing federal laws that prohibit illegal immigration.
23 April 2010: The oil continues to flow.
24 April 2010: The president delivers his weekly radio address, which focuses on further regulation of Wall Street. He also calls upon certain segments of his original supporters -- African-Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, and women -- and asks them to mobilize for political action.
24 April 2010: Efforts to contain the spill are hampered by lack of resources and difficult weather.
25 April 2010: President Obama interrupts a weekend getaway to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham in North Carolina.
25 April 2010: Oil spreads across the gulf and heads toward the Louisiana shoreline.
26 April 2010: President Obama appears in a "Vote 2010" video, distributed by his political action wing Organizing for America, which serves as a stark appeal to blacks and Latinos -- specifically -- for their votes in November.
26 April 2010: The Coast Guard warns that the spill could become one of the worst in United States history.
28 April 2010: The President holds a rare, impromptu press conference on Air Force One, addressing "questions on the Arizona immigration law, the financial regulation bill and other issues." Obama also prepared to make his second nomination to the Supreme Court and warns of a "'conservative' brand of judicial activism in which the courts are often not showing appropriate deference to the decisions of lawmakers."
28 April 2010: large pools of oil are spotted close to the Louisiana shore line.
29 April 2010: the White House Flickr Feed is updated with a photo of the President meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and senior administration officials, including National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, which indicates that they are urgently working the issue of the oil spill.
29 April 2010: Meanwhile, local officials, the Coast Guard and private citizens continue their efforts to prevent damage to the Louisiana coastline.
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Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning for a couple of days and actually pay attention to his own, personal Katrina. Even The New York Times has noticed, decrying the President's lackadaisical response. But I'm guessing that somehow, someway, it's all President Bush's fault.
By the “Horizon-Gate”!!!
Thanks.
Problem is,they diddled and their tush is now slippery from the oil they ignored. Their fault. Done.
Ping to the “Deepwater-Horizon-Gate”!!
Ping. This helps put things in perspective regarding Obama’s response to the oil spill.
Not surprising, the whole administration is CLUELESS!
You nailed it.
No, I disagree. I don't believe for 1 second that he (and his corrupt admin) weren't paying attention. What I hear from some people as this being an example of "incompetence" or somehow being "asleep at the switch," misses the real issue here. All of this delay and inaction was very deliberate. They didn't want to contain it or otherwise minimize the impact. It has been a deliberate approach to let it get to the point where maximal damage (across many fronts) is bound to occur, then count on a sleepy public to buy into all of their current "heroic" pronouncements of intent and action. And then of course, be able to take full advantage of the "crisis" as we have all come to expect...
NOAA was estimating 64,000 - 110,000 bbls/day on April 22, 2010
As Maria said when Clinton got elected to second term, "Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public". A certain close relative we know and love comes to mind....
bttt
Somehow I missed seeing your post #23 yesterday. Thanks for the link!
Powerline
Was the Federal Response to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Adequate?
May 2, 2010 Posted by John at 9:07 PM
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
“Never waste a good crisis, Clinton says on climate”
http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE5251VN20090306
Excellent correct commentary; the law is called Posse Comitatus, a quasi-Constitutional law that prohibits the feds from sending troops into the states and billeting them in private homes. Had Bush ignored this law and sent troops in, he would have likely faced impeachment.
As always, the Dems get to have it both ways.
That was the point. Guess I need to start placing a /s at each post.
bttt
And look here - ‘RAT propaganda mouth Media Matters weighs in on a “time line”:
Media Matters Research
http://mediamatters.org/research/201004300053
Memo to media: Timeline contradicts “Obama’s Katrina” claim
April 30, 2010 7:05 pm ET
A timeline of events following the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill belies the absurd media claim that the spill represents “Obama’s Katrina.”
[snip]
Sorry.
Maybe they will blame Bobby Jindal.
“Since there is no Republican politician to attack in this scenario, BP will catch all the heat.” ~ centurion316
It may be legitimate to blame BP acccording to Chris Horner on NRO. He plans to expand on that opinion later:
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/
Blame BP [Chris Horner]
I hope to elaborate later I’m wrapping up two weeks on the road promoting Power Grab but it seems to me the issue with the recent oil-platform explosion and subsequent leak issue is BP, not offshore drilling.
Offshore drilling has a very good track record in the past few decades and especially recently; BP has a terrible one. The Deepwater Horizon incident is consistent with only one of those track records.
Like Enron and indeed, in close cooperation with Enron on the “global warming” rent-seeking BP got distracted from its core businesses and spent its energies getting into solar ventures and carbon-trading schemes, and otherwise losing the plot of an energy company. The absurd re-branding to “Beyond Petroleum” (really? your balance sheet doesn’t quite agree) speaks volumes.
They thereby also lost focus on these operations and implicitly told their best people that the future did not lie there.
And for a decade we have seen BP facilities blowing up with human and environmental consequences all over the place.
The newsiness of this spill is testimony to its aberrant nature. The issue today isn’t offshore drilling so much as it is the company that, in violation of all laws of probability, continues to be involved in a preponderance of its various industries’ high-profile workplace tragedies.
05/02 11:00 AM
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I also posted the above in the live Rush thread today, too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505575/posts?page=58#58
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