WRAPUP 2-No end in sight as Gulf oil spill hits Day 40 | Reuters
the pressure is so great which is expelling all that oil, it's blowing out whatever mud is pushed down there as well
there's also some fear that if we do cap this thing, all that building up pressure might precipitate an explosion
this is really, really, really bad
comparisons to chernobyl are not far fetched
"obama under fire for slow response" is reuters' sub headline
oh, boy, is he ever
and it's certainly not chatroomers doing him all this damage
why did they turn off the live feed?
until you see that turned back on there will be no resolution
where are the cleanup workers, where's the head start on the cleanup?
how in the world can he justify no massive clean up on the qt
carville's gone ballistic, he's a local, y'know (and committed clintonista)
BP Oil Spill Becoming Political Headache for Obama? Some Democrats Slam White House Response - ABC News
last nite on cnn, the ragin cajun said he was out on the waters with plaquemines parish prez billy nungesser and in miles of inspecting THEY SAW NOTHING
our political leadership has put in place AS OF DAY FORTY exactly ZERO in the way of CLEANING UP this MESS
unbelievable
on day 38 (thursday) the political pressure on the president became so preponderant he was compelled to perform his first press conference in THREE HUNDRED AND NINE DAYS
that's the "daddy, did you plug the leak" recital which will go down in history
it was a disaster
his entire purpose was to portray to the people his determination, resolve, on-top-of-it-ness that, apparently, had slipped away
yet when he was asked about mms director birnbaum's removal, accomplished that very morning in anticipation of the great event, our nonplussed president reported that he didn't know why she was let go, if she was let go
he's losing the press
politico, msnbc's morning regular:
but then, there's really no other way to report it, it was that bad
this is NOT the way americans expect or need their president to behave, act, y'know, IN A CRISIS
he TRANSPARENTLY has no idea what he's doing
so he WENT ON VACATION
he actually, when asked a followup by the ny times jackie calmes about, y'know, how could you claim ignorace about what underlay the removal of ms birnbaum, the prez put forth, "i had a whole bunch of other stuff going on"
you know what he was doing that morning, day 38, while the oil was bleeding and the mms was being dismembered
he was being presented his very own o-bama #1 b-ball jersey by the duke blue devils in the rose garden
indeed, the doofus has rightly received tons of criticism for his executive ITINERARY these 40 days of death in the gulf
The Presidential Planner - Political Punch
President Obama under fire for BP spill response - Glenn Thrush and Josh Gerstein and Manu Raju - POLITICO.com
vacations and fundraisers and state dinners, a sitdown with marv albert and golf
he reveals he IN HIS GUT simply does not get it
what once looked cool now comes off as cold
napolitano went to the opera yesterday
gotterdammerung, presumably?
the new york times today, saturday, reports pessimistically---three junk shots as well as hours of top kill have not succeeded
Effort to Plug Well Faces Another Setback - NYTimes.com
there's talk of returning to the containment vessel approach
on friday, chris matthews, a pennsylvanian but, like carville, another lib who's all over the prez on this, interviewed coast guard commander thad allen, the #1 boot on the ground if not on bp's neck in the gulf
matthews asked obama's top guy, do you have enough mud to continue this top kill effort for the foreseeable
allen didn't know
matthews asked obama's top guy, can you use tankers to vacuum millions of gallons of water and oil which you can then separate and dispose of
the coast guard, it was clear to chrissy's entire audience, had never really thought of that
in his next segment, tho, matthews questioned a professor from lsu
the academic, in stark contrast to the bureacrat, knew exactly what he was about
the tanker idea was unworkable he explained as those vessels become so laden with mixture they're almost immovable
oy
meanwhile, barack hussein obama is just the type of guy who, if you criticize him about lack of effective leadership here, will ATTACK YOU
the gulf is dying, the oil is still bleeding, there's no end in sight, the president is on vacation
40 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes, 14 seconds...
pray