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Correct me if I'm wrong...... Barry won the election, right?
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That's your answer?
Really?
Do I need to explain just how lame that is?
You lived up to my every expectation of a rightie. Congrats.
WHAT EXACTLY IS IT YOU OR THE CARIBOU BIMBO PROPOSE TO DO TO STOP THE OIL GUSHING FROM BP's SCREWUP?
It's Bush and BP. Can't pin this on anyone else according to the apologists.
I just would like some answers from the White House.
I'm asking for leadership.
According to the White House they've been on the job since day one.
I tried to reply but just couldn't without laughing. Sorry.
Specifically: Leadership. Leadership is the process where a person empowers, motivates and takes on the responsibility to get a task or tasks completed through others.
Look you idoloize Obama and have your head up his ass so far you can taste his lunch.
That's what I want.
I want…
One more time, I'm not asking for equipment to work at depths of 5000 feet.
I'm not qualified to have a solution or I'd be out there helping. I'm asking for the Government to tell us what they're doing to mitigate this disaster and to bring the full force of the Federal Government to assist in the assessment of impact and the clean up.
Isn't it the Conservative philosophy to let the market take care of things?
The "market" told them to drill at 5,000 feet below water and avoid paying $500,000 and making sure their back-up plans were effective.
Hell, Rand Paul has already called Obama "un-American" for being upset at BP; shouldn't we just let the market do as it will?
n an interview Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Paul says the president's response is part of the "blame game" that's played in the U.S. Paul said that leads to the thinking that tragic incidents are "always someone's fault" and added, sometimes accidents just happen.
No, accidents don't just happen. There is always a reason and it can almost always be traced to a human error. In this case, BP caused the accident.
Isn't it the Conservative philosophy to let the market take care of things?
The "market" told them to drill at 5,000 feet below water and avoid paying $500,000 and making sure their back-up plans were effective.
Hell, Rand Paul has already called Obama "un-American" for being upset at BP; shouldn't we just let the market do as it will?
So you advocate pure anarchy or just trying to show how bad free markets are when there's a disaster? Extreme positions with unreasonable views really don't incite me to respond. The one time the Federal Government is required to step in is to protect it's citizens. This is one of those times. Why do you have the Constitution?
So you advocate pure anarchy or just trying to show how bad free markets are when there's a disaster? Extreme positions with unreasonable views really don't incite me to respond. The one time the Federal Government is required to step in is to protect it's citizens. This is one of those times. Why do you have the Constitution?
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Where are the Senate and House hearings? This is worse than Katrina. Obama is asleep, and doing nothing.
Sarah Palin said:Drill, baby, drill.
Of course, if the regulators had done their jobs; or if we'd realized that what we're dealing with is incredibly risky and opted not to do it in the first place, this wouldn't be happening at all.
If your mantra (not yours personally, just those on the right) is "drill baby, drill" then you should probably be prepared for the eventualities of a spill. Since this rig was approved in 1998 and built in 2001, the blame for the lack of response by the government (or the lack of ability) should be shared along several administrations.
Unfortunately no - no better. Obama was / is in bed no more or less than prior or current politicians. This has been an issue it's just that this particular accident happened on Obama's watch.If, indeed, you believe that Obama is "in bed" with big oil - then you can't suddenly believe that all the administrations before were any better. Simultaneously, why would ANY upcoming president be expected to be better?
It should be but right now the message is being controlled. Government failed at certain levels - perhaps in some we yet do not know. BP certainly is culpable, and inspectors, and probably dozens more. But now is not the time for blame - now is the time for collaborative work, leadership and stopping the flow asap. Then we can sort it all out and take the few pounds of flesh as needed.If there should have been preparations for these things, why isn't the anger directed at the heads of government who approved the drilling in the first place WITHOUT these protections in place?
Do you hold the same belief about the situation in Katrina?
Yes, Government had to step in with Katrina due to the human toll and devastation. One of the basic tenants of Government is that it has to protect it's citizens.
I thought it was a states issue?
Only it wasn't Obama who was stationed at the post - it was BP.
For too long Congress has allowed the oil companies to regulate themselves.
Curious that Republican Palin is accusing Obama of laxation and deregulation of oil companies. When one of the biggest contributors to the Republican caukse are the oil companies and when the Republican motto is: Drill, baby, drill. I guess it changed to : Blame, baby, blame
Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with big oil
I absolutely, 110% agree. This is the ecological disaster the very same people who are now defending the environmental criminals of Big Oil, swore would NEVER happen.
They are lying scum and should be locked up and NEVER released.
What you say is absolutely true. It was and is risky and it's my belief BP or Halliburton or whomever was working that rig cut corners. Someone LET them cut corners and then this happened. So I think the blame will be enough to go around and will hit almost everyone. That said, this won't be the last spill as I think we'll be oil bound for another 30-40 years before we can get off the stuff in a big enough way to make a dent. I think drilling will continue and this lesson will change behavior both for Government and for corporations who drill after this mess.
Unfortunately no - no better. Obama was / is in bed no more or less than prior or current politicians. This has been an issue it's just that this particular accident happened on Obama's watch.
It should be but right now the message is being controlled. Government failed at certain levels - perhaps in some we yet do not know. BP certainly is culpable, and inspectors, and probably dozens more. But now is not the time for blame - now is the time for collaborative work, leadership and stopping the flow asap. Then we can sort it all out and take the few pounds of flesh as needed.
I'm pissed at the very short term errors - where my view is, BP is in charge, BP is trying all sorts of things and Government is playing politics by signing executive orders, assigning tasks and resources with no clear cut goals or objectives. THAT is a mistake and should be rectified. A mistake that we shoudl not be adding to the mountain of mistakes already made.
Why were we letting them drill when we knew we didn't have the tools to stop something like this?
Because the Federal Government gets an annual $13 billion in offshore oil royalties paid by the oil firms to the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior for the privilege of leasing the offshore land claimed by the Feds, and in return for that and their millions in campaign contributions the oil firms get a $75 million cap on liability. There are no built in incentives to self regulation within the state capitalist/corporatist system. If the oil companies were allowed to homestead the land rather than leasing it from the Feds and thus endowed with full liability for damages, things like this wouldn't happen.
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