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k2o4 United States. Jun 20 2010 23:24. Posts 4803 | | |
Just read a great NYT article talking about the massive failures by Salazar and Obama to prevent this shit with BP because they didn't take enough action to clean up the MMR when they took office. They cleaned up a bit but left plenty of corrupt BS is in place and OK'd BP's plan to drill in the Gulf. Fail. Considering that the alternative is the Republican's who'd rather just not regulate anything (hello to even worse disasters where the oil companies pay nothing back after they rape our asses silly), I still choose the democrats. But just cause the other side sucks more doesn't mean failures like this are acceptable in any way.
Anyway, read the article cause it has lots of stuff in there and is much better written than anything I can do.
| | PRESIDENT Obama is not known for wild pronouncements, so it was startling to hear him liken the gulf oil spill to 9/11. Alas, this bold analogy, made in an interview with Roger Simon of Politico, proved a misleading trailer for the main event. In the president’s prime-time address a few days later, there was still talk of war, but the ammunition was sanded down to bullet points: “a clean energy future,” “a long-term gulf coast restoration plan” and, that most dreaded of perennials, “a national commission.” Such generic placeholders, unanimated by details or deadlines, are Washingtonese for “The buck stops elsewhere.”
The speech’s pans were inevitable, but in truth it was doomed no matter what the words or how cool or faux angry the performance. The president had it right the first time — this is a 9/11 crisis — and only action will do. The sole sentence that really counted on Tuesday night was his prediction that “in the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well.” He will be judged on whether that’s true. The sole event that mattered last week was his jawboning of BP for a $20 billion down payment of blood money — to be overseen, appropriately enough, by Kenneth Feinberg of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
That action could be a turning point for Obama if he builds on it. And he must. In this 9/11, it’s not just the future of the gulf coast, energy policy or his presidency that’s in jeopardy. What’s also being tarred daily by the gushing oil is the very notion that government can accomplish anything. The current crisis in that faith predates this disaster. In the short history of the Obama White House, two of its most urgent projects, reducing unemployment and pacifying Afghanistan, have yet to yield persuasive results. The dividends on the third, health care reform, won’t be in the mail for years. |
Full article here
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Baalim Mexico. Jun 21 2010 00:07. Posts 34262 | | |
if both choices suck hairyballs why do you keep choosing one? |
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NewbSaibot United States. Jun 21 2010 00:17. Posts 4946 | | |
| | On June 20 2010 23:07 Baal wrote:
if both choices suck hairyballs why do you keep choosing one? |
Inaction is a vote for the other side. |
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nolan Ireland. Jun 21 2010 00:35. Posts 6205 | | |
the government really needs to downsize asap before people get out of control |
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Baalim Mexico. Jun 21 2010 01:08. Posts 34262 | | |
| | On June 20 2010 23:17 NewbSaibot wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2010 23:07 Baal wrote:
if both choices suck hairyballs why do you keep choosing one? |
Inaction is a vote for the other side.
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No, inaction is a protest, inaction is a loud personal message, that they can they your money and your freedom, but never your spirit.
Sadly they have fooled so many of you and broken the rest. |
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Babs Australia. Jun 21 2010 05:35. Posts 1178 | | |
The American political system sucks balls. It's the least democracy of the democracies I'm aware of.
They need more than 2 major parties, it seems as though there is never any 3rd or 4th party option, and no independents? (or ones that seem to hold any power?)
Worst of all you have no "Question Time" in parliament where the opposition and other members can grill the president on his actions in government on regular basis. |
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NewbSaibot United States. Jun 21 2010 09:34. Posts 4946 | | |
| | On June 21 2010 00:08 Baal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2010 23:17 NewbSaibot wrote:
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if both choices suck hairyballs why do you keep choosing one? |
Inaction is a vote for the other side.
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No, inaction is a protest, inaction is a loud personal message, that they can they your money and your freedom, but never your spirit.
Sadly they have fooled so many of you and broken the rest. |
Fox News fanatics and other low information voters are going to vote whether I'm there or not. If I sat back and did nothing, Sarah Palin could be running the country right now. I simply cannot allow that to happen. |
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k2o4 United States. Jun 21 2010 12:09. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On June 21 2010 08:34 NewbSaibot wrote:
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On June 21 2010 00:08 Baal wrote:
| | On June 20 2010 23:17 NewbSaibot wrote:
| | On June 20 2010 23:07 Baal wrote:
if both choices suck hairyballs why do you keep choosing one? |
Inaction is a vote for the other side.
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No, inaction is a protest, inaction is a loud personal message, that they can they your money and your freedom, but never your spirit.
Sadly they have fooled so many of you and broken the rest. |
Fox News fanatics and other low information voters are going to vote whether I'm there or not. If I sat back and did nothing, Sarah Palin could be running the country right now. I simply cannot allow that to happen. |
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