[9YearLurker]

This story needs to get out!!!

[JohnD9207]

I would write Bammy and demand the truth, but President Personel Responsibility would say it was Gorge Bush’s fault!
Asshat?????????????????

[Frenchtown Dan]

Some tar balls should be gathered, some feathers of dead birds, and zero. You get the picture.

[SumProVita]

This has not been done YET?????????

[Diogenesis]

“….. thirteen entities had offered the U.S. oil spill
assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the
governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands,
Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the
United Nations.
The U.S. response - Thank you, but no thank you, we've got it.
‘..While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is
assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need
in the near future.’”

Actually - it was at least 17 countries ignored by Pres_ _ent Obama.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Obama dithered
Oiled pelicans slithered

Obama stalled
Dying birds crawled

Obama stumbled
Marine life was humbled

Obama demurred
Death cries were heard

Obama hit the links
While the Gulf shoreline stinks

Obama prevaricated
Marine life was fated

Obama waffled
Dolphins were all killed

Obama stalled
Beaches were tar balled

Obama tarried
Dead turtles were buried

Obama talked of kicking ass
Oil killed the sea grass

Obama fumed
And the slick was not boomed

[eak3]

Doesnt want to piss off his pal Andy Sterns

[6SJ7]

The oil spill serves Obama’s interests... twice... He keeps the cleanup a ‘union job’, even if it takes months and the delay turns the Gulf into a sewer. He gets to blame ‘big oil’, which gives him a juicy target for nationalization.

[Man50D]

Three reasons why BO/BS doesn't want the oil leak to end:

Bombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

BP, feds could make millions from runaway well's oil

Add to those reason BO's/BS's marxist ideology of making people dependent on the government by transferring wealth from the private sector to the federal government via job losses due the spill, suspending off shore oil exploration and calling for BP's dividends to be suspended. He has all the incentive to ensure the leak continues for a long time.

[R0CK3T]

He protects the unions thugs while the environment is destroyed.

Marxist POS.

[Sacajaweau]

Add this to “kicking Jindal in the a**”

[Oceander]

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.

[dforest]

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

[Waco]

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!

[The Wizard]

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

[brianr10]

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

[combat_boots]

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.

[screaming eagle2]

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

[Madame Dufarge]

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.

[Texas resident]

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