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UPDATE: Obama is furious. You can’t tell it by his voice or his face or his pounding the table (which is isn’t doing) or anything, really. But he does say, “My job is to solve this problem.” Uhhh… OK. I feel so much better now. So… ummm, I forget. What is he going to do?
Here are more clips from the hard hitting, no holds bared interview with… Larry King… OK, forget the hard hitting and all that part.
I suspect this will be Obama’s legacy more than BPs. Is there any evidence that BP actually did anything negligent to cause the accident? We still don’t even know what really caused the explosion.
All I see is BP trying something new every day, without the Federal government doing anything useful to help. And unlike Katrina, it is far enough off the coast that it actually is the Federal government’s responsibility, instead of the states’. While the governor of Louisiana has been trying to build berms for weeks, Obama has not allowed them to until today for fear of their ‘potential environmental impact’. What??
This is not going to be good for BP, but I think long term people will remember BP attempting to fix their problem, and President Obama spending most of his time vacationing and blaming.
It looks kinda like Dr. Zoidberg’s lost uncle…
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>> aslightlycrankygeek said, on June 3rd, 2010 at 9:02 pm
>> I suspect this will be Obama’s legacy more than BPs.
This is deregulation’s legacy.
>>Is there any evidence that BP actually did anything negligent to cause the accident? We still don’t even know what really caused the explosion
Holy smokes, man, you need to keep up.
There are TONS of evidence that BP was negligent. Furthermore, this isn’t anything new for BP — they have a long record of safety violations and disasters.
Google it. It’s all over the place. You might also watch the 60 Minutes story on it.
Still time to place a super tanker in the Gulf and siphon out as much oil as possible.
Still time to STOP adding detergent to the oil making additional unknown components out there in the cradle of life. I know retards like Cranky will claim we wash our clothes in detergent so there is no problem, but who pays his kind any heed?
Still time for the BP Board to FIRE their CEO. Imagine a CEO who according to the law everywhere but the USA installs acoustic shut off valves and drills a relief well at the same time because of the safety issues BUT because the USA does not require the same, the CEO elects not to do this causing BP Billions in lost revenues? Who puts up with incompetency like that except Cranky?
Time to give Craig Ventner anything he needs to gin up a batch of oil eating microbes to clean up this mess. Then the microbes will invade the deeper oil reserves turning them into hydrogen gas and methane which will explode 100 years from now releasing the magma beneath. No more energy needs and Mother Earth continues forward.
Yes, its a great time to be alive watching the greatest democratic experiment fail from lack of insight and rampant corruption and stupidity.
Silly Hoomans.
O’bama’s “furious” now. Gonna go to the Gulf to have a look see and settle his boot on BP’s throat a little tighter.
Guess there no more fundraisers for him to attend to this week.
Meantime, since there’s nothing important going on that needs Congress’s attention, a couple of our Democratic representatives are sticking their nose into major league baseball’s miscall on a perfect game.
http://bit.ly/9LJok4
I think Bobbo said it best: “Nothing changes as our spiraling descent into the abyss continues.”
Hey, remember early on when sites like Drudge kept asking where the oil was and implying doom-and-gloom predictions about the leak were part of an evil liberal plot?
Good times.
Deep water drilling is far more difficult, and accident prone, than near shore drilling. The reason the US drills in the deepwater in the Gulf is that residents along the shore don’t want to see the platforms.
What’s really opened my eyes in all this is just how brainwashed people are getting. The worst ecological disaster of all time get’s bigger everyday and there are still people out there defending our governments role in all this, pointing fingers, making political debate, and of course attacking anyone who dares to say that we should take control of the situation from BP or that their beloved prezi isn’t doing everything possible. At larger blogs where I post I’ve even come to the conclusion that some of the most active posters are getting paid to defend certain points of view.
Is all this BS really more important than getting that leak sealed? Adverse situations are the test of our values and priorities, so far all I feel is a shameful fail.
The ecological impact of all this continues to be down-played. If what I suspect is true, the worst is yet to come, and the consequences will reach beyond US shores, and last for decades.
The clock is ticking, damn it!
#9 “and of course attacking anyone who dares to say that we should take control of the situation from BP ”
Wrong, Obie I said the he and the gov have been calling the shots and controlling ALL BP actions vis-a-vis the spill for a while now. So, according to the Pres. the gov is calling ALL the shots.
>>The reason the US drills in the deepwater in
>>the Gulf is that residents along the shore
>>don’t want to see the platforms.
As a “resident along the shore” I can assure you that you’re retarded.
We don’t want the oil platforms there because we don’t want them leaking all over the place.
Don’t be a putz.
Now why did you have to post that picture up?
The ecological impacts of sucking on the oil tit is best kept out of sight and hence out of mind.
#13 said, “but when the govt declines to take over BP to force it to stop hiding the oil underwater with poisonous dispersants, it’s negligence?”
Owning GM is one issue, I haven’t seen ANY discussion of the US gov’t owning BP. What exactly are you referring to?
I gotta wonder if BP is really any different from any of the other oil companies drilling in the Gulf. If the Bushco idiots deregulated for BP they probably deregulated for everyone, right? Might just have been BP’s bad luck that the the inevitable incident happened to them and not Exxon or another company. Not to excuse them at all, but people wanting to boycott BP are missing the point, I think.
#13 Excellent point, Zoidberg. No consistence or coherence in their arguments. Funny to see the anti-government types bash Obama for not getting the government involved.
I don’t know why people are “blaming” this mess on Obama, when it was more than thirty years of deregulation, and de-funding of regulatory agencies that led up to this mess. Many of us knew that this kind of thing would happen, when the previous resident of the White House stated that it would be in our best interests to let businesses “self-regulate,” and let the market take care of itself. It’s as bad as the “drill, baby drill” crap that we hear out of the mouth of Caribou Barbie, and her minions. And don’t forget that a lot of people “retired” under the Bushco, Inc. administration. Most of the people in these regulatory agencies are new, and were hired because of their lack of faith in the government doing any good. It seems to me that the blame should go to the people who said that the government can do no good. The same ones who, like Grover Norquist state that they, “Don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” That’s just great. We need people who want to take the government back and serve WE THE PEOPLE, not them, the corporations.
We need strong government regulation of businesses, so that they can’t rip us off, and they take care of things like our environment.
BP’s Legacy: Paradise Lost
Wrong Headline – thanks to Obama’s befuddlement it will soon read:
Obama’s Legacy: Presidential Reelection Lost
Failed state, failed corporatocracy, failed regulocracy, failed technology all causes are depressing, but the worst is the result, failed ecosystem.
The link is to a CBC Sunday Edition radio interview mp3 podcast less than a week ago of Dr. Riki Ott, marine biologist and intimate expert on the Exxon Valdez disaster. Yes it’s baaaaaaaack. Or at least the same mistakes and some new ones. Backgrounder begins at 0:30, actual interview 1:30. Entire 46 MB file may contain other content.
Phydeau said: “Funny to see the anti-government types bash Obama for not getting the government involved.”
Yeah, a real laugh riot, fool!
This is what the government is supposed to do. Protect its citizens.
Some people will be up to their butts in sticky ooze and still be arguing about what caused it and who’s to blame. This thing needs to be stopped NOW! See, now I’m gonna have to go take my meds again. People that can do this to their world don’t deserve to have one.
Sad to see so many of my good friends exchaning barbs. Aren’t all the “errors” fairly evident for all to see and agree on? I think so. The only “apparent” disagreements is because the criticisms are so ambiguous people can quibble as they wish.
Of course, BP is negligent, responsible, and doing its best to cover it up and not take responsibility as much as possible.
Of course, our Gov is negligent in not having the regulatory enforcement in place to have prevented this. Note to quibblers: Obama is just the President and he doesn’t make the laws or deny their funding: think Congress.
So, add up ALL THE COSTS, and tell me how expensive good clean renewable actually are: net/net/net? We’ll come around to it when we have no other choices, I’m convinced of it.
The stupidity from the media is absolutely astounding. Some idiot chick on CNN was out at the relief well drillhead with the Admiral and noticed a boat spraying water. She asked the Admiral about it, and he replied that it was to cover the oil in the area and damp the volatiles coming off of it. Later discussing the situation with another idiot CNN chick, the one in the newsroom asked the one in the field if she heard any complaints from the well workers about headaches and other oil-related respiratory issues.
The moron CNN chick completely forgot what she observed in HER OWN SEGMENT about the oil crews at the wellhead spraying water on the oil to supress THOSE VERY FUMES and told the idiot in the newsroom (who must have also seen the segment SHE JUST AIRED) that the oil workers weren’t complaining at all about vapors from the oil and only had a will to work and fix the problem. What a pandering shill idiot.
Is there any evidence that BP actually did anything negligent to cause the accident?
The spill and the slide, continue…
#17 I agree this is an opportune catastrophe for the Repulipukes to pin on Obama.
The trick is to snow the sheep with enough Fox air cover to make it look like it was his fault!
However, I think that would only get the standard 30% that already wear the dig dig dig tee shirt.
#24: You’re kidding, right? Only about 10,000 news stories document their negligence over the years, aided by their buying… er, um… contributing campaign contributions to politicians to loosen the protections.
Who knew a President could just step in and clean up an oil spill? The only error I see by his administration is not fasttracking approval of those barriers in Louisiana.
Uncle Dave is correct.
The Obama administration granted BP a waiver from environmental regulations in April 2009. Obama received lots of campaign contributions from BP.
#24, then there’s this.
Bobbo said: “Obama is just the President and he doesn’t make the laws or deny their funding: think Congress.”
Not according to Obama’s campaign promises. He was going to eliminate racism, heal the planet, remake America, lower the seas and even the press believed it (I felt this thrill going up my leg).
Obama has learned an old trick of Bill Clinton’s: If you behave like a star, you’ll get treated as one. So, even as his numbers weakened, his rhetoric soared until Day One of the oil spill.
Oh, and by the way – when you think Congress, be sure to think Democrat Congress. They have been in charge since January 2007. Let’s look at their accomplishments.
* The national debt has increased by 41.8% since the Democrats took control of Congress.
* The deficit has nearly tripled
* The deficit was higher in FY 2009 than in every year from FY 1996-FY 2007 combined
* The debt limit has been increased five times and Congress is considering a sixth time increase from $8.965 trillion to $14.29 trillion. If enacted the debt limit will have increased by 59.4% since the Democrats gained power.
I just can’t tell what is more damaging to this once great country of ours: unsafe drilling in the deep ocean with the only safety precautions being cutoff valves that were known to work only 5% of the time, or the ignorance seemingly innocently asked by those so naive they even call themselves fetal, or the idiotology proudly crowed by the likes of jbenson.
I mean, the oil spill will be cleaned up in 30 years, but willful abysmal ignorance and willful stupidity will always be with us.
Eugenics.
#1
You’re not listening to the NPR show carefully enough. Yes, nature will help take care of some of the oil with the bacteria but at this scale it’s ludicrous to believe they can do it by themselves, let alone quickly. This was stated by Mr. Harris.
Coast guards are one of the the most proper, if not better, organizations to help with the cleanup. “Coast” gaurds. It is part of their responsibility.
#5
Bobbo, I totally agree with you on this. This incident has shown, me personally, how stupid and ignorant our government and so call experts are in trying to deal with this disaster. After 6 weeks with little government intervention and lead while BP continues failure after failure, one has to think WTF is going on!!!
When I hear and read others comment about oil drilling and nuclear plants (wastes particularly) without any regards to safety concerns it sickens me. How one would think that nothing bad would ever happen in these two fields is beyond my understanding.
#8
The biggest oil accident, I believe, is below 500 feet. And most accidents are below 1000 feet. The risk is also higher since it’s closer to shore, meaning it won’t takes weeks to like this current one to get there. But deep drilling is difficult, if not because most tasks require robots/machinery.
#10
Yes, the Government is calling the shots but the shots are are dumb.
#16
I’m certainly not blaming Obama completely but rather hoped he would be more “forceful” in commanding this whole disaster. But alas, I think I’m like all of you where I’m merely fed by media and have almost no clue what the hell is really going on. Obama getting upset and NOT showing his frustrations outwardly is a good thing for this nation. Definitely don’t want to look like a “chimp.”
#22
I think many of of are in agreement of the faults here. Everything and everyone has failed as shown by this disaster. It has failed from corruption years ago. Sadly, drilling will continue with most, if not all, of the same sht because of our “needs” for oil. There’s no escaping the blame, it’s a vicious cycle and people are willing to see the truth of it.