Posted on 06/13/2010 3:31:31 AM PDT by Scanian
As criticism of his handling of the Gulf oil spill rises, and his poll numbers tumble, President Obama is headed back to the region tomorrow for yet another inspection tour.
This, as his administration wants to force BP to spend billions more than it’s already paying out.
Obama told congressional leaders that the embattled company should compensate “the people in the Gulf — the fishermen, the hotel owners, families who are dependent for their livelihoods in the Gulf — [so] that they are all made whole.”
It’s a bizarre notion, and probably legally unsustainable — but no more bizarre than the way that Obama has handled the crisis all along. Until the spill, Obama espoused a balanced, forward-looking energy policy that would have stood him well had he approached the disaster as a policy crisis rather than a political problem.
Even a month into the calamity, Obama reiterated that “domestic oil production is an important part of our overall energy strategy.” Here, he could have noted that major accidents are inevitable in an economy as heavily dependent on oil as America’s; added that the task at hand was urgent, but technical — and that there would be plenty of time to hunt for the usual suspects after the well had been capped.
Calm and cool, in other words.
America would have responded in kind.
But first he hesitated, and now he’s flailing — as polls show seven of 10 Americans disapprove of his handling of the matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Don’t you just how decisive the current administation is?
Obama,has no idea what to do without coaching
Good, as this information begins to hit the public, they will begin to realize the boy-wonder seriously missed the boat by not acting quickly, and in fact has actually violated the law.
Get your concise answers ready for those B Hussein sycophants who ask; “So what do you expect the president to do?”
He has stated himself that he is responsible, as he is, and should seriously be taken to task for the unfolding environmental disaster.
FIFY
They're often very good at making decisions, they're just usually wrong.
They are mostly academics that live in a theoretical world of their own making, with little exposure to how the real world works.
Thus they never look far enough to see the unintended consequences of their decisions.
We are talking about the Joker here. We have the capability to display live tracking data for every oil slick out there right now. The temperature of oil is slightly different then the seawater. Oil slicks appear to reflect less light then seawater. Satellites were born for this type of data collection. If properly informed, people would know what is coming there way, thus protecting themselves the best way they can. The current Obama Administration plan is to blind the public to the potential severity of the problem. Again Obama helps to support the theory that a bad leader is worse then no leader.
Hmm... was there a party at the White House or a golf game that got canceled?
“He has stated himself that he is responsible, as he is, and should seriously be taken to task for the unfolding environmental disaster.”
I saw his bizarre admission of this, back when he thought that BP had capped the leak. He shoved his way to the front of the line to take the credit.
Then it became apparent that the leak was far from being fixed. And he went right back to denying any responsibility for his glacial response while claiming to be “involved from day one.” And he’s STILL fumbling around for a solution set strategy.
How much more damage to the country are we going to put up with before he’s bounced out?
When you drill in a p[opulous area like the Gulf and that well is 5,000 feet under water and you get an accident it is catostrophic.
When you drill in ANWR and you get a spill it is right there on top of the world where you can work on it and the only things affected are the reindeer whcih you can fence off and keep away.
Now it doesnt take a friggin genious to figure that out.
But no one wants to or really can live in Alaska in the numbers we do down here and the problem is not oil drilling, it is BP’s malfeasance.
This is no excuse to ship all the jobs down here up to Alaska. Make the responsible parties (BP & the Obama administration) pay and fix the oil situation and that will be that and we can get back to business as usual.
O screwed the Gulf for the Unions. His first and foremost screw-up was to not waive the Jones Act so that foreign skimmer craft and off loading tankers could have CONTAINED THE SPILL, offshore, near the wellhead, before it got out of hand. And don't say they didn't know the size of the leak, the Coast Guard logs show they knew, and it was a lot of oil leaking.
The governments own procedures will tell you that containment early is the best solution, not contain it in the Gulf.
And an even bigger screw-up was the MMS allowing the well to be drilled with the design proposed by BP, in the first place. Epic regulation failure ... it was all downhill from there. The WSJ has plenty on this fact, how the regulators screwed America.
But don't worry the screw-up bureaucrats from Katrina have now been transferred, to health care. So you will be fine.
Look for the union label, if you find it put it back on the shelf. The unions are killing America.
If BP were to gain control of the well and find they had tapped into a huge pool of oil that brought the world oil market down to under 20 dollars and gas to 49 cents, the RATS will be urging a $3 per gal tax on gasoline,,or more,,bet on it.
O’s the true Gulf goof
nobama = Epic Fail
How else can one view this feckless “leader”? nobama deserves our ridicule. nobama best stay in front of a mirror preening rather than attempting to manage anything.
At the beginning of this emergency, this offshore fishing website was providing (free-of-charge) daily updates on the spill, currents, eddies, & surface temp. Why doesn’t the US Gov’t provide this?
http://www.roffs.com/DeepwaterHorizon/08JUNE2010Oil_FINALSM.jpg
Does anyone know where waiving the Jones Act stands?
I haven’t really heard anything this weekend except the buzz from the World Cup bee hive.
0ilbama is a thug Community Organizer, 0ilbama knows nothing else!
Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personality It, and Polarize It.
this is part of his plan to harm America...
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