Robert Reich to Obama: Nationalize BP!
Snort. Robert Reich argues that the only way the American public can be kept informed about the BP oil spill is to have the transparency-challenged Obama administration take over the company — through a “temporary receivership.”
Banking. Auto manufacturing. Health care. Now oil. There’s no such thing as a “temporary” government power grab, let alone a “temporary receivership” in the hands of Team Obama control freaks:
It’s time for the federal government to put BP under temporary receivership, which gives the government authority to take over BP’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico until the gusher is stopped. This is the only way the public know what’s going on, be confident enough resources are being put to stopping the gusher, ensure BP’s strategy is correct, know the government has enough clout to force BP to use a different one if necessary, and be sure the President is ultimately in charge.
You know who’s tickled pink (or rather, red) by Reich’s proposal?
Maxine “socialize Big Oil” Waters. Remember?
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Ah, isn’t BP a foreign-owned entity? So how can ‘The “Chosen” One’- ‘He-Who-Will-Follow-in-Carter’s-Footsteps’ accomplish that?
Can the government give MMS waivers for campaign cash?
The answer to all the problems seen by Communists is to take it over … LOL
… So the government can pass more legislation and the politicians can all say in unison, “to prevent this from ever, this time we really mean it, happening again” just like they did with 1990 OPA.
What this really shows is the total ineptness of government to either do, OR PREVENT anything. And the uselessness of regulations that never get followed.
Say can’t the spill containment and cleanup be taken over right now? Since only the government can do things like this …
Scratch a liberal you’ll find a fascist.
I’m sure Bho’s buddy Chavez can give pointers on how to take over foreign companies.
BP should say OK,it’s yours.See ya.
We are fast-becoming a third-world nation. From the top of the heap, to the bottom of the barrel. Yes, Chavez should be very proud – a protege’ in the White House. How convenient.
The “income tax” was supposed to be temporary, too.
Few things are more permanant than a temporary Government action.
This November,
Americans will take the Federal Government into
“temporary receivership,” as it is
“…the only way the public knows what’s going on, be confident enough resources are being put to stopping the spending gusher, ensure America’s strategy is correct, know the people have enough clout to force its government to use a different one if necessary, and be sure the people are ultimately in charge.”
Washington needs an enema.
It seems like short guys are called to be dictators. Never did like Dems but Lord now they scare me, they are getting violent.
Maxine “socialize Big Oil” Waters must be so proud, Norman Thomas and his Socialism and the Social Gospel has arrived. As soon as they can cleanse we Unrepentant Capitalist from the land all will be Milk and Honey.
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Robert Reich is a socialist, so naturally he sees taking over business as the natural response to anything. I wish the media would stop calling these clowns “Democrats,” or “liberals,” or “progressives,” just name them what they truly are, socialists, or fascists, if you prefer the government-corporation axis.
Around here he’s known as “Robert the third Reich”. No surprise here.
Hey Reich, BP is a is a foreign owned company – The watch description here is BRITISH Petroleum – Reich, you are a slobbering idiot.
HAHAHA! All they have to do is stop the spill. The every day operation of BP is irrelevant.
Authorize underwater charges to clog the well. That is something they can do (nuclear even) that would solve the problem.
They’d be heroes. But BP doesn’t want them to destroy the well because they hope to use it. Do they have an answer to anything other than ‘let government control everything’? I don’t understand what about getting elected makes people omnipotent and omniscient. Communists and leftists somehow think getting elected makes you a genius about everything.
I thought we won the cold war against communism. Who knew they were still fighting in America.
Reich is a literal and figurative midget.
Also, aren’t they expecting a lot of lawsuits against BP? If they nationalize it, won’t that just put the American taxpayer on the hook for paying those outrageously exorbitant claims that everyone knows are coming?
There are several problems here. First, BP is a foreign company (British). Second, I believe it is already nationalized by the British, hence all the problems with its safety record. And finally, the big one, it is against the law for the government to take any action.
The Obama administration improving transparency? Isn’t that an oxymoron? BP is probably a wealth of information compared to Obama’s proclivity to keep everything a secret.
Jesus said, in reference to the Pharisees of His day:
I believe today, he might be referring to the great, white sepulcher in Washington DC that is called Congress.
If we need to take BP over in order to keep informed about what BP is doing, can we please do the same thing with Iran? /sarc
Proof that all tied in with this wing of the Democrat party and this administration have completely rejected our Constitution, except as a mechanical guide for getting what they want through the system with a legal fig leaf.
Why is little turd still being consulted on anything? He should be pontificating from a porch in West Palm.
It’s what Jesus would have wanted.
Co-pope Nancy Pelosi says so. She is big on the Book of Lilith.
No such thing. The government here is watching Chavez and learning how to take over the country’a industries. Next, a presidental election in 2012, with only Obama running as President for Life.
Didn’t Obama say the Federal Government is in charge of this already? So what is Reishshshsh talking about? Government control? Oh yeah, that solves everything. With government control, we can be assured things will get screwed up and covered up. It will get done wrong, then the blame game will start. Kinda like it is already.
So government lawyers now know better than oil engineers, people who have spent their entire lives in the oil industry how to stop the gusher? I dont think so. I hope he does nationalize BP. Then when he fails to stop the spill he can walk around with more crude on his face. Good – I hope he does.
Not a problem. England is bankrupt too, and we’ve already adopted their health care system. We’ll just put them into “temporary receivership”, too. Serves them right for messing with us in 1775 and 1812.
I thought the oil industry was pretty much nationalized already. They cant do anything without the government’s permission.
Some years ago, I was watching a 60 Minutes segment about a federal judge who ordered the release of prisoners in Alabama because of prison overcrowding. George Wallace was governor of Alabama at the time, and had concerns about releasing these prisoners into the general population. Anyway, the news interviewer asked Wallace about the judge, and Wallace responded that the judge needed to have a barbed wire enema.
TigerLady, I think that would be much more appropriate in this instance.
BP is dead. Who in their right mind doubts this? Reich is too stupid to realize it, but there’s that whole “right mind” thing again…
Texaco died under a lawsuit that’s a joke compared to what’s in store for BP. If this thing goes on for another 3 months, who doubts that an island like Jamaica won’t have its shores covered with tar balls or worse? Who is going to pay to clean that up, BP? Really? I don’t recall BP having TRILLIONS of dollars lying around, because that’s what this is going to cost. Island after island, plus the US coast and maybe Mexico, will be shut down. No tourism. No fishing. Plus the cost of the cleanup.
Every clean up an oily plate? You need to wash it, with soap and water. No amount of “wave action” will do it, and there aren’t enough micro-critters left in the Gulf to possibly “ingest” the stuff.
Every rock will need to be cleaned by hand. Every one. Every sandy beach will have to be cleaned with cement mixers: lather, rinse, dump, repeat.
Every hurricane for decades will pull more ooze off the bottom and contaminate a “cleaned” area. Time to repeat the repeat…
Who believes BP has this kind of $? And who believes that BP doesn’t know it, and that their board isn’t already looking for ways to save their careers?
Obama shouldn’t have nationalized BP. He should have nationalized EVERY EXPERT with any skills in containing this leak. People from companies that will still be in business in 6 months, like Exxon, Gulf, Shell, etc. Even foreign companies (like Shell) have US based assets that Obama could have and SHOULD have nationalized about 30 days ago.
This team would bring ideas to the administration, and the Admin would fund the good ones. They would work in parallel, and they would be very motivated to come up with ideas that leverage the skills of their own companies, since they’d get paid handsomely for their efforts.
Sound familiar? This is how TR rolled. When the crisis is over, the nationalized employees go back to their regular duties with their companies.
Here are a few other things that President Peachfuzz didn’t have the brains to figure out:
The Corps (that’s pronounced “core,” btw) of Engineers and the Navy’s CB’s should already have every piece of equipment available stationed on the Gulf. That should have happened about 25 days ago, when the first containment efforts failed.
Plus, the Wrongway should have empowered the COE and CB’s to nationalize every construction firm from Corpus to Key West, and had their equipment on standby, all along the coast.
The day the topkill failed, President Peachfuzz should have announced the failure, and then announced that the nationalized construction corp have begun building berms at an unprecedented pace. Yes, berms damage coastlines. Yes, nobody wanted to do this. Yes, most of the berms will be ineffective – but not all of them. SOME of them will protect SOME of the ecosystem.
And we’re going to need as much “seed corn” as we can muster, to try and bring the Gulf back to life once this thing is finally done.
This is the kind of leadership that our Imbecile In Chief can’t even conceive of. This is the kind of Conservative Progressivism that made TR the icon he is today. Ike would have done the same things, btw. Reagan, too, I’d bet.
The president didn’t cause this, but there ARE things that a real leader would have been doing for the last month.
Pity that we don’t have a Leader. Only a Loser.
Is this the same racist and sexist Bob Reich that wanted to write ‘white males’ out of stimulus jobs? Yup. No surprise here folks, he’s just a clueless tool. Move along, move along…
Me for one.
Canada’s system is belly up now too. “Good news” follow everywhere socialists drop their intellectual fecal matter.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100531/hl_nm/us_health_3
If anyone is wondering why the private economy just can’t seem to create jobs, this is an excellent reason why. We have a rogue government that seems to be operating on a secret plan and no one knows where they will strike next. It’s one “unprecedented” crisis after another followed by a government takeover.
This is what central planning looks like. It’s not what is happening with your customers or suppliers that preoccupies your time, it’s trying to get a handle on what the fascists in Washington are thinking and planning.
As a businessman, particularly in the job-creating small business sector, how do you plan? You pull in your horns, delay those investments in new plants and equipment and employees. You pay off your debt and hunker down for a long storm and hope you survive.
This is a government-caused depression and it unless things change soon, we may soon go beyond the tipping point (“the cliff”).
Ouch, I was thinking of a 3H enema–high, hot and hell of a lot. Barbed wire sounds like an interesting alternative. Line up the Libs and let’s get started!!
Reich….
Merely yet another in the much too long list of dangerous socialist idiots.
This is about a dumb as what you usually expect for Reich. Replace experienced engineers who haven’t solved the problem yet with people without a clue. Of course BP being foreign owned might be an addition stumbling block.
Obama will nationalize the entire Gulf coastline. Every beach home and every square inch of beach front… “Will be MINE, all MINE!”
how Obama would lead this nation in past times of crisis.
Revolutionary War: blame King George, establish a commission, declare that he will sue King George for liberty.
Civil War: blame the South, establish a commission on the legality of secession, declare that he will sue the South to pay for the issue of a nation split in two.
WWI: blame the Germans, establish a commission on the war crimes of Germany, declare that he will sue Germany for war crimes.
Great Depression: blame Wall Street, establish a commission on the causes of the depression (absolving federal government), sue Wall Street to pay for losses.
Pearl Harbor: blame Japan, establish a commission on the impact of the attack, declare he will sue Japan for losses.
This guy is no leader. You don’t lead by blaming people for obvious problems. You don’t lead by establishing ‘commissions’. If he keeps responding to crises by blaming and litigating, he’ll soon be known as ‘President As*hole’.
His ‘solution’ to this problem is ‘sue BP’. BP won’t have enough money for people to ask for. Eventually we’ll bankrupt BP and the taxpayers will pay . . . the same way he ‘led’ GM.
Eventually he’ll realize that through all the finger pointing he’s doing, he’s got 3 of his own fingers pointing back at him.
If he was proud to be American and had faith in America and the American people, he wouldn’t ‘lead’ like this. Eventually people will point their fingers at him and it will be justice.
This is a page right out of the Castro/Chavez play books. The dangerous communists in our Congress must be removed. Stealing private property is not an available option in our Constitution for the Federal Government, however it does confiscate our money and Obama did steal GM from its investors/creditors so I wouldn’t put anything past the commies in D.C.
Obama has apparently now formed ANOTHER commission to study the oil problem. ANOTHER commission? That is his answer to everything. Somebody…please stop him!!
I forgot the obvious. . . 9/11. Blame Bush, establish a commission, sue Taliban.
Most of these instances he doesn’t blame America. . . that’s likely the only area that my analysis is off. Obama would be much more likely to blame America and Americans than I indicated in the last post.
By the time the oil gets done with that coastline, no one will be able to exist there anyway. Obama can have it…and live there. And, I won’t say it because it is racist…but I was thinking something about Obama living down there amongst the tar balls. Please don’t misunderstand that comment!
Why don’t they open up the issue to the American people to use their ingenuity to find solutions? There were already some great ideas out there, and I never heard another thing about them. What happened to that idea of using straw or hay to soak up the oil? Apparently, it sits on top of the water and holds the oil. Then, the soaked hay can be scooped up. All the farmers in the country could ship their hay down to LA. I saw a demonstration. What happened to that idea? Was it too simple?
Nope. Will never happen. To him those three fingers are merely pointing at his greatness. The only thing TEH WON will ever realize is that we are too stupid and ignorant to understand, appreciate and worship his awesome brilliance.
Because to them, the ingenuity lies in government ideas and action, not in the ignoramous America people. Its worked so well so far hasn’t it?
Sigh. I just want to cry. Nothing is going well and it is all on this administration. Why can’t the MSM see that??? They should be blasting this entire administration loud and clear. Instead, I still hear excuses by the liberal pundits. They are all crazy. Every.single.one.
Oil companies should strike. Seriously, what would Obama do if all the domestic oil production (read taxes to the government) was completely halted for a week?
He’d crap his pants and say ‘sorry, sorry, sorry’ as gas went to 6 bucks / gal overnight.
They only respond to strikes. He loves union strikes. . . I wonder how he’d like company strikes on his watch.
I know what he’d do . . . he’d sue.
Hey, it works for Hugo Chavez, so it must be a good idea.
I’ve always wondered-about and agreed with that idea.
It would be fantastic if all the “evil/greedy/heartless Big Oil” companies just shut down, pronto.
Then after Ed Begely and The AlGore suddenly find that their air conditioners and private jets don’t work anymore, they’d soil their diapers and beg for Sarah Palin to come rescue them.
Oh the sheer joy of it!!!
Sorry, Ruby Boy, but Gummint will be too busy destroying that nation’s health care to mangalize the oil business.
It remains one of the most stunning congenital stupidities of all time; namely: that liberals believe the same Gummint that “should have prevented this disaster” would/will achieve anything different in nearly anything else it does … “for the people”, of course.
cannot stand Shepard(Kartina)Smith, that pukes turns my stomach, along with every other left wing, democrat, socialist, un-American bastard!
Just yesterday we were remembering the loss of those who had given their all to stop the evils in the world. Maybe it’s time we cleaned our closet right here at home…keep America strong and let the rest of the world that doesn’t love freedom as America take care of themselves.
God Bless America!
The lefty elites have only 2 solutions for all problems. They either throw money at the problem or they want to take control over it. It never really solves anything, but it makes the elitists feel better.
I had to correct that. Liberals NEVER throw their own money at the problems they create. When it comes to their money, I find liberals personally, quite conservative in how they use their own money. And it ALWAYS makes elitists feel better spending other people’s money.
And since Algore and Tipper are splitting up, we know why he bought a seaside home on the West Coast. He’ll need a new bachelor pad. Just wait until he and Bill toss a party at the new digs. Parents hide your daughters!
Well yes – SINCE THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM – why not take over. Idiots. Fascist Idiots. That’s right Reich, I think you’re a fascist.
Thank you hawkeye,
I like your correction.
Anybody else go to a scary visual place???
Ripley:
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Stay frosty, Southpaw…
Is anyone else starting to think, the only way to stop this thing might be to:
“Just nuke the damn hole”
An enviro-wackos worst nightmare, use a nuke to save the Gulf.