Obama seeking “ass to kick”
The other day, TSO wrote about Shelton Jackson giving permission to the President to “go off” over the Gulf oil spill. Who is Obama to ignore advice from little Shelton? From Associated Press;
President Barack Obama says his talks with Gulf fishermen and oil spill experts are not an academic exercise. They’re “so I know whose ass to kick.”
He can kick mine if he’s feelin’ froggy. Then I can put some beer on his credit card.
But is that leadership? Going around threatening to kick ass sounds more like someone who has lost control of the message and is at a dead end for solutions. If GW Bush had threatened to kick ass over Katrina, he’d have been skewered every night on the late shows. Look how he was treated for “bring it on”.
But coming from President Erkel, it sounds a little like a midget transvestite in a dark alley exorcising his fears. Maybe if he stepped away from the rhetorical flourishes and tough guy talk for a moment and actually accomplish some thing for once he’d be a better president. It sucks when you can’t campaign away your problems, doesn’t it?
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Jonn, that should be President Urkel…
Cut him some slack Jonn, being in charge is hard. You’ve got to decide and stuff, and that shit ain’t easy.
This whole mess would be funny if it wasn’t so disheartening.President Erkel is very appropriate.
You’re right that the same words coming out of Bush’s mouth would have been perceived far differently. Just more “cowboy rhetoric”. The fact that Bush seemed to want to kick someone’s ass after 9/11 was not received well. Apparently, wanting to kick terrorists’ asses is bad, wanting to kick oil executives’ asses is good.
On the other hand, I also want to see someone hung out by their balls because of this oil mess in the Gulf. This is an absolute disaster. Someone needs to be held responsible. I think jail time my be in order for criminal negligence.
Let’s pretend I am the COWboy in chief…Just how much golf do I need to play to get away from all the stress of *not* deciding anything of merit?
How many little vacays must I go on just to continue ignoring the fact that I am Commander in Chief who has no true respect for my troops and those who came before?
Yeah, we know all the shit there is to know about what Pied Pipers do. AFN…and we ain’t talking Armed Forces Network!!
My N word is November 2010,2012
Conservatives made their bed – deregulation, fox guarding the hen house, revolving door between “regulators” (ha!) and industry – and now everyone in the Gulf has to sleep in it. Sorry Obama can’t put on his cape and dive to 5,000 feet below the surface and singlehandedly stop the leak, but he’s been kinda busy cleaning up the mess left by 30 years of free-market folly. Your rigid ideology may not allow you to see the truth, but the rest of the world is starting to wake up.
Took us 30 years to get to this sad point, and it ain’t gonna get fixed overnight. But at least now people may realize who really holds the levers of power -corporations. The gov’t comes in a distant second.
Joe, you know the worst one of these disasters was on a government owned rig right????
Gee, Joe–maybe if the libtards would have let us drill a little closer to shore, in ANWR, little shit like that, maybe we wouldn’t HAVE to go that far out to satisfy our domestic production needs. Ever think of that? Of course you didn’t.
But you ARE right on one point–it took us 30 years to get to this sad point. Just look at a graph of domestic production and you’ll see that’s dead-on balls accurate. Domestic production actually started to drop around 1970, and with the exception of a small bump in the early 80’s, has dropped ever since. We’re now producing oil within our borders at the same rate we did in the late 1940’s.
Congrats, libtards.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS1&f=A
Oh, yeah – great idea. Let’s drill in ANWR and offshore under the icecap. When those wells blow, it’ll make the gulf look like a tea party. We can screw up some of the last great unspoiled places so you guys can continue to commute in your Ford Expeditions…..
As to the graph of declining oil production within the US – duh! All the easy pickins’ hae been taken – now we’re suffering from the seeds and stems blues. At some point you being to run dry, even after drilling deeper and in more difficult locations. Anyway, you’re rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. At some point we have to gat a new plan. Your second favorite president, Carter, had a plan back in the mid 70’s, but big oil torpedoed that. Carter was actually very forward thinking on that subject, and the rest of the country has yet to catch up.
Yeah, try again. The next time Carter has a good idea, it’ll be the first time. Are you aware of the oil reserves which are in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah? Makes ANWR look like child’s play, but then again, you don’t care about that either, douchenozzle.
It’s the enviroweenies and their “rules” which have dictated where we can’t drill (i.e., low-hanging fruit) which drives us further and further offshore or to more remote areas.
Trust me, I came from a town where speaking ill of Halliburton even now will likely result in your getting your ass kicked. I’ve known a few folks and family friends who have worked in the oil patch. While I’ve never been involved in refining or drilling, there’s enough acquaintances of mine that know of which they speak who would laugh at your statements.
I live in a growing oil patch, I’ve seen the damage to once pristine lands. It’s enough to make you want to cry. All the oil you speak of in CO, WY and UT – a lot of that is locked up in oil shale. If you know about that extractive process, you know it’s much more destructive and invasive, and uses a whole lot more water, of which there is not much. The development of oil shale would totally change the character of those lands. Also coalbed methane wells – a lot of water needed there too, water that belongs to farmers, ranchers and municipalities. Big oil is in the process of trying to rewrite the water laws for their benefit. Of course if your main source of recreation is sitting on the couch watching TV, then you wouldn’t know or care. Some of you back east will soon have wells into the Marcellus Shale in your backyards, fouling your drinking water and polluting your air. See what kind of song you sing then. But like the herion junkies that you are, all you care about at this point is your next fix. Screw the landscape, screw the wildlife, screw the water resources, screw the ranchers and farmers – give me my fix!
On July 15th, 1979 Jimmy Carter said “…when this Nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.”
Can anyone name a refinery that has been built since Carter said those words?
By the way, I drive a Silverado, not an Excusion. In fact I see more hippies driving Excursions than anyone in my crowd.
I have a minivan and it KICKS ASS….ooops, I guess I can’t use that…Obama beat me to it.
Hey Joe, there is no alternative to oil. Nuclear power is off the table thanks to the left. Solar power is a joke. Hydropower is off the table because the left is opposed to to flooding habitats. Coal? Obama said he wants to destroy the coal industry. Wind power? The left opposes wind because it requires transmission lines and affect “viewscapes.”
Bottom line, Joe, you sound like a jerk when you talk about “addiction” to oil that the left itself has created.
We’re all guilty, but some more than others. I drive an economy car, ride my bicycle to work and on as many errands as possible, and probably use a fraction the amount of gas as the Silverado drivin’ folks who frequent this website do. If we maintain your attitude Adirondack, we’ll never break the cycle. Supplemental solar and wind power are a realistic start. Even nuclear. We should be investing heavily in this. It’s creatre jobs too. But to look at the pictures of thousands of dead and dying animals in the gulf, to imagine the millions of people’s lives affected (destroyed?) and imagine the gigantic costs of clean up if you can even begin to clean up a disastere like that, and to sit there and say it’s business as usual, you must be a cold person – that’s just depressing. Like a bird that fouls its own nest, or a colony of bacteria that eventually poisons their own environment, the people in the gulf are sitting in a pile of crap and you say business as usual. Are you insane?
We’re all guilty, but some more than others. I drive an economy car, ride my bicycle to work and on as many errands as possible, and probably use a fraction the amount of gas as the Silverado drivin’ folks who frequent this website do. If we maintain your attitude Adirondack, we’ll never break the cycle. Supplemental solar and wind power are a realistic start. Even nuclear. We should be investing heavily in this. It’d create jobs too. But to look at the pictures of thousands of dead and dying animals in the gulf, to imagine the millions of people’s lives affected (destroyed?) and imagine the gigantic costs of clean up if you can even begin to clean up a disastere like that, and to sit there and say it’s business as usual, you must be a cold person – that’s just depressing. Like a bird that fouls its own nest, or a colony of bacteria that eventually poisons their own environment, the people in the gulf are sitting in a pile of crap and you say business as usual. Are you insane?
Oops! It hiccuped and posted twice. Sorry….
Cliche-spouting idiot
Kinda funny coming from a guy who’s name would indicate he’s played one to many rounds of Dungeons and Dragons…
There is already regulation in place that requires devices that could have prevented this disaster. The Obama administration gave BP a pass on requiring the blowout preventers. Now try and explain that away dear little trolls.
If this rig had been a shallow water rig or land based, this could have easily been stopped. The problem is working at one mile below the sea in crushing pressures and freezing temperatures.
And will someone please tell James Cameron to STFU. There is an enormous difference between adapting cameras for underwater filming and dealing with real engineering. We don’t need to take beautiful pictures of the leak, we need to plug a high pressure jet of oil at enormous working pressures and freezing temperatures. And do it without causing the jet to divert into the substrata and emerge elsewhere.
“The Obama administration gave BP a pass on requiring the blowout preventers…”
I don’t know for sure, but I bet it was a holdover from you-know-who. Obama has had his hands full for the past 17 months handling little details like fighting two wars, trying to prevent this country’s and the world’s economies from total collapse, etc. etc. He might have missed the bit about blowout preventers. The Minerals Management Service has been a joke for years, rife with cronyism, corruption and negligence thanks again to you-know-who, and obviously it wasn’t cleaned up in time. Again, a little thing called a global crisis. But Bush’s angry chickens are all coming home to roost.
I’m still waiting to hear Joe’s excuse for His Excellence’s destruction of habitat in order to sustain his golf habit.
And his support of the evil tobacco companies with his smoking addiction.
And his excuse for not gracing Tennessee with his presence.
I’ll assume all of those can be blamed away on W as well.
And of course it’s convenient to forget that Bush was busy handling the same issues Joe uses as excuses for Obama’s negligence.
A lovely double standard layed out plain as day. Thank you Joe, keep up the good work. So long as there are folks like you around, other folks needent worry over much about your constituancy ever acending to total power. Cheers 🙂
I thought Balrogs were from middle earth, Ala Tolkien…..
I work in the utility industry…wind is a joke politicians are playing on you to get you to think they’re being environmentally conscious…
O.T., sadly Wind is the only thing politicians are adept at producing.