Bahhh.
Just another example of how Bush couldnt do anything right. He should have flooded New Orleans with OIL then set fire to the place. I mean, come on he was an OIL man right?
But noooo, he had to leave the job half ass done and now poor Obama has to finish the job.
OK, wait…
Iceland’s Mount Eyjafjallajokull erupts. A crazy Iranian Imam blames it on women showing too much cleavage. Women respond by showing more cleavage and saying “Bring it on, God.” And now this.
Wake up, people! God obviously is displeased with who women are showing their breasts to. Please, ladies, for the love of the environment – nay, for the love of God – be very selective about who you bare your hooters to.
Contact me for further instructions.
What if they’re covered in oil?
Mmm, slippery.
LA made a bad deal and the oil companies have been raping them ever since. Alaska made a much better deal for royalties and at present is sitting on over $36 trillion dollars in investments.
It is time to circle back over three weeks later. It is Obama’s turn to fry. He didn’t cause this disaster but his leadership on the issue has been pathetic at best. He just lost the 2012 reelection today because the top-kill plan has failed so far while he was giving his half-assed excuse speech and he didn’t even know what was happening. It takes special skills for a modern president to aid and embed destruction of much of several states plus a massive body of water. Mark my words on this. Obama is toast from now on and you knew more than he did three weeks ago just because you read it on a snippy forum on an internet message board. Maybe he should put down the basketball and join this board. I will pay for a membership with an honorary title for him even.
Wait, what version of Dante did you read? In the one I read, Satan was chomping on Judas, Cassius, and Brutus; not gobbling God’s knob.
Shag,
I hear your pain, but, I hope you might reflect on the pre-Obama administration, and it’s culpability in what has happened here. I try my best to pay attention, and we’re just getting the real nitty-gritty here.
Ya know, most of what I dislike about Obama are those policies that he has continued from the Bush years. Most especially the cushy relationship between the government and the oil companies.
So I gotta agree that Obama should have been WAY more proactive on this, and the government should never granted BP an exemption on producing an environmental impact statement for the project. And the inspectors should have been a lot more agressive.
All beccause he complacently allowed the Bush-Cheny energy policies to stand almost unchanged.
Shag, your op is incomplete without this.
And this.
Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?
That is very pretty and true.
There is no reflection involved in this type of thing and what led up to it doesn’t matter. We are dealing with reality and not politics here. It is all about problem solving and Obama gets an F- despite having a comparable example with Katrina during the Bush administration to learn from. We could be dealing with a nuclear disaster or another host of disasters and it doesn’t matter who did what before. It only matters how leaders react with what they have. We would be screwed if immediate life-threatening events fell under the jurisdiction of the federal government because they obviously cannot handle it outside of military confrontations.
If there was an internet term for such a thing, it would be several levels beyond ‘Epic Fail’. The legendary Democrat strategist, James Carville, who happens to be from Louisiana and masterminded the Clinton presidency had visible veins pulsing during his veins during interviews. I think that is the only time in their marriage that he and Republican strategist, Mary Matalin, agreed on anything.
Obama is gone in 2012 because the emperor has no clothes and was caught naked in public.
I thought he was putting words in someone else’s mouth. As in, “Oh, no, not you again, Shagnasty…”
So, Shagnasty, what, exactly, do you think Obama should have done?
Don’t tell that to the Christians.
Caught naked in public? What are you talking about?
It is a disaster, there is no denying that. Hard to see how it can be a good thing for Obama. Heck, it would look bad if it was a good thing for him.
But I believe the facts point to private industry as the force behind the push to tear down safety regulations. You will probably have more effect focusing on them than God.
Same here.
What on earth do you expect Obama to DO? Stick his finger in the hole to plug it up? This is a unique problem–unlike Katrina. There have been oil spills before, but not at this depth, force and scope.
It’s a massive tragedy for the Gulf and the US. I sincerely hope the oil companies FINALLY stop trying to cut corners and take short cuts. I see this as proof (as if more were needed) that un/loosely/regulated industry (“unfettered capitalism”) does not have its consumers best interest at heart.
Additionally, the uniqueness of this type of problem means that, while the government should to be forceful and out front in pushing for a solution, that solution has to come from the industry involved, since no governmental agency has that kind of expertise/equipment at the ready. This is unlike the Katrina disaster for which a federal agency – FEMA – exists with equipment, mandates and strategies for handling such.