Posted on 05/01/2010 8:32:08 PM PDT by tobyhill
As the massive oil slick grows worse by the day, the White House is fighting off a growing perception that the federal response to this ecological disaster is President Obama's Katrina.
The White House announced early Saturday morning that Obama will head to the Gulf Coast Sunday, just a day after saying he would not go. The reversal appears to be a response to increasing criticism of the government allowing BP to handle the mess while keeping an eye on the operation.
After the April 20 explosion of the oil rig Deep Water Horizon run by BP, early efforts to cap the well failed and BP underestimated the quantity of oil leaking 5,000 feet beneath the ocean surface.
The government scientists discovered the leak was five times larger than they had been led to believe and days of lulling statistics and reassuring words gave way Thursday to all-hands-on-deck emergency response.
The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez in scope and imperil the seasonal tourism and fishing industries of the Gulf Coast states.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Obama’s Fault! 8 DAYS!
This is all George Bush’s fault.
Send in Aquaman to straighten this out.
Things are getting pretty hot in the WH private quarters. Michelle can read, Omma maybe can read and they are trying to figure out how to plug their girls ears.
Don’t go towards mill creek and ping! :^)
So, Obama was against visiting this national emergency before he was for it.
Somehow, that sounds familiar.
Actually the explosion happened on April 20. That makes it 12 days.
http://beta.lpb.org/index.php/programs/oil_spill/
Dithering thru all military and ecological crises.
The greatest Ditherer of all time!
What was he doing last weekend? Oh, that’s right, a (breathless reporter voice) long-overdue romantic weekend in NC. Another vacay.
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Has Obama even been to the scene of the disaster? Has he called out the National Guard to assist the dead and dying coastal creatures? Has he lowered the level of the Gulf and, if not, why not? Has he evacuated the shrimp and oysters to awaiting po’boys?
The list, ping
BP’s fault, they downplayed the seriousness to the government. How to check down a mile? And I, unfortunately for now, own BP stock. :-(
The Coast Guard was on hand from day one trying to find the missing 11 workers. I believe that elements of the National Guard are being deployed immediately.
What basketball game is being played there in the next couple of days? Or is Ogabe just going to do a pickup game with his homies in the Ninth Ward of NOLA?
I want to know when Obama’s going to tell the world that the North Koreans launched a torpedo and blew up the rig (belonging to So Korea). And .. after that .. the NK’s blew up their sub over the submerged rig sight and caused the catastrophic oil spill.
It’s a So Korean/No Korean fight .. but it’s awfully close to America and this attack has caused a terrible oil spill to devastate the Gulf states areas.
On Thursday, SWAT teams were sent to the Gulf area to search them and then to protect them from attack. This was also the reason the other Gulf rigs were shut down.
Obama declared a media blackout on the event.
This info has been filtered through UK and Russian sources.
don’t worry...the media wouldn’t dare say shite
Not true...I’ve already seen such shite. ;o)
Seriously...NYT!
I’ll see if I can find it...
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/01/nyt-editorial-obama-should-have-acted-sooner-on-the-oil-spill/
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