The only Republican Governors with the guts to do what’s needed to defend their people no matter what are Sarah Palin, Jan Brewer, Chris Christie, and Haley Barbour, with Barbour, Brewer, and Christie being the ones still in office, and Tim Pawlenty as an example of a typical Republican capitulist governor who’s more soggy cucumbers and mayonnaise sandwich than he is the right man for any job.
Bobby Jindal has filed request after request for the federal government to approve sand barrier islands to stop the Gulf Oil Disaster from destroying Louisiana’s coast line. Obama has withered and dithered on this, and has not approved those plans. He sure as sand jumped right in to call Cambridge Police “stupid” when he didn’t even know the story involving notorious race-baiter Henry Gates, though. So, there are some times when Obama’s magical prescience and immense knowledge allow him to make snap and resolute decisions, and other times he’d rather be hanging out with Paul McCartney at YET ANOTHER lavish White House Wednesday Night cocktail party.
Reading Jindal’s paperwork must be super boring. Obama’s never shown much interest in anything boring, or difficult. Work, following through on promises, doing things right. Why bother? Time for another vacation!
Meanwhile, we wonder if Jindal had the guts, and just went on TV and said, “Screw you” and mobilized the national guard in Louisiana to defend his state by building those islands — to Hell with federal bureaucracy — what could Obama do about it?
Would he dare STOP Jindal, or arrest him?
During Hurricane Katrina, Governor Blanco made a complete ass of herself on live television when she at first insisted she was waiting for President Bush to call in the national guard…and an aid whispered to her under the table that “Governor, YOU are in charge of the national guard…you are Commander in Chief of all guard troops in Louisiana”. She had no idea.
If Jindal’s state is on the precipice of a petroleum catastrophe, why can’t he just take charge, mobilize every resource under his command, and let the federal government go do to itself something Rahm Emanuel would recommend while screaming at the top of his lungs naked in a gang shower?
Can Jindal man up and do this?
Will Kenneth the Intern ever grow a spine and command some respect…by commanding his troops to do what the feds are too hapless and hopeychangey to do themselves?
What think you?
June 3, 2010 at 2:21 pm
and Jendal should send the bill to Obama and his un-Democratic Party!!!!!!!!!!
btw….
The big BP PR Front!!!!!!
BP buses cleanup crews to Grand Isle for Obama’s visit, councilman says
The Times-Picayune
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_ships_in_clean-up_crews_to.html
BP, the oil company taking flak for its inconsistent response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, bused in 400 extra cleanup workers to Grand Isle during President Obama’s visit today, Jefferson Parish Council Chairman John Young said.
“It appears to have been a PR stunt by BP, not to say we don’t appreciate the extra participation,” Young said. “We certainly need them, but we don’t need them for just one day that happens to coincide with a visit from the president.”
June 3, 2010 at 3:53 pm
don’t forget they were being directed by the White House every step of the way! oh wait .. that was when oblame-ya thought the top kill was working…
June 3, 2010 at 8:49 pm
We mean like Governor Brewer did in Arizona?
June 5, 2010 at 9:03 am
I wish he would do that
June 5, 2010 at 11:19 am
White House Resident Oil-Boom-Boom
June 3, 2010 at 2:21 pm
and Jendal should send the bill to Obama and his un-Democratic Party!!!!!!!!!!
June 3, 2010 at 2:22 pm
btw….
The big BP PR Front!!!!!!
BP buses cleanup crews to Grand Isle for Obama’s visit, councilman says
The Times-Picayune
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_ships_in_clean-up_crews_to.html
BP, the oil company taking flak for its inconsistent response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, bused in 400 extra cleanup workers to Grand Isle during President Obama’s visit today, Jefferson Parish Council Chairman John Young said.
“It appears to have been a PR stunt by BP, not to say we don’t appreciate the extra participation,” Young said. “We certainly need them, but we don’t need them for just one day that happens to coincide with a visit from the president.”
June 3, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Sooooo. You figure that maybe if teh won would float some rumors that he was going to show up for photoops every day on a different part of the shorline, then not say which one, that BP would come up with a permanent clean up army?
June 3, 2010 at 9:14 pm
LOL
You think Oil-Boom-Boom would do that much work????
June 3, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Sorry for the hiccups.
Sometimes this blog software eats my posts – other times it eats them and then does an up chuck with them!!!!!!
June 3, 2010 at 2:23 pm
If Jindal did this, nothing would happen. The government would capitulate.
I mean consider the options. Would the government use the coast guard to physically block Jindal from building the sand barriers? I think not! That would be a PR nightmare.
Would the government sue to stop LA from building the barriers? Maybe, but that would make them look divisive and foolish.
The only thing they could do is refuse to pay for the operations, which is petty but probably wouldn’t hurt the feds too much in the long run.
June 3, 2010 at 2:26 pm
When you are playing with “playas” you just got to play them to stay decent!
June 3, 2010 at 2:37 pm
They don’t have to pay — send the bill to BP.
June 3, 2010 at 2:52 pm
After having to pay for the clean-up, perhaps BP will cease to donate to politicians like Obama.
June 3, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Amen. There’s more to this than just yet another Big Evil Corporation screwing up again. There’s government fault here too.
June 3, 2010 at 8:58 pm
BP will cease to donate to anyone because this is going to bankrupt them and if the Obama Adm keeps up with its threats of law sues, there won’t be anything left to sue for.
Its stocks are falling like rocks and now they are being BOYCOTTED by American drivers. Why do American’s always shoot themselves in the foot. By boycotting the BP businesses in America they are taking money away from families(those employed by them & those living on the Gulf) that need it right now to survive.
June 5, 2010 at 11:20 am
I wonder why BP was given the well that is in U.S. Federal Gov. waters……
June 3, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Exactly!
June 3, 2010 at 5:28 pm
During the Clinton administration, a bill was signed into law limiting oil companies liability for cleanup as well as for personal damage claims.
I can’t remember what the limits were. Pretty sure personal damage was limited to $1 billion and cleanup to something far less, like $150 million or something.
The bill was passed to encourage this kind of deep-sea drilling, which oil companies consider to be far riskier than drilling closer to shore.
So the bottom line is that BP *may* have to pay for LA’s expenses… no guarantee. LA or the feds may have to sue BP for compensation and the legal battle could take years.
June 3, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Further, I’ll say this. I did a LOT of research on the retroactive application of statutory enactments to existing claims … There’s some real problems with that. It’s not ex post facto because that deals with criminal laws, but changing the rules in the middle of the game, like Obama did with the Chrysler bondholders, isn’t kosher. I’m not saying it can’t be done, because frankly, I haven’t sat down and analyzed it, but there is a serious question as to whether Congress has constitutional authority to do such a midstream change.
June 3, 2010 at 3:08 pm
In the long run, make BP pay like hillbuzz said above. That will take court and lawsuits and time.
In the middle call for donations. Call for bodies from around the country to come help clean, serve food for the workers, brainstorm ideas.
The donations will be a good thing though because the money to do these things needs to be now. The people of the USA are generous during disasters. How many millions were raised for haiti and katrina relief? Privately? Lots. Time to tap into the population, not the DC meisters.
June 3, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Absolutely RJ. I would DEFINITELY donate $$ in a heartbeat, if I knew it was going to capable, non-corrupt hands who were going to immediately turn-to and begin problem solving.
Jindal has NOTHING to lose and everything to gain by turning his back on Teh Won AND BP and moving forward with the Coastie’s contingency plans and expertise.
Ancient Marine Corps saying:
“It is better to beg forgiveness than ask permission”.
June 3, 2010 at 3:55 pm
I didn’t know it was a Marine Corps saying, but I was just getting ready to post it myself! (glad I decided to read the rest of the comments first)
June 4, 2010 at 12:03 am
Sarah had actually tweeted that to Jindal at least a week or two ago. He needs the Army Corps of Engineers and the Fed tax money. I don’t think the LA Nat Guard can actually do the job.
June 4, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Might there be pvt or retired engineers who can do the planning & supervising? As for $$ – I agree. We’re generous & happy to help save our country.
Teh one hasn’t the first idea of what to do. He and all his cronies who are so good @ shaking down people who are scared of them never imagined there’d be anything like this. Let’s just forget them do this on our own.
June 3, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I can’t fathom why able-bodied welfare and unemployment recipients can’t be required to serve in whatever capacity during national emergencies. No more free rides on the gravy train — refuse to help your country and fellow citizens, no check.
June 3, 2010 at 4:56 pm
That is a very good idea.
June 3, 2010 at 5:42 pm
ANOTHER FANTASTIC COMMON SENSE IDEA from the masses of bitter clingers.
June 3, 2010 at 6:31 pm
President Palin, you might want to put this in your ‘welfare reform’ idea file.
Just sayin’…
June 3, 2010 at 9:24 pm
I wonder if everyone is aware that you pay for your unemployment benefits out of each paycheck? So its not free money or much money.:>)A worker would much rather work and make 4 times more money, its a 9.9% unemployment rate out here. BTW, I’m retired.
June 3, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Yes and to take it one step further, have all welfare recipients contribute somehow whether it’s to a national emergency or just plain old community service. High schools have diplomas tied to hours of service; why can’t welfare recipients find a way to contribute while looking for jobs?
June 3, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Come on
Please look into a subject before making such small comments
The law already requires that individuals who are able bodied without infant children work for their checks. Reform taken under Clinton.
June 4, 2010 at 10:24 am
Mothy … enforcement of a law is only as good as a committed enforcer. Perhaps the system works where you live, but it is ignored in California … just one more reason the state nears bankruptcy.
June 4, 2010 at 11:50 am
Using the private sector to help in this situation would further put the Obama-is great-and-big-government-is-sacrosanct types to shame, so I am all for it! And I believe there are enough people living in LA and surrounding areas who would willingly pay or volunteer their help to build barriers and / or do cleanup. In Indiana, the first responders to tornado and flood damaged areas are the Mennonites, not FEMA or any other government agency.
June 4, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Same with Katrina down here on the Coast. Fed put a blue tarp on my roof and surveyed the yard 4 times.
Only support in the area came from Church groups, and private citizens, some of whom stayed for years.
June 3, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I mentioned this on the Chu thread: Jindal has already used LA State funds to build one barrier. Just heard this a bit ago on the news.
I ask, where’s the HOLLYWOOD TELETHON FOR THE GULF COAST! I say we U.S. citizens globally shame BP and Barky by raising the funds ourselves, then sending BP our invoices.
And, also asked on that other thread: Why are women these days better at plugging holes than men?
June 3, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Garlic,
Agree 200%!!
The news is reporting that pelicans are turning up dead in the Louisiana wetlands …
Where are the Greenies, marching on 1600, demanding “action”?
//crickets//
If millions can be raised within hours for any “international” incident, why the foot dragging when it comes to helping HERE?
June 3, 2010 at 6:56 pm
re- Hollyweird – it would embarass their sith lord.
re- Lots of funny, slightly naughty comebacks for that, but to follow the allegory, I hazard the following: GOP males have been paralyzed with fright of being decried “racist!”, “hateful”, or “mean spirited” or “greedy”, or whatever perjorative leftists hurl at anyone who speaks rationally about the Nation’s problems; that is, as the Boyz say, “they want MSM to love them, when they never will and only tolerate them when they acquiese to leftist goals”.
Women aren’t saddled with that self-consciousness because, generally, they have been identified by the divisive left as “victims”. How many conservative women have their been in national US politics? Not many, really. Now, pre-2008 when you think of women politicians, you think of the NOW-endorsed nazis like Pelosi, Boxer, Maxine Waters … Bachman, Palin, Brewer don’t have the stench of “old boy corruption” associated with their name. All that is a long way of laying a foundation to say the new conservative women speak with a freshness, unhindered by a delusion that MSM “might ask them out if they play nice”, that carries with it an untainted genuineness.
June 4, 2010 at 11:34 am
And, as a group of us 40-something women told a couple of young men the other night – we are over forty and do not care what anyone thinks about what we say – so we speak our minds.
June 3, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Heck, yeah! Isn’t Harry Connick Jr. from LA? I know he did a lot of volunteer work building houses after Katrina, and I’m sure there are other celebrities who would be willing to help.
I’m going to try to contact Harry somehow…
June 3, 2010 at 11:16 pm
ellen degeneres as well
June 4, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Tweet him. I’ll give it a try too.
June 4, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Run a search for Connick on Twitter. HCJ has 2 addresses. Maybe a bunch of us should tweet him.
June 4, 2010 at 10:00 pm
sent the following msg to both addresses:
HillBuzz, et al want to raise funds to build berms/cleanup in #LA & #Gulf. Willing to help? #tcot #tlot #p2 Plz RT til viral
June 3, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Garlic – first of all, I look for your wreath avatar because I LOVE reading your posts!
2nd – I heard today that LA asked the govt for 15 berms. They were told they could build 6 and that the feds would pay for one.
I keep thinking of Krauthammer’s term “Environmental Chic”. It’s partly why companies are drilling in such deep water, and it’s why the Feds will only allow 6 berms.
I’ve always felt that it’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
June 4, 2010 at 11:41 am
LA can’t afford to pay the costs of even the diesel fuel it would take to run the equipment needed to build berms. On the other hand, after every hurricane the government is out there blowing sand out of the Gulf onto the former beaches to rebuild them. How is this different? If all the delicate sea life is going to be killed by the oil WITHOUT berms, then what are you gaining by “protecting the sea bed”? It dies either way – SAVE THE PEOPLE.
June 3, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Jindal is just a kid playing governor. This guy is a walking script, saying what he learned in the school of political talking points.
Look how he moves his hands, his gestures, his voice, all this is scripted.
June 3, 2010 at 7:29 pm
You’ve trashed Jindal every chance you get. Cut it out. What have you done to help the LA coast????
June 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Good for you!!!!
June 4, 2010 at 4:32 am
Actually, it is NOT scripted…we Cajuns speak with our hands. He is using his normal speech pattern. Jindal is walking a fine line with the Feds; especially with Utopia in the WH. The man-child has shown that he is capable of playing dirty, and could do untold damage to Louisiana in many ways.
June 5, 2010 at 11:47 am
TOUCHE GracieD!!!!!!!!!
I’m tired of Cultural Imperialism!
June 5, 2010 at 11:48 am
Oily Politican Oil-Boom-Boom the White House Resident.
June 4, 2010 at 9:12 am
He plays Gov a hellva lot better than that feckless Blanco.
*****
Bobby Jindal, born in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, La., June 10, 1971; graduated from Baton Rouge High School, Baton Rouge, La., 1988; B.S., Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1991; M.Litt., Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1994; secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals 1996-1998; appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, 1998; president, University of Louisiana system, 1999; appointed Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services by President George W. Bush on March 7, 2001; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Ninth Congress and to the succeeding Congress, until his resignation January 14, 2008, (January 3, 2005-January 14, 2008); Governor of Louisiana, 2008-present.
June 4, 2010 at 1:06 pm
TY. Bobby Jindal is the voice of reason for LA. Keep showing leadership Bobby – and bill the government!
June 4, 2010 at 2:59 pm
The establishment is still looking at zero chances Jindal and zero chances Rubio to put them on Sarah Palin’s face in 2012. The left is okay with that.
For the left gotta be anybody but Sarah. The GOP establishment is following the left’s lead.
The left is waiting for republicans to dump the only person with the charisma, experience, power and historical momentumthat that can beat Obama in 2012: Sarah Palin.
Watch how MSMBC potray Jindal, Scott Brown and Rubio: Heroes
While Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman: polarizing, racists.
Don’t believe me? Watch!
June 4, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Carmelo,
for the umpteenth time, neither Jindal nor Rubia are eligible for POTUS… they are not NATURAL BORN CITIZENS even though both were born in the USA. They are not NBC becaue their parents were not USA citizens.
END OF STORY…
June 4, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Aussie (below) if they are born in the US they are natural born, even if their parents are immigrants. In fact even if their parents are ILLEGAL immigrants, they are just as natural born as a Mayflower descendent.
Carmelo, this discussion is about Jindal’s handling of the current crisis, NOT about whether or not he will or could or should have a spot on the presidential ticket in 2012.
June 4, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Strange bedfellows:
If they are born in the USA they become citizens but they are not automatically NATURAL BORN.
The criteria for NATURAL Born as opposed to even NATIVE BORN is TWO PARENTS who are USA citizens.
You have 3 levels of citizens:
1. the lowest level is NATURALIZED. This is for immigrants who become citizens.
2. Citizens: this includes people like both Rubio and Jindal and Nikki Haley, whose legal immigrant parents had them in the USA.
3. NATURAL BORN CITIZENS: these are the children of those who are already USA citizens.
This is a very high criteria, and is especially relevant to those who aspire to be POTUS.
The reason for the criteria is to exclude citizens who have dual loyalties from becoming POTUS.
NATURAL BORN and NATIVE BORN are very similar but the big difference is that with NATURAL BORN citizens the parents must already be citizens of the USA.
June 4, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Whether is Jindal, Palin, Brewer or Christie, anyone seeing a pattern of governors who possess REAL leadership?
June 4, 2010 at 11:11 pm
The things I note about at least 2 of them: Jindal and Palin is that they are committed Christians.
Palin has a degree but not from Harvard. I know nothing about the others, especially with Brewer.
The other thing that I note is that they have been fighting against corruption.
Palin and Christie in particular have a strong record in fighting corruption.
Something else I noted is that the press make fun of each of them in some way:
1. Christie because he is a large man;
2. Palin because she is Palin and ran as a VP candidate;
3. Brewer because she took on the issue of illegal immigration in her state.
4. Jindal has had to clean up after that disaster Gov. Blanco.
Each one of them has to struggle to try and do something about an inherited deficit from demoncraps.
June 5, 2010 at 9:36 am
Aussie
Your Ron Paul twisted constitutionalism is taking it toll in your intelligence.
By the US Constitution: no person except NAtural Born citizen and that have attaind the age of 35 can become POTUS.
A person is a NATURAL BORN US Citizen if born in the United States OR its territories.
A Native Born US citizen is a person born abroad of at least one(1) US citizen parent.
Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley and Luis Fortuno are ELEGIBLE to run for President and be elected.
Barack Obama if in fact he was born in Hawaii was elegible to be POTUS and he was elected!!!
You need to stop that nonsense!
June 5, 2010 at 12:02 pm
As mentioned, Jindal went to Brown and Oxford. Palin’s degree is from Idaho. Christie went to UDel and then Seton Hall Law. Brewer, on the other hand, went the career route, getting certified as a radiology tech at her local junior college.
As for religion, Christie is an Irish/Italian Catholic, Palin a Christian of no particular denom., Jindal also a Catholic, and Brewer a Missouri Synod Lutheran.
June 4, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Also, Obambi signed an executive order that took control of the National Guard away from the governors and put it under presidential control with an ‘advisory panel’ of governors to help.
Or course, that advisory panel is hand picked by – you guessed it – Teh Won himself.
Course, I’m not sure how it is that an executive order overrides standing law, but this is the age of hope and change
June 4, 2010 at 3:56 pm
someone should investigate the legality of these executive orders.
The creep does a lot of extremely underhanded things.
June 5, 2010 at 11:48 am
As commander-in-chief, the president controls “the Militia of the several States [that is, the Guard], when called into the actual Service of the United States” under Article II, Section 2. In other words, the way I read it (but IANAL), he has that authority over Guardsmen who are deployed or about to be, and not over the rest.
June 5, 2010 at 11:52 am
They are not constitutional.
June 3, 2010 at 2:26 pm
And Gov. Jan Brewer, who is now one of my heroes!
June 3, 2010 at 2:40 pm
YES! Please add Gov. Jan Brewer and Chris Christi to this list of awesomeness!
June 3, 2010 at 3:05 pm
What a bunch of idiots standing outside of the White House today and yelling out against Gov. Brewer…yeah, I know they have the right also..but still..
June 3, 2010 at 3:26 pm
They are just people bussed in by SEIU to form a protest where no grass-roots one would form.
June 3, 2010 at 4:01 pm
BREWER/CHRISTIE 2012!
June 3, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Brewer/Christie 2012= Obama 400 electoral votes.
Sorry Gov. Brewer is a good governor but no winning president material
June 4, 2010 at 11:08 am
She would look like an opportunist if she went for the WH now, and I don’t think she will. She just wants to do right by the citizens of her state.
That said, all the comments I’ve read by you smell like troll, Carmelo.
June 4, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Mary Ryan,
Everytime a conservative do something extraordinary(not matter if that conservative has no experience, is boring, old, ugly and with no charisma) people like you are quick to have them for 2012, e.g. Scott Brown, Christie, Rubio, Barbour, Brewer, etc.
The only one that can beat Obama is Sarah Palin! The only one 100% Conservative and a Reagan conservative out there is Sarah Palin. Forget about Paul Ryan, Scott Brown, Haley Barbour, Jan Brewer, Christie and all those looneys. They are great BUT not too great to beat the Obama Racial- Sexist, hip hop machine.
Sarah Palin is the only one that can go into Obama’s main voters: youth, Jews, Hip Hop, and the historic voters.
Sarah Palin’s great looks alone makes at least 45 million votes!
June 4, 2010 at 3:22 pm
“People like me”, Carmelo? Go ahead and try to find a post by me touting any of those names you tossed out. You don’t know squat about me.
Pushing Palin soley because of her looks reveals you to be incredibly shallow. As if your gravatar didn’t already give that away..
Palin brings people to the polls because she’s real, she’s smart, and she’s passionate about her country.
And it’s Marie, not Mary. Reading comprehension pal, try it.
June 4, 2010 at 3:28 pm
“People like me”, Carmelo? Go ahead and try to find a post by me touting any of those names you threw out. You don’t know squat about me.
Supporting Palin because of her looks reveals you to be incredibly shallow. As if your gravatar didn’t give that away..
Palin draws people to the polls because she’s real, she’s smart, and she’s passionate about her country. If you base your vote on looks you might as well be an Obamabot.
And it’s Marie, not Mary. Reading comprehension pal, try it sometime.
June 3, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Andrew Wilkow picked that ticket already: “The (Wrecking) Ball and the (Border) Wall.”
Kinda catchy.
June 3, 2010 at 2:26 pm
The problem is Louisiana can’t afford to do this itself, at least that’s part of the problem. The other is that they could be subjected to federal penalties and probably more for disturbing the sea bed without a corps permit. In a NORMAL world, the second consideration would not even be a concern, but with such a political hack as teh won running things, I wouldn’t put it past him to have Holder seeking an injunction against Jindal and pursuing fines against the State. Actually, I would sort of half way anticipate he would do something just that politically stupid.
June 3, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Again, so? So Holder seeks an injunction. He fines the state. Perfect opportunities to display the Obamites behaving badly. What are they gonna do, drag Jindal off to jail? (And if they do, no matter, Sarah will pardon him.)
Damn the torpedoes!
June 3, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Given that a significant portion of teh Won’s base consists of hard-core environmentalists, I think they would have a hard time dragging Jindal off to jail for trying to save his state’s environment. PR nightmare.
June 3, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Aww PD, you darling, sweet person. Do you not realize that the environmentalists can’t seem to get ANYTHING straight. Think of the Windmills:
“Build more windmills for the environment! We need clean energy!! (dead birds? what dead birds)
Wait…what? You mean you’re going to build windmills HERE? Where the wind is? But.. but.. but.. you’ll disturb the turtles!”
So, no, I wouldn’t put it past them to make an issue of it if Jindel went ahead and did what he needs to do.
June 3, 2010 at 4:04 pm
If Bobo’s enviros were not hypocrites, then they’d be in favor of SB 1070. The illegals are devastating the desert corridor in the Tucson sector. I mean, filth, trash, diseased stuff, plastic bags killing livestock and horses, and “rape” trees (desert shrubs) littered w/the underclothes of women violated by their own.
Yeah, come on in! We need more scum.
It’s shocking.
Meanwhile, back at the green McMansions…silence.
June 3, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Patriot dreamer, Garlicnosedhoe and delicontessa…I posted alink in one of the threads to an article…I will repost the link here
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIiZ8gz0nqBKOxpx-wbkz2gyZwDQD9G1M8N80
It is about the disconnect many academic and lawyerly types have today.
I think the enviro stuff qualifies too.
Regarding windfarms, but not in my yacht-zone…that is a good example. Easy to be for clean green energy, not so easy for implementation.
Same for the ecologic disaster illegal immigration creates on top of the human suffering underlying the destruction.
It is far easier for the people who support the enviro causes to give money and lip service to them, and then feel good, then to critically think it through and mostly they are not THERE, so do not have to live with the consequences.
I have noticed that the further away people live from the border the most opposed to border enforcement they are. They do not live in the squalor, danger, and suffering so there is a disconnect between their abstract do-gooding and physical results of do-gooding.
I think it also shows not only a disconnect, but some very ugly racism on their behalf as well. since it is just illegal alien mexican women under the rape trees, then it really doesnt matter how they suffer as long as their vision of america stays in place. If it were their daughters under the tree….well, it would be a totally different story.
June 3, 2010 at 5:23 pm
That’s exactly my point. Good political jujitsu is turning one’s opponent’s supporters against him while improving one’s own position. That’s the opportunity Jindal has here.
June 3, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Injunction, smunction.
Again, the optics if the Feds prevent Jindal from implementing his own plan NOW.
This is an Admin that lives and dies by the media control of the message … and the LSM has run out of patience with them.
June 3, 2010 at 2:27 pm
btw….
The big BP PR Front!!!!!!
BP buses cleanup crews to Grand Isle for Obama’s visit, councilman says
The Times-Picayune
BP, the oil company taking flak for its inconsistent response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, bused in 400 extra cleanup workers to Grand Isle during President Obama’s visit today, Jefferson Parish Council Chairman John Young said.
“It appears to have been a PR stunt by BP, not to say we don’t appreciate the extra participation,” Young said. “We certainly need them, but we don’t need them for just one day that happens to coincide with a visit from the president.”
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_ships_in_clean-up_crews_to.html
June 3, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Have a look at this.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_ships_in_clean-up_crews_to.html
June 3, 2010 at 2:28 pm
The big BP PR Front!!!!!!
BP buses cleanup crews to Grand Isle for Obama’s visit, councilman says
The Times-Picayune
BP, the oil company taking flak for its inconsistent response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, bused in 400 extra cleanup workers to Grand Isle during President Obama’s visit today, Jefferson Parish Council Chairman John Young said.
“It appears to have been a PR stunt by BP, not to say we don’t appreciate the extra participation,” Young said. “We certainly need them, but we don’t need them for just one day that happens to coincide with a visit from the president.”
June 3, 2010 at 2:29 pm
“BP buses cleanup crews to Grand Isle for Obama’s visit, councilman says
The Times-Picayune
BP, the oil company taking flak for its inconsistent response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, bused in 400 extra cleanup workers to Grand Isle during President Obama’s visit today, Jefferson Parish Council Chairman John Young said.
“It appears to have been a PR stunt by BP, not to say we don’t appreciate the extra participation,” Young said. “We certainly need them, but we don’t need them for just one day that happens to coincide with a visit from the president.”
June 4, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Enough already. We got it, thanks.
June 4, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Is this Spam or something? Super annoying!
June 3, 2010 at 2:37 pm
He has neither the guts nor the temperment. Alas.
June 3, 2010 at 2:40 pm
If he had the cojones to do this he would probably shoot way up in approval!
If Sarah had been in charge it would have already been done!
June 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Sometimes I wish I had a FB account … apparently SP posted a well thought out plan of action early on in this disaster on her FB page.
June 3, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Make up a fake account name. That’s what I did. Only folks I have on as “friends” are hillbuzzers, so I see the stuff they post up from around the net and vice versa.
June 4, 2010 at 9:49 am
You can read all SP’s FB posts here.
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/
June 4, 2010 at 9:20 pm
get yourself a gmail or msn address that you would not normally use for email and then sign up with that.
June 3, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I dont know alot about politics. Actually very very little. My opinion though?
If Jindal got on screen and radio, all stations, and did these things he would be LAGOV for LIFE!
1. Mobilize LA Nat’l guard
2. Mobilize the citizens. Call for volunteers. From the politcal hacks and geniuses like carvilee down to the local parrish groundskeeper to step up and show the damned FEDS how to respond in the real physical world
3. announce they would no longer seek permission from the feds, but hey, if they do decide they actully want to be part of the solution to come on down and join the volunteer groups.
4.Call for petroleum extraction experts and workers to come to the table with him and work on containment and salvage operations for the coastline and then do it…feds be damned.
5. them calmly and firmly announce if the feds want to prevent this, then they could come on down to Louisiana and kiss his hairy backside.
Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
I bet the citizens and civilians would rally with the right call and give it their all no questions asked, and then when it was over be jindal’s BFF 4evah!
June 3, 2010 at 3:22 pm
And he would be an American hero.
June 3, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Too bad you’re not governor there, rsj!
June 3, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Thanks. I dont think I could do worse in a crisis like this…I dont know if I can do better, but there would be some action.
Katrina and 9/11 taught me some very deep lessons about the USA, the citizens who make up this exceptional place, and the rot that is destroying us.
We are good people. We want to do what is right. I saw a quote from john wesley
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can
and I do believe that people are liek this…they just also have the far darker impulses as well.
Most want to help, wish they could help and are horrified at what is happening. If someone in charge in LA would get on the air, on the radio and online and outline that they needed help…financial, equipment, expertise…the american people would respond.
America is not DC. America is not the bureacracy. America is the people, the citizens and we can do what the DC leeches cant…take action.
I have noticed that what is needed in events like this is ONE PERSON taking a bullhorn and stating what needs to be done, to ask for the items needed, and to make sure the ones who cant get out of the way.
those who expect or wait for the DC/bureacrats/best and brightest to come save them are doomed to the superdome of life.
June 3, 2010 at 6:45 pm
How can we give and send help for everyone in the planet we cannot do it for LA? Haiti, Chile.etc!This is a disaster!
Jindal go and campaign for help,LAPac or somethining.
June 4, 2010 at 10:22 pm
I tweeted Harry Connick Jr & asked him to help raise funds. Then tweeted Gov Jindal, told him we want to help & included link to this pg. Then I just tweeted my followers (not a huge # but they’ll get the message out) & pointed out that this is an opportunity to do something practical to take our country back. Let’s all hope & pray for the best.
(That’s what a disabled woman can do from her bed. What else can be done?)
June 3, 2010 at 2:49 pm
It would be great were Jindal to do it — and there’s quite the chance that the feds would not take any action against him or the state of Louisiana, given how often they don’t really enforce their own laws: getting strict in this instance would go over real well with the public.
June 3, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Governer Jindal dosen’t have the balls to do that,that’s why big media is pampering him to go forward in 2012.
June 3, 2010 at 3:03 pm
BINGO.
June 3, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Excellent insight. When I worked in DC, Jindal the wunderkid was at HHS and being touted as a “mover and shaker”. At the end of the day, Jindal is just another theoretician — he was the head of the LA university — an academic administrator — before being tapped to go to HHS — another egghead administrative position.
Jindal is not a “doer” or man of action — he’s an egghead Mandarin paper shuffler.
What LA and the coast desperately need now is a Gen Honore clone to take charge and make the tough decisions. As much as I deeply respect the Coasties, Admiral Allen is not a “Gen Honore”.
Dear Leader is fiddling, LA is dying.
June 3, 2010 at 4:22 pm
what a shame. if he could just grab his spine…or take lessons big brass balls from Sarah or Michelle….sigh.
June 3, 2010 at 6:31 pm
He has been on Tv…. but not pissed off enough to cut through the other chatter.
I would be furious and be yelling on TV… but.. not spineless Jindal..
Even after Sarah told him to do it and apologize later..
He would be a freaking hero today. Instead.. he is still another spineless republican.
June 4, 2010 at 7:26 pm
You can say that again. (spinless repulican) cmon man do something.
June 3, 2010 at 2:57 pm
What I want to know is how are they going to stop this “presidential” moratorium on deep water drilling? Does B.O. even have the authority to do this? I’m not sure of the exact make-up of the Congressional delegation from LA, TX and MS, but even the Dems should be jumping up and down and having fits about this. This is going to cripple their state’s economy. Not only are they losing their fishing and tourism jobs, but also their oil jobs. This is beyond partisan.
June 3, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Hey, NASA’s effectively neutered {BIG brouhaha here in the Houston area}, but it doesn’t do a damn bit of good – something on the order of 65-70% of Americans didn’t want ObamaCare; similar numbers SUPPORT enactment of laws like Arizona’s – but Utopia’s busy covering his ears & singing “Lalalalalala – can’t HEAR you!”
Side note – have you seen the proposed “new” flag of AZ?
;-)
Semper Fi’
DM
June 3, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Crap, the flag didn’t show go to Old NFO‘s blog to see it
Semper Fi’
DM
June 3, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Love it!!
June 3, 2010 at 10:08 pm
LOVE IT!! Would make a great avatar. Can I steal it for one of my football site avatars and drive the lefties over there up the wall?
June 3, 2010 at 10:29 pm
It is now my desktop.
–Wraith, citizen of the Sovereign State of Arizona
June 3, 2010 at 3:03 pm
The money is the issue here. People want money up front for the necessary equipment, so sending the Feds or BP the bill would not solve the problem. That is what I have been told. I would love to see Jindal go out and ask BP to cut a check, so we can do what needs to be done. He may have already done so, but needs to do it in public. BP has enough bad publicity already, and may open up the checkbook more quickly in order to avoid further bad publicity.
June 3, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Add to the jindal things to do list above:
Shame the environmental groups and humanitarian groups into giving up the moolah.
This where a repub can tell them to pony up or shut up eternally.
Call for donations
call for companies withy the equipment to iou it.
If he got up and told people this is how it needs to be cuz the feds aint worth crap and suck it up and help him act NOW….then it would happen.
It is like bush and 9/11…if he had called for volunteers to join up….the recruiting and meps stations would have been overwhelmed….i am afraid he will miss this opportunity
June 3, 2010 at 8:29 pm
This is exactly what needs to happen. Down here, it’s the money. Thanks to Dem rule for so long and the corrupt politics that come with one party government, the state is lacking $$$. Cash flow rules in an emergency. I vote for getting a donation relief fund set up. Of course there is probably some law about a government entity being the direct recipient of a donation program knowing the feds!
June 3, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Agreed Jindal needs to act. The public needs to be shown thet the federal government is a useless, worthless,dithering ineffective, self-serving, wealth depleting ineffective legion of leeches & vampires sucking the lifeblood of the body nation from us.
June 3, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I think that we’re aware of that Old One, but Jindal acting would just reaffirm for most of America that is still sane, that in most respects, the Fed Govt is extraneous.
A big “get out of my way” is in order, and would help build more momentum towards a recapturing of state control as envisioned by the original Constitution — not the Progressive “living Constitution” version.
June 3, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Obama could have saved his own ass and garnered some conservative cred has he issued and executive order waiving EPA/Corps regulations for areas of the Gulf Coast in danger of being affected by the spill. He could have had Chu or whoever monitor the spill and update the waiver as many times as needed. Instead he has proven that government very often gets in the way of common sense. These people are now in charge of healthcare?
June 4, 2010 at 12:30 am
That’s it exactly. I work in the response business although my spills are miniscule. I have constant heartburn trying to explain to the tree hugger enviros that emergencies require that you respond. You don’t wait to do an environmental assessment to see what damage will be done. The damage is in process. Most can’t get their heads around that.
June 4, 2010 at 3:55 am
the reason that they cannot get their heads around it, is because the enviros are merely naive people who do not have a clue. They have never worked in these fields and quite frankly they stuff up everything.
Look at what happened in Australia with the last bushfires in Victoria. Over 100 lives lost… and why? Because the stupid enviros had control of those councils and they had stupid laws that prevent people from clearing trees near their homes… they also are against clearing the forest floor…
Greens are a real menace.
June 3, 2010 at 3:53 pm
This would be an opportunity for Jindal to separate himself from the other cucumber and mayo candidates! I used to be a fan until that horrible “Republican response” he gave a few years back.
This would be great for him, the GOP, and most importantly the people and wildlife of LA.
June 3, 2010 at 4:06 pm
I agree completely, with every word you said.
June 3, 2010 at 4:15 pm
agreed!
June 3, 2010 at 6:50 pm
I agree too!
(And that Republican response was awful.)
June 3, 2010 at 4:14 pm
States rights trump federal rights. Jindal needs to act and not count on the feds for squat.
I sure don’t.
June 3, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Agree that only fools do. They’re pretty consistent in their ineptitude.
June 3, 2010 at 4:17 pm
He must act immediately, or else he ends up being shunned and criticized for waiting too long and not taking care of his state. He is close to being accused of being all words and secretly supporting Obama. Must move forward with, “Screw you, Mr. President.” now.
June 3, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Of course Jindal should grab the bull by the horns and do whatever he can as Governor of Louisiana. But like most politicians, he’s dithering around trying to make sure:
a) someone else is going to foot the bill
b) he doesn’t make a career ending gaffe
c) he doesn’t come across like Al Haig when Reagan was shot (a variation on b)
d) he doesn’t bite off more than he can chew & swallow before his next election
That’s what is so refreshing about Chris Christie. He isn’t pussyfooting around in endless campaign mode. He’s actually leading and governing. Most governors actually just campaign the whole time they are in office.
Americans used to pitch in and help in a disaster. They started cleanup the next day without waiting permission from FEMA. When did we become so completely incompetent and helpless?
We come from ancestors who built sod huts on a lonely prairie. They killed bears, wolves and rattlesnakes, buried their babies in frozen ground, survived smallpox, carried water in buckets, dug latrines, ate camas roots and squirrels, cooked over an open fire… I could go on all day.
They wouldn’t recognize the people we’ve become – waiting for permission from complete strangers thousands of miles away to take care of ourselves.
Read about the disastrous battle of Dunkirk in WWII and imagine what the outcome would have been if the British had been as castrated as Americans are today. 338,226 doomed troops trapped by Nazis on the coast of France were saved thanks to regular Brits rowing over in fishing boats to evacuate them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_Evacuation
I hope Jindal does man up, but I’m not holding my breath. I hope America mans up
June 3, 2010 at 4:38 pm
What Obama’s been doing… Day 1 – 42…
June 3, 2010 at 5:29 pm
That’s about the most damning video I’ve ever seen. The RNC needs to buy that sucker, and then all the airtime they can find and put it all over the place.
June 3, 2010 at 5:54 pm
They were saying ‘Gulf’ and he thought they said ‘golf’!
June 3, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Ouch … but I like it.
June 3, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Excellent video, and I agree with Katie, that it would make a great campaign ad for Sarah, when she runs against BO (assuming he hasn’t been run out of town on a rail in the meantime).
Juxtaposed with video of Sarah, dealing with the floods in Alaska, and any number of ‘hands on’ situations she’s put herself in.
This one needs to be updated constantly. Since it was done, the McCartney love-in needs to be added.
It’s a ‘work in progress’.
June 3, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Its definitely time the state of Louisiana took matters into their own hands seeing as how the Fed is sitting on theirs and their environmental study group is busy with their oil impact coloring books.
How many times can we say Obama was “present” when he refuses to act. That list is getting really long, and tiresome.
June 3, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Call up the Guard for God’s sake! What the hell is Jindal waiting for? Screw O, this is about life and death of Louisiana. Jindal needs to leave the feds behind. Maybe Mississippi or Florida Govs will call up the guard. This would totally leave O looking the dumb crap is truly is.
June 3, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Go, Haley Barbour!
Jindal has “gone through all the wickets”, applied for waivers, funding, etc …
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
The time for ACTION is NOW.
June 3, 2010 at 7:17 pm
What’s the infatuation with Haley Barbour? This guy is UGLY,OLD, FAT and talks like he has a piece of salchichon in his mouth lol
June 3, 2010 at 7:49 pm
He’s competent. We’ve been electing Pretty since 1960…and the results have been one good President, two fair ones – and six downright disasters.
Vote for Competent, not for Cute.
June 3, 2010 at 8:06 pm
He’s competent and capable, and unlike you, not a bigot.
June 3, 2010 at 8:28 pm
i agree that he is competent and that is what matters.
June 3, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I couldn’t agree more about Barbour. After all, if Obama has proven anything, it’s that the most important and effective qualities in a leader are a youth, a slim physique, a radiant visage, and an indistinct accent.
June 3, 2010 at 10:33 pm
And a cool ethnic name, not to mention an Aura of Mystery(tm). How could you leave those out, Katie?
June 3, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Barry’s too busy partying.
June 3, 2010 at 5:12 pm
FL State officials stating today that Tar balls found in the Keys…
June 3, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Speaking of tarballs……said only as LameCherry can say it:
”
*Note: Tarballs: This term as defined here and utilized here is revealed as sodomite males of the Obama group in engaging in anal sex, often pack feces into their urinal tract, and thereby can not urinate, and must visit an emergency room to have the human feces extricated.
So for Anderson Cooper’s leanings and Rachel Maddow learnings in besmirching Tea Dunkers, it is fitting to use the Obama Gusher deliberate polluting of the Gulf GOP States with tar balls to utilize the term tar balls , tar balling and tar balled for this Obamite crowd.
Just an amusing homosexual term the Obamalings have not figured out yet and will puzzle over.”
June 3, 2010 at 8:39 pm
YTZ4me–
lol,,,! I love Haley Barbour, and all his competent, and capable good ole’ manly courage…”
June 3, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Um, the governors can no longer call up the guard. Only Obama and some commission can now. It was an Executive Order signed in January.
No kidding.
Just thought you should know.
June 4, 2010 at 2:09 am
Is that in all situations?
June 4, 2010 at 2:36 am
Thanks. wow.
June 4, 2010 at 6:02 am
I heard about that Order back then, but I have to wonder about its legal basis — and we have seen that O is not adverse to issuing ones that he knows don’t pass legal muster. Were Jindal to take action and the feds to challenge his right to do so, one of the side-benefits would presumably be that said Order would come under scrutiny in the resulting contention.
June 3, 2010 at 4:52 pm
He should just declare a state of emergency and do it. There will be lawsuits a-plenty, but if they work quickly enough, they can protect some of the wetlands. Any court rulings could be immediately appealed, and the whole process could be tied up for weeks.
That or he should pop a 10 KTon nuke in the well and let it do its thing.
June 3, 2010 at 4:53 pm
The whole legal process could be tied up for weeks. Our legal system works pretty well, except when speed is called for.
June 3, 2010 at 5:12 pm
HillBuzz Boyz and throng:
OT but necessary: This tool — Dr Utopia — is an absolute, stark-raving clueless t*rd. As we speak, he is expressing his concern and meeting with some VIPs to see what can be done about the Gulf oil spill.
Notice all of the assembled feel-gooders at the conflab looks of despair while the goo gushes and the tar-balls mount up on the beaches.
Yep, on top of this from Day One, all right!
June 3, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Nothing like a “concern conference” to get things done ….//snark off//
June 3, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Bobby J. would have done it by now if he were an alpha male. Alpha females Sarah, Hillary, Jan, Michelle B. would have also.
As for bho the fraud, he would have backed down as usual.
June 3, 2010 at 5:52 pm
I will lay down money that if Bobby Jindal goes for it, Bam will show up with a group of photogs asap.
June 3, 2010 at 5:53 pm
They did get “permission” (finally!) today to build the temporary islands. I agree they should have built them on day one and told Teh Won to stick it.
June 3, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Again we are seeing how castrated our Republican men are. Who snipped them and gave them to the women? I agree, I think any of our strong women would have jumped all over this. I was awed by Jindal for many years, but have scratched him off of my list.
June 3, 2010 at 7:32 pm
We really need Gov. Christie in LA. He would tell them where to stick their damn environmental laws. Wonder what he’ll do when the oil reaches NJ to piss the libtards off.
June 3, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Oh I agree… Jindal needs to be like Gov Christie. He is my man… he shoots from the hip… and he is not afraid to say “screw you”…. Jindal should follow his lead…
June 3, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Jindal is not eligible. He is not a natural born citizen.
June 3, 2010 at 8:02 pm
True but we now have a precedent. And from what I understand once you have a precedent then the law looks at things differently.
June 3, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Wrong about the “precedent”. It is what the courts say that matters.
Precedent occurs in the courts…
June 3, 2010 at 6:52 pm
I have been saying fro three weeks that the citizens down there should tell the government to screw off and get the hell out of the way.
There are many many ideas being floated by your plain old average bitter hick- like using hay and straw to absorb the oil. BP wants none of that- no money in it for them-
Well up here in NW PA we have thousands and thousands of round bales left over from last year- they have been sitting in the fields and I say- send them on down to the Gulf.
If we wait on the government- it will be too late
June 3, 2010 at 7:05 pm
This is disgusting.
The only thing to do is take the bull by the horns but it should have been done in the beginning. Jindal should have sent word to Washington on day one TELLING them what he was going to do, not asking them for permission. Then he should have got busy and let Washington catch up or suffer the PR loss.
I think it is too late for Jindal to fear committing a career ending gaff. As far as I’m concerned he already has.
June 3, 2010 at 7:06 pm
It is what I would do. Its what his constituents would want, and what most of America would approve of…..and something he should do, like yesterday. The administration will hold onto this spill, no matter what the damage, because, what was it Emanuel said” No good crisis should be wasted”? In addition, the money Mary Landeriu siphoned off the top of the taxpayers trough should go directly into the clean-up, no matter what she pretends it was intended to do.
June 3, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Jindal is all bark and no bite. He should’ve built the damn things himself instead of getting permission.
Sarah would’ve. You betcha!
Palin/Bachmann 2012!
June 3, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Guyzz,
time to send Romney, Barbour, Thune, Jindal, Christie, Scott Brown, and MCdonnel to Limbo.
These guys have less than 0 chances to win Iowa, NH and South Carolina. They have 0 chances to win the general elections against Obama or gather any conservative support or the youth middle class support.
The real threat in the GOP primaries are Gingrich, Pawlenty, De Mint, SNeaky Huckabee, and divisive Ron Paul.
June 3, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Let me see:
1. Scott Brown has no intention of running… per his own statements.
2. Mitt Romney has more supporters than Huckabee.
3. Pawlenty who?
4. Newt Gingrich was finished a long time ago.
5. Barbour has the experience that is missing from so many others… a good round choice.
6. You left out another wannabe by the name of Johnson…
7. Ron Paul is an elderly also ran. He would be worse than the clown in the white house.
8. Who is Thune? Never heard of him.
9. Chris Christie is my man… a good solid person and willing to bust the heads of the corrupt…
10. McDonnell has gone quiet but is leading Virginia… 2012 is too early for him.
11. Bobby Jindal is ineligible and is a no show.
12. Senator Jim de Mint makes the right noises most of the time… but does he have the numbers? He has shown no real interest.
June 3, 2010 at 8:47 pm
That list sucks IMO.
June 3, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Obama is not eligible either, but he got in okay.
June 4, 2010 at 2:12 am
Odumbo was not eligible and he got in because of the underhanded manner in which the DNC made sure that he got in… he is still ineligible and that is why the USA is a total f’ing mess right now…
USA does not have a leader… what you have is a goof off who prefers playing golf and having parties… DISGUSTING
June 4, 2010 at 11:46 pm
he got in because of fraud and subterfuge.
The eligibility issue which was plain as the nose on your face was kept out of the public gaze.
It does not need a BC for proof of being born in Hawaii because the lack of eligibility was due to the fact that his father was a non-US citizen and that he had dual citizenship at birth.
Your founding fathers made provision for this situation. To be a natural born citizen the person must be born of parents (not one parent, BOTH parents) who are citizens of the USA. The pooh-head does not qualify.
The issue should have been raised and dealt with in the proper way. Instead there was subterfuge, and there were documents that were signed claiming that he had eligibility when this was patently false. It means that Nancy Pelosi committed a crime when she signed that documentation.
June 3, 2010 at 8:55 pm
lol,,, Aussie’ you go girl and bringing-it from down under,,,” and always faithful friends and allies for America.. :)*wink*
June 3, 2010 at 10:38 pm
I’ll agree with your list except for #7. Dr. Paul has been a REAL Constitutional Conservative from the start, and if you think he’d be worse than Obutthead in any way, you either need to do some more research or have your head examined.
June 4, 2010 at 2:14 am
whenever I read about Ron Paul my stomach churns… Sorry, but there are things that he does that are not kosher…
June 4, 2010 at 7:22 am
I’m sorry, but as regards several questions of foreign policy and related matters, the elder Paul’s positions are very troublesome, and so it is plausible that he would indeed be worse than Obama in certain respects.
Most recently:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/03/ron_paul_hamas_is_a_legitimate_government.html
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/06/03/ron-paul-israel-preventing-food-and-medicine-from-entering-gaza-almost-like-a-concentration-camp/
(Via Rae4Palin over at C4P)
June 4, 2010 at 9:24 pm
It is his foreign policy positions that have me the most worried when it comes to Ron Paul… Plus he is a 9/11 Truther
June 4, 2010 at 6:21 am
An interesting thought experiment is to think how a Governor Haley would have handled such a disaster.
As regards the race for 2012 and all the maneuvering going on in preparation for it, to me it seems more and more likely that the ad feminam accusations — and now also the racial epithets — against Haley have been instigated behind the scenes by the Huckabee camp.
June 4, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Huckabee will never have the numbers to win the nomination. The man is a born loser.
Nikki Haley is not eligible for the role of POTUS. Her parents were born in India. Only if they were naturalized citizens by the time she was born, would she be eligible.
June 5, 2010 at 2:41 pm
From thinking Haley Barbour having a chance in a general election just because he sounds “competent” to thinking Mitt Romney can win Iowa or South Carolina, some guyzz and girlzz here don’t know anything about politics.
The day a closet abortionist, pro universal health care and pro gay marriage wins Iowa GOP caucus , New Hamphire or South Carolina primaries, is the day Obama will proclaim himself dictator of the USA!!!
June 3, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Are you a plant?
June 3, 2010 at 7:42 pm
OT, and may have already been mentioned here.
In case it hasn’t, CBS covers HillBuzz: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/02/politics/main6542699.shtml
June 3, 2010 at 9:56 pm
I haven’t seen it, so thanks! Weehaw to the Boys!
June 3, 2010 at 7:48 pm
I am sooooooo pissed off. Just saw Diane Sawyer showing a segment of the Paul McCartney thing last night at the White House and a general overview of the good time that was being had by all.
I say pack up one of those dead oil covered pelicans and send it to the White House. Courtesy of the people of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.
Unbelievable. They are politicizing the whole thing. If I were Obama, and thank the Lord I am not, I would be all over TV organizing armies of volunteers (the unemployed?), getting supertankers in there sucking up the spill, making a big stink of getting the required booms in there and in general not wear a suit and tie anymore until the mess was cleaned up.
It is UN FRICKING BELIEVABLE that he is partying, on vacation and playing golf while the southern half of the country is drowning in oil.
CAN WE GET A TEA PARTY PROTEST ORGANIZED? It’s about time we got out there again with angry signs.
I am sooooooooo pissed off. I need a stiff drink.
Sorry, I’m done ranting now.
June 3, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Great! Glad MF-M is sitll celebrating teh won’s celebrity hi-jinx for all of America to see. Maybe they’ll have a mooshelle fashion show tommorrow morning on Today and discuss the big McCartney shin dig!
June 3, 2010 at 8:08 pm
I think we need to organize things ourselves. Get groups of people to go to the Louisiana coast, and Florida in a few days, and start cleaning up. Get animal/bird experts and save what critters we can. Hell we ought to organize getting a supertanker or two to go out there and suck up the crap.
We can’t wait for that fraud in the White House. WE CANNOT WAIT!
At a very minimum we should get the Tea Parties going on some serious protests.
I am soooo riled up.
June 3, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Jindal actually did get funding for the barrier islands that he wanted to build. The reason why he’s been pushing on Obama rather than just doing it is because he wanted the Army Corp of Engineers to build them and BP to compensate the state for them. It was a brilliant PR stunt that ended up getting the Obama administration to fold. The guy needs to work on his formal speeches and get some grey hair, but this has been a Giuliani 9/11 performance. You could see him circa 2016 or 2020 as the nominee.
As for your other candidates, here are my predictions… I could see Christie as a serious candidate circa 2016, but he needs to slim down… If the guy suddenly starts jogging around New Hampshire circa 2014 and going on the CHucklbee diet, then you’ll know he’s running. The others have some problems… Barbour is a political lobbyist and insider, Brewer comes off as fairly shrill and dogmatic, and while I love Palin, I think that she should really stick with communications, her strong suit. Why not become the next Oprah? Sounds alot more fun than being President.
June 3, 2010 at 10:28 pm
No, he’s a horrible candidate. He’s been involved with exorcisms, so…, and my god, those ears. Think Obama’s are bad enough?
June 4, 2010 at 2:47 am
No.NO. NO…. Jindal is not eligible to run for President. He is not an NBC and one person who is not NBC is more than enough!!!!
June 4, 2010 at 3:26 am
oh and concern troll who is anti-Palin… we do know that style… I think that Palin would make a very good President.
June 4, 2010 at 6:26 am
Right as you generally are Aussie — and as with that Rogers-touting fellow (?) from a few days ago, she (?) too has refers to Illinois in her moniker … Has a troll coven there been assigned to this blog?
June 4, 2010 at 7:23 am
Umm.. No, I’ve actually written here quite a bit before. Note to self… There are actually moderate and conservative Republicans out there who like Sarah Palin, but don’t think that she’s Presidential material. I live in the Chicago suburbs and can tell you that she doesn’t play very well here. Sorry, but there was quite a bit of damage done to her in 2008 which is going to make it near impossible for her to be competitive with Obama.
No matter what the Hillbuzz guys say about him being boring I do like Pawlentry. Yes he’s wonky and boring, but he’s also savvy. And after Hope! and Change! for four years, the country might enjoy a boring, competent wonk.
June 4, 2010 at 8:23 am
Go support Pawlenty … but don’t come crying that Obama was re-elected to another 4 years.
Honestly, you think Palin is the next Oprah? Please do some research on presidential politics, you need 3 things to run:
1)Name recognition
2) Ability to raise money
3) Major base support without the candidate WILL NOT win.
Where did you base your info that she is not “Presidential” material? On Katie Couric interviews, or b/c some pundit just says it.
If you make sweeping statements such as that, please back them up.
June 4, 2010 at 8:29 am
Oh, I forgot to respond to your point that Sarah “doesn’t play well” in your neck of the woods.
1) That’s why we have elections, they try to CONVINCE people to vote for them, its really a big marketing campaign. IF Sarah can’t convince people, then she loses, she thats how it works.
2) Campaigns are about persuading people with agendas and ideas. IF/when Sarah does run, she will get a chance to re-package herself. Why must you be all Eeyore and say the book is closed b/c the MSM did a hit job on her?
Finally, don’t you think that they will do the same to your boy Pawlenty, if he is ever a threat to Obama? He will get the Palin treatment, please don’t be so naive and base presidential readiness on what the press says. Geez.
June 4, 2010 at 4:06 pm
From what I have seen of Pawlenty, the man is a total loser and he would never generate the support base… just like Huckabee will not generate a big support base and Mitt Romney is struggling to get a support base.
The only ones that are getting a support base are Christie (who is not running) and Sarah Palin.
Pawlenty is so weak it is just laughable that he wants to be President…
June 3, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Since Louisiana doesn’t have the money to pay upfront for these projects (the state is trying to close a FY2010 deficit of somewhere between $319-419M and will have a FY11 deficit), Jindal needed the money. BP has finally agreed to fund the project (estimated at $360M) and pay in stages based on progress. Could this have been reached sooner, possibly if Jindal had been on the national news every day complaining about first the Army Corps then second about the funding from BP.
Of course if this administration was as involved as they would like you to believe, they would’ve known about these issues and done something about them long ago.
Jindal hasn’t been very effective in using the media to get his way but that is so typical of republicans. Thankfully he at least has a plan which is more than the former governor (blank stare blanco)would’ve had – even at this late date.
June 3, 2010 at 8:46 pm
He better do it. He needs to do it.. Not one person in his state would hold it against him. Of course that is just one problem with the current GOP leaders in congress. They should be shouting from the rooftops about it…. but they ain’t
June 3, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Hillbuzz made to Hotair via CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/02/politics/main6542699.shtml
June 3, 2010 at 10:52 pm
This video is very informative. Bobby Jindal will be receiving help real soon, spill is headed for Florida and the entire East Coast. You will hear some real screaming real soon, maybe some action-although it won’t come from Obama.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/oil-spill-idea-microbes-can-eat-the-oil-in-six-weeks
June 3, 2010 at 11:02 pm
“What think you?”
I think we would all be better off if more people like you guys were in charge.
June 4, 2010 at 2:13 am
I wish Mrs. Christie would tell Governor Christie for the sake of their children, the unborn, and the rest of America, it is his duty to run for President in 2012. I think Chris Christie is honest and cannot be bought. I hope he cames to the plate for America and does the right thing by announcing his candidacy for President in 2012.
June 4, 2010 at 2:22 am
It is probably some version of this.
Without Obama giving the federal order the Army Corp can’t work on the berms. And Lousiana probably doesn’t have access to the equipment needed to make it happen on their own.
So Jindal is forced to shame Obama into giving the federal order.
My dad was in the military and his southern base was in charge of emergency response for several southern states. He talked about how they would watch CNN (when it was a news station) to gauge how large the storm was and where it would hit. They would start to load the trains based on that info with large equipment, emergency supplies, etc, etc.
The trains would be loaded and ready to move the minute the order came. If the order didn’t come down the chain of command….the trains didn’t move.
The Army Corp can’t move without Obama giving the green light.
June 4, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Why is it, almost always, a little depressing when we get the backstory having anything to do with the regulators/bureacracies’ nether regions? And our military, whose efforts are based on RESULTS and CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING, are such an easy target for these jerks?
Thanks for the background on that.
June 5, 2010 at 11:39 am
You’re welcome.
I have to say I was proud of my dad when hearing what they do for emergency response. He said they even had trailers for people to live in, as well as furniture, clothes, and even toys for the kids.
This was before Katrina so it was interesting to hear how well prepared the military was for helping people who lost everything. All without a lot fanfare, just quietly doing their job, helping fellow Americans. And as we often see other disaster victims around the world.
June 4, 2010 at 5:33 am
Hmmmm, its my understanding that Jindal has already started building the sand berms and told the feds to suck it, that hes not going to let his state be destroyed waiting for Obama’s incompetent ass.
June 4, 2010 at 11:35 am
With O at the helm, there’s a certain piquancy in telling the feds to suck it … and come to think of it, the expression “incompetent ass” could well apply to O in more ways than one.
June 4, 2010 at 3:30 pm
LOLOLOLOL!!!
June 4, 2010 at 6:06 am
News just in: Poop-head has cancelled his trip to Oz…. I guess there will not be a reverse Midas touch for KRUDD
June 4, 2010 at 6:29 am
That would have been the silver — or Midas-gold — lining in the visit; but on the other hand being spared the Obaminable presence will be a great relief to you down under.
But I have a question: would O have bowed to Rudd, or would it have been the reverse for a change?
June 4, 2010 at 4:09 pm
The Governor-General, a woman, is the Head of State. KRUDD is just the Prime Minister.
Can you see Obumbles bowing with his bum in the air to a woman? I cannot!! ROFL
June 4, 2010 at 6:11 pm
That’s a good point — but O as we know is rather ignorant of decorum, so …
So the question is, has Rudd some point of attraction other than a sheikh’s garb and a big ring that might cause O to bow to him?
June 4, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Aussie ~~ Here’s d’ohbama bowing to the mayor of Tampa:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc85/Mamba1-0/610dsfx.jpg
June 4, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Ah yes, I remember seeing that picture of the slobbering over an Asian looking mayor of Tampa :)
However, would he put his bum in the air, like he did with the emperor of Japan to a very white woman with blonde hair?
June 4, 2010 at 4:11 pm
p.s. I have been spared because the farter-in-chief would have been coming very close to where I live…. at least the air will remain clean if he does not come here.
June 4, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Aussie…good for you!!! And the Land Down Under…
Barky came to Pittsburgh on Wednesday…guess, what, we had tornado warnings that night; power outages; wind damage (just got my internets back)…
Coinky dink??? I think not…bad, mojo Karma carried by the Duh Won.
You, and your mates, dodged a big one there!
;)MQ-C
June 4, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Sydney had a mini-Tornado!! Also in Lennox Heads which is to the north of Sydney, they had a larger tornado that did a lot of damage.
June 4, 2010 at 6:45 am
This has probably been posted already, but more Chris Christie awesomeness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ksLlAi3iIc&feature=player_embedded
June 4, 2010 at 8:37 am
Love this guy. Time to call out the unions for the money they collect from teachers and spend to build the union’s power. While whining that “it’s all for the kids!” Are there really any legitimate reasons to have unions in this day and age, or should we all realize unions exist to create and empower a political base. Why do govt employees need to unionize? To protect themselves from the govt?
June 4, 2010 at 7:23 am
Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before spill
June 4, 2010 at 12:29 pm
BEFORE the spill? Wow! They must be psychic. I think I will buy some Goldman stock. At least SOMEONE in this country is making some money. Maybe they are using the cash to buy microbe company’s stock? Hmmm
June 4, 2010 at 12:46 pm
If you buy GS at any down market time, you’ll never lose money. They belong in jail, not for this, but for so many other ruinous practices. They’re also just behind the curtains of every WH.
June 4, 2010 at 4:12 pm
that is very intriguing to say the least… who at GS knew something?
June 4, 2010 at 7:41 am
Why are all of you so focused on Louisian and Florida? Have you completely forgotten that the oil will hit Mississippi and Alabama as well????? What about Mississippi? Lots of fishing there, big casinos,marshes, etc. They took the brunt of Katrina. Whole towns were wiped out. No library, no city hall, no grocery store, no houses, no schools, nothing. They had to completely start over. What about Alabama? Dauphin Island, marshes, wetlands, and white sugar sand beaches. I guess those two states just don’t count. Weeks Bay in Alabama is a National Estuary. Mobile Bay opens at least five rivers up to receiving oil. How would you like it if somehow the oil in Mobile Bay ended up in Chattanooga or St. Louis?
June 4, 2010 at 8:43 am
As a Mississippi native, I can say that my state is always the last in line when it comes to relief. If this were happening to the Northest beaches, esp. Cape Cod , Martha’s Vineyaed, or the Hamptons, there would be a completely different level of outrage!
June 4, 2010 at 9:09 am
….rivers flow TO the sea…
June 4, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I DO realize rivers flow to the sea. I was thinking and typing too fast to get all my thoughts together. They have told the people in Alabama that they can’t put anything across the mouth of Mobile Bay until oil is spotted in the Bay.
My main point is what about Mississippi and Alabama. Everyone is so worried about Louisian and Florida it is as if everyone has forgotten there are two other states.
On a whole it is very frustrating right now. I want the whole world coming to our aid just as we have taken care of the world.
June 4, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Nope, WE should have taken care of this starting on day one. We’re not a third world country relying on other countries to keep us going.
June 4, 2010 at 4:16 pm
who said that they cannot take action in advance?
This is sheer lunacy. Where are those F’wit greens, the f’ing environmentalists.
They scream blue murder when there is a Republican President, but when it is a Dimcrat, they remain totally silent, not getting off their duffs to do anything….
I remember with the Exxon Valdez how they were there on the shores rescuing the wildlife… making a big song and dance… but this time there is silence from these total hypocrites!!
June 4, 2010 at 9:16 am
Thank you for pointing this out. So many people who do not live in these areas are only thinking about LA and FL. I grew up down South but now live in the Midwest. I’m so sick of hearing people here talk as if all we need to do is stop drilling and all will be okay. On the news yesterday they showed a local protest in which a young lady said we need “clean energy” and to stop drilling. I would like to know when is she going to stop driving a car and using gas to heat her house in the cold winters here? They are so clueless and live in their own little world.
June 4, 2010 at 11:12 am
They act like there is this instant switch and ‘voila!’ we’re all driving hybrids.
Damn< I KNOW this disaster is being allowed to take on it's worst form so BO can push for all kinds of enviro crap.
June 4, 2010 at 12:48 pm
BO & enviro crap –
Yup. He’s declined assistance from other countries and companies to help contain the spill. I grow more and more confident each day that he’s doing this on purpose to maximize the damage.
June 4, 2010 at 8:46 am
Here is the Way to ” FIX ” the Economy …
here is a product of to much Government …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xzd3puYmiM&feature=player_embedded
Six Reasons Why the Capital Gains Tax Should Be Abolished …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yXINN1tD54&feature=channel
The Flat Tax: How it Works and Why it is Good for America …
June 4, 2010 at 10:03 am
What does this have to do with the question posed as headline for this post?
You are using this blog to advance your own agenda – maybe you should get your own blog.
Alex Jones has his own blog. Go hang out there.
June 4, 2010 at 10:41 am
Maryjane its all about the Influence that Big Money has over the Policy making and the regulatory reforms , and How Money corrupts the system and leaves the Tax paying American people holding the bag of bills for all these cons . Mr. Jones and the other link I posted are just the messenger …. Its spot on the Target about the headline here and is more Reason Why Bobby Jindal should Make his own Policy decisions and tell Obama and BP they will get a Bill for the Job when its done , Louisiana style !!!!!!!
June 4, 2010 at 10:49 am
MaryJane This has everything to do with the topic , this suggests corruption at the highest level to push an agenda , these guys are no different a messenger than any of the other links here that provide information about what is going on in the Gulf , You are attacking the messenger that is only point out a discrepancy over why a Major Stock Holder of BP sold their major holding before the Crisis happened and you say this is not ON TOPIC , Why do you say that ??????
June 4, 2010 at 10:54 am
MaryJane This has everything to do with the topic . You are attacking the messenger that is only point out a discrepancy over why a Major Stock Holder of BP sold their major holding before the Crisis happened and you say this is not ON TOPIC , Why do you say that ??????
June 4, 2010 at 11:22 am
MaryJane This has everything to do with the topic . the messenger is only point out a discrepancy over why a Major Stock Holder of BP sold their major holding before the Crisis happened and you say this is not on topic , Why do you say that ?
June 4, 2010 at 11:27 am
read my post below to your misguided manner please …
June 4, 2010 at 9:11 am
Guys,
What the hell happened to Bill O’Reilly? Honestly, I stopped watching him when he shrugged his shoulders at the passage of Obamacare …. he said he would be all over that bill, analyzing every part, but never did. I was done with him after that debacle, and when he took issue with Rush calling Obama a socialist.
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=XdaGnz8zkU
June 4, 2010 at 9:12 am
Sorry, I’ll re-post this on the open thread … I forgot to check.
June 4, 2010 at 9:26 am
Did you see how Laura Ingraham ripped him a new one last night? She was awesome.
O’Reilly is a lib and an Obama lover.
June 4, 2010 at 9:36 am
He is selling out his Integrity he built his ratings with for what he thinks will be a broader ratings peak , but I bet he ends up trading the totals , and even loses because of the Center right expanding now that the Mask has come off the Obama machine !!!!
June 4, 2010 at 11:48 am
That has to be the proper explaination … I thought he was for the “folks” and honesty in reporting?
June 6, 2010 at 8:37 am
I saw it…..she called it “the spin zone” loved it.
June 4, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I think deep down Bill knows he messed up and has been too soft on Obama because on his website for the premium members he posted an unusually long piece of writing on the segment with him and laura.
June 4, 2010 at 10:46 am
He’d be a hero…
June 4, 2010 at 5:57 pm
oreilly has made excuses for nobama too many times..he just cant call a spade a spade, refuses to say he’s a socialist. laura iingraham wiped the floor with him last nite!
i’d like to see lynn cheney take him on!
the rose has come off the oreilly bloom!
June 4, 2010 at 11:26 am
MaryJane the Goldman BP connection is totally on topic and is why Jindal needs to do his own thing , these guys are out for themselves Obama administration and all .
June 4, 2010 at 9:29 pm
the flat tax is not on topic though. You should take that to the open thread.
June 4, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Do you all remember when Jindal was given the Republican response to Barkys first State of the Union? And oh…the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the media. Why this Indian-American (they do love a hyphen) just bombed. So wonky. So workman like. No personality. Blah, blah, blablah.
I think THAT speech, delivery and syntax, will come back to haunt Duh Won in the weeks/months to come.
Barky…all style…NO substance.
Jindal…no style…just intelligent substance and getting the job done.
The US needs to learn a lesson…and I think the inaction of Dear Leader and the workmanlike, intelligent actions of Jindal will be like night and day.
And I bet Jindal has college transcripts.
June 4, 2010 at 1:38 pm
REAL college transcripts, and probably a legit birth certificate, to boot. And, he himself delivered his third child because it came too quickly at home. I’ll take him over Comrade Urkel anyday.
June 4, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I heard someone commenting the other day that they don’t understand why such a smart man (Dr. U) has had such a hard time connecting to the people about the oil spill. Why is he having such trouble.
My first thought “How do we know he’s a smart man?” We haven’t seen any transcripts of any kind. We haven’t seen test scores of any kind. The only way we “know” he’s so smart is because we keep being told he is. His actions prove that he certainly isn’t smart when it comes to management skills.
We were told how stupid George W was. He was so stupid he had a C average from Yale. For all we know, U has a D average and has marks on his record for cheating.
June 4, 2010 at 11:56 pm
I watched the video of Jindal explaining about what he wanted with regard to the sand berms. He is not the most articulate when he is explaining things in that manner. However, his knowledge and obviously his grasp of the situation shows that he is quick to understand things… He does not dither for months on end, he is a fast learner.
June 5, 2010 at 4:57 am
Jindal is a graduate of Brown
University, and a Rhodes Scholar. His is extremely intelligent, and he has common sense. His wife is a Chemical Engineer, if I am not mistaken. Unlike POTUS, he is actually COMPETENT! What a refreshing thing in a leader.
June 5, 2010 at 6:16 am
I have no doubt that he has the common sense. I agree that he is competent.
However, he seems to be missing the go go attitude that we see in Sarah Palin… just too soft…a nice characteristic but not POTUS material.
June 5, 2010 at 6:18 am
I had taken note that he was a Rhodes scholar.
I have seen Rhodes scholars in actiion… we had one as a Prime Minister.. a la Bob Hawke…
We have another in waiting. Tony Abbott, the present Opposition leader is a Rhodes Scholar.
June 4, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Wow…just checking local news (Pittsburgh area) and was stunned to find this:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/23793198/detail.html
That ‘attack’ on the Marcellus Shale natural gas reverses (in PA, NY, OH, WV) is beginning.
The powers that be, WANT US to lose any and all energy independance.
In a nutshell, there is a ‘major’ leak IN A REMOTE natural gas drilling site, 90 miles north of Pittsburgh. Low flying air traffic is being diverted; and fortunately, the area is so rural/rugged that no homes with several miles.
But the timing is more than suspicious, as one of our Senators, Bob Casey, had just introduced a tax plan bill, in the US Senate to ‘protect our groundwater from the Marcellus Shale drilling.’ There is a complicated procedure called ‘fracking’ that removes the natural gas from shallow shale beds.
Timing? Suspicious? Tin foil time yet?
Will find more and post again…and this really is related to the Gulf/Jindal story in that this is (IMO) a further assault upon US energy independence.
June 4, 2010 at 2:15 pm
BP is using the brand “Corexit” as dispersant to disperse the oil spewing in to the Gulf of Mexico because of the oil disaster. Corexit has been proven by Exxon to be 4 times for toxic than the oil itself. AND this type of dispersant had been banned for use by Great Britain. The U.S. Govt. asked BP to stop using Corexit, and they did cut back but are now planning to increase their use of dispersant as they try to stop the oil from gushing. The U.S. needs to demand that BP stop the use of Corexit immediately!!!!!
June 4, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Seems a panel of 50 “experts” say that the dispersant is safe. Did Rahm get to them in the shower?
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/panel_of_experts_recommends_co.html
BP is using the brand “Corexit” as dispersant to disperse the oil spewing in to the Gulf of Mexico because of the oil disaster. Corexit has been proven by Exxon to be 4 times for toxic than the oil itself. AND this type of dispersant had been banned for use by Great Britain. The U.S. Govt. asked BP to stop using Corexit, and they did cut back but are now planning to increase their use of dispersant as they try to stop the oil from gushing. The U.S. needs to demand that BP stop the use of Corexit immediately!!!!!
And of course BP knows all of this; they can’t use this crap in their own country.
June 4, 2010 at 2:56 pm
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/bobby-jindal-takeswhite-housewins_462269.html
Please put Jindal on the front post where he belongs.
June 4, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Maybe we can make a barrier reef of environmentalists who A. started this problem which lead to wells having to be built so far from the surface and B. want so sincerely to save the environment. Line them up in thigh deep water and tell them to make sure they collect all the oil before it reaches the shore. We can pay the with stimulus dollars and they can lower the unemployment rate at the same time. Win/win.
June 4, 2010 at 5:40 pm
I actually had an enviro wacko yell at me on a forum today (when I explained that I needed a car for my 50 mile commute) that I should ride a bike to work.
In my experience, to them, the only thing wrong with the world is that it has humans on it.
June 4, 2010 at 9:31 pm
and… what if you were like me? By that I mean that sitting on a bicycle seat causes pain… because I fractured my coccyx twice (over a 30 year period). Bicycle seats are uncomfortable.
If the fart sniffers want to ride a bike to work then let them… and they need to be realistic about the distance.
June 4, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Barry the Incompetent One Knew from the Start that the Oil Leak Would Last for Months:
http://tinyurl.com/244klne
June 5, 2010 at 2:19 am
that is the reason that his reaction or rather lack of reaction is so very suspect. If he knew that it was going to be hard to control, then in his dark mind he would see the opportunity to make matters worse by doing nothing… and then push crap n tax… as well as other restrictions on offshore drilling….
what a dickhead.
June 6, 2010 at 8:40 am
Never let a crisis go to waste.
June 5, 2010 at 5:21 am
I think it’s beyond being a dickhead. I think of a dickhead as being mindless. Obama is a malignant narcissist. If this is indeed what happened, Obama is simply evil.
June 5, 2010 at 6:19 am
Yes, he is malignant. He is evil. He is a narcissist. However, he is also a dickhead.
June 5, 2010 at 9:53 am
Ok, you guys just articulated my fantasy regarding the spill. Jindal on a bulldozer saying to the feds “you and what army, they’re all overseas! hahaha”.
June 5, 2010 at 11:45 am
In the “nothing is a coincidence” category, see this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html
June 5, 2010 at 11:50 am
Okay…keeping my fingers crossed and tapping my keyboard with my Glinda wand…
I hope this posts today (it went over the WP rainbow yesterday).
First a little back story. I live in PA, and one of the few (and I do mean few) growth industries bringing good paying jobs to the Commonwealth has been the drilling for natural gas in a line of shale (that extends thru PA, western/centralNY, OH, WV, and into IN). It involves shallow drilling, a procedure called ‘fracking’ that can have the well head miles from where the gas is being extracted. Estimates puts the longevity, in terms of gas production from the Marcellus Shale to to take the US into the 2050s in natural gas.
Amazing, right? Wrong…not too long ago, the stories (only locally) started coming on about possible ground water contamination (fluids need to be pumped into the shale to extract the gas)…so Senator Bobby Casey ‘appeared’ with a Senate Bill to ‘tax’ (for the good of our ground water and, of course, foreign energy producers) fracking wells. Then yesterday…
A well 80 miles north of Pittsburgh, one with redundant–multiple–safety features (who sees what is coming on the HORIZON?) failed! And, everything that could go wrong (fluids out of the containment pit; threat of explosion from excess pressure, ALL occurred.
Story here:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/23793198/detail.html
Is it time for our tin foil hats yet?
June 5, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I’m starting to think it is. Break out the Reynolds Wrap.
First, we have a mine blow up, causing the worst tragedy in our history of coal mining. Last report I heard said that methane levels were normal just before the explosion. OK…they could have hit a pocket.
Then, a few days after the most anti-petroleum President ever makes noises about expanding offshore drilling, an offshore oil rig explodes. While I’ve never heard of one actually blowing up before, I guess it could happen, and the timing might just be because the universe runs on irony.
Now we have this PA natural gas mine situation. What’s the old saying? “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action and you were a dumbass for not seeing it in the first place.”
Seems like we’re suddenly having a whole lot of energy-industry related calamities in a very short span of time. If black helicopters start buzzing my house, I’ll let y’all know.
June 7, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Let’s not let the facts get in the way of a good argument – it would take a minimum of 9 months to build the kind of sand barriers Jindal wants to erect; if he started building them now, at the beginning of hurricane season, how long do you think they would last during even a small, category 1 storm, especially when this season is predicted to be the most active since the one that brought us Katrina. Wake up people – this is posturing at it’s best. Jindal is a has been who never really was – this is a lame attempt to garner some media attention since he is no longer even remotely considered as a possible contender for the republican presidential nomination.