Obama Managing Crisis 'Horribly': Jack Welch

Onceler said:
LOL

Someone isn't keeping up w/ current events, or w/ recent discussions on the board...
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/14/politics/washingtonpost/main6581011.shtml

A plan by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) to create sand berms to keep oil from reaching the coastline originally came from the marine contractor Van Oord and the research institute Deltares, both in the Netherlands. BP pledged $360 million for the plan, but U.S. dredging companies -- which have less than one-fifth of the capacity of Dutch dredging firms -- have objected to foreign companies' participation.

Garret Graves, who chairs Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, wrote in an e-mail that state officials "have made it clear to our contractors from the beginning that we want to use American dredges to complete this sand berm as quickly as possible . . . Ultimately, any effort to expedite these berms will be fully considered, but we remain committed to our American companies."
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Now Lorax.... since you are obviously more up to date than this article from three days ago... do link us to where you found they are now using foreign assistance for the sand berms.

I eagerly await your educational information....
 
Superfreak said:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/14/politics/washingtonpost/main6581011.shtml



Now Lorax.... since you are obviously more up to date than this article from three days ago... do link us to where you found they are now using foreign assistance for the sand berms.

I eagerly await your educational information....
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Sorry 'bout that. Misread your post; I thought you were saying they had refused all foreign aid (like a few WERE saying yesterday). My bad.

Jack's an arse, though. He blew it w/ the PCB's and his criticism is the height of irony.
 
Onceler said:
Sorry 'bout that. Misread your post; I thought you were saying they had refused all foreign aid (like a few WERE saying yesterday). My bad.

Jack's an arse, though. He blew it w/ the PCB's and his criticism is the height of irony.
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I find it impressive that you were finally able to read AND comprehend.... it makes discussions so much easier when you do that.

:good4u:

;)
 
Topspin said:
I give Obama an F on prevention, ie it's his shop that failed ie MMS no buck passing to Bush as he knew well in advance he had many problems with Bush.
I give him a D on clean up, an F on the stopping drilling.
I give him an A+ on making BP not only pay for the clean up but fund an escrow that's not shamefull like what Exxon rapeage of Alaska was.
Overall grade D
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That sounds about right.

It was his responsibility to clean up the culture of corruption and lax regulatory oversight at MMS. Spotted owl huggers have been screeching for years about that crap. The ball was in Obama's court and he blew it off.

Surprisingly, the most fact-based and legitimate criticism of Obama's handling of this crap comes from the lefty media. But given the fact that the righwingnutosphere is basically comprised of pathological liars and uber partisan hacks, I have to rely on these communists to provide me with factual and relevant criticisms. That said, I agree with you that President Sarah Palin was unlikely to make BP squeal like a pig and cough up 20 billion. You betcha.



Rolling Stone Magazine

Like the attacks by Al Qaeda, the disaster in the Gulf was preceded by ample warnings – yet the administration had ignored them. Instead of cracking down on MMS, as he had vowed to do even before taking office, Obama left in place many of the top officials who oversaw the agency's culture of corruption. He permitted it to rubber-stamp dangerous drilling operations by BP – a firm with the worst safety record of any oil company – with virtually no environmental safeguards, using industry-friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years. He calibrated his response to the Gulf spill based on flawed and misleading estimates from BP – and then deployed his top aides to lowball the flow rate at a laughable 5,000 barrels a day, long after the best science made clear this catastrophe would eclipse the Exxon Valdez.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0
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Cypress said:
That sounds about right.

It was his responsibility to clean up the culture of corruption and lax regulatory oversight at MMS. Spotted owl huggers have been screeching for years about that crap. The ball was in Obama's court and he blew it off.

Surprisingly, the most fact-based and legitimate criticism of Obama's handling of this crap comes from the lefty media. But given the fact that the righwingnutosphere is basically comprised of pathological liars and uber partisan hacks, I have to rely on these communists to provide me with factual and relevant criticisms. That said, I agree with you that President Sarah Palin was unlikely to make BP squeal like a pig and cough up 20 billion. You betcha.
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For all of the "messiah" talk, the left has been much more unrelenting on Obama's failures so far, and - as you mentioned - much more targeted & smart about their criticism...
 
Onceler said:
For all of the "messiah" talk, the left has been much more unrelenting on Obama's failures so far, and - as you mentioned - much more targeted & smart about their criticism...
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Nailed it, man.

Oddly enough, my recollection is that the rightwing blogs were in almost universally in overdrive mode defending Bush during Katrina.


I actually get really decent, fact-based, and focused criticisms of Obama's handling of this crap from the communist media. I'm totally confident that I am more knowlegable about obama's actual fuck ups on this than any Neocon or teabagger, because I read rolling stone, alternet, and truthout.


Amazingly, alternet, firedoglake, and truthout are more honest and principled than the redstate.com or Drudge. Totally bizarre, man.
 
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