Palin to Obama:Stop Passing the Buck

[Sinatra]

I was stunend when the head of the coast guard and Janet Napolitono were on Fox with Charlie Gibson and they said that the only thing their administration is going to do is supervise BP.

Instead the administration throws lavish State Dinners, vacations, golfing...

 

[VaYank5150]

Why doesn't Caribou Barbie STFU and take care of the oil spill in her own damn state???

 

[GWV5903]

Gotta give her and her writer credit - this was one of her most substantial and hard-hitting opinion/responses yet...

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Now that the American people are calling him out on his lack of engagement with this disaster, the buck-passing is in full swing – and, unbelievably, his administration is still looking to blame his predecessor. Amazingly, even those of us who support energy independence for America are the brunt of some buck-passing.

He suggested today that a “culture of corruption” at the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) was solely the previous administration’s responsibility and that the failure of the inspection system was a failure of that administration. That is false. The MMS has been his responsibility since January 20, 2009.

The MMS director who resigned today, Elizabeth Birnbaum, was appointed by his administration. And the most recent inspection of the oil rig took place a mere 10 days before the explosion – also very much on his watch, not President Bush’s.

...And it’s time for the administration to stop passing the buck and get control of the disaster in the Gulf. There’s a reason why Harry Truman had that famous sign on his desk. The “buck stops” with the occupant of the Oval Office. When the American people elected President Obama they gave him responsibility to handle this disaster. He promised to “heal the earth, and watch the waters recede...” or something far-fetched like that. It was unbelievable then, it’s impossible now, but what I believe he meant was that he promised to be held accountable. With all due respect, Mr. President, you have a huge job in front of you. We hope you’re learning. Please learn that we must have domestic energy development, you must stop looking backward and blaming Bush, and we must all work together to “plug the d#*! hole.”

- Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin: Passing The Buck Doesn?t ?Plug the D#*! Hole? | Facebook

Are we sure he went to Harvard? He acts like he hasn't graduated from Jr. High......

He has become the most overpaid politician in the world......

To our fellow Americans on the left, how do you defend the non action to date, is that Bush's fault too?

FYI, keep blaming Bush and we will turn this country around in 29 months.....

 

[GWV5903]

Why doesn't Caribou Barbie STFU and take care of the oil spill in her own damn state???

A little tender there are you? I am not referring to your avatar....Amazing how the feeble minded are so afraid of a conservative women.....Your DSPOTUS needs your help.....

Have you pulled your bike out of the attic yet? Did you stock up on those candles? Is your garden feeding you? Etc.....

If not, you need to be the one to STFU.....

 

[VaYank5150]

Why doesn't Caribou Barbie STFU and take care of the oil spill in her own damn state???

A little tender there are you? I am not referring to your avatar....Amazing how the feeble minded are so afraid of a conservative women.....Your DSPOTUS needs your help.....

Have you pulled your bike out of the attic yet? Did you stock up on those candles? Is your garden feeding you? Etc.....

If not, you need to be the one to STFU.....

Do you always type with crayons? WTF does by bicycle, candles or garden have to do with Palin ignoring the oil spill in Alaska?

 

[GWV5903]

Why doesn't Caribou Barbie STFU and take care of the oil spill in her own damn state???

A little tender there are you? I am not referring to your avatar....Amazing how the feeble minded are so afraid of a conservative women.....Your DSPOTUS needs your help.....

Have you pulled your bike out of the attic yet? Did you stock up on those candles? Is your garden feeding you? Etc.....

If not, you need to be the one to STFU.....

Do you always type with crayons? WTF does by bicycle, candles or garden have to do with Palin ignoring the oil spill in Alaska?

Yank, did I make a mistake, you are not a environmental wacko?

You're for shallow water drilling? Maybe you believe we should have a renewed and invigorated domestic exploration program?

I know, I know, don't tell me, you want to stop ALL DOMESTIC EXPLORATION, right? Ruin the industry so we can become 100% reliant on foreign oil....

It is amazing you can type much less follow you're DAPOTUS around, does he ask you to wipe his ass or do you volunteer?

 

[VaYank5150]

A little tender there are you? I am not referring to your avatar....Amazing how the feeble minded are so afraid of a conservative women.....Your DSPOTUS needs your help.....

Have you pulled your bike out of the attic yet? Did you stock up on those candles? Is your garden feeding you? Etc.....

If not, you need to be the one to STFU.....

Do you always type with crayons? WTF does by bicycle, candles or garden have to do with Palin ignoring the oil spill in Alaska?

Yank, did I make a mistake, you are not a environmental wacko?

You're for shallow water drilling? Maybe you believe we should have a renewed and invigorated domestic exploration program?

I know, I know, don't tell me, you want to stop ALL DOMESTIC EXPLORATION, right? Ruin the industry so we can become 100% reliant on foreign oil....

It is amazing you can type much less follow you're DAPOTUS around, does he ask you to wipe his ass or do you volunteer?

You DO type in crayons. Thanks for the proof.
BTW, it doesn't take an "environmental wacko" to see just how bad out of control big oil corporations have become. Do I want to stop all offshore drilling? Yes, until ALL rigs are inspected by someone who actually gives a shit about safety.

 

[GWV5903]

Do you always type with crayons? WTF does by bicycle, candles or garden have to do with Palin ignoring the oil spill in Alaska?

Yank, did I make a mistake, you are not a environmental wacko?

You're for shallow water drilling? Maybe you believe we should have a renewed and invigorated domestic exploration program?

I know, I know, don't tell me, you want to stop ALL DOMESTIC EXPLORATION, right? Ruin the industry so we can become 100% reliant on foreign oil....

It is amazing you can type much less follow you're DAPOTUS around, does he ask you to wipe his ass or do you volunteer?

You DO type in crayons. Thanks for the proof.
BTW, it doesn't take an "environmental wacko" to see just how bad out of control big oil corporations have become. Do I want to stop all offshore drilling? Yes, until ALL rigs are inspected by someone who actually gives a shit about safety.

Out of control? Do you have a fucking clue how many wells have been drilled in the Gulf without this kind of incident and with less regulation than we have today? How old are you skank? 20? 22?

Is your infatuation with crayons because you teach 6 year olds or you sell them?

Thousands of oil field jobs will be lost because of this moratorium, your logic or lack of would have all airplanes grounded, cars parked, surgeries postponed, trains idled, etc... because of accidents.....

Can you come up with an original thought? Come on admit it, you only know how to mimic the DAPOSPOTUS......

 

[Rinata]

The problem is that Obama has not done shit to plug the leak.

He should actually postpone his vacations , get off his ass, and do something useful.

Hooray for Sarah Palin and what a waste of space is Obama .

That's right. Cheer for the bitch that just runs her mouth and does nothing productive. Besides stealing money from her willing, stupid victims. Like you. She has a new book, I heard. I'll bet you're excited. Chump.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

There's a reason she and McCain lost the election.

You're right. Palin & McCain didn't promise the greedy what they knew was unobtainable, nor did they have an underground workforce paying and registering (under several different names), the homeless, indigent, uninformed, and dead to vote Democratic.

'Tis TRUE!!

Their primary problem, was.....they had each-other; a young, loose-cannon fly-boy...turned opportunistic old-fart....paired with a bubbleheaded-Bimbo.

Yeah....that's a winning-team.

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[Mr. Shaman]

It's the Bush administration's fault? Oh give me a fucking break. He spews bullshit like the hole spews oil. I am so sick of this guy. When will Barry stop blaming Bush? Apparently never.

Any time the 1%ers & oil-companies want to step-up-to-the-plate and cover the DEBT that Lil' Dumbya left the Obama Admin, all will be forgiven.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

It's the Bush administration's fault? Oh give me a fucking break. He spews bullshit like the hole spews oil. I am so sick of this guy. When will Barry stop blaming Bush? Apparently never.

MMS Director S. Elizabeth Birnbaum Biography

A veteran of the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Birnbaum became director of MMS in the wake of a 2008 scandal in which former officials had received lavish gifts from oil company executives, as well as sexually cavorted and taken drugs with them.

Who Is Elizabeth Birnbaum?

My feeling is Obama should have put together a "task force" to identify every official appointed by Bush and then have them replaced. Bush was like Midas, only everything Bush touched turned to shit.
The Justice Department, screwing up the CIA, the EPA, OSHA, FEMA, there is nothing that Bush touched that he didn't ruin.

The real question is how many more of these "land mines" are hiding and waiting to go off. Obama is distracted with Bush's major fuck ups, he misses the smaller ones, until they become major disasters. It probably won't be the last one. Republican incompetence runs deep, like cancer.

And yet . . . . Obama kept her in place. Obama has had 16 months to correct the "MMS's 'culture of corruption' which happened under the previous administration" . . .

Yeah....he had so-much free-time....holding Republicans'-hands thru the whole health-care trip.....while they kept screaming "NO!!!!", like a bunch o' spoiled, little kids.

If the RNC hadn't acted like the (proverbial) "absent-parent", for 16 months, there's a lot-more he could have accomplished....as if the RNC didn't (already) know that. ​

 

[txlonghorn]

There's a reason she and McCain lost the election.

You're right. Palin & McCain didn't promise the greedy what they knew was unobtainable, nor did they have an underground workforce paying and registering (under several different names), the homeless, indigent, uninformed, and dead to vote Democratic.

ouch...I wish you wouldn't hold back so much

 

[Mr. Shaman]

You conservatives got exactly what you fight for every single day.

....More-commonly-referred-to as.....

....Allowing The Marketplace To Regulate Itselfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Task_Force​

"The Washington Post reported on November 15, 2005 that it had obtained documents detailing how executives from major oil corporations, including Exxon-Mobil Corp., Conoco, Royal Dutch Shell Oil Corp., and the American subsidiary of British Petroleum met with Energy Task Force participants while they were developing national energy policy. Vice President Cheney was reported to have met personally with the Chief Executive Officer of BP (formerly British Petroleum) during the time of the Energy Task Force's activities."

 

[txlonghorn]

the stupidity and blind obligation to protect this administration is laughable and sad

 

[Sinatra]

It would appear Dowd and Palin are on the same page regarding Obama...

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For five weeks, it looked as though Obama considered the gushing that became the worst oil spill in U.S. history a distraction, like a fire alarm going off in the middle of a law seminar he was teaching. He’ll deal with it, but he’s annoyed because it’s not on his syllabus.

...He’s spending the holiday weekend in Chicago when he should be commemorating Memorial Day here with the families of troops killed in battle and with veterans at Arlington Cemetery.

...“The media may get tired of the story, but we will not,” he told Gulf Coast residents when he visited on Friday. Actually, if it weren’t for the media, the president would probably never have woken up from his torpor and flown down there.


Op-Ed Columnist - Once More, With Feeling - NYTimes.com
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OUCH!!!!

 

[Sinatra]

And from the comments section of the LA Times...
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It took Bush about three days to get the federal government moving after Katrina. Obama is now 40 days in and so far his only response is to blame Bush.


The BP spill: Obama's Katrina? - latimes.com

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Blame Bush and big oil for the disaster......

It would be somewhat-difficult to blame one, or the other....the classic Perfect Storm.

Ya' got an oil-company....Regulating itself, and Lil' Dumbya being....well....LIL' DUMBYA!!!

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[Sinatra]

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And from the comments section of the LA Times...
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It took Bush about three days to get the federal government moving after Katrina. Obama is now 40 days in and so far his only response is to blame Bush.


The BP spill: Obama's Katrina? - latimes.com

 

[ABikerSailor]

Yank, did I make a mistake, you are not a environmental wacko?

You're for shallow water drilling? Maybe you believe we should have a renewed and invigorated domestic exploration program?

I know, I know, don't tell me, you want to stop ALL DOMESTIC EXPLORATION, right? Ruin the industry so we can become 100% reliant on foreign oil....

It is amazing you can type much less follow you're DAPOTUS around, does he ask you to wipe his ass or do you volunteer?

You DO type in crayons. Thanks for the proof.
BTW, it doesn't take an "environmental wacko" to see just how bad out of control big oil corporations have become. Do I want to stop all offshore drilling? Yes, until ALL rigs are inspected by someone who actually gives a shit about safety.

Out of control? Do you have a fucking clue how many wells have been drilled in the Gulf without this kind of incident and with less regulation than we have today? How old are you skank? 20? 22?

Is your infatuation with crayons because you teach 6 year olds or you sell them?

Thousands of oil field jobs will be lost because of this moratorium, your logic or lack of would have all airplanes grounded, cars parked, surgeries postponed, trains idled, etc... because of accidents.....

Can you come up with an original thought? Come on admit it, you only know how to mimic the DAPOSPOTUS......

Hey crayon boy, do you have any fucking clue about this? Apparently not.......

Deepwater Horizon was a FOREIGN FLAGGED VESSEL. Why? Because oil platforms are treated like ships, and the country that they are registered under is the country that dictates the inspection procedures.

Halliburton (the guys that made the slurry that caused this fuckup) has their world headquarters in Dubai (that move happened under Bush Jr.).

BP is a foreign company as well. So no, this isn't American owned drilling.

As far as the jobs lost because of the moratorium? What about the shrimpers, fishing guides, fishermen, cruise ship operators, etc? Don't their jobs count?

No, we shouldn't be drilling in the Gulf. Incidentally, did you know that the technology for drilling has already outpaced the technology for safety? We're still using the same techniques as we did 30 years ago to try to fix this mess.

Nope, sorry.........the Wasilla Chihuahua hasn't got a fucking clue.