THIS is the kind of worthless crap that 'The Littlest Narcissist' is busy playing at while the oil continues to pump into the Gulf of Mexico and he denies the Governor of Louisiana the RIGHT to do what he knows is his DUTY to protect his own state. It's a damned good thing the media is on his side (and that lots of 'em must have 'a thrill run up their leg' when he speaks), 'cuz if this was happenin' on the watch of a REPUBLICAN President, he'd be bein' accused of 'dereliction of duty' and the story would be 24/7/365 - even after he left office. Meanwhile, if you like the occasional bit of seafood when y' go out to eat, when you see the new prices, be sure to write 'The ONE' a nice note about how he 'managed' this ecological and human disaster in a state just now recovering from Hurricane Katrina ... and be sure to tip your waiter nicely, too ...

This disaster plays directly into his plan to kill any and all possibilities for American energy independence. No drilling. No coal (remember, he said he'd bankrupt any new plant with the costs of regulation), and no nukes (remember, he's now closed Yucca Flats, so disposal of spent fuel rods is impossible now 'cuz there's NO facility to send 'em to). Get used to payin' more at the pump for your fuel, too ... it's 'The Time of the Great Equalization' ...

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/the-presidential-planner-17.html

Political Punch

The Presidential Planner

May 27, 2010 7:17 AM | From Sunlen Miller

This morning, President Obama will meet with the NCAA men’s basketball champion Duke Blue Devils at the White House to honor their 2009-2010 championship season in the Rose Garden.

Keeping up the sports theme, the president and the vice president will take a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team and former President Bill Clinton, who is chairing the 2018 World Cup bid, on the North Portico. The White House has previously announced that Vice President Biden and Jill Biden will attend the World Cup in South Africa next month.

Afterward, the president will a private lunch with President Clinton in the Private Dining Room.

In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks on the BP oil spill and the conclusions of his ordered 30-day safety review and hold a press conference in the East Room.

The president will announce standards to strengthen oversight of the industry and enhance safety, a first step in a process that the independent Presidential Commission will continue, a White House official says.

In the meantime, the moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells will continue for a period of six months. In addition, the planned exploration off the coast of Alaska in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas will be delayed pending the Comissions review and the August lease sale in the Western Gulf will be cancelled. The lease sale off the coast of Virginia will also be cancelled due to environmental concerns and concerns raised by the Defense Department.

It is my understanding that the government can't really do much about the oil spill until it reaches domestic soil. What they have tried to do with the National Guard has actually just slowed the relief more because they had a remote control device get tangled in a tube underwater that hindered the relief effort.

I would look this up and cite references, but it appears that everyone here wouldn't really care either way...so let the government be the martyr. If we can ever think to control our government again we have to be a tad smarter on which issues we push on them and which issues are simply not in their realm of feasibility.

"While the Gulf Dies"....it is so sad, really.

It really is just a play on words to attract readers. Place the president in a place outside of a disaster area, give it a catchy name, in this case 'While the Gulf Dies,' and write really nothing more than opinions on what should be done aside from what can be done.

Honest journalism can't make money because of people like this...and it rather aggravates me...

" ... WHICH ISSUES WE PUSH ON THEM ... " ... ? WHAT ... ? 'The ONE' JUMPED on this - if you listened to his 'press conference' today, HE CLAIMED CREDIT for being 'on the case' FROM DAY ONE ... which means he assumes responsibility for the FIRST FIVE WEEKS of doing NOTHING. It also means that what BP is doing NOW is solely due to BP's own actions - the Coast Guard didn't come up with the idea for 'top kill' - they just signed off on it - the idea and the technology is BP's ... Louisiana pushed NOTHING onto 'The ONE' and his suckups ... it merely provided a handy agenda item for him to spin so as to do away with our ability to drill OUR OWN OIL in OUR OWN WATERS. " ... push on them ... " ... it is to laff ...

ahhhh,, so Im not alone,,,,

peoples tendency to confuse opinions with facts is one that kind of frustrates me on times as well

Okay, I will say this once more, and then leave you to type a few things into a simple search engine like Google and find out yourself...there is not much that the United States government can do on this issue, they've done what they could and it failed, even hindered the effort (that means that it slowed the work down).

http://www.google.com/

Look it up, I already did the research and wrote a story on this for my blog.

Oh wow. You blog. Why am I not surprised ... ?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/05/can_obama_do_more_about_the_bp.html

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-27/bp-has-some-success-with-temporary-oil-leak-halt-correct-.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june10/thadallen_05-24.html

--Didn't figure you would use Google, so I did it for you.

Sorry, but no ... I can look at the links and see who you rely on for what you call 'news' - but which is really just apologistic and smarmy blurbs trying to cover up what this pretentious little boychild SHOULD have done and HASN'T ... even 'craps like James Carville are dumping him now for his sorry lack of performance and disinterest ...

I think honest journalism died out in the mid 60's.

Now Carville may be tempering his criticism

On CNN last night, he said: “I think that when this president comes down here Friday and actually sees what’s going on, I think we’re going to swing into action here… I just think that the president is not being told what the situation here is in a very candid way.”

And he launched into his best Ragin’ Cajun: “This president needs to tell BP ‘I’m ya daddy. I’m in charge. You gonna do what we say. You’re a multinational company that is greedy and you may be guilty of criminal activity.’”

And he took off after BP: “It’s time that we understand: BP does not wish this thing well. They have been negligent. They need to whip out their checkbook and start moving… and the president needs to push them.”

opinions change like the direction of the winds,,,Id hardly consider it as Carville DUMPING OBama

And you actually believe what you write huh?

Sad.

Excellent research too.

Sad...two of those links I put up are some of the most unbiased news sites in the world today.

We obviously have different meanings for the word 'truth' ...

What's really sad is Mr. Hussein coudn't give two *****.

mindreaders , and lexicons, and pedantics... oh my!!