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1. #101
   On June 13th, 2010 at 2:46 pm, Ragspierre said:

   Mr. Obama, could you take a few minutes from your never-ending-finger-pointing- blame-directing diatribe and brief us on what is going on with the NATIONAL OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES CONTINGENCY ACT OF 1994 and why the emergency guidelines of that plan were not implemented by your administration? Mr. Obama, have you read the plan????

   I doubt he’s ever heard of it.

   That kind of detail is not on his radar…

   At.All.

2. #102
   On June 13th, 2010 at 2:49 pm, WarEagle82 said:

   “Jimmy Carter’s Revenge” strikes again! This truly is the second term of Jimmy Carter — on steroids!

   I knew this clown would bring a new meaning to the word “incompetence” but even I didn’t think he could pull it off so quickly and decisively.

   If America survives this Marxist nutjob I think we should name a holiday after him. Too bad “Der Untergang” is already taken…

3. #103
   On June 13th, 2010 at 3:11 pm, CO2 Producer said:

   Narcissist, socialist…

   Some of the same people who are saying the president needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.

   …Illeist.

   “Bob Dole says attaboy,” said Bob Dole.

4. #104
   On June 13th, 2010 at 3:50 pm, graysonret said:

   The only leadership our president has shown, is in how to spend money. He wants $50B in state/local aid now. He wants to leave office in 2013, happy and smug, that he bankrupted the U.S.. However, even some of his own party are now wondering. They’ve seen the primaries and may not be too excited to “charge” any more to the national credit card. The man had no experience in taking the office, and is lost today without speech writers, teleprompters and czars.

5. #105
   On June 13th, 2010 at 3:52 pm, Cal City Conservative said:

   Don’t know if any of you watched Huckabee yesterday.

   The whole show had ideas as to how to clean up the spill. There were a LOT of GREAT ideas on it. America is a can do nation, Obama is a can’t do president we don’t mix at all.

   Obozo would be wise to get people like this involved, but this would go against him being able to use it to his own best interest, which is to strangle the oil industry even more.

6. #106
   On June 13th, 2010 at 4:25 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

   On June 13th, 2010 at 6:05 am, jamesgreenidge said:
   Try to imagine the aircraft carrier named after this man.

   Not a carrier, maybe a garbage scow. The U.S.S. Obowmao!

7. #107
   On June 13th, 2010 at 4:50 pm, rambler said:

   How BP handles spills

8. #108
   On June 13th, 2010 at 4:50 pm, Speakup said:

   And the proof of that would be the well oiled machine, the expanded massive government, we have now, right?

   Hey those lawyers you sent to Louisiana sure plugged that damn hole, didn’t they?

   The damage is done, but it didn’t have to, the President could have simply told everyone involved, do everything, do everything, now.

   When not enough is done, when there’s technology available, when simple logistics is lacking, That’s an articulate, caring President’s purview.

9. #109
   On June 13th, 2010 at 4:54 pm, Flyoverman said:

   I thought Carter’s leadership was pathetic. You cannot criticize Obama’s leadership skills. There are none to criticize.

10. #110
    On June 13th, 2010 at 5:24 pm, 24Klady said:

    Even the blindest of the MSM can not come to any other conclusion than this has been a deliberate and sinister attempt to shut down off-shore oil drilling within the U.S..

    With the EPA in charge of oversight, decimation of the oil and coal industry – we the people have the opportunity to either fry our butts in the summer or freeze it in the winter. Bobby Jindal is right. The only asses this moron is kicking is ours.

11. #111
    On June 13th, 2010 at 6:00 pm, prendad said:

    I wonder what will happen when the first hurricanes hit the Gulf soon. Will this oil be slathered all over buildings, cars, plants, everything else on shore?

12. #112
    On June 13th, 2010 at 6:07 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I wonder what will happen when the first hurricanes hit the Gulf soon. Will this oil be slathered all over buildings, cars, plants, everything else on shore?

    Actually, and perversely, that would be a good thing. It would degrade much faster if it was more dissipated, and there are happy little bugs who actually thrive on it.

13. #113
    On June 13th, 2010 at 6:46 pm, kwyoung said:

    Caught this segment on Imus last week. Excellent perspective.

14. #114
    On June 13th, 2010 at 7:23 pm, MDH3 said:

    Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,”

    Yes, because disaster and emergency management is EXACTLY THE SAME THING as the government paying for your health care, your mortgage, your appliances, etc. etc. etc.

    This guy graduated from Harvard? Really?

15. #115
    On June 13th, 2010 at 7:23 pm, Sea_Dog said:

    “Obama is going to push for a new energy plan” – can you say cap-and-trade? In spades? Never waste a crisis even if you have to create one with you administration of theorists and college professors. Why, when there is a simple solution for help in cleaning up this mess, Obama won’t issue an executive order to waive the ‘Jones Law’ and allow the foreign ships into our waters to help? Can you say Union Payback? The ‘Jones Law’ requires all ships operating in US Territorial waters to be US flagged, manned by US citizens, owned by US firms, etc. Guess what – there hasn’t been a US Maritime Industry since WWII. The unionization of the maritime industry killed that. We should have woken up in the first Gulf War when we had to lift our military over to Kuwait on foreign flagged vessels.

16. #116
    On June 13th, 2010 at 7:37 pm, John Deaux said:

    Now the teacup-in-chief is begging Congress for another $50 billion in “emergency” funds to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters”.

    First, it’s an “emergency” to avoid pay-go rules.

    Second, ever notice how it’s always the people you care about that they threaten to lay off? Do they say they need to avoid layoffs of dogcatchers, administrators, code enforcement specialists, records clerks, or other assorted jobs under the public sector?

    Further to that. Every time I go into a public office like the tax collector, clerk of the court, building dept, etc., I have to wait forever because only one or two of the twelve available windows are open and there’s a slew of people in the back talking to each other. Lay them off and save us $50 billion.

17. #117
    On June 13th, 2010 at 7:56 pm, Sea_Dog said:

    On June 13th, 2010 at 7:37 pm, John Deaux said:

    Second, ever notice how it’s always the people you care about that they threaten to lay off? Do they say they need to avoid layoffs of dogcatchers, administrators, code enforcement specialists, records clerks, or other assorted jobs under the public sector?

    Same thing I have said for years, it is always the teachers, firemen, and cops. You could probably lay off 3/4 of anyone’s DMV and only increase efficiency let alone savings.

18. #118
    On June 13th, 2010 at 8:22 pm, Mach1Duck said:

    Obama is not a leader, he does not know how to lead, he is a community organizer, nice term for shakedown artist. He has surrounded himself with advisors who do not know how to lead. What is to be expected?

19. #119
    On June 13th, 2010 at 9:11 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Same thing I have said for years, it is always the teachers, firemen, and cops. You could probably lay off 3/4 of anyone’s DMV and only increase efficiency let alone savings.

    I first saw this morally bankrupt ploy…what…3 or 4 decades ago, with Jarvis in California. Was that Prop. 87? Some politicos actually closed fire stations, as I recall.

    http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/06/12/the-age-of-the-iou-or-chickensroost-and-%E2%80%9Canarchy-literally%E2%80%9D/

    Though this was a good come-back…

20. #120
    On June 13th, 2010 at 9:30 pm, erikwhittington said:

    this guy has no clue

21. #121
    On June 13th, 2010 at 10:37 pm, gco said:

    On June 13th, 2010 at 7:23 pm, MDH3 said:

    This guy graduated from Harvard? Really?

    Yes, this guy really graduated from Harvard. One of the peripheral effects of his Presidency should be extraordinary damage to Harvard’s reputation. His transcripts would seal that coffin, so does Harvard conceal them for his sake, or for their own sake?

22. #122
    On June 13th, 2010 at 11:12 pm, theloneranger said:

    It’s kind of funny that no one has noticed that there wouldn’t have been an oil spill at all if the morons fighting the fire on the oil platform hadn’t have poured so much water onto tht thing and sunk it, crushing the pipes and tearing them.

    If the fire had just been allowed to burn in a subdued fashion while efforts were made to cap the well, no oil would have been spilled into the ocean.

23. #123
    On June 14th, 2010 at 1:29 am, happy2behere said:

    Smaller government = larger funds, for innovations.

24. #124
    On June 14th, 2010 at 1:32 am, Ragspierre said:

    On June 13th, 2010 at 11:12 pm, theloneranger said:

    Tain’t so, brother. I’ve seen locations where a wild well melted a drilling rig to a puddle on land.

    I doubt anybody was “fighting a fire” as much as trying to cool the structure of the rig to maintain some integrity.

25. #125
    On June 14th, 2010 at 10:03 am, John Deaux said:

    Really. Everybody knows fire doesn’t melt steel.

26. #126
    On June 14th, 2010 at 10:27 am, UglyBagOfMostlyWater said:

    Of all Barack Obama’s annoying straw-man arguments, the “some of the same folks that…” one has to be the worst.

    First, there are roughly 300 million people in this country. Odds are you will find someone who has seemingly contradictory opinions around any issue.

    Even better though… he likes to put words in the mouths of the limited government crowd. Who really among us thinks there should be absolutely no government? We expect our government to be there to mitigate exceptional situations — defense, borders, roads, etc. We expect our government to stay out of areas where it doesn’t belong. Unfortunately, BO has it backwards.

27. #127
    On June 14th, 2010 at 10:31 am, Ragspierre said:

    On June 14th, 2010 at 10:03 am, John Deaux said:

    Heh. Rosie “Mr. Wizzard” O’Donnell.

28. #128
    On June 14th, 2010 at 11:02 am, T-Bone said:

    Fire doesn’t melt oil. Obama knew about this in advance. The explosion was set off by the administration so they could go to war against offshore drilling and make their alternative energy buddies like Al Gore rich.

    Conspirators. Truthers, Birthers, Oilers

    Wheres Charlie Sheen when you need him?

29. #129
    On June 14th, 2010 at 11:17 am, publiuswarmac9999 said:

    This Gulf Oil disaster is a direct result of the environmental movement and their compliant politicians forcing businesses to the brink of engineering and technological risk. Big government is the problem – with a special tip of the hat to the EPA.

30. #130
    On June 14th, 2010 at 11:43 am, Ragspierre said:

    Big government is the problem – with a special tip of the hat to the EPA.

    And, as I noted, the EPA has the legal mandate to mitigate the blow-out…but the government is so big, and its real objectives so far removed from even knowing its duties…they seem not to even know.

31. #131
    On June 14th, 2010 at 12:52 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Obeyme’s modus operandi is always blaming Bush (and if he can’t do that) then he blames the Tea Parties. He abhors criticism in any form, so he sends out Axelrot to spew his garbage about how this whole oil problem is a plot to make the Idiot in chief look bad (of course the conpiracy is never environmentalists and terrorists), it’s always Republicans, Tea Partiers and right wing nuts. Can’t wait until 2013.

32. #132
    On June 14th, 2010 at 4:03 pm, sillygatboy said:

    He’s right about one thing. This is exactly what we need government for: to fix disasters!

    Also to provide roads, electricity and water to our homes and businesses, and to provide for the defense of our country.

    NOT to take over health care, the banks, private industry, cap & trade, apologizing to our enemies and getting tee times, all done via Presidential Proclamation and a gang of Chicago thugs, liars, cheats and thieves.

    And it all has to be done right now because the Socialists don’t have another 230 years to sit around and wait for the Capitalists to develop something worth stealing.

33. #133
    On June 14th, 2010 at 5:33 pm, pdv said:

    If Obama would have just suspended the Jones Act in the first few days, or even now for that matter would show a leader who can see that government regulation is preventing clean-up of the mess.

34. #134
    On June 16th, 2010 at 2:07 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    sillygatboy #141 - You are one humorous guy – and your point is well made!!