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Desperate White House Sends Political Team To The Gulf, After Blowing It For The Past Three Months
Business Insider ^ | 07/25/10 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 07/25/2010 6:32:43 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Desperate White House Sends Political Team To The Gulf, After Blowing It For The Past Three Months

Joe Weisenthal | Jul. 25, 2010, 8:41 AM | 43 | comment 1

The Deepwater Horizon blew up on April 20. It's now almost August.

Apparently it took nearly all this time for The White House to realize it was taking a beating over the politics of the situation, and that it ought to start getting head of the controversies.

POLITICO:

The White House has quietly launched an effort to confront the political backlash along the Gulf Coast over its handling of the BP oil spill – giving special attention to Florida, the only state in the region President Barack Obama won in 2008 and one he will need again when he runs for re-election in 2012.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bp; deephorz; deepwaterhorizon; energy; fallout; obama; offshore; oil; oilspill

1 posted on 07/25/2010 6:32:45 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“The White House has quietly launched an effort to confront the political backlash along the Gulf Coast over its handling of the BP oil spill – giving special attention to Florida, the only state in the region President Barack Obama won in 2008 and one he will need again when he runs for re-election in 2012.”
Lending credence to what has been posted on many threads,he only helps blue states. One more reason he’s not qualified to hold the presidency.


2 posted on 07/25/2010 6:34:42 AM PDT by wiggen (Government owned slave.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The locals should tar and feather every last one of them.And do the same to any others that they send in the future.


3 posted on 07/25/2010 6:34:54 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

With the left it’s all about politics and not about governing. Liberals will leave this country twisting in the wind until they can formulate a response that they think will make them look good.


4 posted on 07/25/2010 6:37:36 AM PDT by vlad335
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To: TigerLikesRooster
There are those who claim the BO/BS regime has known all along exactly what it is doing.

Bombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

BP, feds could make millions from runaway well's oil
5 posted on 07/25/2010 6:40:33 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The White House discovers there are beaches in Florida? They must have missed it because of those white sands.
6 posted on 07/25/2010 6:44:49 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

What backlash?

There has been scant visual reporting on conditions and I keep hearing how great things are.

The beaches have signs up not to swim in blobs of oil but other than that they are open and other news reports have “all these” phone calls of inquiry about hotel and Beach House rates.

Lifes great.... /s


7 posted on 07/25/2010 6:45:44 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Weisenthal needs to buy a clue. The White house nurtured the crisis in order to take advantage of it. The fact that the leak was stopped immediately after finreg passed is proof enough that BP could have done it months ago. The new “controversy” over whether the well might yet blow up will die down now that Blago has “decided” to not testify in his own defense. By some perverse logic, Floridians seem to have decided to back Crist as a result of the oil spill. The administration team is no doubt there to seal the deal.

The administration has been on top of this since day one (actually before, since they knew in February that the well had "potential"). Obama is not stupid, unfortunately. He is thoroughly malevolent.
8 posted on 07/25/2010 6:48:20 AM PDT by Ragnar54
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To: vlad335

The only two noteworthy skills the progressives have developed in the last forty years have been colluding against Liberty and spin. Nothing else whatsoever. That which they are doing to this country is every bit as evil can be. Of course, those whom I’m saying that about believe, as much as they believe in anything, in “relativism” and “multi-culturalism,” not good and evil. As far as one can see, it does appear that the theories involving Cloward Piven seem more accurate than anything else. For those who cling to enviromentalism, the only plausible way they’d leave such a disaster alone would be if there were an over-arching reason to do so. If you’re attempting to bring a country to it’s metaphorical knees, the more clamor, divisiveness and separation, the better. That would be a reason to those who’d love to remake the country, as it were, “in their own image.” I’m inclined to think, though, that even the environmentalists, generally speaking, aren’t gonna enjoy the end result of this. Heaven help us all.


9 posted on 07/25/2010 6:50:37 AM PDT by sayuncledave
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...that it ought to start getting head of the controversies.

I have no idea what to say! LOL

10 posted on 07/25/2010 6:54:29 AM PDT by tioga
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It would be best if they created a no-Fed zone. No government employees within 200 miles of the Gulf.

That way, people could get things done.


11 posted on 07/25/2010 6:57:38 AM PDT by lurk
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To: TigerLikesRooster

...one serious lamearse, idiot-ridden administration...


12 posted on 07/25/2010 7:08:10 AM PDT by cranked
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To: norwaypinesavage
"The White House discovers there are beaches in Florida? They must have missed it because of those white sands.

Yup.

It shows their deep seated racism. Obama should apologize on national TV to all us coastal White people.

13 posted on 07/25/2010 7:11:37 AM PDT by blam
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Goody, goody, goody, they coming down”? What a NOVEL idea, that bunch is as lost as a flock of geese in a hen patch.

Comrade going to Fl, sorry Fl, I had NOTHING to do with that, would not wish this on my enemy......betcha the ‘kids’ will take some Fl sand home with them.

14 posted on 07/25/2010 7:16:04 AM PDT by gulfcoast6 (GOD IS!)
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I republicans have any brains (I know) they should use next week’s mini Obama vacation in Fl to bash and ridicule him. It’s handed to them on a silver platter. I mean come on, you do nothing and then deign to come down, pat the little people on the head and eat ice cream cones!


15 posted on 07/25/2010 7:18:09 AM PDT by marlon
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Obama Plan B - vacation in the Gulf & eat ice cream with the daughters !!

Obama Plan A - do nothing to clean up the spill, make BP the criminal with Holder investigatiin, pass cap & crap, play golf as much as possible and vacation & eat ice cream in Maine !!


16 posted on 07/25/2010 8:11:46 AM PDT by W-Girl
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


17 posted on 07/25/2010 9:32:34 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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After his vacation, he will go to the gulf again and personally announce that the moratorium is "off"....and that he has therefore created 40,000 jobs.

Then Geithner will kiss his feet and say "all is well"...it was the bump that was needed...

18 posted on 07/25/2010 10:56:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Zero can pound (Oily) sand.

Zero: You are not welcome here. Go back to you home land - whereever that may be.

You are not an natural born American, if an American at all.


19 posted on 07/26/2010 6:27:51 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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