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There is no excuse, none at all, for this administration to have sat so long on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s request for permission, or waiver of permitting requirements, to build sand berms/sand islands to block the oil from Louisiana’s coast. The lack of response borders on criminal negligence. The excellent Rep. Steve Scalise made a great speech about the issue on the House floor, here. Watch it. And let yourself get angry at this too-cool-to-care president, who wants the government to interfere in almost every area of our lives but can’t get off his rear end to get the federal government out of the way of a state’s efforts to save itself, and can’t coordinate a federal government response of its own that is worthy a blasted thing. Rep. Scalise is right: “The people back in [his] state are very angry rght now about what’s happening right now in the Gulf of Mexico” because they are “not getting the adequate response [they] need from the federal government. All [they]’re getting now is excuses.”
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Stan Redmond| 5.25.10 @ 1:01PM
Simply follow what is best for the Obama (pbuh) politically and this makes perfect sense. What makes for better video clips for the upcoming midterm elections? A picture with clean beaches and booms protecting the sands is not nearly as powerful as a beach covered with oil, dead animals, destitute fisherman, and crying children portraying the evyils of big oil owned by republicans. It makes perfect sense for Obama to do nothing and allow the destruction.
Curly Smith| 5.25.10 @ 1:05PM
Yeah, the needs of "The One" outweigh the needs of the many. Louisiana just needs to "take one" for the Team Obama.
Alan Brooks| 5.26.10 @ 8:53AM
"a state's efforts to save itself"
LA is in mortal peril?
Jim Hlavac | 5.26.10 @ 9:12AM
Not too snarky, but, Yes, Alan, just like the rest of the country, from the bizarre Obama destruction of the nation. Odd, no? Mortal peril at this point. How can we save ourselves here from Obama?
Oh yeah, there's some oil off the coast, too.
That La. would need permission from the feds to protect the coast is rather strange in the first place. That the O would do naught, well, that's what "O" is, naught.
Meanwhile, illegals, terrorists, wacko dictators all getting spunky, etc who knows what else -- yep, mortal perils indeed.
Your state too.
Nobama| 5.25.10 @ 1:53PM
I thought liberals were pro-environment. Guess not; the worst ecological disaster in American history has happened on their watch.
GLENNY| 5.25.10 @ 2:17PM
Governor Jindal, just do it ! glenny in Baton Rouge
Warrior | 5.25.10 @ 2:55PM
Quin: I wholeheartedly agree with you on this issue. It appears the only way he would get involved on this is if it interfered with illegals traversing the waters to enter the U.S.
John3| 5.25.10 @ 6:38PM
Hey guys, Bush is still to blame for all this!
Dernon Ruton| 5.25.10 @ 7:12PM
Quin, it's not that he can't get off his skinny backside. This disaster plays right into his hands, and he wants to kill the economy, and us thereafter. So knowledgeable about everything, but such a bumbling handwringing equivocator about some spilled oil? Don't believe it for a minute. This man is demonic, and we are all in peril the stronger he gets. A terrible reckoning is coming.
SoCon| 5.26.10 @ 11:03AM
What's truly troubling is Obama's (mis)administration allowed BP to drill without the proper permits, did NOT send inspectors to the well platform for routine inspections and did NOTHING to protect the Gulf Coast from the oil washing ashore. NOTHING.
Dereliction of duty--once again.
Nate| 5.25.10 @ 10:24PM
Well ...
Let's just recall that whenever DEMOCRATS ask for some kind of provision on the part of industry for the possibility of things like -- oh, I don't know -- OIL SPILLS, it is explained to us that we are Stalinists who want to destroy America.
When we question the wisdom of drilling in deep water where it is very, very difficult to fix -- say -- a broken well, we are told that industry knows best, that the free market is ordained by God, that environmental scientists are socialist conspirators, and that if Jesus didn't want us drilling all we can, he wouldn't have put the oil down there in the first place. Regulation, in current conservative dogma, is very difficult to distinguish from Nazi concentrations camps and other government overreaches.
Now we have an oil spill and we learn that not only were liberals wrong to want more regulation, wrong to want more safeguards and protections, we are also to blame for the spill and its horrible aftermath as well.
You folks down on the Gulf Coast: you remember who spoiled your rich, bountiful, beautiful ocean ecosystem; remember who did not care a damn for your businesses, your way of life, your recreation, or your plans for the future. And if there is ever an hour for Justice, and the necks of the people responsible for this spill are on the block, SWING THAT AXE HARD.
Nick| 5.25.10 @ 11:49PM
So, Nate the dazi, supports the death penalty for the accidental killing of some fish and turtles. And he wants to behead them, like they do in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Is this right?
You probably think Wesley Cook, a.k.a. Mumia Abu-Jamal, is innocent of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, don't you Nate the dazi?
Jeff Perren | 5.26.10 @ 1:46AM
"When we question the wisdom of drilling in deep water where it is very, very difficult to fix -- say -- a broken well, we are told that industry knows best"
And why are they drilling in such deep water, where the risks of an accident are higher and the difficulty of making repairs greater?
Because left-wing environmentalists like you have succeeded in getting the Federal government to pass irrational regulations forbidding them to drill closer to shore. Because that same irrational approach has been enforced in barren tundra in Alaska, and off the coast of California, etc. etc.
Truthyness| 5.26.10 @ 4:03AM
Okay, the Jesus dig is just a tad over the top. Weren't we being told, anyway, by the mainstream press in 2008 that there was a big environmentalist movement among fundamentalist Christians? But, anyway, I thought Obama was in favor of expanding offshore oil drilling up till this disaster happened?
In the long run, this event certainly doesn't look good for the prospects for more offshore drilling, but Obama's frightening indifference and incompetence in handling the problem doesn't look good in his short run or long run, at least as his being President of the United States goes (of course, there's always UN General Secretary--he is the world, after all).
Nate| 5.26.10 @ 8:54AM
Lame.
Obama doesn't have the competence to stop a gushing oil spill 1 mile beneath the surface of the water.
Who would have thought we elected such an idiot?
A good president would have gotten in the Bat Sub weeks ago and gone down there and sealed it himself.
We do know that the reason Obama supported a slight increase in offshore drilling is that the Republicans -- DRILL, BABY, DRILL, remember? -- won't even sit down at the table to discuss energy policy without some provision for more drilling. Obama, true to form, gave in, and there you go.
The mismanagement at the federal level that led to this disaster is pretty hard to pin entirely on Obama. But the looseness of regulation hardly supports the usual argument made around here that Obama is a Stalinist who is regulating every sector of the economy!
It turns out, naturally, that the Democrats have by and large been right on this issue. These deep drills need regulation by the government. If you can't see that, you're a shallow ideologue.
Ryan| 5.26.10 @ 9:54AM
From what I can tell, the regulations are there in place already. It's pretty typical.
They just need to be followed and enforced. We don't need new ones - just use the ones already on the books.
Truthyness| 5.26.10 @ 8:26PM
Your sarcastic wit is truly impressive. Guess compulsively blogging on this site gives you plenty of time to hone it. Your do nothing president didn't have to plug a whole personally, he had to take an interest. Evidently, he hasn't. He is above it all, I suppose, on a higher karmic plane.
Truthyness| 5.26.10 @ 11:10PM
I'm sure Nate would be the first to tell you he knows the difference between the spellings of "whole" and "hole." Oh, but that's right, I'm Nate, I forgot. And you're Johnno I take it? Or is Nate Johnno? What an exciting world we live in!
Liam| 5.26.10 @ 11:34PM
Who is Johnno? Nate confused 'are' with 'our'--similar to your bonehead move.
Either you're twins separated at birth or Axelrod is hiring trolls on the cheap.
CRY BABY CRY!| 5.26.10 @ 1:37AM
If you're Governor of a State, aren't you supposed to know how to get things done, make things happen?
Aren't you supposed to know how to use a phone? Because in such a dire emergency, when time played a critical role.. you wouldn't go through the mail & risk time...you'd either 1) take an executive decision to initiate the project & file the permission request later, or 2) get on the phone and secure a green light within an hour.
What you wouldn't do is sit on your hands for two weeks without a response, and let precious days go by while you whined & bitched like a school girl.
He'd have got right through to the President. Good god, the fellow is available from 5.00 am til 11.00. I'm just not believing that either the Corps of Engineers, or the President, would receive such a request and ignore it.
Governor Jindall. Grow up, "the dog ate my homework" doesn't work at your level. You're there to overcome & solve issues, not create them.
So, if you forgot to stamp the envelope or got the wrong address (judging from how he handled this, who knows)....and 1) what you were requesting wasyou had an ounc
Stan Redmond| 5.26.10 @ 12:45PM
State governments can not commandier [sp?] the US Coast Guard or her assets (oil buoys etc.). It can ONLY be done by the feds.
Rather than inspire or offer the full support and resources of the US government Obama just sits about, complains, and keeps his "boot" on BP's neck.
Jeff Perren | 5.26.10 @ 1:49AM
Why wait for a response? It's time for the States to simply start ignoring the Federal government in instances of this sort.
Warrior | 5.26.10 @ 10:29AM
Look at Arizona and see what this administration does to states who attempt to find solutions to matters.
Jeff Perren | 5.26.10 @ 7:01PM
A valid point, but - as I'm sure I don't need to tell you - there's a price to pay to fight tyranny at every level. States need to wean themselves off the Federal teat, just as individuals do. Then it won't matter very much whether the Feds disapprove or not.
ZerObama| 5.26.10 @ 7:25PM
Talk is cheap, Jeff; the oil spill debacle is the Fed's legal responsibility. Jindal would be breaking federal law if he took matters into his own hands. You're not the one who would go to prison!
Truthyness| 5.26.10 @ 3:49AM
I agree, if the Obami can't be bothered, do it your yourself. If the Obami doesn't like it, he can stop it.
Julie| 5.26.10 @ 8:23AM
Why do smart people continue to mistake an agenda for incompetence? What makes a better case for the environuts than a destroyed Gulf coastline? What makes it virtually impossible to get more drilling done? How many elitist progressives live on the LA/MS/TX/AL coastline? It makes me livid to hear this government described as "indifferent" when they care wholeheartedly for destroying the American way of life, hence, they never let a good crisis go to waste. Good grief, if the writers and readers at this site don't "get it" then what hope is there that the rest of the populace will recognize reality?
TomSwift| 5.26.10 @ 8:46AM
If the president was white he'd be accused of racism!
After all, that's what happened to Bush @ Katrina
Pete| 5.26.10 @ 9:10AM
Since the oil is of color, it must be allowed to come ashore in the US. Pretty simple and quite consistent.
Nick| 5.26.10 @ 3:07PM
Pete,
Yes, this quite correct. Ha-ha!
The oil that makes it to shore is "undocumented," not "illegal," as some have said. No oil should be called "illegal."
What we need is a better "guest oil" program. That would solve this problem overnight.
Timothy L. Pennell| 5.26.10 @ 9:06AM
You're obviously a buncha RACISTS. Our President, who formally resided in Kenya and Indonesia, and attended MUSLIM SCHOOL and Knelt on his PRAYER RUG, facing MECCA, and PRAYED to ALLAH, 5 times a day, will NOT be "sitting on his rear end". For your information, he plans to keep himself very busy this weekend.
He'll be right on top of this Oil Leak thingy while he's on VACATION, again. I'm told that he'll be pondering the situation while attending a couple of FUND RAISERS, and even though he'll be TOO BUSY on VACATION to make time for the MILITARY FUNCTION on Memorial Day, he WILL be returning to D.C. for the PAUL McCartney CONCERT.
God Bless this man.
RacerJim| 5.26.10 @ 10:45AM
Let's not forget Obama's recent criminal negligence of Tennessee.
DBowers| 5.26.10 @ 11:24AM
Carefully considered, the BP crisis is being managed exactly as Obama wants. since taking office, Obama has consistently passed legislation that can only damage the southern states where corporate and business taxes are less and the cost of regulation is commensurate with the influx of norther companies relocating south of the Mason Dixon line. The monstrous debt incurred by the Gulf States will undoubtably stress all local economies beyond the breaking point. Don't look for Obama to do anything-he wants it this way.
Liam| 5.26.10 @ 11:41AM
Wouldn't surprise me a bit; Marxists like Obama are suffused with hatred for those who oppose them.
Nate| 5.26.10 @ 2:42PM
What makes you say Obama is a "Marxist"? Do you know what a Marxist believes? My guess is you don't know much about Marxism or Obama. You just listen to Glenn Beck or some other jackass on the radio and think you know something about these topics. But I'm willing to be proven wrong. Why don't you write a post that makes some kind of argument instead of writing weak drivel like this?
Liam| 5.26.10 @ 6:30PM
Touchy touchy, Nazi Nate the tiny tyrant!
Obama's a Collectivist like you; why bother to pretend otherwise?
Truthyness| 5.26.10 @ 8:27PM
Nate the Net Nanny strikes again.
Truthyness| 5.26.10 @ 11:12PM
Now, now, dear, you're going to make me sympathize with Nate. So anti-social! But that must be the multiple personalities getting you down.
Nate| 5.27.10 @ 3:03PM
A schizoid like you would know a lot about multiple personalities, moron.
Nobama| 5.27.10 @ 1:38AM
Think kind thoughts and be kind to your neighbor. Sell everything you own and give to the poor. Practice Zen Buddhism. Make little clay statues and worship them. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Nobama| 5.27.10 @ 3:02PM
I do believe in being kind to other people and I also believe generosity toward others is necessary; it's what Jesus Christ taught and I am a Christian.
The clay statues--not so much, that's more your speed, Truthyness/LibScreeder; I did love the song, the Age of Aquarius, though.
Bob Miller| 5.26.10 @ 12:33PM
Some of you don't grasp what happens in today's America when a state offends a Federal environmental bureaucrat. That's why Gov.Jindal needed permission from the asleep-at-the-switch Feds. Of course Pres. Obama could have fast-tracked approval, but wouldn't that have helped a Republican governor? That's not allowed.
Nate| 5.26.10 @ 2:06PM
Yeah. We know. We just heard Rush Limbaugh make each of these points. You don't offer an evidence for them or explain the banal, circular and shallow reasoning behind them either.
Liam| 5.26.10 @ 6:34PM
Plug the damn hole, libtard! Incompetent Obama is responsible for the terrible ecological devastation in the Gulf, the worst ecological disaster in our country's history. You damned liberals can't get your noses far enough up our asses in personal matters, but you won't secure our borders or protect our environment. Losers.
Johnno| 5.27.10 @ 1:41AM
End all racism, sexism, agism, speciesism. All living things are equal and radiate spirit and light. The wind speaks the truth. When men devastate forests or soil the oceans, it is because they fear their own memory.
LibScreeder/Nate/Purpleturd| 5.27.10 @ 2:54PM
Look! The troll Lib Screeder is impersonating other posters!
What else does the Axelrod astroturfing SEIU loser have to do?
Besides terrorizing 14 year old boys cowering in their bathrooms, that is?
Oldefarte| 5.26.10 @ 4:17PM
Yea, maybe those COONASSES [ie Cau & Co.] over there will finally wise up as to the true intentions of the domestic terrorists that are now in charge of our country...........MAYBE!!!!
Nate| 5.26.10 @ 4:23PM
Yes. The only rational explanation is that Obama and his administration are DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.
I can't imagine why people think you guys on the right are a bunch of kooky, paranoid whackos.
Liam| 5.26.10 @ 6:38PM
Yeah, it's real "kooky" to expect you idiots to protect our borders and the environment.
Just do your damn job instead of lying and stealing to grab more power and control
Obama's approvals are at 42%--the 30s are just around the corner.
Expect a reckoning on November 2, 2010, d-bag.
Truthyness| 5.26.10 @ 8:28PM
Domestic incompetents, more like. And overseas as well, actually.
Oldefarte| 5.26.10 @ 4:49PM
I beg all readers here to also read Peter Ferrera's [today's] editorial on Obama in TAS-----it is simply BRILLIANT!!!!!
Oldefarte| 5.26.10 @ 4:49PM
I beg all readers here to also read Peter Ferrera's [today's] editorial on Obama in TAS-----it is simply BRILLIANT!!!!!
Ned| 5.26.10 @ 7:57PM
Like King Canute, Obama should have himself carried to the shore and instead of ordering the waves to stop at his feet he should shout, "Plug this hole."
The difference is Canute did it to show his sycophants that his power is limited. Obama will be hauled there believing the command will be obeyed, and if not, at least reported that it was.
Nick| 5.27.10 @ 1:36AM
I've been listening to the Byrds all day and really want to tell all of you that I consider you my brothers and want peace on earth and good will towards all men. Music can save the world, man.
Nick| 5.27.10 @ 1:01PM
The above post is not from me, Nick from Detroit, obviously.
While I like a few Byrds' songs, I am no hippie!
Nick| 5.27.10 @ 1:02PM
I should add, only belief in Jesus Christ can save the world.
Missy| 5.27.10 @ 2:57PM
You got that right, Nick!
Progressive losers like LibScreeder, Nate, Purpleturd, Wally, ad nauseam, don't have a clue.
I pity them.