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Obama's handling of BP rated worse than bush 's Katrina
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there is not a single person NOT blaming BP
why can't you comprehend that BP fucked up big time and so is obama? the two are not mutually exclusive
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Poll: BP Oil Spill Response Rated Worse than Katrina
Most Favor Criminal Charges Against BP and Others Involved in the Gulf of Mexico Spill
679 comments ANALYSIS By GARY LANGER
June 7, 2010
PrintRSSFont Size: Share:EmailTwitterFacebookMoreFarkTechnoratiGoogleLiveMy SpaceNewsvineRedditDeliciousMixxYahooBy more than a 2-to-1 margin, Americans support the pursuit of criminal charges in the nation's worst oil spill , with increasing numbers calling it a major environmental disaster. Eight in 10 criticize the way BP's handled it – and more people give the federal government's response a negative rating than did the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Beaches across four Gulf shore states brace for oil onslaught. A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62 negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.
Click here for a PDF with full charts and questionnaire.
BP's response to the spill draws even broader criticism – 81 percent rate it negatively. And 64 percent say the government should pursue criminal charges against BP and other companies involved in the spill, which has poured oil into the Gulf from a well 5,000 feet beneath the surface since an explosion and fire destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig April 20.
Most Favor Criminal Charges Against BP and Others Involved in the Gulf of Mexico Spill
679 comments ANALYSIS By GARY LANGER
June 7, 2010
PrintRSSFont Size: Share:EmailTwitterFacebookMoreFarkTechnoratiGoogleLiveMy SpaceNewsvineRedditDeliciousMixxYahooBy more than a 2-to-1 margin, Americans support the pursuit of criminal charges in the nation's worst oil spill , with increasing numbers calling it a major environmental disaster. Eight in 10 criticize the way BP's handled it – and more people give the federal government's response a negative rating than did the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Beaches across four Gulf shore states brace for oil onslaught. A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62 negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.
Click here for a PDF with full charts and questionnaire.
BP's response to the spill draws even broader criticism – 81 percent rate it negatively. And 64 percent say the government should pursue criminal charges against BP and other companies involved in the spill, which has poured oil into the Gulf from a well 5,000 feet beneath the surface since an explosion and fire destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig April 20.
Where in here does it say President Obama's response to this oil spill was rated worse than Bush's resonse to Katrina?
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Pointless polls: BP vs. Katrina
June 7, 2010 * 3:44 pm
I'm just as disgusted as anyone at the photos of oil-soaked bird carcasses washing up on Gulf Coast shores. But the results of a recent poll on Americans' attitudes toward the Obama administration's response to the oil spill, when compared with a similar 2005 poll on President Bush's post-Katrina ball-dropping, are curious:
A month and a half after the spill began, 69% in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62% negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.
The 7-point spread doesn't represent much of a statistical bombshell. But the Katrina versus BP comparison -- as if both can be held up as indicative of the same kind of government incompetence -- is puzzling. As The Times' editorial board wrote last week, the Bush administration's Federal Emergency Management Agency was too slow to perform tasks it was explicitly set up to fulfill. Thousands of evacuees were stranded for days in a flooded New Orleans while FEMA Director Michael D. Brown displayed little interest in doing his job.
President Obama, by contrast, has drawn criticism mainly for his supposedly insufficient outrage. Though The Times' editorial board faulted the president for maintaining too much of a hands-off approach for too long, it did point out that unlike FEMA's more clearly defined role in hurricane relief, "There are no proven protocols in place for responding to an oil well blowout at a depth of 5,000 feet; the country is only now learning this humbling lesson."
Or if you insist on identifying a villain, you're free to join Sarah Palin in left field and blame -- no kidding -- "radical environmentalists."
June 7, 2010 * 3:44 pm
I'm just as disgusted as anyone at the photos of oil-soaked bird carcasses washing up on Gulf Coast shores. But the results of a recent poll on Americans' attitudes toward the Obama administration's response to the oil spill, when compared with a similar 2005 poll on President Bush's post-Katrina ball-dropping, are curious:
A month and a half after the spill began, 69% in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62% negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.
The 7-point spread doesn't represent much of a statistical bombshell. But the Katrina versus BP comparison -- as if both can be held up as indicative of the same kind of government incompetence -- is puzzling. As The Times' editorial board wrote last week, the Bush administration's Federal Emergency Management Agency was too slow to perform tasks it was explicitly set up to fulfill. Thousands of evacuees were stranded for days in a flooded New Orleans while FEMA Director Michael D. Brown displayed little interest in doing his job.
President Obama, by contrast, has drawn criticism mainly for his supposedly insufficient outrage. Though The Times' editorial board faulted the president for maintaining too much of a hands-off approach for too long, it did point out that unlike FEMA's more clearly defined role in hurricane relief, "There are no proven protocols in place for responding to an oil well blowout at a depth of 5,000 feet; the country is only now learning this humbling lesson."
Or if you insist on identifying a villain, you're free to join Sarah Palin in left field and blame -- no kidding -- "radical environmentalists."
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I showed you two polls with the same conclusion, liberal pundits are using it. YOU ARE THAT DUMB!!!
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The oil giant has paid for the Google and Yahoo! results in a bid to moderate the flow of criticism against it on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
Web users searching for ‘oil spill’ on Tuesday night brought up a link to BP's website with the tagline: ‘Learn more about how BP is helping.’
Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are burned in the Gulf of Mexico
Under fire: Sixty-nine per cent of Americans are unhappy with how Barack Obama, speaking yesterday in Maryland, is handling the Gulf oil spill crisis
Toby Odone, a BP spokesman, told The Telegraph the aim behind the purchase was to make information on the leak more accessible.
‘We have bought search terms on search engines like Google to make it easier for people to find out more about our efforts in the Gulf and make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims, reporting oil on the beach and signing up to volunteer,’ he said.
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How Obama's latest rant trashed the BP share price (thisismoney.co.uk)
Lord Tebbit condemns 'anti-BP' Obama: Gulf oil rhetoric is 'bigoted against Britain'
It comes as polls reveal Barack Obama’s popularity is slipping in the wake of America’s worst oil spill.
More Americans - 69 per cent - are unhappy about the U.S. president’s administration's response to the BP disaster than disapproved of George Bush's botched handling of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, according to a poll.
Protection: Sand is pumped on to East Grand Terre Island, Lousiana, to provide a barrier against the oil spill
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay
In a separate survey, nearly half – 48 per cent - of people questioned by the Washington Post said the U.S. president does not understand their problems – the highest figure yet.
There is also a sharp rise in the number of people who believe Mr Obama’s policies are making the economy worse rather than better, according to the Pew Research Center.
A BP executive said today the company expected to be capturing virtually all the oil leaking by early next week.
Chief operating officer Doug Suttles said in Gulf Shores, Alabama, that the flow should decrease 'to a relative trickle' by Monday or Tuesday.
Mr Suttles said a second pumping ship should improve the process and a new containment cap being built would seal better and reduce leakage.
However, the oil giant sought to clarify the comments by saying that even though the company was optimistic it could make measurable progress in the next week in reducing the flow, it would take more time to reach the point that the spill amounted to a trickle.
No, it's not the JFK movie: Actor Kevin Costner arrives at Congress hearing about the oil cleanup
Plan: Costner explains how he and his brother, a scientist, have machine that can separate oil from water
But while BP is capturing more oil from the blown-out well with every passing day, scientists on a team analysing the flow said yesterday that the amount of crude still escaping was considerably greater than that claimed by the U.S. government and the company.
Their assertions - combined with BP's rush to build a bigger cap and its apparent difficulty in immediately processing all the oil being collected - have only added to the impression that BP and the government are still floundering in dealing with the catastrophe and may be misleading the public.
It comes as Mr Obama hit out angrily at BP boss Tony Hayward as the U.S. backlash against the British oil giant turned ugly.
In his toughest words yet on America's worst oil spill, Mr Obama said he was focusing on 'whose ass to kick' and would have fired Mr Hayward for his past comments downplaying the scale of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Marine reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill off his hands
Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen from an underwater vantage
The increasingly belligerent president was asked in a TV interview about Mr Hayward's remarks that the Gulf of Mexico was 'a big ocean', 'the environmental impact is likely to be very, very modest' and that he 'wanted his life back' after being in the eye of the storm over the spill.
TODAY'S POLL
Is President Obama right to blame BP for the oil spill?
Yes No VOTE POLL RESULTS
Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results 'He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements,' said Mr Obama.
Frustrated at the slow progress in containing the flow of oil from the mile-deep leak, the president has been increasingly outspoken about BP and its inability to resolve the crisis since its rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.
'I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick,' he said.
A woman holds a sign depicting BP CEO Tony Hayward that reads 'Guilty as Charged', beside a prison jumpsuit intended for Hayward left on the door of the office building where the Washington DC headquarters of BP
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats yesterday proposed a fivefold increase in the tax that oil companies pay into a spill liability fund.
TONY HAYWARD'S SPILL GAFFES IN FULL
April 29: The New York Times reported that Hayward, apparently exasperated, turned to fellow executives in his London office and asked, 'What the hell did we do to deserve this?'
May 14: Hayward attempted to persuade The Guardian newspaper that 'the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume'. Days later, he told Sky News that 'the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest'.
May 30: Hayward played the sympathy card. He told the Today show that 'there’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back'.
May 31: He said that ecosystem-threatening underwater oil plumes did not exist. 'There aren't any plumes,' Hayward claimed.
June 1: Hayward responded to claims that cleanup workers were being sickened by the fumes from the oil they were exposed to by suggesting another possible, non-oil-spill cause. When nine workers fell ill he told CNN that 'food poisoning is clearly a big issue'.
The legislation would raise the tax on oil produced offshore from 8 cents a barrel to 41 cents a barrel - 7 cents higher than legislation that passed the House last month.
Critics claim the devastation caused by the spill that has now spread to some of Florida's white sandy tourist beaches could seriously harm the chances of Mr Obama's Democrat Party in November's midterm elections.
But the President insisted on NBC's Today programme that he had been on top of the calamity from the start.
Continuing his attack on BP, he said: 'The initial reports indicate there may be situations in which not only human error was involved, but you also saw some corner- cutting in terms of safety.'
His comments will increase the pressure on Mr Hayward whose family are living in fear of reprisals over the spill after receiving threatening phone calls at their home.
Police have launched a security operation to protect Mr Hayward's wife Maureen and their two children at their isolated £1million home in rural Kent.
Mrs Hayward said the family had received several threatening phone calls and hate mail claiming to be from environmental groups.
She said one letter purported to be from Greenpeace, although Greenpeace strongly denied sending any letters to the family.
Mrs Hayward said the abuse had been 'upsetting' and left them feeling 'rather uncomfortable', particularly with her husband thousands of miles away.
In another sign of the growing rift between BP and the U.S. government, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said he was no longer trusting the company's estimates on the amount of crude still flowing into the sea.
He said a containment cap on the ruptured pipe was capturing up to 462,000 gallons of oil a day, about 11,000 barrels. BP put the figure at 466,200 gallons.
However, according to U.S. scientists BP's Deepwater Horizon well could be spewing out more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day.
BP has given various estimates of how much oil it believes has leaked out but said from the start that the 'worst case scenario' was about 100,000 barrels.
The doomsday prediction appears to have been accurate, according to advisers to the U.S. Government.
One, Professor Ira Leifer, said: 'In the data I've seen, there's nothing inconsistent with BP's worst case scenario.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...ill-help-repair-reputation.html#ixzz0qTDB4Slb
Web users searching for ‘oil spill’ on Tuesday night brought up a link to BP's website with the tagline: ‘Learn more about how BP is helping.’
Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are burned in the Gulf of Mexico
Under fire: Sixty-nine per cent of Americans are unhappy with how Barack Obama, speaking yesterday in Maryland, is handling the Gulf oil spill crisis
Toby Odone, a BP spokesman, told The Telegraph the aim behind the purchase was to make information on the leak more accessible.
‘We have bought search terms on search engines like Google to make it easier for people to find out more about our efforts in the Gulf and make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims, reporting oil on the beach and signing up to volunteer,’ he said.
More...Just who IS the the boss here? President Obama goes walkies with pet dog, Bo
Barack O-boring: Even a surprise visit by Obama can't keep THIS U.S student awake
How Obama's latest rant trashed the BP share price (thisismoney.co.uk)
Lord Tebbit condemns 'anti-BP' Obama: Gulf oil rhetoric is 'bigoted against Britain'
It comes as polls reveal Barack Obama’s popularity is slipping in the wake of America’s worst oil spill.
More Americans - 69 per cent - are unhappy about the U.S. president’s administration's response to the BP disaster than disapproved of George Bush's botched handling of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, according to a poll.
Protection: Sand is pumped on to East Grand Terre Island, Lousiana, to provide a barrier against the oil spill
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay
In a separate survey, nearly half – 48 per cent - of people questioned by the Washington Post said the U.S. president does not understand their problems – the highest figure yet.
There is also a sharp rise in the number of people who believe Mr Obama’s policies are making the economy worse rather than better, according to the Pew Research Center.
A BP executive said today the company expected to be capturing virtually all the oil leaking by early next week.
Chief operating officer Doug Suttles said in Gulf Shores, Alabama, that the flow should decrease 'to a relative trickle' by Monday or Tuesday.
Mr Suttles said a second pumping ship should improve the process and a new containment cap being built would seal better and reduce leakage.
However, the oil giant sought to clarify the comments by saying that even though the company was optimistic it could make measurable progress in the next week in reducing the flow, it would take more time to reach the point that the spill amounted to a trickle.
No, it's not the JFK movie: Actor Kevin Costner arrives at Congress hearing about the oil cleanup
Plan: Costner explains how he and his brother, a scientist, have machine that can separate oil from water
But while BP is capturing more oil from the blown-out well with every passing day, scientists on a team analysing the flow said yesterday that the amount of crude still escaping was considerably greater than that claimed by the U.S. government and the company.
Their assertions - combined with BP's rush to build a bigger cap and its apparent difficulty in immediately processing all the oil being collected - have only added to the impression that BP and the government are still floundering in dealing with the catastrophe and may be misleading the public.
It comes as Mr Obama hit out angrily at BP boss Tony Hayward as the U.S. backlash against the British oil giant turned ugly.
In his toughest words yet on America's worst oil spill, Mr Obama said he was focusing on 'whose ass to kick' and would have fired Mr Hayward for his past comments downplaying the scale of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Marine reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill off his hands
Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen from an underwater vantage
The increasingly belligerent president was asked in a TV interview about Mr Hayward's remarks that the Gulf of Mexico was 'a big ocean', 'the environmental impact is likely to be very, very modest' and that he 'wanted his life back' after being in the eye of the storm over the spill.
TODAY'S POLL
Is President Obama right to blame BP for the oil spill?
Yes No VOTE POLL RESULTS
Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results 'He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements,' said Mr Obama.
Frustrated at the slow progress in containing the flow of oil from the mile-deep leak, the president has been increasingly outspoken about BP and its inability to resolve the crisis since its rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.
'I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick,' he said.
A woman holds a sign depicting BP CEO Tony Hayward that reads 'Guilty as Charged', beside a prison jumpsuit intended for Hayward left on the door of the office building where the Washington DC headquarters of BP
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats yesterday proposed a fivefold increase in the tax that oil companies pay into a spill liability fund.
TONY HAYWARD'S SPILL GAFFES IN FULL
April 29: The New York Times reported that Hayward, apparently exasperated, turned to fellow executives in his London office and asked, 'What the hell did we do to deserve this?'
May 14: Hayward attempted to persuade The Guardian newspaper that 'the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume'. Days later, he told Sky News that 'the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest'.
May 30: Hayward played the sympathy card. He told the Today show that 'there’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back'.
May 31: He said that ecosystem-threatening underwater oil plumes did not exist. 'There aren't any plumes,' Hayward claimed.
June 1: Hayward responded to claims that cleanup workers were being sickened by the fumes from the oil they were exposed to by suggesting another possible, non-oil-spill cause. When nine workers fell ill he told CNN that 'food poisoning is clearly a big issue'.
The legislation would raise the tax on oil produced offshore from 8 cents a barrel to 41 cents a barrel - 7 cents higher than legislation that passed the House last month.
Critics claim the devastation caused by the spill that has now spread to some of Florida's white sandy tourist beaches could seriously harm the chances of Mr Obama's Democrat Party in November's midterm elections.
But the President insisted on NBC's Today programme that he had been on top of the calamity from the start.
Continuing his attack on BP, he said: 'The initial reports indicate there may be situations in which not only human error was involved, but you also saw some corner- cutting in terms of safety.'
His comments will increase the pressure on Mr Hayward whose family are living in fear of reprisals over the spill after receiving threatening phone calls at their home.
Police have launched a security operation to protect Mr Hayward's wife Maureen and their two children at their isolated £1million home in rural Kent.
Mrs Hayward said the family had received several threatening phone calls and hate mail claiming to be from environmental groups.
She said one letter purported to be from Greenpeace, although Greenpeace strongly denied sending any letters to the family.
Mrs Hayward said the abuse had been 'upsetting' and left them feeling 'rather uncomfortable', particularly with her husband thousands of miles away.
In another sign of the growing rift between BP and the U.S. government, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said he was no longer trusting the company's estimates on the amount of crude still flowing into the sea.
He said a containment cap on the ruptured pipe was capturing up to 462,000 gallons of oil a day, about 11,000 barrels. BP put the figure at 466,200 gallons.
However, according to U.S. scientists BP's Deepwater Horizon well could be spewing out more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day.
BP has given various estimates of how much oil it believes has leaked out but said from the start that the 'worst case scenario' was about 100,000 barrels.
The doomsday prediction appears to have been accurate, according to advisers to the U.S. Government.
One, Professor Ira Leifer, said: 'In the data I've seen, there's nothing inconsistent with BP's worst case scenario.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...ill-help-repair-reputation.html#ixzz0qTDB4Slb
Why did you supstute the words Bush and Obama for Federal government?
Because you know the results would be differnt.... Dumb da dumb dumb
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whisker burns on your back called and they said your gay!!!
Racheal Maddow did it and she's the biggest Obama shill alive.