Stop criticizing cuz ur dumb John Kerry says you have a comprehension problem. He has done sssssssssooooooooo much on our behalf, and we are just too dumb to understand it.
Obama: Critics ‘don’t know the facts’. Oh yeah, Major Garrett is in for an IRS audit after that Sestak question. Afterall, it’s all in how you ask the question.
Turns out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration back in 1994 drafted plans for responding to a major Gulf oil spill, a response called “In-Situ Burn.”
Ron Gourget, a former federal oil-spill-response coordinator and one author of the draft, told the Times of London: “The whole reason the plan was created was so that we could pull the trigger right away.” The idea was to use barriers called “fire booms” to collect and contain the spill at sea — then burn it off. He believes this could have captured 95 percent of the oil from this spill.
But at the time of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the federal government didn’t have a single fire boom on hand. Nor is there any evidence that the government required BP to have any clear plan to deal with a massive spill. How is this OK?
The administration’s chief response so far was to send out Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to do his best impersonation of a totalitarian thug, proclaiming that the government would “have its boot on the throat of BP.”
(Fun fact: While in the Senate, Salazar backed an increase in oil and gas leases in the Gulf Coast region by promoting and voting for the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006.)
He blew it. Obama faces a meltdown akin to the unraveling of his predecessor, George W. Bush. A press conference and a visit to the region are simply too little too late. It doesn’t matter whether government could do any better than the oil companies. The political fallout has taken hold. Obama failed to manage a massive crisis. There’s no fixing this failure. His only hope now is changing the subject. Good Luck.
Yes, he can only hope that the subject will not be Sestak.
May 27, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Got a good one!
May 27, 2010 at 4:54 pm
You sure do. Love the graphic.
May 27, 2010 at 2:00 pm
RE:
“The political fallout has taken hold. Obama failed to manage a massive crisis.”
And you know when a crisis is this massive (although it is very, very sad) it is the easiest thing in the world to at least to something!
But Obama sat on his end for 38 days – that is 5 1/2 weeks – doing nothing!
Oh he made sure he got in all his 15 minute work outs with Regie Love, and all his “pick up” basket ball games, and all his golf, and all his date nites, all his Kobe Beef Wednesdays, and all his…..
May 27, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Hmmm, he’s been out on dates, fundraisers, golfing, and just about everything except working. I wonder why this is such a massive crisis.
May 27, 2010 at 2:01 pm
“do something” that is….
May 27, 2010 at 2:41 pm
He’s shitting bricks now Buttered.