[DoughtyOne]

Truman: The buck stops here.
Clinton: What buck?
Obama: It was definitely George Bucks fault

[EBH]

I know I have reached my last straw.

I can’t read another article regarding this spill and the 0bama’s failed response. Failed is an understatement and the obfuscation is criminal.

This isn’t just bad, poor organization etc. It is criminal.

[mamelukesabre]

I was told today by a friend who’s sister in law works for BP that BP didn’t own the drilling rig or the pipe or the valve that malfunctioned. The drilling work was subcontracted out to an american company(trans america, or something like that). And also I was told BP only has a 60% share in the oil. The remaining 40% is owned by exxon and shell.

Anyone know if any of this is at all accurate?

[oyez]

Unless some leadership emerges somewhere, voters will start to lower their own boom in November.

I am getting flash backs from 1979, this time the hostages are in the USA.

[mad_as_he$$]

0 has no idea how to lead. Pitiful.

[marron]

'Even though I'm president of the United States, my power is not limitless," the president told Grand Isle, La., locals in a video released Friday. "So I can't dive down there and plug the hole. I can't suck it up with a straw. All I can do is make sure that I put honest, hardworking, smart people in place . .. to implement this thing."

Thus far he is being honest and candid. He isn't a driller, he's a politician. The fact that he doesn't know more than drillers know about solving the leak isn't his crime.

His crime is putting up barriers to prevent people from getting the job done. Communities wanting to clean their own coasts and harbors are told they have to get permission. Common sense solutions are "not yet EPA approved". They require the use of dispersants that make it worse and are more toxic than the oil itself.

And they refuse the help of Dutch specialists because they aren't union. What? Just that. They refuse the help of specialists because they aren't union. I found it hard to believe too. Came right out of the Coast Guard's mouth.

A president isn't expected to know everything. He is expected to not make things worse for venal and political motives.

[Recovering_Democrat]

For 20 years there has been a LAW ON THE BOOKS about Oil Spills.

Hussein, start kicking your own miserable ass!

THE OIL POLLUTION ACT OF 1990 CHARGES THE WHITE HOUSE WITH CLEANING UP THE MESS. SO YOU HAVE FAILED BIG TIME, HUSSEIN!

OPA, among other things, amended Section 311 of the federal Clean Water Act. Section 311 now provides in part that: (A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility is of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States (including but not limited to fish, shellfish, wildlife, other natural resources, and the public and private beaches and shorelines of the United States),
the President shall

(notice the word SHALL; not "MAY" not "CAN" not "PERHAPS", but SHALL!)

direct all Federal, State, and private actions to remove the discharge or to mitigate or prevent the threat of the discharge.

(B) In carrying out this paragraph, the President may, without regard to any other provision of law governing contracting procedures or employment of personnel by the Federal Government–

(i) remove or arrange for the removal of the discharge, or mitigate or prevent the substantial threat of the discharge; and

(ii) remove and, if necessary, destroy a vessel discharging, or threatening to discharge, by whatever means are available.

P.S.: CNN reports that on the day of the memorial for the victims (a month after the explosion), HUSSEIN ATTENDED A FUNDRAISER. Nice move there, jerkoff. Real caring.

[Tzimisce]

BP = Buck Passing

[WesternPacific]

All I can do is make sure that I put honest, hardworking, smart people in place ....

Obamarama doesn't know any Honest, hardworking, smart people. Truthfully, true Honest, hardworking, smart people probably would not work for obamarama.

[Bobalu]

[raptor22]

Ping

[Calamari]

"So I can't dive down there and plug the hole. I can't suck it up with a straw.

How articulate. How Presidential. What an epic failure. Old Jimmy Carter has moved out of last place.

[Venturer]

He could have had 14 other countries working to hold down the spread of the oil if he had signed a waiver for the Jones Act., but he didnt and still hasn’t.

Owned and Operated by the Unions.

[Mike Darancette]

These folks are beyond inept. Bunch of whiny little bitches.

[MissAmericanPie]

If he would stop enjoying the sound of his own voice long enough to stop talking I would wager he could suck the oil out of the gulf with one inhale.

How about dropping the stupid EPA law against shallow drilling? So we won’t have train wrecks a mile under water that no one can fix? He has let this run for a reason, he intends to use it to change our lives like 9-11 changed how we board airplanes.

[Christian4Bush]

bump

[Ann Archy]

The Party Boy President can’t be bothered because he’s in over his head!!

[Ann Archy]

Thad Allen has shown himself as a lefty hack!!

[bert]

The Messanic policy is dither, dither, deny, dither, visit, dither, dither, deny, deny, dither, dither, visit, dither, deny, deny, deny, dither......

The crowds will yell in one voice Barabas, Barabas.... give us Barabas. Crucify the King, crucify him!!

[SusaninOhio]

“there is something about his mentality that screams banana republic.”

There is something about Zero that screams ‘dereliction of duty’.