Tag: oil

It’s not Bush’s fault: No one overseeing Deepwater Horizon was appointed by Bush

Nancy Pelosi blamed the Gusher in the Gulf on George Bush. But, no one overseeing Deepwater Horizon was appointed by Bush.

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Nancy Pelosi stretches the truth again

“It’s Bush’s fault. It’s Bush’s fault. It’s Bush’s fault.” Are you as tired of hearing those words as we are?

For example, TalkRadioNews.com reported that Nancy Pelosi blamed the Gusher in the Gulf on the former president a few weeks ago.

“Many of the people appointed in the Bush administration are still burrowed in the agencies that are supposed to oversee the [oil] industry,” Pelosi said when asked if Democrats could have prevented or mitigated the crisis by keeping a closer watch on the industry.

Facts are such annoying things. Luckily, one news organization did what the liberal media hasn’t done, which is to conduct a little research to find out if Pelosi’s accusation is true. Try not to be too shocked when we tell you that Pelosi was lying.

The Washington Examiner reveals the results of its research:

The Washington Examiner has obtained biographic information on the MMS officials responsible for overseeing BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig at the time it exploded, from the Gulf Region Director to the last inspector to set foot on the rig. Most of these federal employees started with the agency decades ago. Not one was a presidential appointment of George W. Bush, although one longtime MMS employee in question was promoted to his current position during the Bush Administration.

We live in a very strange world where oil companies aren’t permitted to drill and news organizations apparently aren’t allowed to dig.

Source: WashingtonExaminer.com, TalkRadioNews.com

Idiot of the Day: Democrat rep asks General Petraeus if Afghanistan bases use renewable energy

War is simple to Republicans. Kill the bad guys, help the good guys, win the war. But as Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) demonstrates, Democrats have other concerns, more nuanced concerns, more sophisticated concerns. Like whether we’re fighting a green war.

If this doesn’t define the difference between Republicans and Democrats, nothing does.

War is simple to Republicans. Kill the bad guys, help the good guys, win the war. But as Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) demonstrates, Democrats have other concerns, more nuanced concerns, more sophisticated concerns. Like whether we’re fighting a green war.

Giffords actually asked General Petraeus if, in light of the BP oil spill, the military is going to start using renewable energy at our Afghanistan bases to reduce the need for oil.

Even a cool, calm customer like Petraeus found himself at a loss for words.

Congresswoman Giffords, we salute you. You are the official IHateTheMedia.com Idiot of the Day.

H/T: Cubachi.com

Obama names Ray Mabus as Gulf Spill Czar, clearing way for Joe Sestak to become Secretary of the Navy

Aha, Mr. President! You’re a pretty clever guy, graduating from Columbia and Harvard and all, but you have to get up pretty early in the a.m. to fool the boys at IHateTheMedia.com.

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Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is tightlipped about is new, part time job.

Aha, Mr. President! You’re a pretty clever guy, graduating from Columbia and Harvard and all, but you have to get up pretty early in the a.m. to fool the boys at IHateTheMedia.com.

You gave Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus a new part time job as your Oil Spill Czar, but we see this clever ploy for what it really is – a way to move Mabus out of the way so Joe Sestak can finally be given that Secretary of the Navy job you promised him.

The Associated Press has the devious details:

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.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who oversees 900,000 Navy and Marine personnel, is inheriting an amorphous second job as the Obama administration’s leader of long-term environmental and economic planning. His task is no less than rebuilding a region still suffering afterHurricane Katrina and beset by decades of environmental problems.

Mabus won’t resign from his Navy job. When President George W. Bush picked Donald Powell to lead the recovery after Hurricane Katrina, Powell resigned as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

“The president talked to the governor about this, and they both agreed that he had the ability to do both,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday after Mabus met with Obama at the White House.

Mabus, a proven multi-tasker, will also find time to wash Rahm Emanuel’s car and pick up Robert Gibb’s dry cleaning. Because, you know, running the world’s largest navy and cleaning up the nation’s worst environmental disaster are just part time jobs.

H/T: ABC News

Rachel Maddow jumps on the Presidential dog pile, wants “adult talk” from President Obama

Seems like everyone reported the Olbermann, Matthews, Fineman snit fit, but falling through the cracks was Rachel Maddow jumping on the presidential dog pile.

Tuesday night’s speech from the Oval Office seems to have amused the right and really annoyed the left.

Seems like everyone reported the Olbermann, Matthews, Fineman snit fit, but falling through the cracks was Rachel Maddow jumping on the presidential dog pile.

After leading off with a big sigh, Maddow said, “In the big picture I am excited to see the President treating this with the gravity of something that requires and Oval Office address to the nation. In terms of the content of that address to the nation…I think the country is ahead of the politicians, that we all need to hear a little bit more, and I think we could have all taken a little bit more adult talk from the President.”

Like we said, those of us on the right are amused. Not so much by what Obama said, but by what his strongest supporters said.

Is reality finally setting in? Nah, next time a major policy issue arises, they’ll be drawn back to him like a moth to a flame. Or like flies to shit. Take your choice.

BP deep sixes Aquaman

We loved Aquaman comic books when we were kids. Of course, he couldn’t “leap tall buildings in a single bound” like Superman, but the sucker lived under the ocean. How cool was that?

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We loved Aquaman comic books when we were kids. Of course, he couldn’t “leap tall buildings in a single bound” like Superman, but the sucker lived under the ocean. How cool was that?

Congress’ new slogan “There’s somebody worse than us!”

In Congress, which has an approval rating even lower than Joe Biden’s IQ, lawmakers were thrilled to be able to degrade and humiliate someone looked upon with more disfavor than themselves – oil executives.

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No wonder Congressman Cao is so upset. Without petroleum products, he'll need a new hairstyle.

In Congress, which has an approval rating even lower than Joe Biden’s IQ, lawmakers were thrilled to be able to degrade and humiliate someone looked upon with more disfavor than themselves – oil executives.

CNN noted that “A hearing to discuss the future of national energy policy in the wake of the Gulf oil disaster got pretty ugly Tuesday. Lawmakers slammed executives from five of the world’s largest oil companies. At one point Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., called on Lamar McKay, chairman and president of BP America, to quit his job. Rep. Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao, R-Louisiana, went so far as to suggest McKay try a type of ritual suicide.”

Although the meeting called by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass) was intended to “focus on the ongoing spill, renewable energy development and the effect of President Obama’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling”, It quickly degenerated into a celebration of The Most Ass Kicking President In History’s new get tough policy.

Lawmakers took turns lambasting the oil executives about their poor contingency plans saying “Those plans included ’embarrassing’ errors like a reference to protecting walruses, which haven’t lived in the Gulf Coast for at least 3 million years, and the phone number of a marine biologist who died five years ago.”

(Strangely enough, rumor has it that the deceased biologist voted for Obama last year, but we digress.)

In truth the oil companies plans were horribly outdated and ill equipped to deal with any disaster. Unlike our government’s contingency disaster plan which, which no matter what the disaster may be, calls for raising taxes and passing massive new legislation designed to reduce the United States to third world status.

And that plan seems to be working perfectly so far.

Source: CNN

Louisiana residents think Bush did a better job on Katrina than Obama’s doing on the Gusher in the Gulf

Those people who say the Gusher in the Gulf is Obama’s Katrina moment are absolutely wrong. It’s actually his Hindenberg moment. His Titanic moment. His people-have-figured-out-that-I’m-a-fraud moment.

Those people who say the Gusher in the Gulf is Obama’s Katrina moment are absolutely wrong. It’s actually his Hindenberg moment. His Titanic moment. His people-have-figured-out-that-I’m-a-fraud moment.

Want proof? Check out the results of a new poll from left-leaning Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning polling organization:

50% of voters in the state, even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question compared to 35% who pick Obama.

Overall only 32% of Louisianans approve of how Obama has handled the spill to 62% who disapprove. 34% of those polled say they approved of how Bush dealt with Katrina to 58% who disapproved.

There is some good news in the PPP poll. But it’s not for President Obama.

If there’s any ‘winner’ in this unfortunate event it’s Governor Bobby Jindal. 63% of voters approve of the job he’s doing, the best PPP has found for any Senator or Governor so far in 2010. There’s an even higher level of support, at 65%, for how he’s handled the aftermath of the spill.

Remember when Bobby Jindal gave the response to one of Obama’s earlier speeches and the libs howled because he wasn’t a silver-tongued orator like Obama?

Louisiana residents might just tell you that Obama’s all talk, but Jindal’s let his actions do the talking.

Source: Public Policy Polling

Focus group agrees that Obama’s speech stunk up the joint

Frank Luntz did a focus group after Obama’s Tuesday night Oval Oil Office speech. It didn’t go well.

Frank Luntz did a focus group after Tuesday night’s Oval Oil Office speech. It didn’t go well.

It’s kind of like the situation the Japanese faced in 1944. We were kicking their asses all across the Pacific and their leaders kept telling themselves, “If we can just get the Americans into one final, decisive battle, we can still win this thing.”

Obama’s people see themselves getting their asses kicked in all the polls and they keep telling themselves, “If we can just get the Big Guy to deliver one final, decisive speech, we can still win this thing.”

We aren’t speaking Japanese. And Obama and the Democrats aren’t speaking a language Americans want to hear anymore.

Is it November yet?

H/T: Ace of Spades HQ

Alabama governor rips Obama administration’s response to Gusher in the Gulf

Alabama Governor Bob Riley is not happy with the Obama administration’s too-little-too-late response to the Gulf oil crisis. Not happy at all.

Alabama Governor Bob Riley is not happy with the Obama administration’s too-little-too-late response to the Gulf oil crisis. Not happy at all.

“You can’t have a committee that are going to make decisions that impact this entire coastal area,” he said.

One of our favorite sayings is, “Every committee should have an odd number of members. And three is too many.”

Words to live by in Alabama right now.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Obama says he doesn’t suck, but millions beg to differ

While talking about the Gusher in the Gulf, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, often called the Greatest Orator in History, actually said, “I can’t suck it up with a straw.”

While talking about the Gusher in the Gulf, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, often called the Greatest Orator in History, actually said, “I can’t suck it up with a straw.”

What he meant, we assume, is that George Bush somehow sabotaged all the straws.

Obama assumes official “I’m alone and I’m concerned” Democratic stance on oil spill

Pundits have been wondering what Barack Obama and Bill Clinton talked about at their private lunch last week. Well, wonder no more. IHateTheMedia.com’s microphones were there to record the private tête-à-tête.

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Pundits have been wondering what Barack Obama and Bill Clinton talked about at their private lunch last week. Well, wonder no more. IHateTheMedia.com’s microphones were there to record the private tête-à-tête.

Clinton: Here’s what you gotta do, Barack.
Obama: I’m taking notes.
Clinton: Visit a beach in Louisiana.
Obama: Good idea. It’s been a while since America’s seen my sculpted pecs.
Clinton: Cool down, big fella. We’re going for the concerned leader shot. I want you to squat in the sand.
Obama: Squat?
Clinton: In the sand. Then get a faraway look on your face that says, “It’s me against the world.”
Obama: Then what?
Clinton: Then you reach down and pick up a little something out of the sand.
Obama: Like what?
Clinton: Well, I picked up rocks in Normandy in ’94. The press ate it up. But since this is an oil spill photo op, pick up something oily.
Obama: How about one of those little oil balls?
Clinton: (laughing) Ha, ha, ha. Oil Balls. That’s what Monica called me.
Obama: You’re sure this will work, Bill?
Clinton: Trust me. The press eats this stuff up. (Aside) I can’t believe Hillary lost to this guy.

Obama administration resorts to special effects to stop oil blowout. Seriously. We’re not kidding.

Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Well, there you have it. Get those so-called oil experts out of the way and let the real geniuses take over.

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James Cameron's ingenious solution to the Gusher in the Gulf

This story is the perfect union of Washington, DC idiots and Hollywood morons. And that puts it right square in the middle of IHateTheMedia.com’s sweet spot.

The Associated Press reports the Titanic news:

Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The “Avatar” and “Titanic” director was among a group of scientists and other experts who met Tuesday with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil leak.

The Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. “Avatar” and “Titanic” are the two highest-grossing films of all time.

Well, there you have it. Get those so-called oil experts out of the way and let the real geniuses take over.

In other news, President Obama has decided to hire Wall Street director Oliver Stone to help out with financial reform and Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino to help out with gun control legislation.

Democrat Congressman Charlie Melancon cries like little girl during oil blowout hearing

Everything you know and love, Congressman? What about your wife? Your kids? Your country? The Saints? Gumbo? Bourbon Street at 3 a.m.? Beignets and coffee? And let’s not forget Mary Landrieu’s special back rubs?

Lips quivering like a little girl, Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon said, “Everything that I know and love is at risk.”

Everything you know and love, Congressman? What about your wife? Your kids? Your country? The Saints? Gumbo? Bourbon Street at 3 a.m.? Beignets and coffee? And let’s not forget Mary Landrieu’s special back rubs?

Now we’re talking, girly man.

Imus loses it when Chris Dodd tries to blame Bush for oil spill

“Countrywide” Chris Dodd was discussing the Gulf oil spill with Don Imus. As soon as Dodd tried to defend Obama by uttering the words “The last eight years…”, Imus went ballistic. It went downhill from there.

“Countrywide” Chris Dodd was discussing the Gulf oil spill with Don Imus. As soon as Dodd tried to defend Obama by uttering the words “The last eight years…”, Imus went ballistic.

It went downhill from there.

By the way, we just read the other day that said Imus is now a syndication success story and is carried on more stations than ever. That may be true, but if the show were really successful, wouldn’t it be able to book far better guests than corrupt lame duck senators?

Another Democrat turns on Obama: David Gergen rips Obama’s oil spill response

David Gergen, appearing with Anderson Cooper on CNN, said, “If our government had fought WWII like the way we’re fighting the oil spill, there’s a good chance many of us would be speaking German today.”

David Gergen, appearing with Anderson Cooper on CNN, said, “If our government had fought WWII like the way we’re fighting the oil spill, there’s a good chance many of us would be speaking German today.”

Amazingly, historian Douglas Brinkley doesn’t disagree.

Seig heil, Ubermeister Obama.

What was President Obama talking about when he said, “Plug the damn hole.”

The Commander-in-Chief was said to be angry at British Petroleum’s continued dithering and quoted by unnamed White House insiders as saying, “Plug the damn hole.” So now that BP has followed his instructions and plugged that hole, maybe the President could plug a few others.

In a leak aimed at creating the perception that President Obama is one tough mother hombre and almost as obvious as the leak in the Gulf, the Commander-in-Chief was said to be angry at British Petroleum’s continued dithering and quoted by unnamed White House insiders as saying, “Plug the damn hole.”

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So now that BP has followed his instructions and plugged that hole, maybe the President could plug a few others.

“Plug the damn hole.”

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Drilling regulators watched porn while Gulf oil spill grew

We really don’t care about this story. We just enjoyed using the words “drilling” and “porn” in the same headline. Thank you for indulging us. We also liked using “staff” and “porn in the same story.

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Office porn: Oil regulator viewing statistics on Obama's budget deficit

We really don’t care about this story. We just enjoyed using the words “drilling” and “porn” in the same headline. Thank you for indulging us.

Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry.

In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work, according to the report by the acting inspector general of the Interior Department.

The report cites a variety of violations of federal regulations and ethics rules at the agency’s Louisiana office. Previous inspector general investigations have focused on inappropriate behavior by the royalty-collection staff in the agency’s Denver office.

We also liked using “staff” and “porn” in the same story.

Source: Associated Press

James Carville goes ragin’ Cajun, attacks Obama over Gulf oil spill

Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and that Obama was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.

The latest Rasmussen poll shows Obama with just 44% approval. Democrat strategist James Carville appears to be part of the remaining 56%. He had some very harsh things to say about Obama’s Katrina.

The Huffington Post reports the Louisiana lowdown:

Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and that Obama was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.

“I think they actually believe that BP has some kind of a good motivation here,” he said. “They’re naive! BP is trying to save money, save everything they can… They won’t tell us anything, and oddly enough, the government seems to be going along with it! Somebody has got to, like shake them and say, ‘These people don’t wish you well! They’re going to take you down!'”

For once, we understood every word Carville said. But we somehow doubt that anyone in the White House understood it.

Source: Huffington Post

Obama demands answers in the Gulf: Where are the dead, oily birds, damn it?

As might be expected, we get a different perspective on the Gulf oil gusher from the foreign media than from the American media. Far different. And, we’d like to think, far more honest.

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The Gulf oil gusher is a tragedy in search of a photo op

As might be expected, we get a different perspective on the Gulf oil gusher from the foreign media than from the American media. Far different. And, we’d like to think, far more honest.

Dominic Lawson comments in the Independent UK:

Barack Obama’s media advisers were quite distressed when the President travelled down to the Louisiana coastline last week to make his first on-the-spot statement about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Their distress was caused by what they didn’t discover, rather than what they did. Despite their frantic requests, no photogenic dying oil-covered birds could be found to form a backdrop for the Presidential tirade as he weighed into BP.

The same fact – the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon rig has not (yet) hit the coastline itself – presumably explains why the incident has not been big on the television news, for all the alarm and even hysteria that has been expressed. On a visual medium there is little enduring interest to be had in footage of oil floating on water – even if it is a lot of oil on a lot of water.

Where are the dead birds? Where are the dead turtles? Where are the dead dolphins? And most important, where is the bounce in the polls?

Source: Independent UK

Rick Sanchez demonstrates how the Gulf Coast is going to get screwed

You can always count on CNN and Rick Sanchez to provide high tech graphics that tell the real story. In this screen cap, Mr. Sanchez shows how the oil leak will screw the Gulf Coast.

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You can always count on CNN and Rick Sanchez to provide high tech graphics that tell the real story. In this screen cap, Mr. Sanchez shows how the oil leak will screw the Gulf Coast.

One might say the graphic is a bit too graphic.

H/T: Mediaite

Ohmmmmmm. Colorado hippie thinks we can stop Gulf of Mexico oil spill by meditating

Up to 200,000 gallons of oil a day has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20. So far, all efforts to staunch the flow have failed. But never fear! Hippie power is here. And one long-haired Colorado nutcase thinks we can solve the problem with a little group meditation.

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Carl Fuermann meditates by himself to stop the oil leak in his car, but needs your help to stop the slightly larger oil leak in the Gulf

Up to 200,000 gallons of oil a day has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20. So far, all efforts to staunch the flow have failed.

But never fear! Hippie power is here. And one long-haired Colorado nutcase thinks we can solve the problem with a little group meditation.

“The basic concept is to try and get as many people to visualize that the valve is actually functioning and is working and closing,” said Carl Fuermann, a staff member in the University of Colorado’s Registrar Office.

But wait. It gets weirder:

Fuermann said his desire to use meditation to activate the blowout preventer — and his belief that visualization could actually work — is rooted in his own life experiences and in a global movement called the Intention Experiment.

“I’m very known for fixing things and making things work,” Fuermann said, adding that he believes his meditation helped fix a friend’s Flip video camera. “I visualize things working and hold the belief that they actually work.”

Just a wild guess on our part, but we’re pretty confident that a guy who works for the government and thinks he can fix mechanical problems via meditation is also a guy who voted for Obama.

Sounds crazy to us, but on the off chance that Fuermann’s onto something here, let’s all close our eyes and visualize November. Nancy Pelosi out. Ohmmm. Harry Reid out. Ohmmm. Barbara Boxer out. Ohmmm.

Join in. Ohmmm.

Source: DailyCamera.com

Obama’s phony photo-op “tour” of the Gulf oil slick

The President went to the Gulf Coast and let his remarkable compassion flow like oil from a busted well head. It was warm. It was caring. And it was completely phony.

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"I really don't care about the oil slick, but when we get back to New Orleans, I'd like to get a bowl of jambalaya about this big."

The President went to the Gulf Coast and let his remarkable compassion flow like oil from a busted well head. It was warm. It was caring. And it was completely phony.

The LA Times Top of the Ticket blog reports the details:

A Louisiana trip was laid on for Sunday. The advance teams were redeployed and their short prep time showed with the president having to drive instead of helicopter from New Orleans to a Delta Coast Guard briefing and then, as he spoke to reporters outdoors, be drenched in a downpour. Guard briefing and then, as he spoke to reporters outdoors, be drenched in a downpour.

The president was also seen taking off for a disaster scene tour in a chopper. But winds were such and the threat of fog possible that the president only saw the ordinary Louisiana coast.

After all that travel, logistics and talk, he never spotted one drop of oil.
The good news for him is twofold: He was seen caring about the incident. And he wasn’t seen looking uselessly out a plane window as Bush was.

Aides were quick to describe how useful the tour was for Obama to see something for himself. He did get out the main message-quote about BP being responsible for every dime, even though there’s a $75 million limit on a causative party’s costs.

Local officials were quoted as appreciative of his presence which, truth be told, did absolutely nothing to stop the oil, advance the recovery or mitigate any damage beyond that potentially to the president’s image if he hadn’t gone.

Obviously, this trip wasn’t planned because the President is concerned about the oil spill spreading. It was planned because he’s concerned about the discontent of the voters spreading.

Source: Top of the Ticket

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