Hooray for BP...

There's no question that it's BP's accident and they're responsible for the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no argument that BP must pay for all the damage, lost income and wages as well as cleanup and other related items.
However, Obama in his arbitrary decision to put a moratorium on all drilling and that BP must pay the laid off workers was beyond his authority. This is not a dictatorship and we have a Congress that decides these things.
Today, BP stood up to Obama and said that they refuse to pay workers that are laid off because of Obama's decision. In addition, the other oil companies are going to court to have the moratorium lifted as there is no reason for this.
No matter how much we try to take care and prevent problems, it's just "Murphy's Law" that eventually accidents do and will happen. This is not to forgive these accidents and the responsible parties, but for our President to make a decision without any basis and without presenting it to Congress is unconscionable. He is wild with power...what's he going to do next ?

During my lifetime, the only incident of the general public's disrespect for the President of the United States was during the Nixon-Watergate fiasco.
However, I have never seen such disrespect for our President as is being done to Obama. Not only does the media call him everything from a "liar" to a "hitler", but members of Congress even call him a liar, publicly.
It has become clearer each day that Obama is merely a "figurehead" and is only occupying the seat of President. The White House is actually being run by Rahm Emanuel. Have you noticed the copious amount of bad decisions being made by Obama ?
After reading Obama's favorite book, "Rules for Radicals" did I see what the White House agenda really is. Emanuel winds up the "Obama doll" and lets him loose while
Emanuel puts his agenda forward without taking any of the blame.
Not since Lyndon Johnson has our government been seen as a regime until this administration.
No wonder, people (even Congressmen) feel obligated to apologize for Obama's actions (or lack of). Obama has taken the highest office in the land and reduced its prestige to that of your local dog catcher. At first, I was appalled at the gross disrespect for our President, and as the months went by, I could see how Obama has truly earned the disrespect shown to him.
Of course, we've always made jokes about some of the ridiculous things that our Presidents have done, but not until the Obama regime have people looked down on the man in the oval office with the vengeance, animosity and disrespect that they regard Obama with.
Americans that voted for this fraud are starting to question why they voted for someone that they knew nothing about. When the questions came up about his citizenship, his being in two places at the same time (Harvard and Iran), where the money came from for his education, his college transcripts, his religious beliefs, his radical anti-American education...(to name a few), few of you chose to look into these things and he got away with "pulling the wool over your eyes".
Even a President that we made the most fun of, George Bush is being credited with taking more appropriate action when confronted with problems than Obama has (or will).
So, just remember that Rahm Emanuel is running this country with Hillary Clinton taking her "marching orders" from him. That being said, don't forget how Nancy Pelosi has Emanuel under her thumb.
When all is said and done, the people running (ruining) our country sit in the background so they can continue their schemes, unnoticed.

It's incredible, the political gyrations that this administration is doing with "not wasting a good disaster".
Obviously, BP bears responsibility for the cause if the oil spill in the Gulf. We already know that one of the safety features was faulty and they chose to continue operations without repairing it (a blow-by valve). The problem of all this mess lies directly at the feet of Obama himself.
Here is why;
There are several deep water wells that are three to five times deeper than this BP well that have been operating without incident. Should a problem of this kind occur, there are protocols in place to rapidly contain it.
This is not the first time that this exact same problem has happened. When it happened in the North Sea, off the coast of Peru, offshore Venezuela and several other spots around the world, procedures were put into effect and in every case, the oil flow was stopped within 48 hours.
The protocol calls for the gas and oil coming up to be immediately ignited and left burning until the flow is stopped. Then a undersea robot is sent down to bend the pipe over 180 degrees, thus shutting off the oil and gas from escaping.
Here's why that didn't happen...when the White House was first informed about the BP tragedy, Obama was advised to "let it go for a few days" and the EPA was instructed to demand that the oil and gas fire (already happening) was to be extinguished. When other oil companies (from other nations with experience with this type of mishap) volunteered to come and aid immediately, Obama declined because he didn't want any ships not of U.S. registry or flying foreign flags in our coastal waters.
This now guaranteed that the oil would continue to flow, giving Obama a chance to shut down all offshore oil production by U.S. firms and in U.S. waters.
The aftermath is that without any legal authority, Obama personally played his Chicago thuggery on BP CEO Tony Hayward and "shook him down" for a $20 billion escrow account and an additional $100 million for out of work oil company employees.
This knee-jerk reaction is like grounding all planes if just one should crash and then demanding that the airlines pay their out of work employees. Drilling and oil production continues in the Gulf by companies not affiliated with U.S. oil firms.
After seeing the treatment that Tony Hayward and BP were getting, all foreign oil companies are already starting to leave U.S. waters and not have any further dealings with the United States. So, if we can't drill in Alaska or off our shores and companies like Shell, Statoil, Aramco, etc. will stop dealing wih us; where do we get our oil from in the future ?
Has Obama and Emanuel really thought this out ??? Regardless, get ready for a gov't. takeover of another industry (oil), much higher prices for fuel and a deeper recession. This is the "change" that Obama promised us...
I'm not pleading a case for BP. They screwed up and are now paying for it. I'm just letting you know that all the damage to the environment and loss of income to the Gulf states is totally Obama's fault.

President's speech...

Well, Obama got our attention, and we all tuned in to hear him tell us what's happening regarding the Gulf catastrophe. He took valuable air-time to make what sounded to me more like campaign rhetoric than a Presidential update.
He lied when he said that ..."he authorized the building of barrier islands". The Governors of various states got tired of waiting for authorization and went ahead without federal approval.
He told us that he was expanding gov't. again with a "national committee" to look into what happened and how to prevent it again.
He told us that he put a 6 month moratorium on offshore drilling. There are over 400 oil platforms in the gulf (mostly foreign nations) that will continue drilling as the U.S. has no authority over them. This is like grounding all planes because one has crashed.
We all expected a plethora of details regarding what the gov't. was doing and details about this disaster...again, NOTHING.
This speech was really a "rally" for green energy. I thought that Al Gore had written it.
I saw no reason that he had to bring God into this speech.
In the end, he left us with more confusion over what he's asking of us and what is actually being done.
Here was a golden opportunity to show us what a great leader he was and he totally failed everyone. We need a President that's strong, instead of this incompetent, clueless, arrogant buffoon. Even more of his original "followers" are disappointed with him.