Obama to Tea Partiers: See! The Gulf Disaster is What Smaller Government Will Get You
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
When you’re stuck in quicksand — or even a vat of thick oil for that matter — the first pointer in the survival manual is not to flail. President Obama hasn’t read that manual:
The president also implied that anti-big government types such as tea party activists were being hypocritical on the issue.
“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,” Obama said. “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.”
Is the president saying that he didn’t react quickly because he was trying to placate Tea Party activists, thus blaming them for the slow response? Obama almost makes it sound like he let the Gulf die to make a point against those who are for smaller, more responsible government, doesn’t he?
Besides, the whole argument is bogus, desperate, and perhaps eventually counterproductive for Obama.
Patently false. If the Tea Party mentality held sway, we’d be drilling in ANWR and closer to the shore in shallower water, so this disaster would never have happened. He’s opening the door for even more attacks over how government overreach creates problem like this.
On top of that, it was Obama who was talking about more drilling just before the rig explosion. Is he now saying that was a bad idea, he simply pushed for pure politics? Americans are smart enough to know there’s a big difference between how the government reacts in a major disaster, or a war, versus how it encroaches into their lives more and more on any given day.
‘Nuff said.
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
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Apples and oranges.
Fearless Leader wouldn’t be in such a pickle were it not for everyone else. If we could just get out of his way, he could proceed to his quest of being America’s first God-President. But alas, he is burdened by the endless boobery of us traitors and incompetents.
Fresh off the key-board…
and one of my best, I think.
Obama Opens The Barn Door For Conservatives
Think again Kickass-in-Chief. It was meddling government policies that forced BP to drill further out in deep water to begin with.
Can this tool even open his mouth without lying?
Punk and a thug……..
Marat Hussein Obama
2 + 2 = 4; Obama can’t win.
They’ve delayed for over a month on Jindal’s requests for booms and for permission to dredge sand berms to protect the Louisiana coast. It’s simply part of Obama’s pattern of denying aid to Republicans and/or conservatives or anybody else who isn’t in his pocket.
The oil spill is an enormous crisis, but it’s not an instantaneous terrorist hit like 9/11. I shudder to think how long it would take Comrade A$$ to respond to an event on THAT scale.
Of course it would interrupt his golf game and Michelle’s latest gala…
Marie Antoinette Syndrome!
How’s that Hope and Change NOW???
Great. The Ken Salazar’s order for a moratorium on gulf drilling was based on a recommendation from the National Academy of Engineering. Problem is that the 7 members of that panel recommended AGAINST shutting down drilling.
What makes these boobs believe that they can get away with such a lie? And did anyone watch Salazar’s testimony earlier this week in Congress? This guy is an enviro-nut who doesn’t let facts, laws or anything stand in the way of his vision for one-world government based on energy scarcity. Apparently the “social justice” solution to third world problems is to make the entire world a third world country.
How many of you know there’s a 1994 law mandating a National Response Team?
Almost everything that the Federal government does today is unconstitutional. Much of what little the Constitution mandates they do is ignored (including the spirit in which the Founders meant). I don’t know the constitutionality of the Federal government’s authority to act in response to the oil spill, but I do know that its decision to act would be calculated on political ends rather than trying to do right by the Constitution.
Oh, but there’s more… Salazar’s lie is a felony.
What makes these boob KNOW they can get away with it?
Eric Holder.
This will help…this is one area of legitimate Federal action.
I can’t tell the difference between the NYT and The Onion these days. It’s all one big cartoon world.
And Salazar ADMITTED he lied…after the panel of experts went public to say he modified their “report” to say what it did not say.
To quote that great AMERICAN, RALPH KRAMDEN, “HARDY, HAR, HAR, HAR!!! Seems our “BOY PREZ” is really sorry he forgot to drain the SWAMP!!!
Hey…that’s just Obama talking stupidly again. Don’t pay any attention. Words, just words. Sound and fury signifying nothing. Blather. He speaks with forked tongue. The great deceiver. You get the drift. He is either dumber than I thought or he is being deliberately obtuse. Either way, he is a moroon.
Exactly!! When I heard about this, I couldn’t believe how blatant they have become. Seems they don’t even care that they are committing crimes any more! If things get too hot for them, they will merely throw Salazar under the bus and continue on to the next corrupt act. Has the MSM done any reporting on this at all? I don’t listen to the MSM very much, but I hear they are STARTING to actually report some of this stuff.
Thanks!
The Master of Hot Air needs to explain this! Is he saying that in an effort to show what his version of “limited government” means, he has callously held back a nominal federal response to make a political point?
Or, is he intimating that he has the power to withhold federal aid/services to those who cross him, or who disagree with him?
Or, is he simply making excuses for his gross incompetence, inexperience, and for appointing advisors who are themselves clueless incompetent ideologues?
Which is it, Mr. Partier-in-Chief? Sir Earth Whisperer? We knew he was a narcissist, but he is starting to show, with his lack of emotion, some sociopathic tendencies.
Now it’s MY fault!
Sheesh!
I suppose I sank the Titanic and blew up the Hindenberg, too!
Rags…excellent article and right on the money! I hadn’t really heard much about that “crazy EPA lady”. I wonder why not? And obviously, she isn’t doing what she was appointed to do. As with most of Obama’s czars, etc. They are only in the WH to foment their marxist plans. Too bad that events keep getting in the way that have to be taken care of. Putting out all the fires has not given these commies much time to actually conduct their revolution. The natives are getting restless! (Sorry if that sounded racist!)
As I point out in my piece, for 53 days there has been dithering about “who’s in charge?“.
Obama’s crazy EPA chief is…BY LAW…in charge, but she’s too busy usurping power.
Scrappy, you could never (I know you) be the racist that EPA’s Lisa Jackson is.
She actually believes incredible racist lies that boggle the mind, WAY worse than Van Jones’ birtherness…
Van Jones’
birthernesstrutherness…sorry…At what size is a government sufficient enough to show leadership?
So, the executive of the LARGEST GOVERNMENT IN US HISTORY sits on his hands for 50 days, fails to authorize agencies to act on pre-existing contingency plans, refuses to give permission to local governments to act and then blames this on small-government advocates…
It is no longer a question of how stupid Obama is. The questions now must center on how destructive his pathologies are. January 2013 can’t come soon enough.
This is nothing if not insanity!
Biggest wimp-President ever! Does not a day go by when this guy isn’t whining about something? Easiest dog to wag too. Please give me maturity soon…
The permanent government incompetence of this and every other government can’t possibly have anything to do with it.
Seems like the fellow that does not understand the difference between disaster relief and BIG government IS Obama.
Considering that all of the major complaining players have yet to make noise, this is going to be a very long hot oily summer for Obama.
Even if they plugged that leak tomorrow, this clean-up effort will take at least a year. Of course, based on the way it is being handled, it will probably take many more years.
Somewhere recently I heard shutting down a rig is more dangerous than continuing to drill. Hence, the WH is upping the ante for an accident by requiring all those rigs to go through dicey shutdown procedures. Great. Let’s hope they do it right, at least, if this criminally stupid moratorium actually goes into effect. If it does, and we do lose all those deep-water rigs and those tens of thousands of jobs, just remember who to blame — the “Yes We Can” crowd who have been waiting for themselves, fools that they are.
That depends entirely on where in the process you are. If you are in a productive zone, you can’t really shut down. You have to control what’s going on down-hole. So, while you may not be allowed to fully complete a well, you have to stay to actively make sure bad stuff does not happen.
Something else true, though, is that you don’t just start and stop drilling operations after a six month moratorium. Some of the rigs will go away forever.
And Valarie Jarrett is a decision-maker here…
No this is what we get from incompetent leadership!! Sorry barry but with competent leadership even a small company can do great things..a smaller government would have fewer layers to go through to get things done you clueless moron!!
*It’s about effective leadership, something P-BO will NEVER have the ability to offer up; Imagine Jindal being in charge from Day 1: Sand berms in place before oil contaminates the shoreline, many times more booms and equipment deployed as an effective response, proper coordination with BP to stop the leak, etc., etc., etc.!
*Since P-BO will NEVER be in a position to lead us in the right direction on ANYTHING, let us sideline him in November, then send him packing in 2012; It is the least we can do to save our beloved country!
Berzerk Insane Obowmao: (looking in the mirror) “You look like you could really use a good ass kicking!”
Can Obama EVER take responsibility?
I believe this comment applies more to Dan Riehl (than to Doug Powers…)
please reread the following:
If you want others to realize the utter f*ckin’ stupidity of these remarks, you’ll have more success using the “dumb logic/hypocrisy” of the left…after all, if that “thinking” [sic...note emphasis on "thin"] is what convinces so many, just throw it right back at them:
Okay, so here we have America’s biggest spending, power-aggregating, self-congradulatory President in modern history (if not *ever*…) and, now all of a sudden, Mister I’ll Part The Waters is suddenly telling you he can’t clean up a mess in those waters after a couple of months, much less “do it all.” What a loser!
I’ve taken the calls for him to lead as the equivalent of saying “put up or shut up!” After all, he’s been bragging about how, unlike that dumb ol’ Bush, he’s the king of competence and ability. Well, he’s had his chance to prove it, to solve a problem that is within the domain of the Presidency as it is currently defined, and his failure and ineptitude gush out like all that oil under the sea. He can’t put up, and yet he still won’t shut up. Given his current record, his next likely moves are to host a White House performance by Air Supply, then go on TV and say “I’m angry! Damn!”
Law – what fascist ever bothered with the law?
Guess that’s why so many of them are lawyers. They care about it, all right. They care about how they can write laws that control the rest of us but that they can ignore.
What a idiot.
Aloha and tx,
Thing is, this is like the proverbial camel and straw. We have a duty to make noise about this. Eventually…and I don’t know when…a tipping point will be reached. I hope and pray it won’t come AFTER a serious loss of life, so the facts here are VERY significant.
Make noise.
Incompetence is one thing, but doing things on purpose to usurp power and wrest control is vile. This bastard and his crony’s are doing irreparable harm to our nation to create another utopian communist ghetto nation where the politburo lives high, and all the rest scrape for scraps.
So Obama’s argument is that “Small Government” would be incompetent but Big Government which we have is Competent….I thought he was supposed to be smart and stuff. There is an old saying “Never Let Them See You Sweat” The Big Government President is sweating big time.
This isn’t the 1930s it’s pretty hard to play FDR’s Game on Folks, when we all are mass communicatin!
It seems that the larger government becomes the more regulations there are but the FEWER of them being enforced.
As I understand it BP got a pass on a critical safety flaw with their rig that may have made the difference between a disaster and no disaster but, MORE IMPORTANTLY, the difference of people losing their lives or not.
The Obama administration is criminally responsible for those deaths if they were in ANY way caused by Obama giving special treatment to BP allowing them skirt safety regulations that might have prevented the accident.
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that BP ‘paid to play’, they ponied up a LOT of campaign dough for Obama. (I hope many at BP are now wondering what exactly they got for their money?)
It’s time impeach Obama.
The government can’t even step up and handle the responsibilities it already has, that’s why we don’t want to give them more control over our lives. There’s no hypocrisy there, we’ve simply seen them in action and they’re not working in our best interests.
What is going on down there that there aren’t more people at the shore? This seems like the kind of situation where buses of churchgoers and college students and so on show up loaded with eager volunteers. I’ve heard BP blamed for keeping willing people off the shore line, but how could they do that without the government’s cooperation?
I do believe that if Bobby Jindal was allowed to do anything without needing the permission of a myriad of agencies, more would be done along the coast now.
I also believe that if he asked people to come help clean birds and whatever, Americans would flock there
So do lefties really not understand the difference between small limited effective government and large incompetent bureaucratic government?
The statement by O’Bummer is exactly the kind of non-sequiter that liberals gleefully traffic in all the time. The argument is easily disposed of (as Doug does in a mere paragraph), yet libs who love their mantra’s and have a puddle deep intellect nod like parrots: “yeahhhhhhhh…that’s right”!!! The President’s demagoguery is gospel to brain dead libs.
That is it in a nutshell.
The collective HAS to impose “comprehensive” programs. Remember that Mussolini coined the term “totalitarian” (which is what is currently how “comprehensive” is used) as a term of benevolent inclusion.
“All within the state; none outside the state” is pretty close to the fascist ideal, as stated by Mussolini.
Collectivists utterly embrace that dogma.
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Ramirez is a treasure…
Mr. Obama,
When we had smaller gov’t our borders weren’t being overrun by illegal aliens.
When we had smaller gov’t we didn’t have an increasing number of people becoming dependent on gov’t handouts.
When we had smaller gov’t we didn’t have large amounts of fraud in the mortgage industry handing out loans that could never be repaid and causing overinflated housing prices.
When we had smaller gov’t we didn’t have an educational system that was failing to educate a larger portion of the population at an ever increasing cost because “we are helping the children” when we actually are not.
When we had a smaller gov’t we didn’t have roving gangs of criminals in our city streets and now suburbs shooting up neighborhoods killing children the gov’t keeps reminding us they want to help.
When we had smaller gov’t we weren’t in debt up to our eyeballs and saddling the “children the liberals want to protect” with a debt that will crush their ability of the pursuit of happiness.
In other words Mr. Obama we were a better and stronger country with a smaller gov’t that didn’t usurp the moral authority of the family and of divine providence which made this country a “free” country.
Bigger gov – we have a gov so big it can’t get out of its own way. A gov that focuses on grabbing power over every aspect of the economy while neglecting the things the Constitution mandates that it does. We have gone from having a POTUS who was constantly being called stupid to one who actually is stupid. Bho has become a victim of self-inflicted non-success. He has used words instead of deeds. The oil spill is symbolic of his failure.
Ragspierre,
I read your blog. Good post!!
I tried to comment there, but Google kept saying I had the wrong password, so I gave up, and will figure it out later.
Just wanted you to know that it was a good read.
I’ve given up on Barry ever doing the job he was hired for (by real dummies by the way) All he really wants to do is travel the world, party, vacation, play golf, basketball, and rub elbows with the rich and famous. (maybe he’s sniffing coke.)
Why is it that IDIOT liberals cannot connect the dots between the government’s nonfeseance and malfeaseance in responding to this disaster and .. the reason why we do not want them in charge of our individual health care?
Why is this not obvious to them? Are they just that stupid?
I’m no fan of BP and I think it’s fine that these chickens are flying in from all directions, but in the interest of accuracy, it was Transocean’s rig. BP is, or was, just the contractor.
This is what happens when a clueless piñata is elected president.
“All these squawking birds won’t quit.
Building nothing, laying bricks.”
-The Shins, “Caring is Creepy”
Yes We Can!
Who knew the question was:
Can we pollute the Gulf Of Mexico?
All big government gave us was a politically-motivated, scientifically stupid decision ban on DDT. Banning its use resulted in the needless deaths of millions of people, many children, from malaria. DDT wpould have effectively deal with the mosquitos who spread the disease.
Remember that the next time some “learned Senator” like Boxer or Kerry tells you carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
Thanks for the post.
Here’s mine:
Limited Government – Fast Food Style
gmirwin, aka plymouthacclaim
Hey Mo! Meet Ron! Can you believe liberal crap weasels voted for this complete doofus?
And who advised him as to his cabinet? Ken Salazar? Are you flippin kiddin me?
And his czars? omg it is just hysterically absurd as it is pathetic: Van Jones, the much ballyhooed Green Jobs Czar— didnt even define what a green job was for the Department of Labor…. and they are about to give away money to stimulate their creation!!!!
This dope should resign now before the bi-partisan congressional spirit smells blood in the water and impeaches this moral wimp Muslim d-bag.
Bear1909 out.
PS: Once Israel paves Syria and Iran, Boy Wonders presidency will be an absolute shambles. The terrorist retaliation against us on our own soil will seal the deal. Won’t be pretty but it will happen before the Summer is over. Get ready.
Thank you, Tanya! Sorry about the trouble with the comments thingy. That format has some serious limitations, and I’m in process of trying to get it revamped. It is a process…
REALLY liked your piece. I also like the clean look of the site, and the ease of use. Keep a goin’!
Rags,
I enjoy someone who shoots themselves in the foot with their own gun. Obama is such a blowhard.
EVERYONE running against a Dem this fall needs to use your post.
Wow. Thank you. Honored.
Rags,
The point you are driving home in IMHO so important. These pompous politicians stand in front of microohones and bloviate; having no idea what their responsibilities are, no idea of the laws they need to enforce, and no motivation to actually try and serve the public.
We need to send the whole lot packing.
Flyover;
One of the obvious problems with the collectivist “rule by smart men/women” model is that NOBODY…regardless of their motivation, intelligence, expertise, etc….could CONCEIVABLY understand all they HAVE to understand to run a complex bureaucracy well…MUCH less a national economy.
The hubris and conceit of DREAMING you can do that is bred into the bone of lots of “certified smart people” (I watched the process in law school).
Obama is the perfect storm…a very gifted child twisted and warped by his up-bringing to have what I called huge-bris, since it completely transcends normal hubris.
It is the Fed gov’t that is hindering the states from putting effective measures into place to stop or clean up the oil and stopping the help of equipment and manpower offered from other nations.
*groan*
Try to imagine the aircraft carrier named after this man.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
HEY OBAMABOTS:
“See! This Administration Disaster is What Bigger, Out-Of-Control Government Will Get You.”
And Bho is surrounded by academics in his administration who deal in the theory of an idea being successful without having tested it for actual effectiveness. The practical world separates the good theories from the bad.
If Obama was smart, he would shut his big pie-hole and stop trying to blame everyone/everything else in the universe for his lack of leadership. But, alas, he cannot help himself. Any criticism of Obama will get you an immediate, lightening-fast, arrogant, self-centered reprisal. It is getting downright boring. We wanted a president, we got Homer Simpson.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
gmirwin, aka plymouthacclaim
‘Nuff said indeed Doug.
Of course, this is a discussion board, to we’re ALL gonna put in our words!
HAHAHA
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
That’s easy.
They’ve been getting away with it for a hundred years or so. Why wouldn’t they get away with it now?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
A bit of a stretch from my POV Rags.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
They’ve NEVER cared that they are committing crimes.
Certainly not in my lifetime!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
He’s too stupid to know what he sounds like. An ass. A Kuato from Total Recall. The problem is, the Left will believe him. I wonder how many out of work shrimpers will believe him. Most of them had to have voted for him right? I mean, it was 53% of us…
Explain, please.
Admiralty law is expressly federal under the Constitution. Yes?
Carry on, Zion.
Can you imagine anyone seriously suggesting it?
Perhaps one of the oil recovery barges then?
Walton County oil defense plan rolling forward
Walton County is using barges to protect their beaches w/o Bambie or the EPA’s permission. Yes indeed Navigable Waters are a Federal responsibility but people are wise to act NOW.
In times of crisis let the adults and older children do what needs to be done and Fedzilla can take a day off and play golf or basketball.
You all need to check MM Buzzworthy: Doug Ross. Thanks again you idiot this bho!
L
That ain’t all, either. When you cold stack a drilling rig, a lot of times it never comes back into operation. A lot of good, productive equipment just gets scrapped when it sits idle for a 6 month moratorium…or an economic down-turn.
Both of which are supplied by THE ONE…
I thought I saw a picture of the CV Obama, the other day. It really showed how his administration was. But then I read that it was only the CV Franklin sailing into NY in 1944. Oh, well….
OR WHAT???
How O-BOZO can you get??? What he should be involved in (gulf spill), he ain’t… What he has no business in (health care, autos, banks, bail outs),he is in with both feet… I CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM MY HOUSE!!!
prendad,
I have been wondering the same. I would have thought if they could plug the spill, they would have.
L
Too late. Already in the works.
USS OBAMA
Is there a bowling alley and basketball court below deck?
every day, we have to endure president Scumbag, constantly assaulting the citizens with blatant lies and deliberate false choices and strawman fallacies. like we can’t tell the difference between those shams and lies and real facts and real history.
how many more days until we smash his communist cabal on Nov 2? how many more until Nov 2 of 2012 until we can rid our nation of this Destroyer?
not only the worst president ever, he’s one of the worst human beings ever to be elected to any office in this once-great nation. god help us.
That IS the deck. What? You thought they’d have those nasty, dangerous, war-mongering airplanes on a carrier…?!?!?
Obama is parsing words and being disingenuous.
He claims that conservatives and anyone else he doesn’t like were clamoring for more drilling 6 months ago and now those same people are asking for more regulation because they say the want to see some leadership from him?
Uh, NO!
Showing leadership isn’t the same as government taking over entire industries. Leadership would be doing things like cutting the red tape and stopping the waiting periods for permits to build berms and waiving the Jones Act.
Gawd! He really does think everyone else is stupid.
But people, this bho will be on prime time Tuesday to give us the whole truth and nothing but the truth about this oil mess! There is not a chance in heck I would watch this bho open his lying mouth and blame everyone else but him.
L
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????