Louisiana Gov. Jindal to Obama: Give Us More Power on Oil Spill

I sounded like Jake was trying to place the blame on Louisiana. Maybe if Louisiana was receiving the royalties from the offshore drilling, in which it is entitled, this money could be invested in the protection for which Louisiana has been begging!

Bigger government = bigger mess..

Jindal is the true hero in this mess….He HAS been on it since day one and has all the facts straight….
Compare with Obama, unprepared, uninformed, uncaring and political…a FAILURE.

I think there are two issues here. BP is responsible at this moment for stopping the gush of oil. The US with state authorities are responsible for cleaning up the mess and later billing BP. The problem from the start is how many chiefs do we have. So is BP the ultimate authority on how the money is spent? If they don’t agree the request gets denied? If the Feds/state makes their own assessments without the agreement by BP, do they proceed anyway and sue for collection later? So if the feds o.k. the state to build berms, and they fail to do what is intended, does BP who is refusing this request pay anyway?
While the oil gush is being dealt with by BP, shouldn’t the government be skimming off the oil with tankers? Is it physically possible to separate both oil and water on those tankers and save most of the oil and retrieve it before it hits more shoreline? Is Carville right about this request?
For whatever reasons the feds did not make this a priority from Day 1. The media didn’t either. So there may well have been feds dispatched, but it was not an all out effort as it should have been.
This is exactly like the proclamation from then democrat Governor of LA after Katrina that next morning that all was pretty o.k. So the government stepped back waiting for the state to tell them what was needed. Now we know this was a huge mistake because Washington looked slow to act as they do now. So instead do the feds barge in ASAP and “take over” even when not asked?
From every disaster SHOULD come a learning experience.

The Federal government has been involved with this oil spill since day one. And Jindal knows it. A few months ago Jindal was one of the biggest accusers of the Obama administrations “big government” and was against regulating big corporate America. Well, now that the result of deregulatiion has slapped his state in the face with a big disaster created by greedy corporate politics, he wants to blame the very government that wants to regulate the big oil conglomeration. Hypocrisy at it’s finest, Jindal. Shut up and take responsibility for your own lack of involvement, incompetence, and judgement. Why weren’t you prepared? Why didn’t you have a plan? And like that boon would save the wetlands..get real. There’s nothing that can, or could have been done to save the coast. Not all the boon or sand in the world.The waters are not only contaminated with oil, but with dispersant as well.

It’s Jindal’s state. He IS responsible because he’s the governor and he HATES “bigguvmint”. Thinks volcano monitoring is a waste, per his speech. He talked to O everyday on the phone last week, yet he politicizes by whining on TV, too.

The U.S. Constitution clearly defines governments role. T-Baggers and Liberterians rail against the Obama administration. Paul Rand, a strict Constitutionalist?. A Liberterian. Randwants to either change or do away with the 14th ammendment in the Constitutuion. A law that has been in existence since 1828. Does that mean he wants to protect the Constitution? or, shred it until it looks like something the Liberterian party would like for Americans. All Americans. T_Baggers are spitting into the wind. Federal taxes are at a 50 year low. Is the Tax act just a dodge? Or, are the Baggers, Birthers and Deathers just a far right fringe of society who are highly religious and believe the Bible should replace or become a part of our country’s Constitution? BP and all the great scientific minds willing to help can not stop the oil gushing into the Gulf. Is this the presidents fault? Maybe he is partially to blame, as would every president that has allowed deep sea drilling at extreme levels. Our President is not a caped crusader with physical ability’s beyond mortal men and women. An unprescedented happening has made everyone understand the earth snb usedn as a garbage pail.
Right now in the pacific a trillion tons of plastic and other non bio degradable GARBAGE is spoiling our world. Stop the blame game. The President has done all he can. Send in the Feds and have the government take over? Isn’t that the exact ideaology T-Baggers and state rightists rail against? You do not get to pick and choose when the Constitution should be folowed or not be folowed. As Sen. McCain (Circa 2000) once proudly proclaimed, ” I’m a Maverick.” To which the same McCain recently said, ” I’m not a Maverick, never was”. SECREG_756

Obama lacks leadership ability. His inactions on this crisis have led to more environmental damage. It appears that Obama’s only ability is apologizing to our enemies, badmouthing previous administrations and creating combative relationships with real leaders that are moving our nation forward.

While I deeply regret seeing Louisiana suffer again from a major disaster, I have become seriously fatigued with hearing their political leaders rant and rave against the federal government. Has the government done everything perfectly? No, but this is an unprecendented disaster. There is no magic wand to wave. When the oil is stopped and the clean up effort properly organized, both of which will happen, the time has come to have a discussion about Louisiana and its expectations. The state has long supported offshore drilling and its politicians have certainly filled their coffers with a great deal of money from the industry. For years many of its political leaders have done the oil companies’ bidding in Washington and Baton Rouge. Likewiase, after Katrina it was suggested that some of the of the very low lying areas not be rebuilt on since we seem to be in an era of increasing Hurricanes. Yet they continue to build in those areas. The marshlands that have protected the sate in the past have been allowed to decay. Maybe its time that Louisiana’s politicians take some responsibility for their state’s situation during calm times instead of going back to their business as usual. Going on television and screaming at and complaining about the federal government may help to raise sagging poll numbers and further political careers in Louisiana but it achives nothing. Especially when their fallback plan is to rely of the federal guvernment to take care of everything.

While a huge part of me wants to watch this Republican anti-government worm Jindal beg for more government help, I come from Louisiana and those are great people down there, and they need to be helped as much as possible. There is no place in the United States, nay the WORLD, like southern Louisiana.
It is unfortunate but the best petroleum engineers in the world are ALREADY advising on this horrific oil spill. Is Jindal suggesting that the government set up a new czar and department to fully be able to clean up private industry’s mess like this? The government is doing everything it can and is capable of doing to contain and force BP’s hand (the creator of the problem, and unfortunately, the only viable solution).
It is the ultimate irony–this puny Republican anti-government governor begging for help like this. He has no alternatives. And he has no alternative but to play the blame game. How sad for Louisiana.

Be aware BP consultants are posting messages designed to minimize perceived damage, minimize perceived value of Louisiana’s damage, and try to shift blame for their oil pollution damage, especially to their victims. They are going to slander their victims.
The insulting of BP’s victims, we see in posts here, is unconscionable. Don’t blame the victims. We deserve emergency defense of our wetlands by BP.
BP is clearly at fault for this disaster, not fishermen, not Cajuns or New Orleanians. Understand that the people of south Louisiana are not anything at all like the rest of the state and don’t even vote the same, especially not in Southeast Louisiana.

The Gulf spill is being politicized. It’s a corporate made disaster. It’s the oil spill equivalent of the Banking crisis. it’s simple to understand who is to blame. It’s simple to understand the problem. It is Capitalism running amuck. Do any of you SHEEPLE now understand how the Roberts led Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to back any politician to their maximum finanial ability will eventually lead us to Facism? Better wake up SHEEPLES. Or the Fairy Tales being spun by Beckians, will become a reality. And you SHEEPLE won’t like it when the true culprit is not Obama but corporate CEO’s like Hugo Chavez! SECREG_756

Here is how you reform Wall Street, the banking and insurance industry too. Do away with the Graham-Baily-Leech Act and reinstate Glass/Steagal. That’s all it would take. Financial crisis solved.
Really, it’s just that simple. And one other point, regulate derivative trading, big time. If I reccomended 1/2 my clients buy a stock. And suggested to the other half they short the same stock. I would have my license taken away and banned from the business. Of course I’m just a worker bee like the rest of you. And I have to explicitly follow the rules. As Jason Roberts from match Box Twenty once wrote. I wonder what it’s like to be a rain maker. I wonder what it would be like if I could make it rain. SECREG_756

Sad to say that this oil disaster depicts Jindal as hypocritical for his emphatic stance on less “guvmint” and restrictions on “guvmint” regulation. I pray for the people of Louisianna whose livelyhood is threatened.

I think every American understands the President can not stop the leak himself. We understand BP is responsible for the leak. What we do not understand is the response to the clean up and prevention of the oil getting to the shoreline. Why such a struggle it seems to be to get action ? This response seems to be on the same scale as Katrina. Why haven’t we excepted help from all the countries who offered help ? To me those are the the very frustrating and unanswered questions.

What is apparent is the GOP’s turning of the tide on the Obama administration.The response was slow..according to who? The media, the republican governor? The president has been to LA twice. His response was imidiate. H has been involved from the beginning. Just because he’s not giving a speech every five minutes, doesn’t mean he’s not aware and working to help solve the crisis. Do you really think with billions of gallons of oil still spewing from the bottom of the ocean that more boon was going to help? People are angry and looking for someone to blame. They see oil reaching shore. Clean up crews are working hard to help thwart the damage. And clean up is continuous and on going until the leak is stopped.You have miles of shore being affected. It’s an impossibly grueling task. Nothing will ever be enough.

They stand a better chance of getting that spill cleaned up if they let it settle for now. It’s best to burn it where they can and then collect the tar.

would like to talk to eng about solution to oil spill

LibertyAtStake — Jindal’s an idiot. There’s not a damn thing he can do that would be any more than Obama is doing and he knows it.

i have called gov Jindal and was told to leave a message by secretary,thats ok,but i DO have a solution to plug the pipe and still be able to pump oil out safely.im not a nut and do have a solution that cant fail.but no one has returned my call yet,and so the oil still flows.i hope he gets the message before oil starts up the swannie.

Our incompetent “leader” should give Bobby Jindal everything he needs and let HIM handle the spill. I guarantee you that he will do an infinitely better job than the dope in the White House. Good Grief, how much longer do we have to put up with this empty suit?
Remember in November!

No much to see here, I’m going on vacation, then a fund raiser, a concert, and play some golf. Good luck!
The One
Posted by: Fred | May 30, 2010 5:06:13 PM
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You’re right, the President should be IN the gulf with a snorkel 24 hours a day. Or at a command desk on the beach 24/7.

The government is a bunch of blubbering idiots! They knew when they allowed BP to drill 5k feet under the water and then another 30k feet into the ocean floor that they could hit some of the greatest pressures known in oil drilling!!! They knew it because Russia did it on land and got tremendous pressures! Both Republicans and democrat’s are to blame. They may not be able to stop this by drilling another well! These politicians should be hung on the capital steps. Mr. Bill Nelson, you allowed this drilling to take place now you act holier then thou!!! You deserve to go first!

It’s become abundantly clear what is going on with the current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Here are some steps you can take on your own to recover your property losses.
Take pictures of everything and document everything.
Most of your state officials can go on the Internet and find information about the Migratory Bird Treaty and the Clean Water Act. The residents with property loss can Google the Bouchard B-120 oil spill in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Be sure to review the current class action litigation going on even today over the 2003 oil spill. The oil spills have to stop!
On April 27, 2003, eight years ago the Bouchard Barge B-120 hit an obstacle in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts creating a 12-foot rupture in its hull and discharging an estimated 100,000 gallons of No. 6 oil.
Remember everyone must ask how likely are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in crude oil  to cause cancer?

Why couldn’t very loud noises-as loud as a 747 or bomb or loud sound waves be implemented to get the wild life and underwater life be directed to another location-very far from the Gulf?

Frankie–sorry about the lyrics. I believe my intepertation of the lines
are relevant to many Americans.SECREG_756

OH!!! I get it!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW Tapper is investigating into LOCAL response to a disaster!!!
WHAT A LAUGH!!!
When Nagin DID NOT EVACUATE N.O. when he was told to THEY BLAMED THE DEATHS ON BUSH!!!
Ask yourself ONE question question:
If Nagin (and Blanco) had evacuated N.O. when the FED told them to, how many deaths would there have been?
I’ll answer for you: ZERO!
Now the press is concerned about LA local response???
THEY HAVE NO SHAME!

Talk about your hypercritical hypocritical
Jindal has relief he has not distributed according to a report by the Lousiana Times-Picayune
Democratic legislators criticize Gov. Jindal’s handling of Gulf oil spill relief money
By Bruce Alpert, Times-Picayune
May 29, 2010, 5:18PM
“Three Democratic state senators blasted Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday for not quickly distributing $40 million in grants from BP at the same time he’s been criticizing the company and the Obama administration for taking too long to provide needed resources to combat the Gulf oil spill.
Jindal has “been out there talking to the people impacted by the disaster and the media and got his life jacket on and is out in the water, but I want him to use his executive power to get resources out there instead of standing on the bully pulpit and pointing fingers,” said state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans.
Peterson said that at a meeting Thursday with BP officials, coastal Louisiana legislators and representatives of the Jindal administration, it was disclosed that the state has spent only about $3 million of a $25 million BP grant for spill-related expenses, and that it has not yet issued a contract for BP’s $15 million grant to promote tourism attractions threatened by the spill.”

See. Now the GOP needs “BIG” government. When you people learn that the GOP are playing you for suckers. And by the way, our fore fathers created the “BIG” government. Perhaps you are mad at them. Anti-Americans.

Salon & JayG – How insightful of you to critize Jindal for a GENERIC Contingency Plan for LA, especially since we all know he’d know EXACTLY what type of emergency he’d be handling. Perhaps we should give him credit for evaluating what he already had & taking appropriate steps to encompass nad make known the emergency that started back on 4/20. And we’re ALL aware of how well governors from RED states fare w/Oblahblah. Did you notice Crist standing next to Obamma at the spill site — and see how fast he used his $25Million for advertising the pristine beaches of his state. If you were Jindal, would YOU have used the $15Million he’d been given to “advertise” that beach? Take your glasses off please. Obamma doesn’t “visit” states that voted RED when he was elected. Only the BLUE ones.

Prioritising the placement of boon may have resulted in some areas of shore being compromised. That’s expected, sadly. There’s not enough boon nor sand in the world that could have stopped this catastrophe. Or make a difference to the areas affected. And they knew it. Now the slick is heading towards Florida, like predicted a month ago. And possibly up the East coast. Jindal is politicizing this cosmic event. There isn’t enough boon and never would have been. But instead of being honest with the people of LA, he catered to the frenzy and is now using it for his own political gain. And the fact that when Jindal was posed the question asking him if he was satisfied with the President’s previous trip and response, he refused to answer the question. Because he knows the truth of the matter. He’s pandering to his constituents. And trying to build a case for the GOP. It’s so transparent it’s nauseating. And where was your preparedness Jindal?

From: Constantine B, PhD, Professor.
8 million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico
To day is 80th day, since the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oil keeps gushing from the leaking well into the Gulf of Mexico. The amount of spilled oil now is around 336 000 000 gallons.
BP significantly reduces this rate motivated by the fact that the daily capturing 15-20 thousand barrels of oil.
I have repeatedly explained, no matter how much oil BP capturing from the Cap, because the pump creates inside the Cap additional negative pressure which immediately compensated by the pressure in the petroleum layer and accompanied by an additional release of oil, correlated with this negative pressure.
So, the amount of gushing oil unchanged or unaltered is about 90-120 thousand barrels per day.
There are many people like myself, who would like to give alternative methods to BP and the government but lack the contacts to meet the right people. BP lacks thinking “outside of the box” and continues to solve its problems to the “best” of their knowledge.
Using my know-how and liquid nitrogen oil freezing equipment we can shut the well during the nearest 3 weeks.
Constantine B, PhD, Professor.