Obama Leadership: No time to discuss this with the committee!

[Jamisjockey]

 
Jindal is on the short list of favorites for 2012.  Anything that makes Obama look bad and Jindal look good is bad in the Obama world.  Just sayin....anything Jindal does to appear like an executive who gets things done won't be tolerated.

[makattak]

Jindal is on the short list of favorites for 2012.  Anything that makes Obama look bad and Jindal look good is bad in the Obama world.  Just sayin....anything Jindal does to appear like an executive who gets things done won't be tolerated.

You mean like this?:

http://www.wdsu.com/news/23997498/detail.html

NEW ORLEANS -- The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.

The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department has concerns about where the dredging is being done.

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, who was one of the most vocal advocates of the dredging plan, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama, pleading for the work to continue.

Nungesser said the government has asked crews to move the dredging site two more miles farther off the coastline.

"Once again, our government resource agencies, which are intended to protect us, are now leaving us vulnerable to the destruction of our coastline and marshes by the impending oil," Nungesser wrote to Obama. "Furthermore, with the threat of hurricanes or tropical storms, we are being put at an increased risk for devastation to our area from the intrusion of oil.

Nungesser has asked for the dredging to continue for the next seven days, the amount of time it would take to move the dredging operations two miles and out resume work.

Work is scheduled to halt at midnight Wednesday.

[dogmush]

It might be time for an "Or what?" moment.

US. Fish and Wildlife wants to stop the dredging.  What happens if they don't stop?

[BReilley]

Doesn't suprise me a bit.

This should prove that the fed .gov is not actually interested in doing anything productive about or actually stopping the leak. This is exactly the way the fed .gov operates. This is why I left fed .gov employment- I couldn't take the idiocy anymore.

Of course.  The whole liberal philosophy seems to be to allow Bad Things to occur, and although Bad Things result from liberal policies, the truly faulty are rarely at ground zero and can shift blame(i.e. the mortgage crisis), whether to greedy Wall Street investors or to greedy Big Oil.

True Believers don't care what happens, they just care that somebody pays to fix it, and that there's an "ass to kick".

This whole thing will end with a half-assed cleanup(through no fault of the active participants; simply because the willing and able are hamstrung by politics), a strained relationship between the US and the People's State of Britain, and greater taxation of the American public, in exchange for less freedom.

[longeyes]

Perhaps "the truly faulty" should put their ears to the ground.  They're slowly but surely being unmasked, identified, accused.  Anyone betting on impregnability in apocalyptic times is guilty of hubris on a huge scale.

[Jamisjockey]

Perhaps "the truly faulty" should put their ears to the ground.  They're slowly but surely being unmasked, identified, accused.  Anyone betting on impregnability in apocalyptic times is guilty of hubris on a huge scale.

Huh, what?
 

[BReilley]

Huh, what?
 

I think what he's getting at is that certain people/entities feel as if they are above the law/beyond any responsibility, and are betting that they can escape judgment when their "chickens come home to roost", so to speak.

Or, they place undue faith in the availability of contraceptives in a post-apocalyptic world.

[Jamisjockey]

I think what he's getting at is that certain people/entities feel as if they are above the law/beyond any responsibility, and are betting that they can escape judgment when their "chickens come home to roost", so to speak.

Or, they place undue faith in the availability of contraceptives in a post-apocalyptic world.

Someone owes me a monitor!

[Waitone]

Jindal has had a number of situations where he could have instigated a media event the likes of which we haven't seen since the late 60's or early 70's.  In one regard I admire his restraint.  In another regard I have to wonder just how bad the situation really is.  We hear "its really bad" yet I see the guv playing the game.  I see a president hell bent on creating misery and economic loss yet the situation is not sufficiently bad for the guv to take matters into his own hands and effectively dare fed.gov to stop him/state.  Maybe when Florida gets covered in oil the situation will change.  Now the problem is localize to a bunch of snaggle tooth, mouthbreathing hicks.  Maybe things will change when the pretty people on the Florida's west coast get huffy.

[KD5NRH]

Now the problem is localize to a bunch of snaggle tooth, mouthbreathing hicks.

I't's already on the Oklahoma coastline?   

[seeker_two]

I't's already on the Oklahoma coastline?   

OT....but, when I was in college, I was at a booth sponsored by some Global Warming-types. They had a map showing what would happen to the coastline if all the ice caps melted. It showed cities like New York, LA, Houston, and Austin all underwater and the Texas coast up around Waco. The girl manning the booth seemed kinda perterbed when I asked he what the downside of Global Warming was.....

....since that day, I've done everthing I can to promote Global Warming.....and to buy property in Central Texas.... 

[KD5NRH]

OT....but, when I was in college, I was at a booth sponsored by some Global Warming-types. They had a map showing what would happen to the coastline if all the ice caps melted. It showed cities like New York, LA, Houston, and Austin all underwater and the Texas coast up around Waco.

Pretty much where it was 300 million years ago, IIRC.  Only downside being that the hurricanes would hit us pretty hard here.  I wonder if we could get back the inland sea to wipe out Abilene too.