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June 15, 2010

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Buford Gooch

Ditherer in Chief.

Danube of Thought

"...a consistent impression that no one is in charge."

Apparently our planet will have to begin to heal on its own.

bgates

He keeps coming up with new ways to disappoint. If I'd been asked on Inauguration Day to come up with Presidential duties that I thought he'd handle least badly, a big oil company causing an environmental disaster at the exact location where Katrina hit would have been at the top of the list.

I can't quite tell whether this is massive (unprecedented!) incompetence, and/or whether he deliberately wants to let this get worse so he can use it to further damage the country. It seems safer to assume the latter.

daddy

Chaos in the Gulf!!!

So which one is Obama, http://phelan.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/max86.jpg "> Maxwell Smart, or ">http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/gs/getsmartimages/hymie-200.jpg"> Hymie The Robot?

Danube of Thought

Wow. Just had a pretty sharp earthquake here. 5.7 out near Ocotillo. Initial reports blame Bush.

daddy

DoT,

Interesting. Had one here in Taipei about 6 hours back (5.4)

I'm on the 11th floor and had the whole building shaking about 10-15 seconds. Didn't post it as the link wasn't up yet, but it is now so here they are: ">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/"> Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

Extraneus

I can't quite tell whether this is massive (unprecedented!) incompetence, and/or whether he deliberately wants to let this get worse so he can use it to further damage the country. It seems safer to assume the latter.

Yup. And it also seems like a safe bet to assume that when he first heard about it, there were high-fives in the Oval Office. "Ha ha! Now we have the f'n oil industry right where we want 'em! And the worse this gets, the better it is!"

It didn't dawn on them until sometime later that people might expect Obama to save the coasts. And they obviously weren't prepared for that kind of organizing.

Jane

I can't quite tell whether this is massive (unprecedented!) incompetence, and/or whether he deliberately wants to let this get worse so he can use it to further damage the country. It seems safer to assume the latter.

It seems pretty clear that the only criteria this administration uses for action is political criteria. The dithering is caused by figuring out what will benefit the administration politically. Nothing else matters. Perhaps they were trying to extort campaign donations from the boom manufacturers, thus the delay.

He's Blago on steroids.

Wuzzagrunt

If only there were some way to predict, before the election, that a guy with zero executive experience and a 15 minute political career, would lack the necessary skills to direct the federal response to a crisis. How could anyone have known?

How does he justify himself when he finally figures shit out?

Lending more support, Jane, to the belief that Fitz the Pure Blind Knight stopped a trainwreck in Illinois. Had the ears listened another week we'd have a different President already.
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M. Report

It is an oil spill, not the end of the world;
This is why the Won can afford to treat it as
a fortuitous crisis to be exploited, as can the
loyal opposition; The US cannot afford to have
the usual incompetents in charge as it heads
into a future filled with existential threats.

The November elections should do more than put
some newcomers in Congress; It should put the
current critters in Congress, and TPTB who put
them there, and pull their strings, on notice
that the people are watching, they are mad as
Hell, and they are not going to put up with
politics as usual any more.

narciso

Fitz charged Libby, when she have gone after Armitage, he used Radler against Black, he has sat on Rezko's larger allegations, just like Nicole covered up for Allen, in the Stevens matter

One with pistolas.

Special Prosecutor needs a Special Prosecutor.
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Jim Miller

Obama should have gotten some good advice earlier; in particular, he should have called this former vice president.

Cross your fingers, not your relief wells.

With any luck, Jim, Cheney's got a handle on when the relief wells can strike, and is advising Sarah of the timing.
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Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet

This oil leak has been FUBAR, and is a SNAFU. In addition, it will become the icon for clusterf***k.

I can scarcely imagine a better legacy for His Travesty

Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet

Just heard one CEO call this Admin effort "Political Beer Pong".

What ever happened to Teh Once's statement that this was/is his responsibility? Lost in the ether.

Rick Ballard

The first relief well should be functioning by August 10th with the second well about two weeks behind. I've seen estimates that the reservoir may be 2-2.5 billion barrels which leads me to wonder why a few more wells aren't being drilled in order ensure pressure relief and establish a production center.

Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet

Engineering logic has nothing to do with Rick when your only experience is all politics all the time.

Walter Sobchak

Wuzzagrunt wins:

"If only there were some way to predict, before the election, that a guy with zero executive experience and a 15 minute political career, would lack the necessary skills to direct the federal response to a crisis. How could anyone have known?"

A favorite theme here: The media was too high from inhaling its own gasses to be able to report the obvious.

Jay Rosen

Watching from here in Canada, I have to say that it looks to me as if everything this president does, every decision he makes, is designed to strike another blow against the Great Experiment. You folks better wake up and purge Obama and his fellow Marxists at the very first opportunity.

I'm pulling for America, and I'm encouraged by the Tea Party movement - even went to one last summer with my wife and we loved every minute of it.

Remember in November. For the sake of your freedoms, remember in November.

Alan Little

This gulf thing is going to turn global very quickly I think. We need to stop bickering and stop this leak. I am pulling for America, too!

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