Posted on 06/14/2010 6:52:49 PM PDT by Welshman007
According to ABC News,
In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands.
Jindal intends to send the bill for the massive project to BP.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama traveled to the Gulf Coast for a 4th time today and compared the disaster to 9/11. Yet all the while the disaster keeps getting worse, and Obama, unlike George W. Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, has played golf nearly 40 times in 8 weeks, celebrated a Mexican holiday, held fundraisers for Barbara Boxer, and even today enjoyed snowcones on the beach.
Instead of treating the Gulf oil disaster like it is truly a catastrophe along the line of 9/11, Obama's actions have indicated he actually believes nothing of the sort. His approach has been shockingly lackadaisical, and rather than doing what was necessary to contain the spill early-on, he sees it as an opportunity to campaign for his massive cap-and-trade energy tax that will zap Americans with an extra $3000-4000 bucks per year in energy costs.
Obama intends to lobby for that legislation during his speech to the nation on the Gulf oil disaster tomorrow evening.
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Personally I think the individual states are our greatest weapon for fighting back against the feds in most cases.
YESSS!!!!
Amazingly, one of the local liberal tv news reporterettes was describing today’s obama visit and she stated that during his busy schedule, he ate a snoball. With all the crap that obama has put us through and the crap that the oil spill is producing, I really don’t think anyone with a brain cell in his or her head cares if the president ate a snoball. It made me want to throw my tv out the front door.
Agree Jindal has soured on me. He should have protected LA(build the barriers) first and ask for forgiveness later.
BP to be sure. But they’ll also try to use this “crisis” to establish some “environmental protection fund” for future spills, which will impose a fee across the board.
While I applaud this move, this shows the difference between a leader and a follower.....
You will recall that Madam President told Mr. Jindal weeks ago not to wait for the government....you can be assured Madam President would have been out there building on day 2 or 3
good for Bobby!
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