Just when I think Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party couldn't be any more deceitful, they sink to a new low.
This legislation changes nothing. It allows the Pentagon to repeal DADT if and when it chooses to.
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BP transported 300-400 clean-up workers to the beach where Obama and television cameras were today (Jefferson Parish), and as soon as Obama and the cameras left, so did the BP workers.
Tragically reminiscent of Bush at Jackson Square in New Orleans after Katrina.
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The WhiteHouse had the live feed from the first day & said nothing, did nothing, kept scientists & independent observers from the area, as BP l!ed about the amount of oil & gas gushing into the Gulf.
It's been clear to me since day one that the plan has always been to drill a relief well (which will take months & may not work), downplay the situation as much as possible in an effort to stall public pressure to treat this with any urgency.
"It may not be possible to fix this. What that means is that if it isn't fixed, that well will continue to gush until there's no more oil in it or the pressure gradients have matched up. It will take 9000 days (30 years) for this well to run dry, & waiting until August for the relief well to be drilled is too late to save the Gulf, the east coast of US & the N. Atlantic Ocean."
-Matthew Simmons, one of the world's leading oil experts to Dylan Ratigan this week.
Joining Ratigan and Simmons, Captain Dave Ballay & Eliot Spitzer, who talks about what Obama must do.
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Simmons & Spitzer are on Part 2:
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If this is so, if top k!ll doesn't work, this isn't a job for a foreign oil corporation, but for the US government, the US military (the Navy and Army Corps of Engineers). Listen to the clip.
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How can you even say "they didn't see the federal government down there" until recently with a straight face??? What is the freakin' USCG, chopped liver? Local Yokels?
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It's a complete clusterfvck -
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Now that Ted Kennedy has d!ed, even without a filibuster-proof Senate, Democrats control the Senate by a greater margin than either party has had in decades. Still Obama doesn't (and didn't) pressure the Blue Dogs, or threaten Lieberman with loss of his committee chairmanship.
But if you think that isn't enough, that it doesn't matter because Republicans can still filibuster anything and everything, there's Rule 22 of the Senate.
When we talk about Republicans filibustering, they really haven't been: They've been threatening to filibuster. Rule 22 leaves it up to the discretion of the Senate Majority Leader (Harry Reid) whether to actually force them to do it or just let them threaten (bluff).
Harry Reid has just let Republicans threaten, bluff. He's called them on it once in the last 3 1/2 years, when Republican Jim Bunning threatened to filibuster a bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits, and Republicans caved. Filibustering is hard work.
Obama and Democrats are constrained by nothing.
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No, I think that he is constrained by the system, he needs some republican support to break the current rules of the Senate, where a minority prevail on even the most sensible of laws to block their passage.
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No, not true.
When Obama got into office, he had a filibuster-proof Senate. He also knew he didn't have the luxury of that filibuster-proof Senate for long - Two Democratic senators were on death's door (Kennedy & Byrd). In spite of that fact, he slammed the brakes on healthcare reform, slowed everything down to a crawl, declared it was "Congress's job to come up with a healthcare reform bill", he wasn't going to get involved, except that any bill he signed must have a public option. Then Obama went to work undermining the committees writing the legislation in Congress, and l!ed about it when caught red-handed. Obama made deals with PhRma, hospitals, the AMA, and the insurance industry, undercutting the committees working on controlling medical costs.
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