Jun 19 2010
Half Assed Administration
Remember the stimulus bill that was supposed to save the economy? Remember how it failed miserably (since around 90% of its ‘shovel ready’ money was not even spent by January 2010). We have yet to see how bad the health care system has been screwed up by liberal fantasies, but we now know very few if any of us will be able to keep our current coverage. People keeping asking if all these failed promises were foolish lies (liberal naiveté) or evil lies (liberal oppression). I for one don’t care – either way the country is being destroyed.
But it took the massively destructive actions of a blown oil well ( caused in part by government incompetence) to demonstrate just how especially incompetent liberal government can be. It seems the neo-liberal, as personified by Obama, Pelosi & Reid, means one who struts around pretending you’re in charge and doing something while making money for you and your friends. They are saving the world and humanity – so of course they deserve a slice of the grand life!
Of course, the objective reality is all this pathetic self aggrandizing is ego-candy for the arrogant pols. They do live the grand life, but they are doing just the opposite from ‘saving the world and humanity’.
These people are just downright incompetent, mindlessly following bogus magical formulas dictated by lazy bureaucrats that falsely were claimed to be of value. We saw this when the EPA rules clashed with the reality of a massive oil spill. Don’t contain, don’t use dispersing chemicals, don’t burn off – all these could hurt the environment.
Instead these bureaucratic clowns allowed the oil to expand and travel in its most toxic form. What would have been a cloud of smoke and an isolated area of high chemical concentrations (both of which would have dispersed into the air and seas and become safe) turned into a regional nightmare. Contained and burned off an oil well could cannot come close to producing the pollutants and toxins of even an average sized volcano. Not even close! But some yahoo without basic math skills to understand the relative magnitude of these kinds of events decided to let the oily destruction spread.
Evil plan or dumb ass mistake? Again – who cares. Fire the lot of them and put the regional experts in charge.
The latest of these incidents was when the coast guard decided life vest inspections trumped saving the region of life and future prosperity:
Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state’s oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor’s wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
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Sixteen barges sat stationary today, although they were sucking up thousands of gallons of BP’s oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
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But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges.
This is insane. It is the responsibility of the boat owners to have the proper gear. And a few spot inspections could have done the job. Even better, having spare vests and extinguishers to pass out would have been a service to the cause and safety. It is one of those dumb bureaucratic tricks that makes you wonder how they can survive the forces of evolution.
Then we got this half assed news today:
President Barack Obama’s point man charting a new future for the oil-poisoned Gulf Coast will do the job part-time. Some environmentalists said the job demands someone’s full attention.
Great, out of millions of government seat warmers we could only find a guy who could scrap up half his time to clean up the mess. And the Obamabots wonder why this President is getting a reputation for just not getting it? Look, he is not aloof on the surface, this guy is pretty much detached from reality down to his core. His mind works on a total different plane of unreality. It is amazing he got where he did with that amount of fictional haze blinding him.
This is not time for half baked or half assed measures. But it seems all we have in charge at the moment is the crew of the B-Ark.
If an administration performs acts that should be politically destructive if the MSM were to shed light on them you almost have to fall back to looking for who will profit from this poor action or lack of action as the case might be.
Yes, exactly Merlin. I always believe in the motto: follow the money. Who will benefit if the rigs move to Brazil? G.S.
And remember the article, The Raping of America by Robyn of Berkely? Right on target.
But to be kinder, can you believe the ineptitude of government bureaucracy? Stopping the barges in Louisiana…Or is it malice?
The 20 somethings are getting their first tasteful of what we have known in depth during our lifetimes. They don’t know how incredible it was that Reagan started the overturning of monstrous ridiculous policies…tired old 60’s liberal polices…which are being recycled today, imho.
I woke up this morning singing the Star Spangled Banner and have had it in my mind all morning….It is very inspirational and what we will need going forward to defeat the cancer of liberal policies. G-d bless America!
When someone does something wrong in our country we have a branch of government to deal with it, it’s called the legal branch, it functions on city, state and federal levels. Why is it appropriate for the President of the United States to swoop down and decide how much and how, injured parties will be compensated? I can see it is easier and faster for the President to get involved, as dictatorships are swift, we know that from history.
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Obama seeks to make the government vast, but there isn’t enough revenue to make it that large, so instead he gives us a half-vast government.
# ivehaditon 19 Jun 2010 at 9:33 am
Yes, exactly Merlin. I always believe in the motto: follow the money. Who will benefit if the rigs move to Brazil? G.S.
Another who will just fall into a windfall profit will be George Soros.
He bought into Petrobras and then the Export Import Bank (ran by an old Clintonista) put out 2 billion in loan guarantees to pave the way for drilling by them. Yes it funds US equipment exports but still Soros gets the benefit of it.
If or actually more likely when those high dollar deep water rigs move to Brazil to start punching in new wells it will also go right to the Soros bottom line.
http://www.exim.gov/brazil/pressrelease_082009.cfm
This is what the President calls…….he’s been on the job from day one.
The briefing Friday by Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen gave us this nugget:
ADMIRAL ALLEN: Sure. We’re coordinated with DOD right now to take a look at the availability of skimmers within the Navy inventory. That is (inaudible) right now between us and the Department of Defense and that will be worked out today.
Obama is so steeped in politics he gauges everything toward that. He couldn’t let Jindal accomplish something so he stopped the skimmers with a paltrey excuse. Jindal is a republican and he can’t let republicans succeed. However, I think he bit off more than he could chew. He must have gotten a lot of backlash for him to let the skimmers get back to work. I wonder how much backlash he is getting about suing Arizona. Obama is getting too obvious. He’s not trying to hide the fact that his agenda is to destroy country any longer. 136 days until election. If we hold them, that is.
All these so-called mistakes are geared to calling something, anything, a major crisis and postponing or eliminating the elections. This is why he let this oil spill go and on so long with no effort to contain it.
Watching the reactions (including liberal reactions) to Obama’s efforts (or lack of) on the oil spill brings to mind this piece of dialog from Iron Man 2, in which Ivan Vanko explains to Tony Stark just how effective his recent public intimidation of Iron Man/Tony Stark really was:
“If you could make God bleed, people will cease to believe in Him.
There will be blood in the water, and the sharks will come.
All I have to do is sit here and watch, as the world will consume you…”
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BarberaS:
I’m supposed to be the paranoid one here! 🙂
I confess to being all over the map where Obama is concerned; ranging from actually raising the question, “Under what circumstances can national elections be suspended or canceled?” in
Thinking the Unthinkable
to wondering if Obama has already sealed his fate in my latest
“…and the sharks will come.”
To me, his very election is still a Monty Python nightmare from which I cannot awaken.
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He told us he wanted $10.00 per gallon gas before his election!
He was one of the largest benefactors of BP campaign contributions!
Rham Emmanuel said never let a crisis go to waste, people will allow you during a crisis to do things you could not otherwise get done.
So he shakes down BP ILLEGALLY!
He gets to be the hero distributing the checks to God knows who for God knows what, but from the Baraack Hussein Obama Gov’t!
This lieing Pinnochio lets BP off the hook by limiting their liability going forward. $5 Billion per year for 4 years! Is that enough if as I read he has instituted policies that limit their liablity later.
This should have been handled in courts to allow legitimate payment for legitimate claims rather than a Dem re-election slush fund and payoff to unions, ACORN and other favored groups.
In a crisis he stops oil production lieing that our reserves are so depleted we had to go miles offshore where its’ unsafe when in fact his evironuts forced us there and right past vastly greater quantities of reserves that are more safely accessible.
Why would he stop the leak?
HE BENEFITS FROM IT!
He demands and gets ever more money, paints big oil as evil, gets a goverment slush fund and brings America to her knees.
He gets to turn the American people against Big Oil so can more easily push his cap and tax agenda.
Repaying America for her greed and arrogance!
Why do you think he bows to foreign dictators and disses our allies.
Obama hates real Americans and only uses them as a tool to destroy us as he is doing with this crisis!
IMPEACH THE IMPOSTER!
There are ample grounds, he is destroying our country!
Have a look at this op ed piece. All three pages of it. I think Zuckerman has hit the nail on the head.
Crosspatch, from your link,
“America right now appears to be unreliable to traditional friends, compliant to rivals, and weak to enemies. One renowned Asian leader stated recently at a private dinner in the United States, “We in Asia are convinced that Obama is not strong enough to confront his opponents, but we fear that he is not strong enough to support his friends.”
Zuckerman is a great example of the problem. He does not understand that everything Obama is doing or not doing can be explained by looking at it through the eyes of an America hating Black Muslim with a Marxist, overthrow America and destroy her alliances, bent.
Obama hung out in an America hating Church listening to a black activist “preacher” denigrate America, Jews, and our allies.
He was mentored by Bill Ayers an avowed Marxist SDS member who bombed police stations and sought to tear America assunder.
He went to school in Indonesia and probalbly learned plenty about the evil western nations.
He is doing EXACTLY what he said he would do. “Fundamentally Transform America” By bringing her to her kness. Guaranteeing she is no more equal than any other nation.
He has no intention of stooping the oil else why is he not calling in every expert worldwide to plan and help us?
He is paying off Unions and destroying Capitalism (takeover of auto at expense of investors) as an essential path to a socialist society demanding government largess. He is turning us into Greece. It is the plan it is not the work of a good willed imbicile, rather of a group of people who hate the America we know and love and think they have a better Central Planning perscription!
McCain made the same foolish mistake!
This guy must be stopped. He must be IMPEACHED!
I found this at “Hot Air”……it is so good.
June 19, 2010 – by David Solway
Apologizing for Obama’s Serial Apologies
The next president will have to embark once again on a worldwide “reset†campaign, apologizing to America’s allies for the shabby treatment meted out to them by Obama.
The biggest cluster-you-know-what in the federal government’s history ……. The one good thing about the oil spill, it demonstrates in unassailable terms, how inept the federal government has become …
I live on the Gulf in SWFL and it pains me to no end to see the destruction this spill has caused, and realize, it didn’t have to be. If only the ones who were tasked with protecting us were actually doing their jobs, following regulations and not watching porn. It’s disgusting.
Massive federal regulatory failure, for all to see.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/many_foreign_offers_to_help_wi.html
From comments:
“The plan: let the spill get so far out of control that we’ll give a meek OK when they ram “green, sustainable, clean energy” down our throats.
It’s the same tactic they’ve used for years with so-called Guest Workers: allow the problem to get so out of control that we’ll give a meek OK to “comprehensive amnesty.”
See also spiraling healthcare costs fueled by a lack of tort reform, followed by “health reform” that does not address the problem of lawyers.
They’ve figured out how to give us the finger without most of us catching on.”
” Obama is a Traitorous Fraud – once you understand and accept that fact – all his actions/inactions make sense.
He and his traitorous enablers need to be exposed and treated accordingly. Until then- things will only get worse. ”
http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=547385
Have any of you considered that we are in the midst of the Second reconstruction? Compare what is taking place now to what happened to the South after the Civil War. White males were disenfranchised and illiterate, uneducated former slaves were put in charge of state and local governments. Hoards of “advisors” affectioately known ad carpet baggers, were sent south to assist them. When the first reconstruction ended in 1887, South Carolina alone had over $50 billion in bonded debt for projects that were never built. To put that in perspective…In1860 and 1870 census records family farms were valued at between $200 and $800. Nobody knows where all those Billion of dollars went. It took over 100 years for SC to pay off that debt. Fast forward to today. The second reconstruction began after WWII when industry began to desert the rust belt up north and move south. It was instigated and promoted by rich foundations such as the Ford Foundation and others with unknown sources of income, the Communist party, Unions, and assorted malcontents. What they did not count on was powerful southern senators who had seniority making is apply nationwide instead of just in the south as intended. Today, White males are, for the most part, are disenfranchised as the less than most qualified are affirmative actioned ahead of them in jobs, education and every other sector of our society. For at least 50 years we have allowed text books that teach that WASPs, including our founding fathers, were evil men who achieved whatever they did by abusing and stealing from other races. If someone said that all blacks are canabals because some blacks ate people in Afric a , he wouldl\ be accused of a hate crime and prosecuted. Yet we allow our white children to be mentally abused on a daily basis, while giving those who either can’t or won’t work to achieve knowledge, special treatment, and social promotions to build their self esteem. We have affirmative actioned the less than most qualified into leadership position in industy and government while relegating our best and brightest to make work jobs and cannon fodder when they have to join the military as a last resort. It’s little wonder we have lost our indusgtrial b ase and standing as the world’s leader. The American people are so laden with guilt for real and imagined past grievances allegedly commited by our ancestors that they voted for this man who is the epitome of a socially promoted, affirmative actioned, non educated, no nothing college graduate. He is nothnig more than a glib, jive talking, charismatic caricature of an educated and intelligent man. He has surrounded himslef with self serving advisors, who are the equivalent of yesterday’s carpetbaggers. They are borrowing trillions, no billions and nobody knows where the money is going. It will take more than a hundred years for out children and grandchildren to pay it off. History is repeating itself.
AJ:
Speaking of half-assed, take a look at this blog on FP Magazine’s site: http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/14/behind_the_scenes_a_flurry_of_obama_administration_activity_on_flotilla_investigati
Now, not sure how the blogger Josh Rogin got this photo but it purports to show senior administration officials engaged on a current crisis. If he used a file photo it’s lazy journalism, if he got it from the WH for his blog then it’s a two-fer of horrible damage control.
Why? In the back right of the photo is former Deputy National Security Advisor Lippert, who was shown the door out of this administration last year.