Why would the Obama administration sign off on a ton of BP safety violations?
Is it just incompetence?
Or did Obams need a distraction from his record as president like the oil spill and speechify his way to putting the blame soley on BP and the Republicans to rally his base (stupid people)?
Bill Randall, a North Carolina Republican candidate for Congress, is calling for a “thorough investigation” into whether President Barack Obama’s administration colluded with BP to allow the Gulf oil spill.
“There were procedures that were violated by BP that the federal government signed off on, safeguards that decades of engineering wherewithal and knowledge told them that this way the way to do it,” Randall told reporters earlier this week.
“They intentionally bypassed that and the safety was compromised.” Randall continued:
“I’m not necessarily a conspiracy person, but I don’t think enough investigation has been done on this. Someone needs to be digging into that situation. Full story
Yesterday Gateway Pundit reported that Obama said that he won’t rest rest until the leak in the Gulf is stopped. Then he promptly goes off to see a baseball game, the Washington Nationals vs his Chicago Whute Sox.
Now, as you know I’m a baseball fan too. And I won’t begrudge Obama taking in a game. But, when he makes these high sounding pronouncements and then doesn’t miss a party, a game and a round of golf, it rings very hollow and nobody can take the guy seriously anymore.
Oh, I hope Obama keeps right on playing his golf and shaking his booty on the dance floor.
The White House pool report noted that Obama left at about 1 p.m. for the course at Andrews Air Force base, and his golfing parters included White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson and David Katz, the energy efficiency campaign manager at the Department of Energy.
Obama left the course shortly before 6 p.m.
Nicholson and Katz, along with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, joined Obama for four hours of golf last weekend.
soon afterward taking aim at Obama's golfing during the ongoing BP oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.
The temperatures in the Washington, D.C., area Saturday were similar to last weekend, in the low 90s and humid.
Obama attended the Washington Nationals game Friday night wearing a cap for his hometown Chicago White Sox. Sources told the pool reporter that Obama sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and left in the ninth inning, before the White Sox edged out the Nationals 2-1 in the 11th.
I don’t know why people give Kevin Costner a hard time. I guess he somewhat fell out of favor after Water World.
But, so what?
If his machine can clean up the oil, then that’s a blessing as far as I’m concerned. And it once again would show that “free market” solutions and not government is the answer to problems.
On second thought, maybe that’s why congress is giving Kevin a hard time.
Costner said that BP, the oil company whose damaged well is the source of the spill, had recently placed an order for deploying 32 of the machines.
“We’re coming to this fight very late,” said Costner. “I think everybody would recognize that. And so we’re going to do the things that we can do but this company is poised to mobilize in order to step this up and to create an environment where people can go back to work. There is a single moment that exists right at this moment and that is there are people out of work. There’s a moratorium and there’s no way to lift that unless I believe the government feels that people can operate in a safe way. This represents that pivot point.” Full story
Barack Obama had no problem pointing out in great detail just how incompetent he thought George W. Bush was for his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina.
He didn’t care that it wasn’t Bush’s decision to send thousands of Black people to the Super Dome where conditions became deplorable. That decision was made by local politicos but Obama never bothered to set the record straight.
Before, April 20, 2010 when you said “Katrina” nothing else needed to be said.
It was understood by many thanks to a deceitful mainstream media that “Katrina” meant George W. Bush didn’t like Black people, or George Bush was an incompetent boob, or that George Bush lied and people died, and don’t forget those are Black faces you’re watching with tears in their eyes at Super Dome.
It was all a horrible twisting of the truth that Barrack Obama took advantage of without hesitation or apology.
But, was it all George Bush’s fault, really?
Barack Obama and the Democrats didn’t care one way or another.
But then Deep Water Horizon exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico and 50 days later, oil is still flowing in the water. But, now it’s Barack Obama sitting in the White House with his own disaster on his hands and he’s catching an attitude because he’s getting criticized by the same media that had it out for Bush.
By comparison, the media has treated Obama kindly after the first few days but as Obama flew off on vacation, attended this dinner party or that theater outing, all the while trying to say that he’s been on top of the situation since day 1, even the the Obama-boot-licking media have reluctantly become more bewildered that the man who promised to be a competent leader while standing under Greek columns, has feet of clay after all.
The explosion and subsequent oil spill wasn’t Barack Obama’s fault.
But, how he’s handled himself since then, is.
And the only thing Barack Obama knows how to do well is to be an agitator (See Sol Alinsky Rules for Radicals).
So instead of sending Navy Seals or submarines, mega oil tankers to suck up the oil, or immediately give Gov Bobby Jindall the permits he needed to build 6 sand burms, Obama sends lawyers.
Obama was being Obama.
And the same coolness that everybody loved so much about him, has suddenly become a detriment and has fallen out of favor when black-oil covered Pelicans become Obama’s version of Black people trapped in the Super Dome.
