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Obama Blocking Oil Skimmers!
scottfactor.com ^ | 06/12/2010 | Scott Factor

Posted on 06/12/2010 5:00:59 AM PDT by scottfactor

So the truth comes out! President Obama is once again putting the interests of the unions that support him above the interests of our nation! He has not signed granted a waiver of the Jones Act to allow more oil skimming boats into our waters to clean up this mess.

The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States Federal statute that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. Section 27, also known as the Jones Act, deals with coastal shipping and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.

During times of national emergency, the President can grant a waiver of the Jones Act. As this video shows, we have been offered help from foreign countries with ships capable of skimming more oil off the water, but have so far refused this help because Obama would rather protect his union buddies.

(Excerpt) Read more at scottfactor.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bp; obama; oil; skimmer
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To: scottfactor
Unconscionable incompetence. It was bad enough when the Bush admin. was simply ineffective, but now we have the Obama administration, not only tripping over its own two feet, but in fact intentionally making things worse.


21 posted on 06/12/2010 5:29:22 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: gulfcoast6

Good. Unfortunately nobody up here in the liberal Northeast has been clued in. (I.e., I can guaranty it hasn’t been on NPR, so they don’t know about it.)


22 posted on 06/12/2010 5:32:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: scottfactor

Mike Pence was on FOX a few days ago mentioning this.


23 posted on 06/12/2010 5:35:27 AM PDT by dforest
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To: scottfactor

Be just deserts if it turns out that BP gets control of the well and discovers they have a tapped pool of oil so huge, that it knocks the bottom out of the world oil market and gas prices go below 50 cents/gal. Never under estimate Ma Nature!


24 posted on 06/12/2010 5:42:05 AM PDT by Waco
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To: scottfactor

Whe will America realize Moogly the man cub is an enemy of the country


25 posted on 06/12/2010 5:43:50 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: scottfactor

After all the shit he took over Katrina, Bush must be laughing watching this guy flail around.


26 posted on 06/12/2010 5:45:12 AM PDT by brianr10
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To: scottfactor

On May 27th–Memorial Day weekend–Jake Tapper reported that 17 nations have offered assistance with this crisis:

At yesterday’s State Department briefing, spokesman P.J. Crowley updated reporters on the offers of international assistance the Department has received to help with the oil spill in the Gulf.

He said the U.S. has received offers to assist from 17 countries . . . The countries are: Canada, Mexico, Korea, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Vietnam.

Though the State Department receives the offers, it is BP and the Unified Area Command, led by the Coast Guard, that are the entities that decide which offers to accept. So far, the UAC has accepted skimmers and booms offered by Mexico and Norway. He deferred questions as to why only those offers had been accepted so far to the UAC in Louisiana.

Crowley did not have much information on what each country was specifically offering besides saying, “technical things, skimmers, booms, you know in some cases expertise.” He said most of the offers came in the weeks after the spill.

So, BP is in charge, then? BP is refusing help from all but two nations?

But I thought the president was in charge; this crisis is occurring in a federal jurisdiction. During Katrina, people excoriated President Bush for not overstepping his bounds by bringing the feds in before the local and state governments did their work. President Obama has no such restrictions on him. Why isn’t he helping Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal expedite the damn paperwork through bureaucratic channels, so he can build his berms? Why isn’t he telling BP, “what do you mean, you accepted so little help?”

17 nations offered help with “technical things and in some cases expertise.” I’m thinking Russia and the UAE might have quite a bit of expertise to lend.

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/06/03/vacuuming-up-the-oil-spill-part-ii/

Unions over oil.....
Unions over US.....
Unions uber alles.


27 posted on 06/12/2010 5:48:38 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: scottfactor

I wonder if the Obama administration knew about the Jones Act before FOX news and others did break the story


28 posted on 06/12/2010 5:55:55 AM PDT by screaming eagle2 (bama)
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To: scottfactor
One week after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, President Bush temporarily waived the Jones Act so that oil and gasoline could be delivered where needed to U. S. ports.

Class, please compare and contrast.

29 posted on 06/12/2010 5:58:39 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: scottfactor

In command from day one.
Just didn’t specify what he was in command of.


30 posted on 06/12/2010 5:59:20 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: All

bump


31 posted on 06/12/2010 6:17:53 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Madame Dufarge

Here’s MSNBC’s spin on Bush lifting the Jones Act
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9259887/
Hurricane spawns flurry of deregulation
To spur recovery, Bush and Congress halt environmental and other rules


32 posted on 06/12/2010 6:19:48 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: combat_boots

The info in your post should be on EVERY THREAD!!


33 posted on 06/12/2010 6:21:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: scottfactor; del4hope

Not only does this story need to get out, but people then have to vote against these traitors in our government.
And may God bless America.


34 posted on 06/12/2010 6:25:54 AM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: scottfactor

This should be a HUGE story.


35 posted on 06/12/2010 6:26:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Man50D

Governor: National Guard staging for “effort to evacuate” communities impacted by oil spill

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/governor-national-guard-staging-for-effort-to-evacuate-communities-impacted-by-oil-spill

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Currently, our Soldiers and Airmen are staging for and are engaged in the planning of the effort to evacuate and provide security and clean up for the coastal communities expected to be impacted by the oil spill. They are engaged in the protection of vital infrastructure to include medical facilities, fuel distribution, interstate highways, water-ice distribution and power facilities which are all vital to the recovery of coastal Louisiana.


36 posted on 06/12/2010 6:41:59 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: scottfactor

this is on purpose to prevent any oil company from ever drilling...

to keep this nation tied to arabic oil


37 posted on 06/12/2010 6:49:15 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: libertarian27

He probably toyed with using “Bush squashes unions in favor of oil buddies!” for a headline before he settled on this one.


38 posted on 06/12/2010 6:52:17 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: scottfactor

That would explain the blocking of the Dutch Oil Skimmers story posted on another thread.


39 posted on 06/12/2010 6:56:25 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: scottfactor

Obama is once again putting the interests of the unions that support him above the interests of our nation.
Obama = owned


40 posted on 06/12/2010 7:17:03 AM PDT by Vaduz
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