Priorities, Brendan, priorities.

(I risk the President taking my comments personally, but they’re not intended to be personal; my comments reflect what many others feel, and we just want to help him tackle this enormous spill problem

Oh yes, Sarah, personalizing political critiques is just so ugly.

Bonus points for the Alaskan Ignoramoose for contradicting the on-the-scene Coast Guard Commander from her zillion foot pederast’s paradise a continent away! But why does she hate our troops?

I am also very tired of seeing James Carville on TV talking about how Obama ought to be sending these great scientists and people from various institutes to… do some unspecified thing that stops the leak and prevents the oil from damaging anything, I guess, because he never explains what is supposed to happen when they get there.

Allan, if a team of scientists could stuff crazed fetus lookalike Carville, his hideous shrew of a wife and Palin into the ruptured pipeline, their combined output of bile and opportunism might counter the flow of crude. I say it’s worth a shot if this “top kill” thingie doesn’t pan out.

if a team of scientists could stuff crazed fetus lookalike Carville, his hideous shrew of a wife and Palin into the ruptured pipeline, their combined output of bile and opportunism might counter the flow of crude.

Ah yes, the “top shrill” option.

OneMadClown FTW!

I saw 5 seconds of Carville before I dove for the remote, but wasn’t his “we’re dyin’ down heyah” an exact repeat of Nagin’s famous Katrina rant at the Superdome? Fookin’ copycat bastid.

The entertaining thing about Carville was that he was more pissed-off about the political optics and the effect this was having on Obama’s approval rating than anything else.

Sending in the “Woods Hole people” is an idea he got from movies like The Abyss. He might as well have said, “Obama could have put Sigourney Weaver in that robot suit from Aliens, and sent her down to crush the Blow-Out Preventer.” Both are crowd-pleasing call-out-the-Cavalry notions that are equally meaningless in terms of real-world utility.

Behind all his spit-flinging bluster, Carville was really saying, “Fuck the oil leak—hire me to manage your messaging on this thing!”

The entertaining thing about Carville was that he was more pissed-off about the political optics and the effect this was having on Obama’s approval rating than anything else.

Ah, now it makes sense. I wonder if he’s considered the optics of Obama supporters all demanding a photo op and then scoffing “too little, too late” when it happens. I also wonder who’s behind the temp workers bussed in to clean up the spot before Obama arrived and bussed back out the second he left. Supposedly, BP. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

It’s possible that President Obama did not act as quickly as he could have but could that be because of all the misinformation being spewed by BP executives who only have their bottom line as concern? No one could have or did predict this oil spill yet he’s supposed to be able to handle it immediately when the experts who know how to drill that deeply, don’t know how to handle a problem at that depth. He is the President of the entire country, there is far more on his plate than just the oil spill and he has advisors that are employed to delegate.  If he tried to do too much initially, they’d claim he was “hogging the spotlight”, when he meets with the Duke Basketball team for less than an hour, he’s criticized for not concentrating on the oil spill, if he raises money for Barbara Boxer, he should be in the Gulf of Mexico diving down a mile below the surface to plug the damn hole!  No matter what President Obama does, the Conservatives will complain, especially Palin who had this to say a couple months ago;

“Today the president said he’ll “consider potential areas for development in the mid and south Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico…  Behind the rhetoric lie new drilling bans and leasing delays; soon to follow are burdensome new environmental regulations.  Instead of “drill, baby, drill,” the more you look into this the more you realize it’s “stall, baby, stall.”

Who can forget Palin and her abhorrent view of all things “government”? De-regulate at all costs and the environment be damned is her true mantra.  Just look at the distance between her home and her neighbor’s home and you’ll see what her endorsement of lack of building codes allows in Wasilla!  Imagine, if you dare, what she would do if handed the reins of the Presidency?

President Obama took responsibility for what has gone wrong and continues to do so although he said the MMS was also to blame as they’ve been filled with people cherry-picked by the oil companies.  He’s right but how dare he accurately blame anyone else according to Palin?  She was known for never accepting responsibility for her wrongdoings and continues to do so in blaming the media when her endorsed candidates are losing. 

Please will someone shut this woman up?