Posted on 06/08/2010 4:22:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - First he was going to make BP pay for the Gulf oil mess. Then he declared himself in charge. Now he's trying to find out "whose ass to kick" and making clear he'd fire BP's chief if only he could.
President Barack Obama is talking ever tougher as the Gulf oil spill crisis drags on, the public's patience wears thin and the peril to his presidency increases.
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And OJ is still looking for the "real" killer.
PLUS...he needs money...he’s going to take ALL of BP’S PROFITS!!
From Lamar’s newsletter..........
Sen. Lamar Alexander added his voice to the rising chorus of anger over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
The Tennessee Republican, the ranking member on the Appropriations Committee’s panel on the interior and environment, said Sunday that a 1990 law puts the onus on the president to clean up oil spills, suggesting President Barack Obama as well as BP are to blame for the failure to plug the gushing well. The law was passed after the Exxon Valdez spill damaged a stretch of Alaska’s coastline.
In an appearance on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program, Alexander said that responding to an oil spill and protecting the Gulf Coast is “the president’s responsibility.” He added: “So I think that it’s my responsibility as a member of Congress to ask the question, ‘What was the president’s plan and where are the personnel and equipment necessary to implement that plan?’”
Just how far he’ll get with that argument is unclear. Administration officials and many others outside government have acknowledged that federal agencies lack the equipment and expertise to plug the leaking well.
In recent days, however, the administration has sought to convey that it is calling the shots amid accusations that officials haven’t responded aggressively enough to what experts say is the nation’s largest oil spill.
Obama, at a press conference Friday, said it was “simply not true” that the federal government was allowing BP to make all the decisions. And White House Energy Czar Carol Browner, on NBC’s “Meet The Press” today, portrayed the government as assertive in its interactions with BP. She said the government demanded that BP halt its “top kill” procedure this weekend after becoming concerned the operation was putting too much pressure on the well, suggesting worries about a bigger blowout.
“I think the `clenched jaw’ is a much better approach for him to take.” —More likely the clenched fist, a symbol for his anger against anyone who DARES to criticize him, or suggest the Presidency might just be “above his pay grade”.
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This administration reminds me of the Borg, pillaging the universe planet by planet.
He's probably an expert on asses, since there's little doubt in my mind his big-assed wookie wife has kicked his scrawny ass more than once.
He also said that he tells BP what to do!! ANd the spill is WORSE in the last few days!!
I loved Bill Kristol’s comment tonight on Special Report
First Obama says he’s not calling these meeting with experts as some sort of college seminar, yet he calls the meeting experts in order to decide whose ass to kick”
Who calls a meeting to decide whose ass to kick?
Obama couldn’t run a snowcone stand!
All for show.
Long legged puffed up mack daddy!!!
Everyone was really intimidated there, yep.
I think managing a McDonald’s franchise is way above Obama’s pay grade.
:)
"Who are THEY to lecture ME?"
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