Article states:
"We have them by the neck," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said of BP in congressional testimony last week -- but it reached a turning point Monday when the administration said it no longer wants to share a podium with BP at the daily briefing in Louisiana
Typical—last Thurs, dear leader was taking credit for stopping the leak! Since the cap did not work, he is now distancing himself!
Obama is an idiot.
But...but...He won’t rest until...........
This is a sick joke after a weekend where we were assured that the administration is calling all the shots, making the decisions, etc.
In other words, if it seems like a good idea, we thought of it. If it doesn’t work, it’s BP’s baby.
Good God, what a way to run a country...
We need engineers and technicians and The Kenyan sends in the lawyers. Brilliant.
Obama did not hold on to the potato very long at all.
I'm not an export on oil spills, but my teleprompter plays one on TV. And now TOTUS has told me that there isn't room for anyone at the podium but me.
Lets see ... First he does NOTHING for MORE than 30 days - THEN he jumps the shark on the first day of the “Top Kill”, claiming that HE has been in charge from Day 1 - NOW he wants to distance himself from it ???
I think he’s dippin’ his beak in the coke again ...
When anything turns out to be hard, Obama’s outta there.
What happened to we have our boot on their throat?
Wow! Obama makes John Kerry look decisive.
Feets don't fail me now!
This is how the lawyer party deals with problems. Start trying to fix blame, and send in the lawyers. And this is going to stop the leak, minimize the damage and/or cleanup the mess, how?
Then there was Browner on TV today crowing “They were going to drill one relief well, but we told them to drill two” - what a nauseating bunch, ready to take credit for the least little thing that works out, and blame anybody else for what ever goes wrong, all the while trying to sound as though they’re masterminding the whole show - a real farce.....
This disaster is not only a humongous technical challenge for engineers it is also, in my opinion, the biggest PR challenge in our nations history.
This is a disaster that defies the news cycle. This is a disaster whose scope, both in terms of damage (enviromental and fiscal) and geographic area (this stuff might even hit Cuba), will only grow adding more people into the mix.
This is also all taking place in the social media era. Oh did I mention this an election year with a very discontent electorate?
This is going to sink almost everyone involved BP, DOJ, DOI (MMS in particular), Obama, DHS, FEMA everyone. The only people in power who might come out looking better are local and state officials who move mountains to help (Jindal I’m looking at you) alleviate the damage.
I look forward to seeing the ads this fall of Obama joking with leno and playing golf whilst the spill goes on.
“the Obama administration is taking steps to distance itself from BP and is dispatching Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to the Gulf Coast to meet with federal and state prosecutors.”
They finally found the solution to the oil leak. SEND IN THE LAWYERS.
Yesterday on Sunday Talk Shows Carol Browner said ALL decisions are being made by administration.. that the stopping the mud was a call by their “resident genius” Choo... etc., she took full responsibility for everything... so which is it???????
It is my hope that several unbiased groups are charged with independently investigating the cause of the problem so that a cover up doesn’t happen.
In short, was it an accident or wasn’t it?
A blow up doll would manage this disaster better than the current occupant of the White House.
So far he’s accomplished a big zero.