It"s the SPILL, Stupid!
With many in and out of the mainstream media and his own party finally turning on the Obamassiah, it could very well be that the Gulf oil disaster could become this president's Katrina, and deservedly so.
That could happen despite his phony, Chicago tough guy demeanor that was transparent in his reference to kicking the A-word on the "Today Show" with Matt Lauer.
The charade that is Barack Hussein Obama was long overdue to catch up with him. I'd be surprised that it's taken this long for the MSM to cut through Obama's smoke and mirrors except for the fact the MSM knew all along what he is: a duplicitous over-achiever.
In that Lauer interview, Obama let slip another chink in the Obama armor when Lauer interrupted a response and asked him if he had spoken to British Petoleum's CEO, Tony Hayward.
He later told ABC News that he would have fired Hayward "by now," 50 days into the spill but during the "Today" interview he admitted, "I have not spoken to him directly."
With no teleprompter in sight, Obama offered his excuse, namely "because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like the BP CEO, he's going to say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions."
Interest in "actions" for a guy who has been virtually inert from the beginning of this mess is an odd expectation and Lauer called him on it. He interrupted the president again by saying, "In all due respect that seems strange to me:" [http://tiny.cc/om7e9]
It would seem strange to any conscious person that the president of the United States, 7 weeks into an unprecedented catastrophe, hadn't picked up a phone and called the guy who has admitted responsibility and whom he would have fired.
Presumably an indirect contact was deemed sufficient.
It wasn't sufficient for former Obama supporter Rep. Charley Rangel. The ethics-challenged Rangel, still under investigation by the House, has joined another former Obama idolator and Louisiana native, James Carville, in ripping the president's response-or lack thereof-to the massive oil spill.
According an interview published in the Washington Times, Rangel said, "I don't think the administration has the slightest clue. We're bringing in experts now, in and outside of government, to see whether or not BP will do more. We should have had the answers to that long before we even drilled:" [http://tiny.cc/j1ayn]
If not answers before we drilled, we should at least have had a leader who wasn't out golfing, fund raising, feting Paul McCartney, and pushing health care while the health of the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf states were in peril.
Meanwhile, in what could emerge as the biggest scandal related to the oil spill, it turns out that a manufacturer in Maine has enough oil containment booms on hand to clean up the Gulf in relatively short order.
The only glitch is that neither BP nor the U.S. government is interested despite pleas and letters sent to the inept Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar.
As thousands of barrels of crude continue to gush into the Gulf daily, Packgen of Auburn, Maine has been turning out the floating booms non-stop but no one is buying.
Packgen's John Lapoint took "a big financial risk-and he knew that-but he also figured that in an emergency of that magnitude, you had to act quickly, and figured that BP and the federal government would have to act quickly as well, and every single foot of boom he could make would be useful and in immediate demand. He figured wrong:" [http://tiny.cc/phhie]
Interior's Salazar, BP's Tony Hayward, and the leader of the Free World must have more important items on their agenda than to bother with a solution to a disaster.
Then again, at least Hayward is on the job. Obama must hate Gulf people.
That could happen despite his phony, Chicago tough guy demeanor that was transparent in his reference to kicking the A-word on the "Today Show" with Matt Lauer.
The charade that is Barack Hussein Obama was long overdue to catch up with him. I'd be surprised that it's taken this long for the MSM to cut through Obama's smoke and mirrors except for the fact the MSM knew all along what he is: a duplicitous over-achiever.
In that Lauer interview, Obama let slip another chink in the Obama armor when Lauer interrupted a response and asked him if he had spoken to British Petoleum's CEO, Tony Hayward.
He later told ABC News that he would have fired Hayward "by now," 50 days into the spill but during the "Today" interview he admitted, "I have not spoken to him directly."
With no teleprompter in sight, Obama offered his excuse, namely "because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like the BP CEO, he's going to say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions."
Interest in "actions" for a guy who has been virtually inert from the beginning of this mess is an odd expectation and Lauer called him on it. He interrupted the president again by saying, "In all due respect that seems strange to me:" [http://tiny.cc/om7e9]
It would seem strange to any conscious person that the president of the United States, 7 weeks into an unprecedented catastrophe, hadn't picked up a phone and called the guy who has admitted responsibility and whom he would have fired.
Presumably an indirect contact was deemed sufficient.
It wasn't sufficient for former Obama supporter Rep. Charley Rangel. The ethics-challenged Rangel, still under investigation by the House, has joined another former Obama idolator and Louisiana native, James Carville, in ripping the president's response-or lack thereof-to the massive oil spill.
According an interview published in the Washington Times, Rangel said, "I don't think the administration has the slightest clue. We're bringing in experts now, in and outside of government, to see whether or not BP will do more. We should have had the answers to that long before we even drilled:" [http://tiny.cc/j1ayn]
If not answers before we drilled, we should at least have had a leader who wasn't out golfing, fund raising, feting Paul McCartney, and pushing health care while the health of the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf states were in peril.
Meanwhile, in what could emerge as the biggest scandal related to the oil spill, it turns out that a manufacturer in Maine has enough oil containment booms on hand to clean up the Gulf in relatively short order.
The only glitch is that neither BP nor the U.S. government is interested despite pleas and letters sent to the inept Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar.
As thousands of barrels of crude continue to gush into the Gulf daily, Packgen of Auburn, Maine has been turning out the floating booms non-stop but no one is buying.
Packgen's John Lapoint took "a big financial risk-and he knew that-but he also figured that in an emergency of that magnitude, you had to act quickly, and figured that BP and the federal government would have to act quickly as well, and every single foot of boom he could make would be useful and in immediate demand. He figured wrong:" [http://tiny.cc/phhie]
Interior's Salazar, BP's Tony Hayward, and the leader of the Free World must have more important items on their agenda than to bother with a solution to a disaster.
Then again, at least Hayward is on the job. Obama must hate Gulf people.
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