Chavez Regime Nationalizes U.S. Oil Rigs

The New American ^ | 6/29/2010 | Alex Newman

[IbJensen]

And the evil regime currently on a mission to destroy America does nothing.

Americans and their economy are sitting ducks for this monster and his sycophantic Congress to torpedo.

[JPG]

Quiz: Which will last longer? Bananas on the counter or Chavez? Tick-tick-tick-tick.

[bgill]

Shhhh, don’t distract the golfer.

[SlowBoat407]

Are you kidding? Obama’s taking notes!

[Paine in the Neck]

Teddy roosevelt, ur-Progressive though he was, would have handled this in jig time

[AvOrdVet]

Hopefully the company had the sense to deactivate and lock out all systems on the rigs... If it were up to me that POS Chaves would be taking over a bunch of completely worthless and useless platforms.

[IbJensen]

In his fancy shorts the Communist-In-Chief looks like a spider.

[LRoggy]

Too bad the Venezuelans don’t have a suicide bomber culture . . .

[beethovenfan]

Meanwhile, Obunghole sits there with his thumb up his a$$.

[Tzimisce]

So how’s that “hope and change” working out for everyone?

[grapeape]

Really? No, Chavez is just being himself. I blame Hans Helmerich for getting us into this mess. How could he not see this coming. I’m sure he has great insurance.

[chimera]

Better to have a remote “destruct” switch. Do a Wyatt’s Torch on those bums.

[IbJensen]

...jig time

Nice picture of the fleet at Gibraltar, but watch that stereotypical terminology.

[throwback]

Looks like Venezuela will be another Cuba where the economy will become frozen in time like a bee in amber. So whatever stands now (cars, buildings, infrastructure), will be forever stagnant and begin to degrade in place. Pictures from Cuba always look like shots out of the ‘50’s. Funny how progressives always stop all progress.

[Red6]

This is far less important than say a college professor with a chip out of his shoulder and cop getting into an argument, causing the president himself to get involved with his now famous “Beer summit.”

Global warming and a carbon tax is a national security matter to this administration, not missiles defense, the Zumwald ship, FCS, F22, or even Iraq and Afghanistan........ As with “man made disasters,” you have an administration more or less redefining terrorism and downplaying an overt act of war in Korea where 46 S. Korean sailors died at the hands of a N. Korean torpedo.

You’ve got to have your priorities straight, and for this administration, American property being stolen by a despot, a rouge state that is hell bent on our destruction does not rise to the level of his concern.

[IbJensen]

We’ve had a large helping of the latter, but little of the former.

[freeangel]

The company should have blown the oil rigs on the way out.

[TexasCajun]

Obamah will say Venezuela doesn't have any shiny new drilling rigs like H&P has and that is not fair.

Venezuela should have new drilling rigs too.

Over the lsst 10 years, H&P has been replacing their old fleet of land drilling rigs with new state-of-the art ones called "Flex-Rigs" built here in Houston.

[IamConservative]

Foreign investment has all but disappeared amidst uncertainty about the regime’s next move. And the value of Venezuela’s the Unite State's currency continues to plummet as the government attempts to pay bills in devalued money and soaring inflation decimates the savings of Venezuelans. American's

Where we are headed too...

[avacado]

Thank goodness nothing like that could ever happen here is the good ol’USofA! /s