Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response

You have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about.  

Even Obama and Thad Allen contradict you, and say that the US was in charge and calling the shots.

It really is amazing what you 0bamab0ts pull out of your @$$ to try to defend behavior that, had it been done under Bush's watch, you would have condemned.  

You believe and contend that the lease requires BP's calling the shots, and should the US take over, it absolves BP of responsibility, which is simply not true.  Nor has it ever come out of the mouth of Obama, Thad Allen, Ken Salazar, or anyone else in government.  But it hasn't stopped anonymous commenters around the internet who  have been spreading that disinformation since the explosion.   The law does not require (not in these oil & gas leases or any kind of contract) that the government's (or anyone's) hands be tied and must just stand around or risk the assignment of legal liability while BP's (or a BP-like party) responds to the disaster any way it wants.

Even if this weren't a crime scene (11 people were k!lled due to negligence & fraud that we know about), it was an ongoing & continuing disaster.  It wasn't like an earthquake, where once the shaking is over, the government steps in to repair & rebuild.  This was an earthquake that continued for months, with no end in sight.

By the way, nobody in the government, not Obama, not Thad Allen, not Ken Salazar, nobody whatsoever in the government has ever made the claim you're making about the terms of the oil & gas leases.  They didn't because it's not true.  That's not the law for any of those leases.  That's wholly a creation of 0bamab0ts working backwards, trying to defend Obama's failure to respond adequately.  

0bamab0ts are no better than Bushies.


 
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Biden To Democratic Base: 'Stop Whining'

Yawning is an indication that your brain isn't getting enough oxygen.
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Biden To Democratic Base: 'Stop Whining'

Sarah Palin's not in politics because of passionate ideological beliefs; she's in it for the money & the glory. 

She's not stup!d; she knows her limits. What she's selling is her 'packaging' -- Her looks, her ability to deliver a speech, to land punches, and motivate a particular voting bloc on election day to cast their ballots for Republicans. She's willing to be the 'front' ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074554/ ), which works for her puppetmasters who don't want nor need public recognition. All they want is to control the power of the office of the president & Congress.

If you want to know who is controlling her, begin by googling Fred Malek (her escort to the Alfalfa Club dinner post-2008 election).

If Sarah Palin wants the presidency, I'm sure she's willing for someone else (a 'kitchen cabinet', like what Reagan had) to tell her what to do. 

Palin's ambition & beliefs about public service & politics are really the ultimate in cynicism. And after Ronald Reagan made it to WhiteHouse (and Dan Quayle became VP, & Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California, and W became president), who's to say she's wrong? 

It's all show biz. 

The real lesson of the 2000 election was that the old line that in America, "anyone can grow up to become the president" was true. Not the best nor the brightest, but the candidate with the best marketing team.

And once in office, no matter which party's candidate wins, the same establishment elites will be calling the shots.
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Biden To Democratic Base: 'Stop Whining'

Stop with the fear rhetoric about McCain and Palin already.  Both of their records of voting and governing are significantly different than their campaign rhetoric, and strikingly similar to Bush-Cheney, which isn't all that different than Obama-Biden's.

Both parties' candidates campaign to their bases, and once in office they work for their corporate masters in remarkably similar ways.   Not better, not worse, but THE SAME. You just like the packaging better. I'm not talking skin color, although that may be a factor for you; I'm talking about how a 'D' after the name is a brand you believe and trust in, despite the fact that it's the same 'soap' (product).

When Sarah Palin quit as governor of Alaska, I wrote that she was quitting because she always intended the job to be just a stepping stone (just like Bush as governor of Texas); she had to leave before she had any record in it. 

She has no record of achieving anything but jobs. Once she gets a job, before she can muck it up, she parlays the job into a new, better one, in a higher office. Think Robert Morse in "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" -- That's Sarah Palin's blueprint for life, on how to get to the top. 

Sarah Palin as J. Pierpont Finch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxPT20bn9fc


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Biden To Democratic Base: 'Stop Whining'

So when the Obama-Biden administration stack a 'Debt Commission' with proponents of privatizing Social Security, there's reason for Americans to object (whine).  

The truth about the Obama-Biden Administration's (and the DLC's) intentions are, as usual, in the lawyer-speak rhetoric and in the the administration's behavior.

Obama Packs Debt Commission with Social Security Looters:
Obama has filled his new 'debt commission' with Wall Street insiders determined to gut Social Security
http://www.alternet.org/story/146183/obama_pack s_debt_com mission_wi th_social_ security_l ooters?page=entire
 
Obama Packs Debt Commission With Social Security Privatization & Benefit Cut Supporters
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http://www.truth-out.org/obama-catfood-commissioner-threatens-small-town-with-nuclear-annihilation62852gt; >
You don't put Social Security on the table at all before a 'Deficit Commission' (it's not in danger of going broke, to begin with) or put people like this on your commission if you weren't signaling that you're open to doing it.   

And Representative Chris Van Hollen (head of the DCCC, Rahm Emanuel's old post, carrying on in Emanuel's practice of recruiting Blue Dog candidates instead of real Democrats) made an interesting parsing slip on CNN about that very point (he never was the brightest color in the box -- Democratic voters are d00med if this is the future leadership of the party).  Go hunt: http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/15/sotu.01.html

[Hint: "partial"]
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Biden To Democratic Base: 'Stop Whining'

Then there's SocialSecurity, & how it's the other guys, the GOP, who want to privatize it.

That the Obama-Biden administration has put SocialSecurity (which runs a surplus) on the table of its 'Debt Commission' (a group, all of whom support privatizing SocialSecurity) should tell you that the American people (& not just "a few in the base") have reason to worry and "whine".  

Because we've seen the same deceptive behavior for a long while now from DLC-Democrats & Obama-Biden, along with their assurances about how "there's nothing to worry about".  We've seen the Obama-Biden administration continue the policies & practices of the Bush-Cheney administration.  And after campaigning on restoring the Constitution & bringing transparency to government, we've seen bigger abuses and assaults on the Constitution by Obama-Biden, more secrecy laws, and new restrictions to FOIA.  We've seen the Obama-Biden administration talk out both sides of its mouth, for what can only be an intent to deceive.  

You don't promise transparency, then beg off by claiming that you're leaving reform to Congress, & then undermine the congressional committees working on reform by cutting secret deals with corporations.   But that's exactly what the Obama-Biden administration did. 

Early in the healthcare legislation process, Obama declared that he wouldn't sign any legislation that didn't include a public option, but he did.  Instead of working to get a real healthcare reform bill through, Obama worked overtime to make sure that there would be no real reform -- Just a massive corporate giveaway with no cost controls & no universal coverage.   

The week before & the week after the healthcare bill (or, more accurately, 'The Insurance & Pharmaceutical Industries Windfall Act') passed in the Senate was the one & only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconciliation anyway, & there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a PublicOption in it.  Obama nixxed it.  What was the reason? 

"If the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote & there's no time!"

After the (allegedly) pro-PublicOption senators accepted that excuse & stood down, Republicans discovered 2 flaws with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a PublicOption?"

http://www.huf fingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/byrd-rule-sends-health-care-back-to-house_n_512609.html

The Obama-Biden administration will do everything within its power to prevent a public option, public healthcare, and affordable, quality medical treatment for everyone as long as it retains the WhiteHouse, because that was the deal that was made.

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The Obama-Biden Administration's War on Privacy

In early August, two dictatorial (and U.S.-allied) Gulf states -- Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- announced a ban on the use of Blackberries because, as the BBC put it, "[b]oth nations are unhappy that they are unable to monitor such communications via the handsets."  Those two governments demand the power to intercept and monitor every single form of communication.  No human interaction may take place beyond their prying ears.  Since Blackberry communication data are sent directly to servers in Canada and the company which operates Blackberry -- Research in Motion -- refused to turn the data over to those governments, "authorities decided to ban Blackberry services rather than continue to allow an uncontrolled and unmonitored flow of electronic information within their borders."  That's the core mindset of the Omnipotent Surveillance State:  above all else, what is strictly prohibited is the ability of citizens to communicate in private; we can't have any "uncontrolled and unmonitored flow of electronic information."  

That controversy generated substantial coverage in the US media, which depicted it as reflective of the censorship and all-consuming surveillance powers of those undemocratic states.  But the following week, The New York Times published an Op-Ed by Richard Falkenrath -- a top-level Homeland Security official in the Bush administration and current principal in the private firm of former Bush DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff -- expressing support for the UAE's Blackberry ban.  Falkenrath asserted that "[a]mong law enforcement investigators and intelligence officers [in the U.S.], the Emirates’ decision met with approval, admiration and perhaps even a touch of envy."  New Internet technologies -- including voice-over-Internet calls (such as Skype) and text messaging -- are increasingly difficult for governments to monitor, and Falkenrath noted, correctly, that the UAE "is in no way unique in wanting a back door into the telecommunications services used inside its borders to allow officials to eavesdr0p on users."  The U.S. Government is every bit as eager as the UAE and Saudi Arabia to ensure full and unfettered access to everyone's communications:

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