Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

By the way, fishing has only been shut down in about 4% of the water along the areas affected in the Gulf.



I've seen reporters out in boats, complaining of the stench and the goo in and on the water point out shrimpers and other fishermen "out for a last run". They're catching seafood, and selling, fish and other seafood that has been through that muck.



80% of US seafood comes from overseas, and it's not much, if at all, better - http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/835.html



Our "American way of life" is k!lling us.
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

I'm an old liberal Democrat.



Obama and Democrats were put into power to reverse the last 30 years of Republican privatization and deregulation. Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats in Congress have done NOTHING in that regard. Obama has continued just about all of Bush's policies.



The only people that Obama is fooling are his most ardent admirers, who think he's either a populist, a liberal, "playing 3 dimensional chess", has some grand scheme to trick Republicans, OR, those who think he's a centrist and are happy with his failure to accomplish anything because they, for all intents and purposes, conservatives themselves, libertarians, for less government.
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Obama going on vacation has nothing to do with the oil spill. BP made this spill and should clean it up.

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The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 makes oil companies FINANCIALLY responsible, but in no way requires them to be in charge or even involved in dealing with accidents or clean-up.



Subtitle B alone parks this FUBAR directly at the Oval Office:



Subtitle B: Removal - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) to require the President to ensure effective and immediate removal of a discharge, and mitigation or prevention of a substantial threat of discharge, of oil or hazardous substances into the Exclusive Economic Zone or onto adjoining shorelines or in any way threatening natural resources under exclusive Federal management authorization. Requires the President to direct all Federal, State, and private actions in the event of an actual or potential discharge which is a substantial threat to the public health or welfare. Exempts from liability, with certain exceptions, any person acting pursuant to the National Contingency Plan or as otherwise directed by the President. Requires the Plan to establish procedures for: (1) removing a worst-case discharge or threat; and (2) coordinating the activities of Coast Guard strike teams and specified others. Requires revision and republication of the Plan by a certain date.



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Or maybe BP should have had the equipment in place and tested these fixes at 5000 feet below sea level --- BEFORE this happened?

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Actually, it's the US government's job to make sure that the nation and its people are protected.



A president does not leave duty to go on vacation when the very existence of an entire region of his country (not to mention the effect on other nations) is in an ongoing crisis. To say it's about appearances, public relations, doesn't drive home how dire this situation is, but much of what a president does happens through people's perceptions.



Being disengaged didn't work for Bush ("cell phone", "video conferencing") and it certainly doesn't work for Obama. It took 35 days of him (& people like you, his most ardent supporters echoing), "Not my responsibility -- It's BP's", before his handlers realized that wasn't playing well. So they switched the script, had him say, "I'm responsible, the buck stops here ... Now watch me go on vacation".



Last week, as proof of his assertion that the government has been in charge since day one, Obama told of his insisting that BP drill not one but two relief wells.



Today we learned that BP has stopped drilling that second relief well.



As Donna Brazille, Democratic Party insider & fierce supporter of Obama said to Howard Fineman about the AWOL Obama to her state's crisis with this blow-out, "What happened to the fierce urgency of now?"
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Actually, it's the US government's job to make sure that the nation and its people are protected.



A president does not leave duty to go on vacation when the very existence of an entire region of his country (not to mention the effect on other nations) is in an ongoing crisis. To say it's about appearances, public relations, doesn't drive home how dire this situation is, but much of what a president does happens through people's perceptions.



Being disengaged didn't work for Bush ("cell phone", "video conferencing") and it certainly doesn't work for Obama. It took 35 days of him (and people like you, his most ardent supporters echoing), "Not my responsibility -- It's BP's", before his handlers realized that wasn't playing well. So they switched the script, had him say, "I'm responsible, the buck stops here ... Now watch me go on vacation".



As Donna Brazille, Democratic Party insider and fierce supporter of Obama said to Howard Fineman about the AWOL Obama to her state's crisis with this blow-out, "What happened to the fierce urgency of now?"
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It seems, however, that Obama's efforts go into preventing reporters, scientists and outside observers from documenting the FUBAR -- How BUSH of Obama:



Photographers say BP and government officials are preventing them from documenting the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.



As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials—working with BP—who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible. More than a month into the disaster, a host of anecdotal evidence is emerging from reporters, photographers, and TV crews in which BP and Coast Guard officials explicitly target members of the media, restricting and denying them access to oil-covered beaches, staging areas for clean-up efforts, and even flyovers.



http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
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Except that the work isn't getting done.



http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/28/on-the-scene-under-pressure/



Obama's government continues to play hot potato with BP, and word games with the American people over what "responsibility" actually looks like, getting nothing accomplished while sensitive habitat is destroyed, and this crisis gets worse.



According to local officials at the parishes, USCG leaves a representative behind in a parish, they don't stick around, they keep getting changed, they have no authority and defer to BP, and nothing gets done.



One example of this FUBAR:

If BP has put booms out (rare and inadequate numbers), nobody returns to pick them up when they're soaked to replace them with fresh boom so the oil overwhelms the boom barricades and soaks the marshes.
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