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Subscribe to RSSLouisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's (R) office announced today that he filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit granting an injunction to stop President Obama's moratorium on deepwater drilling.
The brief argues that states are entitled to participate in the policy and decision-making process by the federal government on issues relating to the exploration and development of Outer Continental Shelf minerals and requires the Secretary of Interior to cooperate with affected states. The brief states, "Inasmuch as the State of Louisiana was completely ignored by defendants in the establishment of this moratorium for alleged safety reasons, the question arises whether that failure renders Defendants' action invalid."
Per the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman said today that he will decide on whether to issue a preliminary injunction against the six-month deepwater drilling moratorium by noon Wednesday."
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Yeah, Bobby get more of that black goo washing up on your state's shores. That will be the way to win friends and influence people. The GOPers will love you but people with any common sense will say hold off for awhile until we can feel more confident that such drilling will be safe. More methods of enforcing existing laws as well as making new laws that will prevent another oil disaster off our shores from ever happening again.
We've been drilling for over 50 years and there are thousands of drills. It is a safe process. This was an accident, by a negligent company who will pay. But, we shouldn't hold up all drilling because of 1 accident.
Yes there are thousands of wells where the same negligence is in place... We need to make sure those wells are safe. If ONE well can do this much damage, think if five or ten accidents happened. If you don't learn from your mistakes (accidents) you are destined to repeat them.
Ummm... It's a little more than an accident... it's the BIGGEST man made ecological catastrophe in the history of mankind!
At this point we don't know what caused it - any idea how many other unsafe rigs are out there? How many other companies are taking cost cutting measures over safety on a daily basis? Any ideas how to STOP the damn thing?
There are WAAAY to many questions at this point and not nearly ENOUGH answers!
ENOUGH already with the DRILL BABY DRILL!!!
Typical Liberal Hippie kneejerk reaction.
Airplanes crash, too. I guess we should stop all travel by air.
Typical idiot response.
This is an ecological nightmare and we don't know how to stop it or fix it. When those planes crashed into the twin towers we stopped all flights didn't we? Why? Because the threat of disaster was on such a grand scale that it warranted it.
Airplane crashes usually only kill those aboard, if an airplane crash could devastate the Gulf of Mexico and the shorelines of at least four states we would ground that flight.
they aren't stopping drilling, only new drilling. I'd assume if a plane crashed due to faulty equipment, causing the damage this oil spill has caused, they'd want to stop new planes from having the same faulty equipment. Unless a major man-made disaster every 30 years is within "operating parameters" for you.
Lynchmob,
The oil is still coming out. Do airplanes crash over and over again for 2 months?
No matter how you whine, the moratorium will not be lifted until we figure out how to insure the safety of these wells. (If there is any way to do that).
If the cost of these folks having a job is us losing the planet, I'm gonna just go out on a limb and say it is time for them to start looking for another job.
Hey Lynchmoron,
If the airlines deliberately falsified safety plans, disabled safety equipment, cut corners on required maintenance, and went out of their way to bribe and influence those that are in place to protect all of us from exactly this type of man made disaster, yes, we would have shut the airline down.
Why do you idiots insist on calling this an accident? Corners were cut, safety devices were disabled, regulations and inspections were rendered meaningless, and this was an eventuality that was guaranteed, not an accident that could not have been foreseen. Have you heard the testimony of the engineers that warned of the problems BEFORE it happened? Sounds like it was VERY foreseen to me and NOT an accident the way that Barton, Lynchmoron, and Co. are desperately trying to sell it to us. How can we blame poor ole BP for an "accident" that THEY CAUSED? How can we listen to morons that want to resume drilling before being able to determine how many more wells are out there with the exact same recipe for disaster brewing even as we speak?
WAIT.....Obama is shoving the $20 Billion down our throats! And this is from a foreign nation! Damn Socialist!
As much fun as it is to sit around and point fingers and call names, (no matter what your politics), there are some of us trying to figure out how to mitigate this disaster. And believe me this is a disaster. The disaster is not the oil spill it's those elected and unelected who we've put in charge.
If anyone out there is truly interested is seeing a possible solution to stopping the carnage on the coast, please drop me a line at fb65880@gmail.com. I'll send you a copy of the design that could save a lot of jobs and wild life. I have been trying to get this idea into the hands of those who can make a decision, unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be our leaders or their handlers.
I'd also like to see what other people think of this idea as a future safety net for all those other so called "dangerous wells" out there. It will be fun to see how many of us are willing to do critical thinking rather than name calling and pointing fingers. We already have enough "professionals" doing that.
You have no idea what a collosal ass you are. There is no attempt at upstaging here. We are dying in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida on the coastlines. Have you even deigned to look at what's happening to our wildlife? But in the midst of this, the facts remain constant. BP is an irresponsible oil company. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of rigs in the Gulf and I challenge you to come up with anything to compare with what BP has unleashed on our shores and our economy and the lives of the people who live here. You don't have an iota of a clue and yet we are tied to the oil industry here in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. Why should everyone else be penalized because of BP's irresponsibility. We're just trying to survive down here. You have no idea what's going on. Just some narrow, hate-filled political take, totally inaccurate, on what's happening. Get your lazy, stupid ass down here and dig for information before you comment on something you have not a clue about.
What about transocean, what about Haliburton, the fact is people are very concerned about the other wells, there has been no oversight of these operations. Hopefully it can be determined that BP was the exception, but until then many people do not want to sacrifice the well being of everything else for the oil industry.
Hey MVH,
I have seen the death, destruction, and goo all over the pristine Gulf. I do not need to be convinced what a tragedy you are enduring as we sit here and debate the issues. I have a clue and I can also see what the oil industry money has done to you. Because there is an abundance of oil and (necessarily the large moneyed corporations looking to extract it) there has been a long history of pols cozying up to the big money people in the oil business. Does that mean that we should throw all caution to the wind and allow them to drill wherever they want without any regulations or oversight? Since BP asserted in their permit application that there was NO chance of a disaster like we are experiencing at this moment, should we overlook the lies that BP could manage a spill of up to 250,000 barrels per day? If BP COULD handle that amount, the current spill would be a non-issue.
You are looking to drill again to save the oil jobs since the fishing and seafood industries have been decimated by the oil leaking into the Gulf. You want to allow the same people to resume drilling using the exact same drilling configurations and equipment that has now been proven NOT to be fail safe and has already poisoned the majority of your economy that depends on the waters of the Gulf. Had you people been a little more intelligent and bothered to plan ANY kind of economy or infrastructure investment (you know, like schools to educate your people to be able to land better jobs), you might not be witnessing and experiencing the slow death of your entire water based economy. No, you would rather return the same criminals that have destroyed part of the Gulf to be able to complete the destruction so that a couple hundred thousand jobs can be saved? Tell that to the people of FL that reap NO benefits of YOUR oil jobs and are still now facing their own ruin and destruction because of YOUR insistence on the easy money that big oil brings. You people amaze me how you can be so stupid and vote so clearly against what is in your own best interest. Enjoy Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal, Senator Landrieux, and all the other Drill Baby Drill'ers. You get what you deserve. It is just a shame that the rest of the country has to sit by and watch you all destroy one of our treasured natural resources so you all can continue to ride the big oil gravy train...
It's amazing how short sighted they become when they are being blinded by dollar signs.?
I don't recall the source of this little quote, but these folks would sell you the rope with which you are going to hang them.
Why isn't Bobby BoJingles bringing up the FACT that President Obama secured $100 million from BP to pay the unemployed workers? Hmmm?
As a matter of FACT why is the MSM so 'mum' on the topic as well?
Oh wait I know... It doesn't play into his right wing whack job & BIG oil agenda!
$100 million, divided by 40,000 lost jobs affected by Obama's moratorium on oil drilling is $2,500 for each unemployed person. So what are those people going to do when July comes around? Do you leftists loons ever think, just even a little?
Once again JoAnna... Did I give you the impression that I'm talking to you?
That would indicate I care about what you have to say... which TRUST me is NOT the case!
I swore off Beckerheadease a long time ago!
But it's because you're just so much fun Red! Rattling your cage once in while always seems to get that 'Mika Brzezinski' vacant and content free response from you. I know, it's like being cruel to a dumb animal. But we all have our guilty pleasures.
They can work in the oil cleanup industry for BP.
JoAnna Smith
I know, it's like being cruel to a dumb animal. But we all have our guilty pleasures.
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Thanks for sharing JoAnna that little tidbit tells me all I need to know about you...
Come to think of it... didn't Jeffrey Dahmer start out by being cruel to dumb animals? My my...
Sorry Red, you're more delusional then even I could conjure up. The Right Wing Fox Owned Rag, the New York Times, says 50,000 jobs will be directly affected by Obama hiding his head in the sand over the oil drilling issue. The Right Wing Rag Times also says there is a 4:1 multiplier i.e., 4 secondary jobs are needed to support each primary oil drilling job for a total 250,000 jobs affected. These are certainly complicated issues for you to comprehend Red, so maybe you can talk with some other lefty friends of yours and they can help you respond with a well thought out, concise, and intelligent response, rather then what we usually see with your 2 lines of personal insults followed with "LOL". It will be a first. Some may call it "historic".
And so, JoAnna, appologizing to BP is going to help those people come July? What has the GOP done to help people in July?
JoAnna- you never responded to my question of last week, where I asked you to describe how Palin and/or McCain would deal so much better with North Korea sinking that South Korea ship, Finance reform, the Oil mess, Enengy policy, Israel's blockade, Immigration, the economy, joblessness, and on and on and on....
Forget Feisty and the others- Here's your opening. We're all tuned in and waiting.
Who knows, and who cares. It would be nothing but pure speculation. So I guess you can take your question to your local community college and present it to the poli sci 101 class you're in. See what they think. Let us all know how it goes for you.
Hey Drive-By - there's your answer from 'selfish redhead' oooops... I mean JoAnna Smith LOL
Hey Feisty,
Did she not just refer to herself as a dumb animal??
Hi there Retired...
What she said was that one of her 'guilty' pleasures was abusing 'dumb' animals... Makes one afraid to ask what else she might enjoy!
It does beg the question though, as to how a right wing nut can call an animal dumb doesn't it?
Gee, for a Navy guy, I would have figured you had a brain. There sits "Feisty" in Illinois -- ILLINOIS, for God's sake! Who the f--- in Illinois has a clue about the oil industry, the Gulf Coast, politics in Louisiana -- or in general for that matter. Aren't they drinking milk and eating Bunny Bread in Illinois? Why don't you self-appointed, so-so-so important people commenting on this get your lazy, fat, white-bread asses down to the Gulf Coast and see just how complicated life is in this country? The bottom line is that BP is an evil, careless company in a business that has very, very little negative impact. "Feisty" is a pathetic, hopeless idiot.
The only industry with a negative impact less than the oil company is the tobacco industry. The industry with the greatest negative impact - Teabags.
everybody wnting to put a stop to offshore oil drilling needs to think real hard the next time they get behind the wheel of a car or take a flight to go see family in another state or even when they cut their grass. the preident needs to think before he gets on airforce one or marine helicopters, first he kills nasa program (thousands loose jobs) now its close these oil platforms thousands more loose their jobs if the gov. would have been overseeing the safety instead of worring about how much money they were getting from the oil co. this cats. might not have happened. think about what the atom bomb did to japan but still we build more powerful bombs. when these companies take their rigs to africa ao smewhere else they want be comeing back.why cant you face the facts. we will need oil for many more years to come,its in almost everything we use dureing uor daily routine.If you want cleaner energy , start building everything to use it but you are an idiot if you think we dont need oil.
Now let's think this through: Louisiana's coast line is dripping in oil and Jindal wants to continue drilling. His argument is state rights to regulate drilling, but he wants the federal government to clean up the current spill.
How many inconsistencies can you have in one brief?
Jindal is asking the federal government to get the h*ll out of the way. While Obama is ranting about more regulations, cap&trade, and suing anyone he doesn't like, Jindal is coming up with plans and actions to prevent the oil from reaching the coast, cleaning up of the damage from what oil reaches his coast, and trying to keep the people of his state employed.
Maybe Obama can make himself useful by having his Coast Guard ground some more oil cleaning ships until they can find the time to inspect them for the proper number of life preservers.
And at last look, BP is paying for the clean up of the spill.
Hey JoAnna Smith - it's been Booby Jindal showboating around ranting and ravings about the damage caused by BP Oil's massive oil spill and he has done nothing to help clean up the mess his party made sure would happen. President Obama has been the responsible adult who has tried to prevent this disaster from happening again and Barack was the one who shook down BP Oil to ensure that BP Oil pays for all the damages they caused.
Now Booby Jindal wants to stop the smart and sane moratorium because he wants the dirty oil industry to fund his relection. Before the oil spill happened we never saw Booby Jindal do anything to help save the wetlands that protect New Orleans from hurricanes and are the home of the state bird, the Brown Pelican whch is now brown thanks to all that spilled oil.
Get a clue little girl before you speak such petty partisan nonsense you obviously heard on Fox and Freaks. A brain is a terrible thing to waste, too bad you wasted yours with vile rightwing proaganda!
Palin, Fiorina, Whitman, Angle, Haley, all women that you have hated in all your postings.
Why do you hate women so much Eric? Nursing detachment issues with your mother perhaps?
Well, BP's explosion is the classic example of what happens when Government gets the h*** out of the way.
Rigid ideology--government is bad, big oil is good even when it is obvious that the magnitude of the economic disaster for LA, MS, AL, FL exceeds the cost to put a temporary hold on drilling. $100 million for lost wages is $100 million more than Bobby Jindal achieved. Add the $500 million for health-care monitoring over 10 years and $20 billion for residents who have been harmed, that's an achievement. Atantis (Atlanta), whistleblowers have said could be the next Deep Water Horizon for the same reasons being reported about DWH.
JoAnna,
Once again, you totally missed the boat and I STILL don't see your bright colored ribbon. Eric does not hate women any more than you hate men. I also abhor the women that Eric has rightly singled out for ridicule. I do not know Eric, but from his posts, I can sense that he is much like me. I do not have men or women simply because they are a male or a female. I hate ANYONE that is fake, phony, a liar, opportunist, or two-faced. Since those monikers apply to all the females that happened to be identified, they all happen to be female. Had Eric posted a more complete list, it would have been notable for the inclusion of some prominent males that fit the same mold. Bush, McConnel, Boner, McLame, and a handful of other vociferous defenders of big business at the expense of the average American worker...
You are just showing the limits of your pathetic little brain. Obviously you have considered no more than two or three -- actually from your comment, only one -- comments. You are consumed by the unknown of the unknowns, a concept I'm sure you're not capable of grasping. Unfortunately in this instance, Louisiana is captive to a confluence of input here. We need and want our wetlands and coastlines and we must have the oil industry for our economy. Once again, Einstein, do some homework before you comment. There are thousands and thousands of oil rigs in the Gulf and they've been there 50 years and more. Then along comes irresponsible BP, with their idiot CEOs, and what do we have, a massive disaster. Why don't you dig for some facts before you open your very ill-informed, stupid little mouth. You have ZERO critical thinking skills. Just what do you do for a living? It would be interesting to know. I rather assume it's something insignificant since you're not, obviously, called on often to use any brain you might possess. I would assume there's not much in the way of a brain, either.
"..........I guess you can take your question to your local community college and present it to the poli sci 101 class you're in. See what they think. Let us all know how it goes for you."
JoAnna Smith- why would I do all that? I'm not the one running his mouth on a daily basis about what all is wrong with Obama and the things he does.
one wonders why the msm never questions piyush as to why he doesn't use his real given name instead of a nickname dreamed up after watching an episode of the brady bunch. sure seems like there are some issues there. This spill is so much worse than the public is being told. After having worked in oil and its byproducts for over twenty years(litterally sometimes swimming in the stuff in tanks) I can assure you none of it is safe. the oil industry owns osha, congress, and other regulatory agencies since the bush years.the health issues take years to manifest themselves and then because there is no national healthplan, there is no help once the symptoms mainfest.
once again, did anyone else see the report about an even bigger rig having much the same problems and workers afraid that it might even be more catastrophic than the horizon?
How is this being kept so quiet and why are bp logos appearing as ads on every major news outlet? hmmmmm I wonder.......
Yes, I believe it is Atlantis or Atlanta.
Leon are you talking about the leak that resulted in the rig being torn up during Hurricane Rita. I think that one has been leaking since '04 but has just starting to get a little attention because it's showing up on the sat shots and they have very quietly had some folks out there injecting dispersants under water to break up the plume.
Has anyone seen the Anderson Cooper story that CNN is running on a loop about the little barges with the little vacuum hoses attached that were stopped from scooping up oily water in a marsh for 24 hours because they needed to be inspected in some way?
Did you notice how Anderson said that this was all a local effort, and then in the next sentence said they were being assisted by the National Guard? Huh?
Is the National Guard not part of the federal government now?
And all the "outrage" over the boats being pulled out of the water . . . for what? Truth be told, that teaspoon of oily water that they are sucking off of the very top is not going to do a doggone thing if it isn't coupled with a way to keep new oil from coming in . . . didn't hear any reporting about that.
Also, isn't one of the reasons we are in this pickle the fact that folks said we "didn't have time" to research the safety of deep water drilling . . . we had to "drill here, drill now". And so now, we don't have 24 stinking hours to make sure these little rickety a$$ barges are part of the solution and not the problem?
I mean, are we the people REALLY that shortsighted?
More made-for-TV outrage based on ratings and not reality.
It would be funny if so many people didn't take it seriously.
Hey Nashville_Fan - why bother watching CNN (Fox Lite) the national joke of a news channel? You are so correct that too often the tv news channels are more interested in made-for-tv-outrage ratings grabbers than in telling the truth. Anderson Pooper is 180 degrees of base with the truth as always, he belongs at the nation's second most distrusted name in news. The national media is becoming more of a problem than the oil spill itself, they spew more taxoc waste out over the airwaves than the oil spill is gushing out toxic oil into the Gulf.
Even MSNBC tv is becoming more and more offkilter as it joins the rest of the media going over the deep end lying about what's really going on. That's why I've given up on MSNBC tv before Dylan Ratigan comes on in the afternoon, I just don't trust any news channel who tries to sucker me into watching because they put up a bunch of cute faces and gals in short short skirts trying to show off as many leg shots as possible. Looks like MSNBC tv is trying to attract the Viagra powered old male geezer crowd who are too easily fooled by pretty faces.
You got a point there Eric . . . I guess I watch it in a desperate attempt to figure out why so many of my fellow Americans have absolutely no idea what they are talking about! :o)
Nashville_fan - yep it is a good idea to check up on the crazies, I even do it occasionally and am always disappointed at what I see at CNN (Fox Lite). Remember when CNN used to be a good honest news provider? That was so long ago it slips from memory.
Yes Eric, everyone is lying to you. Only you and a select few "elites" know the truth. Just keep telling yourself that . . . . .
You mean like the "elites" who get rich cutting corners on oil rigs or the "elites" who get rich cutting corners on Wall Street?
Or is it the politicians who can't remember how many houses they own?
JoANNASMITH: When I read what you write, I feel very sorry for you. It is clear to me that their are regular posters here that you find too complex for your rather limited ability to suss out world events. I am sorry that you are so bitter, but perhaps you would consider that your myopic view of the world is not shared by others. Instead of trying to demean them, perhaps you would TRY to engage in meaningful dialog.
Then don't read it.
Poor Joanna, showing how bitter and illiterate you are again. Do you find any joy in your day? But, I agree with you on one point. I think you will join poor little Jill in Tulsa as PEOPLE I NEVER READ BECAUSE BRAIN CELLS MIGHT DIE.
You got my vote NewDay!
Is it just me or does JoAnna remind you an awful lot of 'selfish redhead'? lol
Yeah, I'm thinking you are correct on that one. The problem is that it is all a knee jerk reaction, having nothing to do with facts. And when I have asked her to either say what she thinks should be done, or services she can live without, she cannot answer, since that would require some critical thinking. It is sad to be that way, and I would not want to be that angry all the time. I am sorry for Joanna.
I'm sure you saw her non-response to Drive-By's questions earlier! What a joke!
Looks like Booby Jindal put his briefs on his head this morning with this unbelievably idiotic protection of dirty corrupt oil, but then we Democrats know where Booby Jindal's head is permanently stuck. Booby Jindal was running amok like a chicken with it's head cut off the past few weeks whining about the ecological disaster happening to Louisiana's wetlands and now he wants to allow the Three Stooges Oil Companies to go back to drilling offshore before we know they've learned their lessons well enough to not produce another massive oil gusher. I bet that Booby Jindal had his head up where the sun doesn't shine when President Obama forced BP Oil to set up a $100 million fund to pay laid off Gulf oil workers who were working those dirty unsafe offshore oil rigs.
Booby Jindal and those repugnant ones who want to end the sane oil moratorium before the oil companies prove they will not cause another massive offshore oil spill are more interested in protecting the big dirty oil companies who give them too much in campaign donations than they are in protecting their own constituents who are being harmed by the current spill.
If Booby Jindal and the rightwing idiots who want to end the smart moratorium prevail and get the Three Stooges Oil Companies back out there drilling oil offshore with their current unsafe methods and inadequate cleanup equipment then I hope there is another massive oil spill to teach them fools of too much faith in dirty corrupt oil companies the proper lesson. If another spill happens then you fools in Gulf red states are on your own dealing with the calamity of your own making.
We know that Booby Jindal is betting that the corrupt robert's supreme court will side with him and big oil over the sane moratorium and against the people who will end up suffering the most from this preventable private industry disaster.
If there is no cap and trade then there can be no Drill Baby Drill or Nuke Baby Nuke in the climate change reform bill. If the repugnant ones want to draw a line in the sand against smart and sane cap and trade then Liberals and Labor need to draw a line in the sand against increased offshore oil drilling and increased nuclear power plants.
I don't need to read but the first sentence of your pitiful comment. You obviously don't have enough brain power to grasp even the simplest situation. Back in your hole, Rabbit.
Eric Cal. I think your jealous of Bobby Jindal, the man is trying to keep his state from going broke, he wants the people in La. to be able to keep working instead of staying home growing and smokeing weed while california is broke,broke ,broke.
I don't see why you would shut down drilling in the Gulf. We now know that the chance for an accident is next to impossible, and if there is an accident the oil companies seem to be extremely well prepared to take control of the situation and clean up any mess. Don't let that dumb look on Jindals face fool you, he is not that bright. On second thought maybe they should drill away, since the fishing and tourism industries are possibly gone for decades, maybe forever. They may never get this well shut down, the possibilityexists that it will leak until the entire well bleeds out an estimated billion plus barrels of oil. By the way when the oil hits foreign shores and they want restitution for America's oil spill, send the bill to the state of Louisiana.
Why is it that the South, supposedly the land of intolerant racists, was the place to elect the first ever Black governor, Doug Wilder of Virginia, capitol of the Confederacy? And why is it that a deep-south state, Louisiana, was the first state to elect an Asian-Indian governor, and may soon be followed by South Carolina (cradle of seccession) if they elect Nikki Haley as the nation's 2nd Asian-Indian governor?
CU . . . what is the right answer?
What does the color of the governor have to do with the ridiculous and contradictory things he keeps saying in relation to this oil spill?
CU,
When do they take out the "garbage" where YOU live. Seems like you must be swimming in a sea of garbage pretty close to where you live. Seems to have twisted your brain to the point where any thought at all comes out tortured and mis-represented.
I don't know why, unless they figured the closed gene pool wasn't working out so well. HA HA it's a joke so don't get bent.
I would like to know why, too, CU? Perhaps because their ethnicity has nothing to do with their politics nor intellect? Perhaps it says more about the intellect of their electorate.
Perhaps Jindal thinks since the gulf has already been destroyed, what the hell may as well drill, and besides that he can expect a bunch of that oil industry money for coming to their rescue. Who thinks Jindal is looking at financing a Presidential bid. Greed and politics are both disgusting enough on their own, put them together and you have Bobby Jindal.
CU Farley, And why is CU Farley allowed even on this site to mouth his racist rant? Because he has the freedom to do so. What has the color has to do with the administrative and managerial skills of Governor Jindal who has shown more executive ability than that bimbo you have as a president. All he knows is to sign papers and bring lawsuits. Put him to manage and he fails miserably as is shown with the Gulf Oil Disaster. Jindal is 100% better to be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES than that novice we have as our president.
Jindal is great Juven, and Louisiana is the envy of the other 49 states.
Juven: Obama brings lawsuits? I thought the title of this article was about Jindal bringing a lawsuit.
Eric and the other DINOS , you better start accepting that President X is responsible for the Gulf Oil Disaster that reached our shores. His polls is 41 % and if he needs an increase , he can bring some from Poland where they have a lot of Poles. Heheeh
Juven- why do you keep mispelling 'Bachmann"?
We just spent the weekend listening to a bunch of yahoo’s tell us how silly it would be for the Fed to sue the State and how the State should sue the Fed because they aren’t performing their function. Now I suppose those same yahoo’s are going to tell me that it makes perfect sense for the State to sue the Fed for doing what it’s supposed to and attempting to get some kind of handle on what is being done in Federal waters and using regulations that the Fed is supposed to be in control of. One of these days the world is going to start making sense to me and then I’ll know it’s time check into an asylum somewhere for a long rest
It's funny when you think about it--AZ's Jan Brewer and others are having a fit that the DOJ might sue Arizona over their law. What kind of fit did these yahoos have when republican governors all over the country filed suits against the Fed Govt because of the Health Care legislation. They hate government EXCEPT when they need it during catastrophes and want the other 49 state's taxpayers to fork up some cash.
Exactly my Iowa Ace and I tell you these folks story changes so many times it just about spins my head around trying to keep up and try to figure out where their coming from
JoAnnaSmith, you really have swallowed the poison, among other things. Jindal does not want the Feds out of the way. All he is doing is political grandstanding. He can't stop the leak, BP can't stop the leak and neither can Obama. But Obama got 20 billion, you call it a shake down, but you know their liable and if we don't get it now it could take 20 years, like the Valdez. This is why you need rules and regs. We all can see what happens if corps. run rampant. By the way, where's our good friend Dick. Seems the cat has his tongue, wonder why?
"But Obama got 20 billion, you call it a shake down, but you know their liable and if we don't get it now it could take 20 years, like the Valdez."
Obama didn't get anything BP wasn't willing to give. You champion Obama like he is some white knight out to protect us all. The bottom line is that BP was already willing to pay out that money and has been paying the bills since this happened. The only thing Obama did was take control of claims oversight out of BP's hands and give it to one one of his cabinet members.... Go figure.... It should have been given to a neutral third party, not someone in the Presidents cabinet.
Let's face it, what would have happened if BP had just said no? What the country would have sued them.... Okay and twenty years from now when the suit is finally over they may or may not have had to pay for the spill that most of us only barely remember.
BP is taking responsibility for this, and the President grandstanding and making accusations is only counter productive to the clean up effort.
How can the President be simultaneously grandstanding and "not saying and doing" enough?
I mean, seriously.
I agree BP only paid up because they felt it was in their best interest no question. But the last administration would not have asked, demanded, or secured in any fashion a 20 billion up front down payment to be used for restitution for the people damaged. This will save these people years of continued grief in fighting BP's legal departments. Too often with the Enrons, and Madoffs the money is just gone by the time the cases are settled the money has evaporated. This money in escrow is a damn good move by the president to protect the american people directly affected and the taxpayers indirectly affected. We will just wait and see how many good republican businessmen say no thanks. I don't want to make a claim with the fund. I trust BP will do the right thing, I think me and my attorney can handle this without any help from you or your socialists agenda Mr. Obama. All good republicans should refuse to file claims through the fund because it is a trick by Obama to turn you into a socialist commie.
And you know all this, Mr. Einstein, because what? Hahahaha, because what, Mr. Einstein?
Because the senator from the oil state of Texas gave BP a big giant Texas sized apology, and kiss on the ass because the president said "show me the money"
David Thomas- Go easy on her. You don't what to elicit another'who cares' do you?
Off topic, but this is one of the funniest political things I've read it a while:
Last month, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and his lieutenants launched "America Speaking Out," a public outreach campaign involving an interactive website and town hall meetings with GOP lawmakers. Its stated purpose is to provide people with "a new platform to share their priorities and ideas for a national policy agenda."
Thousands of people posted ideas or voted on their favorite suggestions. But the project's usefulness in shaping a Republican agenda is questionable.
Last week, the top five entries in the "Liberty and Freedom" category were: ban handguns, "drop the idea that we're a 'Christian' country," declare abortion "none of the government's business," allow gays to serve openly in the military and legalize marijuana.
Really? How funny. I hadn't heard that one. Must be driving Boehner and company nuts.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/21/new-republican-agenda-or_n_618964.html
Steven - I think that sounds like a GREAT way to shape the Republican agenda. I mean, if they adopted that platform, I'd vote for them myself - and I don't think I'd be alone!
Well, maybe except for the legalizing marijuana part - not on any moral or ethical grounds, the smell of it just makes me gag.
Oh, well - so much for the theory about all liberals being drug-crazed ex-hippies!
I'll give you one free spin Mr. Boehner, tell everybody the website was hacked and hijacked by the Daily Kos.
The definition of addiction - when you know something is bad for you and you keep doing it.
This is the case with Bobby Jindal. Untill we get the facts it would be irresponsilbe to start deep water drilling again. In fact if they start and the saome thing happens and people die again - guess who is liable? You got it the taxpayer for drilling without taking the nessesary precaoutions.
You first Nadeem. Go outside of that place where you live and cut that electrical wire (do be careful to insulate yourself) and turn off that gas main. Put that car of yours on blocks, and do not even think of riding that local diesel exhaust belching bus. And that computer you used to write the above post? Scrap that too.
Get off the grid Nadeem. I'd like to ask you to let us know how it goes, but seeing you won't be using any fuel the rest of us are addicted to, you won't be able to.
caution=Luddite? Really, that's your grand thesis? Most of us adults are aware that our modern conveniences require oil and petroleum products. Your (specious) argument is akin to suggesting that anyone who wants to read a food label, before eating a product, should just stop going to the grocery store. Grown ups are able to negotiate a path between all or nothing. Similarly, I believe that there is a way forward with off-shore drilling that is cautious, and will give us continued access to this incredible resource. Anyway, be a good little troll and say something tangential and inflammatory. I really really really hope that we quickly start having some success with these relief wells. Best wishes and good luck to the Gulf Coast.
The point is that the liberals that demand that we as a country move to "alternative fuels" are the first to back away when you challenge them to do so. Liberals seem very good at demanding much from others, but little from themselves.
Thanks for keeping it civil. I can tell you're not a "Feisty" because you put a reasoned thought together, wrote more then two disjoint sentence fragments, and did it all without a personal attack.
I agree that most people, regardless of political stripes, are hypocrites. I do know many many people who try very hard to minimize their 'footprints' without some awful 'holier than thou' attitude. I also know many conservatives who allow that we are in a changing world bound by finite resources and are realistic about the challenge this creates. Thanks for keeping it civil and surprising the heck out of me. Cheers.
And it just keeps getting better (back on topic)
AP/Huffington Post - A resolution encouraging people to pray for an end to the BP oil spill crisis has been approved by the Louisiana Senate.
Sen. Robert Adley, a Republican from Benton, won unanimous approval of the resolution last week. The resolution made this past Sunday a state-designated day of prayer in Louisiana, during which people of all faiths in the state and around the nation will be encouraged to seek divine intervention to end the crisis.
Adley outlined the measure's intent in a statement after it passed the state Senate:
"Thus far the efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no
avail," Adley explained. "It is clearly time for a miracle for us."
I can't help myself and I am not mocking God or those who take comfort in this. What--they don't think people have been praying since this happened; I don't think they need a resolution? Does it ever occur to these people that maybe God is sending them a message by not providing divine intervention--take better care of the world given us.
I will pray for what I want, when I want and where I want and no entity of any government is going to "urge" me to do otherwise.
There is not any God.
Maybe, Jody, but if so, then He surely works in mysterious ways. Why not punish the pillaging oil executives instead of the innocent wildlife and those poor "small people" who are just trying to make a living fishing and shrimping in the Gulf? THEIR lives are wrecked. BP executives will just move on to their next venture, like those parasitic locust aliens in INDEPENDENCE DAY. And just like Wall Street. Or do you think that God was trying to send another message in that case not to trust greedy investment bankers? If so, then the wrong people got punished there, too. An interesting sort of God.
As a lifelong Democrat, I have to agree with Mr. Jindal's request. Environmental Nobel Laureate and EcoOracle Albert Gore needs all the oil supply we are able to muster for the daily operations of his personal motorcade, private jets, 19,000 square-foot home in Tennessee, and the 10,000 SF home in tony Beverly Hills. Plus, that 747, C-5 Galaxy and other fleet aircraft necessary for taking Mr. Obama and his wife out for a two-hour dinner in New York can't run on windpower. Pump, Bobby, pump.
Hear! Hear! You exactly got the point Jody. (gold star for you!)
Why should every company suffer for the hubris of Barack Petroleum just because they "thought" they had the inside connection?
Dave, you need to be deprogrammed. Please require reliable proof of something before you swallow it whole. That is part of being a responsible adult.
I remember when Obama put the 6 month moratorium on, he said it was on the advice of his expert engineers. However, the engineers denied they suggested that, in fact they said it would be a big mistake to stop all drilling at this time. The Obama administration had to admit that it was the department of interior, at the WHs insistence, that it be added to the letter from the expert engineers, who was selected by Obama.
Drive-by Drivel, The couple of sentences I wrote on this blog , I don't think I ever mentioned her, so where you got that only God in heaven knows. Think you can spell Mississippi? Don't start me now.
Anyhow, I'm amused by Eric from Insanity. NBC and MSNBC seem to betray you guys. What a turnaround. Go watch FOX. You don't know what you can learn! Ogreman and Madcow recently had to admit that the Annointed ONE is fallible. How low the mighty have fallen! They grinded their teeth to admit that. Now , they know why people like me and the majority of angry Americans are now going to remove this incompetent , incumbent from the Presidency in 2012. I don't think they would like another four years of this boy king who only knows how to sign papers and talk his way out of tight situations. The Presidency doesn't consists of that only. Its amusing to see how his own office trips him up. Use of the teleprompter, boring speeches, incompetent Clintonistas around him. I once predicted that those people and the socialist Czars with their social engineering degrees will be his downfall. His enthrallment with his own position as a powerful man. Powerful men don't just sit at their desks and issue directives alone. Powerful men manage and direct when there is an emergency. He failed in that. Instead he partied, played golf, danced, and totally ignored the plight of the gulf people. Jindal proved to be the shining light. Obama proved to be stone deaf.
Actually, NBC and MSNBC are acting more like journalists than any other network/cable news. News is not supposed to carry a slant...it is simply to report the facts. I think those of us who frequent this posting area appreciate the job they are doing. So no....they're not "betraying" anyone...they're doing their job.
Note: 20B + 100M + 500M does NOT = stone deaf. It = a leader who is trying to protect a portion of our country that is in the middle of a disaster.
Is that why MSN hosts are working with the WH on talking points of the oil spill?? Didn't make it up, the hosts even admitted this. It is amazing how many people complain here but what do you do to make your community better? I'm willing to bet nothing. Most of you are too busy with your own lives and couldn't be bothered with much of anything to but to support your own ideologies.
I wonder, I was just wondering if that Gulf Oil spill will reach the DINOS in New York?!!!
I'm not sure that I've ever seen less in the category of "civil discourse" than on this site today. Did all of you wake up this morning with hangovers, if so, go back to bed, get some rest, and try again tomorrow. If the object of stating your opinion, and let's face it folks, regardless of whom you cite, most of what you're posting is opinion, is to either enlighten, or convince someone else as to the validity of your opinion, and you call someone else childish names, how effective do you think you'll be at changing a mindset?
Try discussion, instead of recriminations or name calling, it works better that way. I don't agree with many of the positions held here, but I refuse (with one exception) to resort to calling people names, or insulting them. I'd rather post my opinion, and hope for an opportunity to exchange ideas.
Eric from Salinsanity, See now what's happening! We go now from Obamacare to ObamaOilcare, I guess he after all a perfect snake oil salesman.
Juven! Stop picking on the handicapped! That goes fro you too, Joanna!
Anyway. My comment earlier was about Wilder in Va, Jindal in La. and Haley is S.C. was NOT a question I have an answer to. I was hoping one of the libs here could answer since they are so much smarter than everyone else and the people who live in the Southern states are so stupid, racist and uneducated (this is why they didn't vote for Obama, you see).