Barack Obama should resign the Presidency.
Today.
He is failing to discharge his duties as President. As I have mentioned before, Obama voted “present” 129 times as an Illinois state senator and he continues to vote present as President. Obama is not a leader. He is a great campaigner, great community organizer and a terrific orator, but he is not of Presidential timber. He is not a leader and is not up to this job.
It crystallized in my mind when I read this Drudge headline:
60 SPILLION GALLONS LATER: OBAMA TO MEET BP CHAIRMAN
Why the hell did it take this long to meet with the Chairman of BP? At first Obama said it was a waste of time.
President Obama, have you spoken with the CEO of BP to discuss the oil spill in the Gulf?
“No… when you talk to a guy like the BP CEO, he’s going to say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.”
This is the guy who said
“Don’t tell me words don’t matter.”
Rand Simberg made a great point
Why is it that the president would talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions, but he thinks that, in the middle of arguably the biggest domestic crisis of his presidency, it’s a waste of his time to have a conversation with the head of British Petroleum?
Why is it suddenly not a waste of time? More importantly, why are we always having to ask these questions?
Houston, we have a problem.
Barack Obama doesn’t act- all he does is react.
When the oil spill first occurred, Obama was advised of the severity of the problem and he did nothing and said nothing. Three days went by before Obama even released a statement and ten passed before he spoke of the spill.
Whispers began to circulate about the disaster and Obama’s apparently obliviousness to it:
April 29: Gulf oil spill: President Obama is now in a sticky situation politically
There’s a dark cloud stretching across the Gulf of Mexico that may have already made its way to Washington, D.C. — politically.
Then, only after the fingerpointing began, Obama decided to visit the Gulf, 12 days after the explosion. He made the trip consequent to the political pressures that were building. He did not act. He reacted.
Then criticism began to mount that Obama wasn’t angry enough. When it got to simmering, Obama finally decided it was time to show some angry.
After being briefed this morning by members of his Cabinet on the latest on the Gulf oil spill, President Obama will make remarks to reporters in which he expresses his “anger and frustration.”
Then it was time to make faces.
It took an exhortation from Spike Lee to get Obama moving:
(CNN) — In the weeks since an oil rig exploded and later sank into the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama has dealt with the tragedy with his signature cool, calm and collected approach.
But with the oil still gushing in what is now the worst spill in U.S. history and the environmental devastation coming ashore, the president is becoming a target of the anger that was originally directed only at BP.
“One time, go off!” director Spike Lee urged on CNN’s “AC 360°.” “If there’s any one time to go off, this is it, because this is a disaster.”
And Obama complied:
“Plug the damn hole,” he told the meeting. “Just get it done.”
Apparently feeling the need to “go street” Obama put a punctuation point on his anger, he took the Presidency of United States into the gutter:
“And I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar; we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick,” he added.
He wants to talk to these folks because they have the best answers, except that he won’t talk to one who might have the best answers- the head of BP.
But that was, like, so yesterday. As more and more voiced disbelief that Obama would avoid meeting with the head of BP, word came from the White House that the head of BP was summoned for a meeting.
Reacting. Not acting.
And we’re far from done. As Mike and Mata have pointed out, there are potential aids- possibly significant- to help clean the Gulf of the spilled oil, but none of them are being used, and no one is explaining why.
This is Obama’s job and he’s not getting it done. How is it we can find these possible solutions and they cannot or will not? Could it really be that Obama values protection of unions over the environment? Could it be that he wants this spill to go horribly wrong that he can use it as a tool to cram Crap and Trade down our throats? Or is he simply incompetent and unable to lead?
In both instances an exaggerated deference to process bordering on passivity risks creating an impression that the White House is running behind critical domestic events and, worse, detached — even indifferent — to the human toll of inaction.
Obama has found the gumption to pro-act on some things:
In the nearly eight weeks that the ancient oil has been escaping its subterranean imprisonment, Obama has found….
…time for a couple mini-vacations with golf, a dose of party fundraisers, healthcare town halls, TV interviews, a high school graduation, a festive White House lawn picnic with members of Congress, a Paul McCartney music hoedown, an ABC July 4th TV taping and a session with a key Palestinian leader.
This is the 3 AM call and Obama is not answering. It is an alarming realization that if faced with a world-threatening crisis, Obama would be paralyzed. He seems unable to make decisions until there is sufficient political pressure placed upon him. This is not leadership. It is followership.
It’s dangerous.
For the good of the country Barack Obama should resign.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
OLD TROOPER: I see my neighbourd calling his cows; and than, I see his truck coming, he’s in the back calling, than
about 100 cows coming toward him, one by one,with their baby, and he bring them all on the next pasture, that is impressive: a few stayed behind: why would that be? bye 🙄
False equivalence. Ahmadinejad is determined to nuclearize Iran, a goal that the US government vehemently opposes. BP has an enormous and urgent interest in dealing with the oil spill–an interest shared by Americans and the American government. Obama doesn’t have to convince BP to deal with the spill. If Ahmadinejad was working as frantically to prevent a nuclear armed Iran as BP is working to deal with the oil spill, there would be no need to talk with Ahmadinejad.
cocostar 50
I think someone is going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Just shut up!. Nobody wants to hear your crap. Maybe you’d be happier some place else. I know the rest of us would love to see you go. So please just shut up
@Greg 23
You are doing what Progresives have always done… ie promote ignoring the law in order to promote Justice.
Laudible, but in the long run, unworkable. This is a Republic, where the LAW is Supreme. It was designed that way so people could be protected from the excesses of Government…
When you ignore the Law, as this present administration constantly does, then the people no longer have the protection OF the Law… and our Rights are meaningless.
Will BP pay more than 75 million? I’d guess they already have… however, can the President DEMAND they pay more than 75 million? uh… not legaly… yet that is exactly what he is doing.
It plays into my belief that the “Change” Obama really wants, is to destroy this Country as a Republic… to destroy the very fabric of the Rule of Law… look at Czars, the EPA and CO2, the FCC ignoring the courts, the Black Panthers voting kerfluffle… even the breaking of law in the Chrysler takeover (where bond holders, who by law were supposed to be paid FIRST, were not).
@cocostar
By reading your partisan attack on the current president, I could guess that it didn’t matter to you that G. W. B. was awol during his duty in the military,
Prove it. I cite sources.
a drug addict, declared mission accomplished at the start of a worthless war in a third world nation over Exxon mobile profits.
The “Mission Accomplished” banner, while a poor choice for a backdrop, was there for the personnel on the carrier, it was not about the war. Try some facts for a change. An please show me the direct connections of Exxon profits to the war and the oil.
Committed war crimes and crimes against humanity that killed millions of people,
Millions? Millions???
Ran the country into the ground and doubled the national debt that has led to all the problems that have put us in the situation that we are in today.
If doubling the debt is bad, quadrupling it must be grounds for capital punishment. Name a single Bush budget that Democrats, who controlled Congress since 2007, have cut. A Republican Congress balanced Clinton.
After reviewing your sight I have determined that you are a partisan hack and a pea brain
Your “sight” ? Are you an optometrist?
Interesting…. now the Precedent is going to give a speech on Tuesday night, demanding BP put billions into an escrow account a third party will administer…
But won’t see the heads of BP until Weds….
Sure hope elections in November work to change the status quo. If not there are more than a few people ready and willing to physically throw his ass out of office.
@Romeo13…then can BP expect Obama and the other Democrats to return their campaign contributions with interest?
@Old Trooper
Well… I guess this does proove that Obama et al are NOT Honest Politicians… cause they are not STAYING bought… LOL
Kinda like our “freinds” in the Mid East… where you can RENT a freind… you can’t buy one.
@ Skook,
My Bad…..a “miscommunicating” sentence. 🙂
I agree that it is absolutely good news that Saudi Arabia is providing airspace to Israel.
What I termed “bad news” was the fact that Israel had to be placed in a position where behind the scenes negotiations with SA were even necessary, and the U.S. leadership was quite evidently missing in action. Even if the W.H. isn’t going to participate, it should make its Support or lack thereof, known, including “moral” support.
It should also be noted that Iranians in general don’t hate the U.S., but their leadership has found the U.S. a useful whipping post for the retention of their own perverted hold over their nation. Iranians, in general, dislike Arabs more than they dislike the U.S. That fact is one of the forces that has had some balancing impact on the region. That’s why we see today the Saudi stance on providing Israel with an air corridor, although, they’ll not likely make any public pronouncements to that effect.
JR, I am making a name for myself as an expert in miscommunication.
The concept of Israel negotiating with SA might not be all that bad. Now, there is a precedent for cooperation without the US sticking the noses of amateurish politicians into dark places where we have little if no expertise. “No more houses in your country” type pontificating while the rest of the world laughs at us and our SoS. We are truly in a secondary if not insignificant position for negotiation because of the shallow and ludicrous pronouncements of Ms Clinton, Biden, and Obama. The Middle East must try to get along until we can elect more credible statesmen; unfortunately, our credibility as an international political force of reason has become laughable to the rest of the world.
China’s use of the term “Paper Tiger” from the 50’s and 60’s has never been more appropriate than now, at least in regard to our diplomacy skills and especially in regard to the ‘Fool’ in the WH.
Our best option is to make the best of this terrible situation, insuring that it never happens again; and hopefully, the Middle East will learn that Jews are not necessarily the great enemy of their way of life and that madmen like mad dogs are unpredictable and a much greater threat, despite their religious proclivities.
@ Skook,
….. and speaking of Clinton, as a side note, . . . there is not a chance that Hillary and Slick Willy have changed their minds about Obama since she ran against him in the strangest of campaigns.
While the Clintons are both opportunists in the extreme, they each, from different beds each night, must be laughing and high-fiving as they witness from close-up the incompetence oozing from the Oval office.
We can look forward to a few enlightening “tell all” writings in the future from current sad saps in the W.H. entourage, who will look to make a buck with “none-of-us-were-prepared-for-or-expected-this-degree-incompetence” books and articles.
Obama’s waiting and not responding right away to events goes along with my thinking that he is not the one who makes the decisions. He is just the puppet of whoever pulls the strings. He can’t do or say anything without checking with the bosses.
I have wondered if Obama has even read his speeches before he gives them. Remember the time someone else’s speech was put on the TOTUS and he didn’t know it, and the one or two times when TOTUS failed and Obama went blank?
As far as not getting things done, he has appointed department heads who’s sole agenda is to promote socialism. I am guessing they haven’t even studied what their department does and what they are responsible for. They now have to read their manual and find out what their agency is in charge of and what they can and can’t do.
Why haven’t they used the items they should be using? The department heads probably didn’t even know such stuff existed, let alone when to use them.
With Obama’s golf trips, parties he throws, interviews, and his five times a day prayers, he doesn’t have a lot of time left for less important things.
You asked if Obama is using the leak to promote Cap and Trade. The longer the leak, the more damage, the more that the Federal government will have to get involved, the more it will cost, the broker the USA will be, the sooner Obama will have to declare marshal law to fix it all. We must always keep in mind that Obama’s agenda is to bring the USA down.
Your statement of, “This is not leadership. It is followership.” says it all. He has to wait until his leaders decide what to tell him to do or say.
Lifting the $75 million cap in response to billions of dollars in damages inflicted upon the country isn’t ignoring law, it’s changing the law. That’s an entirely appropriate response when an existing law is standing in the way of justice.
Somebody is going to take a serious financial hit. Keeping justice in mind, we can select from the following:
(1) The people of the Gulf states: their jobs, their businesses, and their environment;
(2) The American taxpayers;
(3) The multi-billion dollar corporation that caused the disaster.
The third choice seems like the most just to me. Capitalism is all about risk-taking, right? BP conducts inherently risky activities for profit and does enormously well from it. BP’s investors voluntarily participate in that risk in hope of profits, and have also done very well. When risk turns on you, you shouldn’t have the luxury of making the consequences somebody else’s loss while you simultaneously continue to profit.
For American taxpayers to absorb the loss would be an example of corporate socialism at its worst. The American taxpayers would essentially be subsidizing a non-American corporation.
If there’s a fault with the above logic, please point it out.
@ Greg,
“. . . When risk turns on you, you shouldn’t have the luxury of making the consequences somebody else’s loss while you simultaneously continue to profit.”
AND BP covering the costs and losses would be Right and common sense action to take from here.
I have to agree with you . What I don’t understand , is why hasn’t anyone seriously called for his impeachment ? There are numerous reasons too. Failure to Protect the Health, Wealth and
Liberities of the American People . Abuse of power making appointment without congressional approval, Not upholding the Constitution of the Republic of the United States of America, over stepping authority. Where are the constitutional lawyers. I’m ready to sign!
@Greg 65
Sorry… No Ex Post Facto Laws… its in a little thing called the Constitution.
If you just “fine” BP, then its a Bill of Attainder… once more against the Constitution.
Yes, some people are going to get screwed… but then again this law (the 75 Cap) was just passed a few years ago… and it IS the Law, just like its the law that the President is supposed to be in charge of this, not BP.
BP should NOT get a pass, but that is for a Court of Law to decide, not the Executive Branch. They are short circuiting the system… bypassing the Constitution… not folowing due process, or the laws Congress passed.
The laws that will be used for the spill MUST be the laws on the books the day it started…
One of the major problems in our economy today is that business people have no idea what the rules are. They are selectivly enforced, and changed by whim… so you can’t make any rational business decisions. Instability in the rules causes people NOT to invest, because they can’t rationaly diagnose the risk. I know of one major business here in Denver who is telling their folks to expect major overtime (no new hiring) for the next COUPLE of years, because they don’t know the effects of the healthcare bill… or new taxes which they see coming down the road…
This “plan” from Obama… doing things without the cover of the law… is just another step towards the degradation of the rule of law… which was my point to begin with.
I’m aware of and understand the Constitutional ban on ex post facto law. While the law can’t be changed retroactively to be applied to the current situation, the BP spill provides a dramatic and immediate illustration of why such a change is needed.
Removal of the $75 million dollar cap would redefine what penalties could be expected if anything similar happened in the future. Judging from the past, without changes in industry behavior, repetitions seem likely.
BP profits have run about $61 million per day recently. A $75 million maximum penalty isn’t much of a disincentive when far higher profits can be had from taking risks and cutting corners.
There’s every reason to believe that removal of the cap would result in positive changes in corporate behavior. More industry money would likely go into research and development of safety-enhancing technology, and accident response and spill containment technologies. It would also mitigate future burdens on the taxpayer when things go seriously wrong.
As I understand it, if the BP spill turns out to involve violations of criminal law, the $75 million civil law damages cap pretty much goes out the window anyway.
YOU KNOW that the PLANET MARS, is coming cloose, and on the 27th of august, and she will be seen as big as the full moon: we know MARS represent WAR, and I wonder, from what is going around, if she will accentuate her presence, with more disturbance. it one of a kind to observed,
because the next time will be in a couple thousands ears. realy unique.
@Greg, What other Industries do You want to drive away from the US.
When you create a hostile environment for Business, it goes away. Oil Rigs are moving to Brazil because the Business and Regulatory climate is friendly there. Those jobs will not come back.
You are one of those economic illiterates that I refer to and member of that confederacy of fools that I referenced in previous posts here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061204118_pf.html
President Obama gives taxpayer dollars to Brazil for offshore oil exploration
http://libertylog.org/?p=691
Aug 20th, 2009 | By DChristianMoore | Category: Corrupt Obama, Gas Prices, Global Whining, LibertyBlog, State’s Rights, What the hell were you people thinking
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that, during the election, President Obama scoffed at those who were pushing efforts to expand oil drilling and other resource exploration. He said we should “properly inflate our tires”, rather than look for more sources of energy. At first I assumed this was the standard argument between those who want aggressive exploration and exploitation of natural resources, and those who seem to think the earth will explode if we actually take steps to expand our economy and power our industrial economy.
Apparently I gave President Obama too much of the benefit of the doubt; for today comes word the President is floating a $2Billion loan to finance offshore oil drilling, by a Brazilian company, off the coast of Brazil. Seriously? You will not let Americans exploit our own resources but dare talk about energy independence? You keep Americans from the jobs that come from running and maintaining offshore oil derricks while speaking about putting the country “back to work”. Not to mention the millions of support and “downstream” jobs in transportation and refining of the oil and gas. Now at a time when the national debt is going to approach 13% of GDP you want to send $2,000,000,000 of my tax money to finance the state owned Oil Company of a center left government in Brazil. Are you comfortable in your hypocrisy Mr. President?
In a completely unrelated story, Obama donor George Soros, alleged money man behind all manner of socialist anti-American causes, last year took an $811 Million stake in Brazilian Oil Company, Petrobras; making Petrobras the largest single holding of Mr. Soros’s hedge fund. Suddenly it makes sense how one can be opposed to offshore drilling here in the U.S., but support it in Brazil.
Preventing oil exploration here, keeps the United States reliant on foreign oil, say from a place like Brazil. Sending our tax money to pay for Petrobras’s offshore drilling in Brazilian waters, prevents Petrobras from having to raise funds in the capital market from private investors, thus protecting the ownership stake of Mr. Soros’s hedge fund. Apparently I can’t call President Obama a hypocrite when it comes to offshore drilling. In fact, he appears to be a very fine employee of the Soros Group.
Update: American Thinker and Hot Air are covering this story as well
Update: I will add Soros’s hedge fund divested itself of its Petrobras holding just before the this was announced, but after the deal had gone through. I am not yet sure what that means, but to paraphrase American Thinker; “It just doesn’t pass the smell test”.
**********************************************************************
Now Pardner, do some homework. You are the “great investigative mind” here.
Exercise your reading and critical thinking skills instead of your political bias.
@ Greg 69
So, you admit that unless there was a criminal violation, then the Laws at the time must apply.
Yet Obama is constantly saying BP MUST be held accountable, and he’ll make sure that happens.
Thus, the President of the US, is threatening a Corporation with NO LEGAL BASIS! He has not accused the of criminal misconduct… and yet wants them to fork over Billions of dollars. That is, in a Legal sense, called Extortion.
In a Republic, the President is powerfull, but HE has to follow the rules, and laws, as well…
Lets look at some more possibilities.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/06/economy-destroyer-strikes-again.html
“The economic destruction in the region is not due solely to the administration’s inept handling of the Deepwater Horizon spill and cleanup. President Obama’s ill-advised “moratorium” on offshore oil drilling is proving an economic disaster for the region and, indeed, the entire country.
Regarding the impact of the moratorium, experts have described several certain outcomes:
• “Tens of thousands will lose their jobs”
• U.S. oil production could fall by 160,000 barrels of oil per day in 2011
• The marginal cost of offshore drilling will increase by 10% due to new regulations
Reuters reports (“Brazil sees silver lining in BP spill: more rigs”) that the shuttered deep-water oil rigs will soon move to areas off the Brazilian coast.
Brazil could benefit from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill as a U.S. moratorium on offshore drilling boosts available rigs for the country’s deep water oil exploration program.
Even as an ecological catastrophe makes the future of U.S. offshore drilling less certain, Brazil is plowing ahead with a $220 billion five-year plan to tap oil fields even deeper than BP’s (BP.L) ill-fated Gulf well, which is still leaking crude.
With an estimated 35 rigs idled in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil is already receiving inquiries from companies looking to move their rigs here, where vast discoveries in recent years may soon turn the country into a major crude exporter.
… “Since operators are shutting down at least temporarily in the U.S. Gulf, some companies are planning to move their rigs to Brazil now,” he said, without offering details.
…Brazilian officials, including government leaders and Petrobras executives, have said Brazil has no intention of slowing its offshore development as a result of the spill.”
“This is the modern Democrat Party in action:
• Utterly bungling the spill and clean-up process? Check.
• Endangering national security by making us more dependent upon foreign oil? Check.
• Making oil needlessly more expensive for consumers and businesses? Check.
• Killing tens of thousands of jobs when we can least afford the losses? Check and mate.
The President appears completely unprepared to do anything but give speeches. That’s what he’s good at and that’s what he always done throughout his career.
The Democrat-controlled Congress is populated with hardcore Leftists that seek the destruction of Capitalism. That can be the only rational explanation for tripling the national debt in only 18 months when the CBO and the head of the Federal Reserve keep warning that the spending trajectory is headed for fiscal disaster.
These two elements make an extremely dangerous combination for the American people. I call them the Economic Death-Star, a confluence of progressive stupidity and inexperience that risks everything America stands for.”
**************************************************************
I would second that motion – so lets vote.
back at Romeo13’s #72, “So, you admit that unless there was a criminal violation, then the Laws at the time must apply.”
Yep, that’s how I understand it. The Obama administration will likely reveal it’s strategy regarding BP this coming Tuesday.
My first reaction that things aren’t good with the presidents decision making was our financial criss reappointing the same people that caused the problem I was shocked
Just read that The Dear Reader announced today that the oil spill is just like 9/11, then he left to play golf for four hours.
I just want to scream every day. I can’t watch him or listen to him. I’ll catch the comments on Tuesday after the pontificating.
Bees, you must read:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/canadas_walter_duranty.html
Sorry Bees, it is Canada’s Walter Duranty @ American Thinker. Concerns the lies of a well known Communist sympathizer. You will be surprised.
We must never, ever let up on the Democratic Party or the MSM for their failure to properly “vette” Obama, for their dishonest propaganda machine that sold this inexperienced administrative disaster on America, or for their fawning pseudo-religious worship of the “won.” In future elections, we should perpetually rub their noses in it every time they try again to pull the wool over the public’s eye.
SKOOKUM: hi,the page of the link, say, sorry cannot be found, bye
SKOOKUM: i got the page on the link,from hereFA, I could not get it from my home base, thank you, i am aware of this,a bit: I remember some storys, of it: JUST TO SAY,to elect a leader must be look at, very seriously, and the young generation made it so easy, because they look only at what they want to see themself. bye 🙄
@Old Trooper:
Just can’t make this stuff up. Valerie Jarrett is frequently referred to as the other half of Obama’s brain:
Obama’s fix? Unemployment….. the big rigs are taking off and the manchild will solve the crisis with unemployment. He has his talking points down, he thinks shallow water rigs will minimize the effects of the moratorium, wonder if he’s getting his TPs from Valerie Jarrett, LA leaders don’t appear to agree.
http://blog.nola.com/2010_gulf_oil_spill/print.html?entry=/2010/06/jindal_says_obama_still_doesnt.html
Dr. John said: When the oil spill first occurred, Obama was advised of the severity of the problem and he did nothing
You are wrong, Dr. John. He played golf! 😡
@Missy, I would not trust Valerie Jarrett to advise me on any subject but I would keep both hands on my bankroll and count the silverware before she left.
How appropriate that the Pretender on Chief relies upon his Grifter in Chief for advice.
OLD TROOPER: hi, IS in there a way for GOVERNER JINDAL to make decisions to get things started
,on his own power of the state emergency, he is face with?. I am thiking of how GOVERNER BREWER,started to fix the problems affecting all THE ARIZONIANS, bye her power of the law instituted in the CONSTITUTION.
ANN MONTERY: hi, he did not even mentioned about the peoples that are directly affected by making them wait, till the beginning,this is not right; and the others STATES are not immune to experience problems not acknowledge either. bye
@Missy: Could this be another way for Obama to add more people who receive Federal government checks and are dependent on the Federal government for support? The more people there are on Federal assistance or a regular paycheck the more votes the politicians can get by promising them more.
Only half of us pay taxes now. How long will it be before it is 25%? Add all the things up that Obama is doing and not doing to this country and the total is a country that:
(1) Will never pay off its debts.
(2) Worships the Muslim religion.
(3) Lost the title of the most powerful country in the world.
(4) People will be immigrating FROM instead of TO.
Obama has been quite clear that he wants to increase energy costs exponentially. His radical agenda does not care about the unemployment it will cause. His administration does not care about it’s effect on business or the economy. His political cabal does not care about the hardship to families who’s budgets are already busted from the recession (IMO, with the true unemployment numbers, for the people it is more of a depression). It also seems now, that Obama is willing to forever sacrifice the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico order to realize his extremist goals. With them, “the ends justifies the means” and they will ruthlessly manipulate and manage every crisis in a manner to further their radical political agenda.
Missy – If Valerie Jarrett is one half of Obama’s brain, he needs a lobotomy.
I would say that ,being A SUPER POWER, it’s not because you have no other choice but to be the sSUPERPOWER, like AMERICA always been, it was because they show the world how to be on top of freedom loving, and always helping others to succseed to become as free, and showing their youngs to want better things through their own effort, not expecting hand out in being lazy, and having their braves ready to fight unjust and tormenter leader of countrys, who treat their people badly, and values thoses who are free and strive on freedom. not letting them down when in need of support.
@ilovebeeswarzone: You’re sounding more like a Tea Party member all the time. Maybe you should start one up there.
SMORGASBORD: hi, Is it good or bad? bye 🙄
@ILOVEBEESWARZONE, Ms Bees he is taking some action on a small scale.
Gov. Bobby Jindal Orders National Guard to Build Barrier Wall Off Louisiana Shore
Louisiana Gov. Takes Matters Into Own Hands, But Will BP Foot the Bill?
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/article/bp-oil-spill-gov-bobby-jindal-orders-national/story?id=10914348
“In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands.”
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-asks/story?id=10731680
As thick oil flows into the sensitive marshes of the Louisiana coast, Gov. Bobby Jindal called on the White House and BP today to either stop the oil spill or get out of his way.
Gov. Bobby Jindal warns BP and the White House to help or get out of his way.
Jindal is still waiting for the federal government to provide millions of feet in boom and to approve an emergency permit for a state plan to dredge and build new barrier islands to keep the oil from reaching the marshes and wetlands.
Jindal is so desperate for the islands, he’s said he’ll build them even if it sends him to jail.
“We’ve been frustrated with the disjointed effort to date that has too often meant too little, too late for the oil hitting our coast,” Jindal said
The oil has already hit more than 65 miles of shoreline , and the slick is now as big as Maryland and Delaware combined.
In Port Fourchon, they’re already knee-deep in oil. Teams of cleanup crews have descended on the beach, sopping up and bagging countless gallons of crude. There is so much oil in the water that layers of boom designed to soak it up have to be replaced continuously.
“It’s absorbed a good amount of oil,” said Lt. Michelle Curry, who oversees the beach battle for the U.S. Coast Guard.
No one has to look far to see what’s at stake. While beaches can be cleaned up, the marshes cannot, and marshes make up the majority of Louisiana’s coastline.
Jindal Calls for More Help
Jindal warned that the state’s entire shoreline could end up polluted with black sludge if he doesn’t get more help, immediately.
“It is clear we don’t have the resources we need to protect our coast,” the Republican said. “We need more boom, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack-up barges that are still in short supply. Let’s be clear: Every day that this oil sits is one more day that more of our marsh dies.”
*******************************************************************
He is obviously frustrated and tired of waiting for a larger scale remediation that has not happened so far. I don’t blame him.
OLD TROOPER: thank you, I feel so bad for him,not having what he need to defend the marshland, which is a very fragile ecosystem [i have read that somwhere before]
they know more of the magnetude of the destruction, by living so cloose to thoses marsh. it must break their hearth too. bye take a good peace of cake for you on this special day. 🙄
GOVERNER JInDALL IS ASKING FOR HELP, NOW. that means yesterday, and the PROUDS PEOPLE over there dont usualy ask for favor, so hopefully they will get the help by any GOVERNMENT AGENCY ,NOW,it’s a must do,and bring them goodyes to.
@ilovebeeswarzone: You’re one of the good guys.
SMORGASBORD: thank you, I dont think I would be a good organizer for TEAPARTY, I feel it takes some smart people to rally the groups and make sure of their security, because thoses government workers who have been elected there,forget who is their boss,and the TEAPARTY is there to remind them, and that’s why the government workers hate them, bye 🙄
@ilovebeeswarzone: I’m the same way. I tell people I make a lousy leader, but a good helper.
After listening to our POTHUS’ speech this evening, I was disturbed. First, because he
has the uncanny ability to show NO EMOTION, second, I felt that an outsider was preaching
an agenda of Cap and Trade which will imperil our country with more taxes at the mercy of an ambiguous agenda and lastly, he defended himself and lied when he said that he has been doing everything he could to address this disaster. Combine this with the other scandals, Romanoff,
Sistruck, et.al., we can not wait for the next election… Grounds for Impeachment.
He is a puppet of the Bilderberg NWO and he is surrounded by Trilateralists that dictate what
must happen. (I predicted six months ago that a significant crisis would occur early this
summer. The puppetiers who are controlling Obama have a definite agenda and they are VERY
dangerous people.) Thank you Arizona for stalling the North American Union!!! REMEMBER
it is more about One World Government ideology than party. (Many members of both of our
parties have sold us out for the NWO. Please research the Transatlantic Policy Network and
you may find out which congressmen have been selling us out!) Just remember when our POTHUS show us his right hand….look at the left….always take advantage of a crisis.