I see conservatives blaming Obama for this when it is infact the failure of BP and their inability to fix the leak from their oil well.
What does this really have to do this Obama?
Isn't it really up to local government and BP to handle this emergency and then the federal government to supply additional aid?
Why do I get the feeling this is just some kind of political witch hunt by the right.|||awe come on Cherry. All you liberals know what he can do right? Just ask him to part the sea like Moses did and have it fixed.|||Here's what I expect:
1. Honesty. Don't claim to be there from Day 1 when you were napping on the job and weren't anywhere near the situation on Day 1. This game of bouncing back and forth caring about nothing but your own image just doesn't cut it.
2. Get out of the flipping way of local area governments. Have you not seen the local governments pleading with the federal government to give them the okay to execute their plans? The local areas DO want to get working to protect their coasts, but the federal red tape is preventing them from doing anything. If you aren't going to handle it, get the heck out of the way so someone else can.
3. In my opinion it's a national defense issue, not just local. The damage crosses multiple states' coast lines. So therefore why doesn't the federal government have an appropriate cleanup/recovery plan documented and ready to execute at a moment's notice? But as above, if they aren't going to handle it then please do get out of the way and let the local areas handle it to the best of their ability.|||I expect Obama and the federal government to allow BP and other agencies to be allowed to do all things necessary in order to clean up this oil mess. Barack Obama has been a hindrance more than anything else. He has halted the use of oil dispersers that could allow the oil to dissolve. He has also halted the use of controlled burns that would incinerate some of this oil. I could go on and on with ways he has bogged things down with "red tape".
As Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel put it, "We can never allow a crisis go to waste." Obama is a total ideologue. He is just using this oil disaster to advance his own radical socialist agenda. He wants to end all off shore drilling that we currently have, and he is also using this incident to advance his own "Crap and Tax" bill which has already passed in the House of Representatives. If this bill passes, it could destroy even more of our already staggering economy.
Barack Obama thinks that he is some sort of god, and all he is doing is fulfilling his childhood fantasy of absolute power and control. I think that Obama needs to get his head out of his @$$ and actually do what is best for the people.|||You're absolutely right. People are going to use this as a political witch hunt from both the right and the left. This spill may be the responsibility of BP, but it's out responsibility to make sure BP has all the resources they need to clean and fix this oil spill without any hinderences. If we can accomplish that BP can correct this huge problem with speed and effiency.|||The only problem I have with Obama being expected to do something is that he is the executive of the US government.
This isn't some nanny state that has laws against deep water drilling!
There are no American laws enabling him to seize power and cause action in this case.
He can declare a disaster and release federal cleanup funds, that is what the law allows.
After so many years of business running Washington and conservatives getting their way the US has the same environmental protection envisioned by the founding fathers - none!
So now if the oil causes harm, will the conservatives say "Oh, sorry, we should have allowed for environmental protection"? No way! They'll blame Obama! And continue the chant of "Drill baby Drill".
That chant would never have come up if they had not been warned and challenged by America's marginalized environmentalists. They have the power to overpower every last voice AND AVOID LEARNING ANYTHING.|||Conservatives don't expect Obama to do anything about the well but we know that having his picture taken on the shore is just political smoke and mirrors.
GW Bush is still taking flack for not doing the Louisiana Governor's job after Katrina so we want to know when Oama is going to start keeping his promises to protect the environment. BP can't stop the leak but the Feds are obligated to protect the shore.|||This could have happened on the watch of any party member in my opinion, the fundamental question here is, why not drill on land ? Is it really that bad for the spotted owl ? at least on land, a cleanup effort is immediate.
I'm no Obama fan, but I don't blame him for this mess, but he has the capacity to steer this dilemma in a new direction, don't let foreign companies drill within range of U.S. Coastlines, make sure technology is in place to shut down oil wells with the flip of a switch, that's pretty basic.
what we have here is the financial market dictating to the government its own policies, and an embarrassed administration trying to save face by showing some sort of handle on the situation.
we should be looking at who authorized off shore drilling and why, we may find political motives at every turn going back to the 1960's|||We don't EXPECT anything from him. It would be nice if he'd do his job.
BP Obeyed Obama's PERSONAL demands and yielded the EXPECTED result of those demands.
No, it is NOT really up to local government and BP to handle this emergency. BY LAW the Federal executive is the PRIMARY responder.
All Democrats always see all calls for government to obey the law as political witch hunts.|||with people resigning their post within the administration,the rig that blew was actually seen fit for production by those people.where is fema?where are the materials needed that have been asked for by the states involved?just because kanye isnt talking about obama hating black people,doesnt mean he cares either.keep in mind,obama's PR has been saying all along that obama is on top of it.one failure after another.|||What we expect Obama to do..
Golf
Ignore the problem.
Go to a McCartney concert.
Ignore the problem.
Golf.
Blame Bush.
Golf.
Go on another vacation on the taxpayer dollar.
Blame Bush some more.
Check to see if BP has fixed it? If not, repeat above steps. If so.. take full credit for it being stopped.
Then, of course, blame Bush.
In short.. we fully expect Obama to do exactly what he has been doing. Nothing. He wasn't elected because he'd be a competent president afterall..|||I just think he should have gotten out in front of this. Resources should have been made available to BP immediately to protect the coastline. It seems Obama spent way to much time blaming BP and not doing anything to assist in mitigating any environment damage. There would be plenty of time to attack BP after the leak was stopped and the oil cleaned up..|||Gosh. You could be right.
Does this mean that the mayor of New Orleans could have got off his butt and ordered some school busses out to transport the people? Could the governor of the state got off his butt and sent in some help?
Or hell!! Would it have been too much to ask if they could not have kept their damn levee in repair.
Is New Orleans only good for drunken orgies?
**** happens doesn't it. Hurricanes, oil spills, earthquakes. Can you believe that liberals blamed George Bush for a Hurricane?? Why are you whining now about your chosen one and the oil?
I guess we wouldn't be so harsh about your boy if you didn't lambaste ours. After 8 long years of liberal Bush-Bashing you sure can't take it.|||I think people are more upset that Obama really doesn't seem to care. Of course, now he is starting to show concern because the American people are getting upset.
He is probably more interesting in passing Oil Spill and Carbon taxes as a result of the incident. Never let a good crisis go to waste.|||Nothing. There's nothing he really can do.
And if Obama would just say exactly what you said, we'd be OK with it. Unfortunately, he keeps giving conflicting messages. We're on top of it doing everything we can, and then the next day, BP isn't moving fast enough and it's all their fault.|||You ask such an inane question regarding Obozo, yet were probably one of the first ones to castigate Bush's response to Katrina.
Got news for you kiddo, it didn't take Bush 38 days to come up with some sort of response to Katrina, so what excuses are you going to offer for the nitwit currently inhabiting the White House?|||It is absurd to compare this to Katrina. What happened in New Orleans was that people AFTER the hurricane passed by were on land, in or on buildings, etc, and could have been rescued. Government at all levels dropped the ball. This is not comparable to repairing something 2 miles underwater.|||Now you know how it feels after Governor Landrieu, Mayor Nagin, the Democrat Party, and the remaining Moonbat Left blamed President Bush after Katrina.
This happenned on President Obama's watch, and his failure is spectacular.|||"political witch hunt".....thats sooooooo funny!!! Remember President Bush was to blame for Katrina? He also single handedly planned and exicuted 9/11.
Liberals are idiots!!|||I want him to do exactly what Dems apparently thought Bush should have done about Katrina: wave his magic president wand and make it all better.
I don't really believe that, but payback is most assuredly a b*tch, isn't it?|||As long as U.S. territory extends out for 200 miles from ashore, I think Obama had the means to stop this senseless tragedy from happening, but just didn't bother even trying to enforce whatever rules the Federal government happens to have.|||It's payback for criticism against the Bush administration for its handling of Katrina. It is all about scoring political points.|||Obviously you are 100% correct. It's especially dumb of them to complain since it was the right who promoted such reckless offshore drilling.|||The same thing he does about everything else.........fix nothing + blame others for his failures.|||Bobby Jindal explained quite specifically and eloquently what obama should be doing. Read his speech.|||What did Liberals really expect Bush to do about a hurricane
KARMA - LOL|||Kind of reminds me of those people who blamed a hurricane on the former president.|||conservatives want Obama to expand the powers of the Federal Government so that the Fed can step in and do the job of the rich oil companies by fixing their emergency with our tax dollars.
at least that's how they are talking now.
tomorrow may be different
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notice how they talk about "resources" without saying what those resources are ?
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clearly it's something called "payback" for Katrina.
but Katrina wasn't a man made disaster caused by an oil company, was it ?
after Katrina tens of thousands of Americans were homeless and law and order on the streets had broken down.
Hospitals had no power and sick people were suffering the effects of the heat and humidity.
Hope was non existent for many days because there was no sign that help was on the way.
....how is that like this BP oil spill ?|||Don't you get it?
What makes a person a conservative has nothing to do with their beliefs about government involvement in private enterprise, entrepreneurship, taxes, or anything like that.
What TRULY makes a conservatives is hatred for the right people. And Obama is one of the people that conservatives are supposed to hate.|||Conservatives would complain if Obama swam to the bottom of the gulf with a tool belt, stopped the leak in the first hour of it, swam to the surface, and just for good measure, walked ashore.|||Their guy lost, Obama is doing well, they have to make him look bad. Liberals can never do well (they actually do, but conservatives don't like to talk about it).|||There is nothing "reasonable" among conservatives when it comes to ANYTHING relating to President Obama.
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