To: KevinDavis
Any governor is the commander and chief of the National Guard of that state. Why are they waiting on BP?
2 posted on
06/14/2010 6:49:03 PM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
Because they don’t have the money to pay for it, and because the idiot we have for a President is all bark and no bite toward getting BP to do anything, let alone fork over $100 million to one of the states he supposedly lords over.
7 posted on
06/14/2010 6:51:30 PM PDT by
Carling
(Remember November)
To: 2banana; All
thought he was waiting for an answer from the Army Corp of engineers....
10 posted on
06/14/2010 6:51:51 PM PDT by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: 2banana
The issue is not who controls the National Guard, but federal jurisdiction in waters a certain distance from the shore. Jindal already had the National Guard at work in areas under state jurisdiction, it was in areas under federal jurisdiction that he was trying the push the feds and BP to act.
13 posted on
06/14/2010 6:54:55 PM PDT by
rob777
To: 2banana
Why are they waiting?
Because if the President orders the National Guard, then the Fed is responsible for expenses...to include pay. Otherwise, the state pays. Louisiana is a poor state.
But Jindal has taken the step, anyway. Hopefully, Congress will bail him out.
32 posted on
06/14/2010 7:15:25 PM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
To: 2banana
Truth is, they were not awaiting BP, they were waiting for Obama...I had to look to the news source, that explained the discrepancy.
35 posted on
06/14/2010 7:27:26 PM PDT by
Wpin
("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
To: 2banana
41 posted on
06/14/2010 7:42:29 PM PDT by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: 2banana
It isn’t BP he’s waiting on! It’s Obama!
45 posted on
06/14/2010 8:01:41 PM PDT by
rintense
(God bless Israel!)
To: 2banana
Jindal should order his guard to march on DC. We will join them!
50 posted on
06/14/2010 8:14:27 PM PDT by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: 2banana
Obama tried to tie the hands of the Gulf governors to act on protecting beaches from the oil by envoking federal jurisdiction over the waters.
Glad Jindal finally told BP and Obama (there is no difference politically) to go to hell and stay there.
To: 2banana
My guess would be until it comes close enough to shore, it is a fed. issue in a fed regulated area, international waters?
Good for Jindal!!
62 posted on
06/14/2010 8:51:05 PM PDT by
gidget7
("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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