Posted on 06/10/2010 8:43:10 PM PDT by curth
Political prognosticators – usually journalists and pundits, occasionally historians – are prone to label trivial events as ‘historic’.
But every so often, the ‘historic’ label is truly deserved.
Such, we believe, is the case with Gov. Palin’s statement, released yesterday via Facebook, on the BP oil spill disaster, and President Obama’s handling of it.
As the nation reels in horror from the scope of the calamity, there is a growing sense that President Obama is responsible for an incompetent Federal response.
And now, many are beginning to ask, wouldn’t Gov. Palin have handled this better?
Of course, many well-meaning commentators, not merely the President’s reliable apologists, have voiced the question, ‘Well, what could he do?’
It is this question Gov. Palin answers so directly in her essay. And because she is already the President’s most effective public opponent, and because energy policy is so crucial to our future, her words, we predict, will bring many to believe that America would be better off with her in the White House than its present occupant.
Time, of course, will tell. But to us this has the feel of a true game-changer.
* Less Talkin’, More Kickin’ June 9, 2010, 2:31pm 50 days in, and we’ve just learned another shocking revelation concerning the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill. In an interview aired this morning, President Obama admitted that he hasn’t met with or spoken directly to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. His reasoning: “Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s gonna say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.”
First, to the “informed and enlightened” mainstream media: in all the discussions you’ve had with the White House about the spill, did it not occur to you before today to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions were progressing to remedy this tragedy? You never cease to amaze. (Kind of reminds us of the months on end when you never bothered to ask if the President was meeting with General McChrystal to talk about our strategy in Afghanistan.)
Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before occupying the Oval Office (as if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local government simple requests weren’t proof enough). The current administration may be unaware that it’s the President’s duty, meeting on a CEO-to-CEO level with Hayward, to verify what BP reports. In an interview a few weeks ago with Greta Van Susteren, I noted that based on my experience working with oil execs as an oil regulator and then as a Governor, you must verify what the oil companies claim – because their perception of circumstances and situations dealing with public resources and public trust is not necessarily shared by those who own America’s public resources and trust. I was about run out of town in Alaska for what critics decried at the time as my “playing hardball with Big Oil,” and those same adversaries (both shortsighted Repubs and Dems) continue to this day to try to discredit my administration’s efforts in holding Big Oil accountable to operate ethically and responsibly.
Mr. President: with all due respect, you have to get involved, sir. The priorities and timeline of an oil company are not the same as the public’s. You cannot outsource the cleanup and the responsibility and the trust to BP and expect that the legitimate interests of Americans adversely affected by this spill will somehow be met.
Read the rest. http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/less-talkin-more-kickin/397148258434
Why doesn’t he just let her handle it?
I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
~Michael Reagan, radio talk show host and son of President Ronald Reagan
I have reservations about my reservations about Palin, for the simple reason that she’s the only Republican showing any leadership at all.
It would be a great thing for Sarahpac to compile all of her Facebook posts into a booklet with the dates that each was posted and the dates of whatever actions that came later as a result of them ala Obama now ready to talk to BP. Cause and effect.
At this point I am convinced this is all he knows how to do~ this seems to be his best effort. The man had NO credentials to be President so why would we assume he had the necessary skills?
Good to keep an open mind. Although I am inclined toward considering Palin as president, I have reservations about whom she knows for task delegation. I’m hoping her present activities include putting together a network of good, competent and politically savvy candidates for advisers, etc. I know, I know, that’s asking for a lot in this day and age.
But then, he also was supposed to have taken on the duty of upholding the United States Constitution. When will that start?
— Jane Reinheimer
At the very least he should have immediately met with those in charge of BP, and met with the governors of states that would be effected. The meetings would have given him ideas and options to explore. It really is odd that it seems not even his advisors could figure out basic steps he could have taken that would have at least made it seem like he was interested and trying to solve the problem.
It’s asking a lot but this is the presidency. There’s a tendency for people to skimp on their demands if they like a particular candidate—the hard work they’d demand of an opponent (”He hasn’t done this, this or this”) they ignore if they just LIKE the person. That’s the end of intellectual honesty and the beginning of the Obama-like cult.
Latest Rassmussen Ohio poll. Sarah is supporting Kasich and Portman.
Rasmussen
6/3/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error
Mode: Automated phone
(Rasmussen: Governor, Senate)
Ohio
2010 Senate
43% Portman (R), 43% Fisher (D) (chart)
2010 Governor
47% Kasich (R), 42% Strickland (D) (chart)
If she had endorsed Cecile Bledsoe in Arkansas a little earlier than she did (June 3) I believe her endorsements would have went 5 for 5. I don’t know why she waited so long.
She’s doing so good OUT of office. She should become head of the RNC and kick out all those country-clubbing fossils.
Duh.
They’ll make Alvin Greene chairman of the Republican National Committee before they name Governor Palin to that post.
Where's choppers Biden on this oil leak? He had a lot of words throwing Republicans under the bus over years... why doesn't choppers turn his dummy wit against his boss?
Well, that’ got to be part of our job, changing the party from within. We (I include myself0 don’t seem to want to do the unglamorous hard work of fighting to take control of the party, but that’s really what is necessary—it’s our money being spent unwisely, and we can change the party. It’s too technical and dull, though, which is another reason why I am so turned off to the culture of celebrity which has taken over politics. But it’s useless to argue that anyone on our side does that, it’s only those dems who do it, so, whatever...
And because she is already the President’s most effective public opponent, and because energy policy is so crucial to our future, her words, we predict, will bring many to believe that America would be better off with her in the White House than its present occupant.
***Almost tagline worthy, but too wordy.
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