Obama Says He’s “Furious” about Gulf Oil Spill but His Job Isn’t to Vent and Yell

If the Fed. Govt disallowed shallow water drilling, then why is the Fed Govt…not responsible for this disaster??? BP is responsible, but in the end…U.S. FED. GOVT….MADE THE RULES AND THIS spill cannot be contained because of it…Shame on you..

TOUGH IF HE’S MAD…WHO CARES???

TOUGH IF HE’S MAD…WHO CARES???
Posted by: bill | Jun 3, 2010 7:53:27 PM
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Huh? Are you unable to read more than a headline?

Boy jan – You just lap up those Fox and Palin talking points as soon as they start them, huh?

The President is flying to the gulf to present BP with a bill for work done thus far. Will the President be “billing” BP for the Air Force One flights so that he can get another photo-op? It cheapens the Presidency to act as a high-priced bill collector!

He can’t show negative emotion or ire about oil spill and yet he does consistantly does so toward Fox News
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Nonsense, his administration has questioned FOX’s objectivity in their ‘news’, but that isn’t showing ‘negative emotion’. In fact the comments were often delivered with wry humor.
We have seen some ‘negative emotion’ about this episode with BP, but the President is largely in control and under control.

To show emotion you have to feel something first. Obama lacks EMPATHY!

Take a look at these pictures!!!! I’m crying uncontrollably. Obama! After some 40 days you had 300 million Americans ready to be called upon in this absolute unequivocal disaster but you have some skewed opinion regarding the genuine hearts and feelings of the American people. With a small amount of that stimulus money you could have retained any equipment or personnel required that would have given some relief to our wetlands and you didn’t even try. Was I as a citizen called upon and directed to a job or specific effort? This is what leadership is all about and you failed and failed big.
All you had to say was we need to build berms here, here and here or delegate it. We need 20,000 boats with sponges I don’t know I’m not President but you did nothing. Absolutely nothing. Why didn’t you allow Jindal do what he needed to do? What’s the matter with you??!!!! While these creatures are suffocating you’re having concerts, vacationing and playing golf?
Nice….and see ya. putz

You Palin hacks can head back over to Fox now.

Furious? Are you kidding me? America is furious with this man. He must go in 2012!

The logic that “this is Obama’s fault because he disallowed shallow water drilling” is one of the most delusional and hilarious pieces of garbage ever to spew from Fox-land.

Even liberal columnists such as Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich, both of the New York Times, are beginning to turn on Obama for his handling of the oil spill in the Gulf, which has been spewing oil now for roughly six weeks.
This presents the administration with major public relations emergencies on multiple fronts with the potential effects on the nation’s coast and wildlife.
Barry has repeatedly denied that his administration was complicit under his watch (16 months after Bush is not an excuse to blame Bush; Bush only had 8 months after Clinton for 9/11) and this administration allowed this catastrophe to be solved by BP for weeks…
In other words, Obama — as he often does — will take “full responsibility” for being, well, awesome.

I heard that if the leak in the Gulf is not stopped, it could spew oil into the Gulf at this rate for 10-20 years. The government better wise up to the fact that a nuclear blast is probably the only way to seal the hole.
Ron | Jun 3, 2010 9:53:01 PM
The relief wells will do the job, just like the last underwater blow out (where all the same alternate attempts to stop it failed). A nuclear blast has never even worked for an above ground oil blowout, never mind under water.

YOU Mr. President, need to make it clear to them that they are on the hook for EVERYTHING.
Time For the SmackDown | Jun 3, 2010 9:33:51 PM
How can he do that more than he has already? And despite the hysterics from the far right, he’s not a dictator; what he can do is limited by law. So far, BP has lost $75 billion in value since the blowout. That is probably a pretty fair estimate of how much this fiasco will cost them.

Waiting for BP to do this and billing them for it – that’s leadership?
Since James Carville changed the awareness, just what has taken place, other than additional rhetoric, finger pointing at BP and threats of criminal investigations?
Maybe Barry is positioning himself to take the credit once the spill is contained? Wait…Holder is sending lawyers per his request.. We all feel better now.

Lets remember the following facts:
1) The Left wanted drilling that far out as if it would be safer.
2) Why arent we drilling in ALaska on LAND?
3) Why are there 18 other countries including Vietnam,Cuba,China,Brazil etc drilling in the gulf? While we stop they just pump out more.
4) The Left wants America to be energy dependent that is why they have these ridiculous positions. All done to weaken America, Just like Cap and Trade, surrendering our Sovereignity to a world government, Bowing to Dictators,Kissing up to Leftists all over the world as we apologize for being America.
Wake Up America! Throw all the Leftists out in November.

Palin speaking at the debate with Biden: “You even called drilling – safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore – as raping the outer continental shelf,” Palin said at the debate. “There – with new technology, with tiny footprints even on land, it is safe to drill and we need to do more of that.”

Obama Is A Disgrace to all Americans and especailly to those losers that voted him in HaHa

BP, deep water oil drilling along with their negligent practices were in place BEFORE Obama arrived in the White House. He isn’t a magician as some of this blog seem to think he ought to be. He only had the financial crisis, health-care and immigration to deal with. These things that oh have been neglected for decades, much like drilling safety regulations.

“You’ve got to have a situation in which … Israel’s neighbors recognize Israel’s legitimate security concerns and are committed to peace.” Shame on you, Karen!!!

I doubt our Sovereign Nation can afford another 33 months of this President. He is making horrible decisions affecting this Nation and the World. He is inexperienced with flawed judgment. Impeachment needs to be introduced asap!

Kathleen… your “hypocracy” is clearly evident in your purely political post.

Oh Geeze… GIVE ME A BREAK. This is the equivalent of a volcanic erruption, and YOU’RE ignorant enough to think that the President in some way or another could have slowed this or stopped this?
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Give him another month or 3, right? Anyway, I’m sure this issue was discussed during the fundraiser in CA!

Flapjack Said: “Give him another month or 3, right? Anyway, I’m sure this issue was discussed during the fundraiser in CA!”
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Yes… LOL …. I’m sure that if the president didn’t attend that fundraiser, this would have been stopped by now. (“geeze”)

I think it’s a shame Obama is blamed for everything when everyone knows all the crap that was handed to him to deal with and even though he’s making progress people still want to complain.
It would be unprofessional of him to scream and throw a fit but I guess that’s what people want to see. Not me, I would rather have him cool, calm, and collected like he is now so he can stay focused on getting more acomplished. Be mad at the oil company not Obama.

I think most people are made at the oil companies and legitimately so. However the fed gov’t has taken responsibility for control of this area (offshore drilling) and this Pres has spent the entire first part of his presidency giving over more and more control to the fed gov’t saying it is the best option in things like healthcare, the economy, securing the border and most recently the press. The great incompetence on the cleanup (among other fed responsibilities) is a serious issue. It’s not just Obama it’s the fed gov’t and response that he is in charge of. If this huge bureaucracy is inefficient to handle this why are they approving plans for these wells in these very difficult places to drill in the first place. There have been reports that there is a lack of even technical knowledge of this kind of drilling in MMS & Dept of Interior. How can they verify a well and any safety measures without that expertise. A middle bureaucrat with outdated knowledge is not the best person for that type of responsibility.

Of course, it’s not about Obama getting angry but about his effectiveness to the crisis. Speaking of which, how much longer is BP going to be allowed to call the shots on fixing the leak and cleaning up? I’m assuming that’s the case because they’re obviously still in charge after about five other previous, failed attempts with the present one in a state of setbacks and stalls with estimation for the relief wells extended to perhaps Christmas. Does BP have some proprietary issues with enlisting help from outside drilling and clean up experts, not to mention cost containment ones? Though equally vexing is the EPA consulting with the movie director Names Cameron. A lot of people would rather that precious time be spent a lot more constructively, like in testing water and fish for toxicity levels.
Time is precious and of the essence. The oil sheen and thousands of tar balls are only five miles from the Florida beaches. They may be breaking the news along with Obama’s 2nd visit to Louisiana tomorrow within the week. His visit won’t stop the momentum of all that wretched stuff making it to shore, but will help to mitigate the national anger accompanying it which I suspect is the main reason of his visit.

I would suggest that BP have someone in the command post on the Enterprise just give a running commentary …. Might be helpful PR for them…
Posted by: Quo Warranto?
then they can break away to oil soaked Gulf coastline and give estimates for the environmental damage, a brief narration on why oil soaked wildlife is actually a good thing,
why they use toxic chemical remediation that sickens people, and maybe… even a brief tome in support of the tea party extolling the virtues of the coastal residents not relying on any federal aid as that’s what the founders intended.

then they can break away to oil soaked Gulf coastline and give estimates for the environmental damage
Posted by: PO’d | Jun 4, 2010 1:01:02 AM
Your point is taken, but it seems that we are already getting a pretty good picture of the damage from the US Media…
I would be reassuring to get a more complete account of the steps being taken to solve the problem…
Don’t you think?

They are doing their best to fix the leak
Posted by: osmodia
you mean the leak that ‘couldn’t happen’

I would be reassuring to get a more complete account of the steps being taken to solve the problem…Don’t you think?
Posted by: Quo Warranto?
what we’ve been told and have seen is that neither BP, Transocean or Halliburton really had a plan to deal with this, it would be different if it hadn’t already happened in the mexican gulf in shallower depths than this calamity, and no one else seems to have a ready plan either.
BP has a documented history of paying large fines and previous ‘accidents’ due to malfeasance and negligence.
Certainly all the facts are not in, and there no doubt will be investigations, litigation and probably another 20 year struggle like the Exxon Valdez.
Maybe at long last when a company says that their methodologies and techniques are safe,
it won’t be taken at face value by anyone.

It’s obvious the accident was bigger than could be dealt with by BP or any of the states on their own… that’s why their was a role for a full-scale Federal government reaction — but that did not happen… still hasn’t…
It’s obvious the accident was not anticipated and so sufficient preventative were not in place… but they were also not in place for any of the other companies either…
Whose responsibility is it to make sure adequate preventative measures are in place..? Obviously the company (BP) but the Government has a role to play as well…
People will be surprised to learn how close the coordination between the company the the government was in the events leading up to the accident… I found some emails between the company and the government on the net… they seemed to indicate that the company was explaining everything they were doing, and the government giving permission on a step by step basis. If it can be shown that BP was lying in their emails, or not doing what the government said, they have a problem… but if they were not, then it seems the government shares in some responsibility for the accident…
My only point is demonizing BP (or the government) is not productive.
The leak happened, that is the reality we must deal with… there will be time enough to figure out who did what assign blame, and plan so that this exact accident will not happen again (although you can be sure that others will).

The time to act was back in 1981 when Regan decided that imposing the clean air act on Industries was a burden to manufacturing corporations, so he decided to get rid of the strict law of it being mandatory. Remember?
The time to act had passed with decades of Republicans saying that Safety Regulations were a financial burden on Industries. Remember?
The time to act had passed with decades of Republicans Voting No to regulations on industries. Remember?

It’s obvious the accident was bigger than could be dealt with by BP or any of the states on their own… that’s why their was a role for a full-scale Federal government reaction — but that did not happen… still hasn’t…
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Sounds to me like you’ve already judged the whole situation – BP innocent multi-national with a situation beyond their capabilities and not their fault. Government guilty.

Funny how everyone only concentrate only on BP (I blame them also)But there were 3 companies involved. Remember? It was Halliburton who cemented the well and did not cement the cap so they did not plug the bore. Then workers reported the abnormal pressure, then came the methane gas bubble then came the explosion. the entire chain of events took 20 hours while BP, Transocean, and Halliburton were in discussion on what to do next? Yet everyone has conveniently forgotten Halliburton’s roll in all this.
Could it be because Halliburton is Cheney’s oil company? Could it be that many Republicans are still strongly tied to Halliburton?
My guess, Republicans will still vote Hell No on having Federal Government give real regulations on industry and vote No to have a separate agency that will truly enforce them.

Funny how everyone only concentrate only on BP (I blame them also)But there were 3 companies involved. Remember? It was Halliburton who cemented the well and did not cement the cap so they did not plug the bore. Then workers reported the abnormal pressure, then came the methane gas bubble then came the explosion. the entire chain of events took 20 hours while BP, Transocean, and Halliburton were in discussion on what to do next? Yet everyone has conveniently forgotten Halliburton’s roll in all this.
Could it be because Halliburton is Cheney’s oil company? Could it be that many Republicans are still strongly tied to Halliburton?
My guess, Republicans will still vote Hell No on having Federal Government give real regulations on industry and vote No to have a separate agency that will truly enforce them.
Posted by: Angie | Jun 4, 2010 2:02:26 AM
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I think you’re right Angie.

Angie, I don’t think anyone has forgotten anything but I think you need to know ALL the facts before you bad mouth. You are only hearing what the media wants you to hear. After all is said and done, report back to us and let us know who you find at fault ok? BP is notorious for doing things half-ass, ignoring safety issues, etc… this is not their first rodeo, missy!
Could it be because Halliburton is Cheney’s oil company? Could it be that many Republicans are still strongly tied to Halliburton?
My guess, Republicans will still vote Hell No on having Federal Government give real regulations on industry and vote No to have a separate agency that will truly enforce them.
Posted by: Angie | Jun 4, 2010 2:02:26 AM

Lay off BP? They’ve already proven doing their best isn’t good enough. If they can’t handle a situation like this and nip it in the bud, they have no business drilling in the first place. They, and others responsible, will never be able to compensate for the loss of wildlife, marinelife and destruction of the enviroment and food chain. Totally unacceptable and inexcuseable.

–Obama Says He’s “Furious” about Gulf Oil Spill but His Job Isn’t to Vent and Yell–
….just to point fingers.

First you get furious… then you get over it… then you get busy… seems like Mr. Obama is stuck on furious…

LOL. Reading this article reminds me of what a fantasy world the mainstream news has become.

The problem is that we can’t let the government solve all of our problems. I agree that Obama should take control and stop this horrible mess. I just can’t believe that someone can’t do something. I’ve lost respect for him. It’s terrible how we are destroying this earth!

To the president of the united states
Oil disaster day 76 in the gulf. go to the gulf today you have the right not to go to the gulf. you don’t have the right not to send everything we have to fight the disaster in the gulf. we will not and cannot trust BP. it is hard for me to believe that the oil is on shore and BP and the government are not making every effort to clean up the oil. I would like to see you make EPA show air and water test. we need to know why people are getting sick. help the people in the gulf with food, loans, work, make sure no one looses their home and boats from BP oil spill. I need to know how much wildlife is died from the oil spill the people need to see all the dead. how many people in the water clean up all the dead fish. news media not showing all the dead and all the oil I thank someone in the fed government making it hard for them to do their jobs. I thank it is hard for people to believe that the fed government has made a bigger mistake in the gulf this time. what I would like to see happen is the president go to the gulf and make it clear the news media can go anywhere to report on the oil spill. call up all national guard to go to the gulf and make sure that BP is not doing anything wrong like putting sand over oil on the shore. call up all the wildlife people to go to the gulf to help with saving all the wildlife that has not died.call up all the people that know how to clean up oil on the sand. do not call up people that only want to say No to everything and remove the ones in the gulf. If someone has a good idea how to clean up the oil on shore try something……..my name is Ronald GOCHENOUR I have lived in VA all my 55 years I vote democrat .2 times now I have seen on t.v.the worst of what can happen in the gulf and the fed government very poor job.so many people lost their life and lost everything they loved I am so sorry for the loss of love ones
thank you
Mr president