The Obamanation

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Obama Gives NO BID Contracts

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html

OH, MY, Fucking, GOD, to......

Wait for it....

KBR Inc.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html

Liberals would also know it as HALLIBURTON....

Hang on there, Merc: is Wikipedia all wrong about Halliburton divesting itself of KBR as of 2007?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

[TheMercenary]

Visualization of the $100 million cuts planned by the Obamanation.

http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/

[TheMercenary]

The Demoncrats continue to fail the nation...

Private employers did little hiring last month, undermining hopes that the economic recovery was gathering pace and helping send U.S. stocks down more than 3% on the day.

.The Labor Department said Friday that 431,000 jobs were added in May. But the vast majority were temporary workers hired by the government to conduct the 2010 Census. Private-sector employment rose by only 41,000, the smallest monthly increase since January. Without faster private-sector job growth, the U.S. faces a bumpy recovery restrained by households with little income to spend.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...NewsCollection

[Spexxvet]

There'll be few new jobs created until the conservative repubican fat cats get fat again. Then they may think about throwing a bone to the unemployed. The government can do very little about it.

[TheMercenary]

Obama now wants to spend Another! 50 Billion Dollars on JOB Creation. WTF did they do with the last two bill spending Billions of our taxpayer dollars with the promise of "millions of shovel ready jobs" followed by a "Jobs Bill"?

These whores are spending our future to bankruptcy....

[Game On]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Obama now wants to spend Another! 50 Billion Dollars on JOB Creation. WTF did they do with the last two bill spending Billions of our taxpayer dollars with the promise of "millions of shovel ready jobs" followed by a "Jobs Bill"?

These whores are spending our future to bankruptcy....

Actually, the $50 billion is to save teachers, police and firefighters from being laid off. It has nothing to do with creating jobs. They need to save union jobs. I have no problem with helping law & fire enforcement. With unemployment at record levels, there has been a rise in crime all over the nation. But we should not be bailing out the teachers union. We hear so much about the unions needing a bailout but they managed to spend $10 million opposing Blanche Lincoln in the Democrat primary.

Originally Posted by Game On

Actually, the $50 billion is to save teachers, police and firefighters from being laid off. It has nothing to do with creating jobs. They need to save union jobs. I have no problem with helping law & fire enforcement. With unemployment at record levels, there has been a rise in crime all over the nation. But we should not be bailing out the teachers union. We hear so much about the unions needing a bailout but they managed to spend $10 million opposing Blanche Lincoln in the Democrat primary.

Both violent crime and property crime were down nationwide in 2009 for the third straight year.

And, the FOP endorsed McCain.

I guess you think preventing teacher lay-offs is a union issue, rather than an education issue. I would disagree and the alternative to temporary federal funding is higher state/local taxes.

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Originally Posted by Game On

But we should not be bailing out the teachers union. We hear so much about the unions needing a bailout but they managed to spend $10 million opposing Blanche Lincoln in the Democrat primary.

Unions are what the most naive discuss when told how to think by their political handlers. It is 100% about keeping the important (productive) people employed. You should have been asking these questions when relevant - when George Jr said Mission Accomplished would only cost $2billion. Well, it cost $1trillion. Today is when we pay that bill. That means every American is expected to have a lower standard of living. Or did George Jr forget to mention that part?

Stop with the union nonsense. It is about all workers who must now suffer because wacko extremists 'fixed' our economy with miracle tax cuts. Vietnam in 1968 and 1970 got paid for by destruction on the American standards of living in 1975 and 1979 - when the bills started coming due. Deja Vue. Or did you forget to learn the lessons from history? Ask how much taxes must increase to pay for 'corporate welfare', tax cuts for the rich, finance games, and Masson Accomplished in 2003.

It is not a question of how much some workforce should be paid or punished. It is 100% a question of how much your standard of living must degrade for the myths and lies by government in 2003. Unions did not create the real problem. We did by listening to overt liars in 2003. And then have so much contempt for ourselves as to relect the scumbags in 2004.

There is no way around it. It is only a question of how much more we must pay for these essential services.

[TheMercenary]

Protecting the Obama brand

An interesting analysis by Salon.

Two stories about President Obama this weekend pushed my growing unease with his recent moves into full-blown anxiety. They come on the heels of Tim Dickinson's devastating Rolling Stone piece laying out concrete problems with Obama's response to the BP oil spill – from delays in cleaning up the Minerals Management Service, distrusting scientists who correctly reported the spill was much bigger than BP said, and waiting more than a week to declare the crisis "an Oil Spill of National Significance," which corralled new services. Maybe the most damning section of Dickinson's piece comes when he quotes the president proudly announcing he'd reversed his stand against offshore oil drilling. "It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills," the president said. "They are technologically very advanced." Dickenson notes: "Eighteen days later, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Deepwater Horizon rig went off like a bomb."

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/jo...ama/index.html

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

An interesting analysis by Salon.

TheMercenary, with a long history of promoting wacko extremist political agendas, conveniently forgets to include facts.

BP said the leak was only 1000 barrels per day. And refused to release video that would easily deny that reality. It took orders directly from Obama to force BP to release that video. Then BP said it was only 5000 barrels per day. Now BP is denying they said that. BP repeatedly kept saying there was no reason to measure the size of this leak because (their own memos imply) they feared anyone might understand how big this leak really was.

So this was all Obama's fault. We know this only because wacko extremists say so?

The leak was always somewhere between one million and three million gallons every day. We know this only because Obama had to step in and order BP to release video and other facts.

And still BP's refusal to release information is all Obama's fault - because wacko extremists say so.

We also know government has nothing to avert the damage - because government should not have such tools. We also know that when wacko extremists were running government, the MMS people - whose job was to make surge BP, et al had those tools - were going to industry paid-for sexting parties. Parties that any MBA and party boy president would approve of. $20,000 parties that were 'business as usual' in a government that fixed FEMA, SEC, FDIC, financial oversight, GM, AIG. Who would not even prosecute Enron until the State of Oklahoma force it using overt embarrassment.

But somehow this is all Obama's fault - because a wacko extremist says it is so.

At what point do wacko extremist apologize to everyone for inventing lies and myths - constantly? Oh. That is also Obama's fault.

We should expect massive damage from LA to southern FL because that was a foregone conclusion a month ago. Anyone who thinks booms or skimmers will avert the damage is lying to themselves. Time to avert this damage was many years ago when government regulation was so routinely subverted everywhere that even MMS employees enjoyed sexting parties and other $20,000 benefits.

[classicman]

Early review of the Presidential Address

Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said:

Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."

Matthews compared Obama to Carter.

Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."

Matthews: "No direction."

Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."

Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."

Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."

Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."

Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."

Matthews: "I don't sense executive command."

Wow! The big guy got hammered by MSNBC and from of all people Chris Matthews.

[classicman]

Just minutes after President Obama spoke to the nation about the oil spill, the reviews are coming in - and, predictably, they fall along party lines. Democrats say the president hit the right notes in his first Oval Office address; Republicans say he was way off base.

A sample:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "President Obama presented a path to energy independence in his speech tonight that strengthens our economy and protects our environment. He made a compelling case that America cannot delay our pursuit of a national clean energy strategy that makes us more competitive globally."

Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.: "This could be a historic leadership moment. President Obama used his first-ever Oval Office address to call for the passage of comprehensive energy and climate legislation. There can be no doubt that the president is rolling up his sleeves to ensure we establish a market mechanism to tackle carbon pollution, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs each year, strengthen energy independence and improve the quality of the air we breathe. We will continue working with colleagues from both sides of the aisle to pass comprehensive reform this summer."

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele: "Manipulating this tragic, national crisis for selfish political gain not only demonstrates President Obama's inability to aptly lead our nation out of a disaster, but also reveals the appallingly arrogant political calculus of this White House. Exploiting the tragedy in the Gulf to try to ram through a devastating job-killing national energy tax is more of the same Chicago-style politics that has the president's approval ratings plummeting to an all-time low."

SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER
"The president should spend more time focusing on cleaning up and containing the oil spill and less time trying to pass a national energy tax that will drive jobs overseas looking for cheap energy."

"Last June, the House passed a bill to create clean energy jobs here in America, protect consumers, reduce pollution and help free us from our dangerous dependence on dirty foreign fuels while ensuring our national security. Moving forward, we must complete this legislation and invest in a clean energy future founded on American innovation and the skill of our workers."

HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN BOEHNER:

"President Obama should not exploit this crisis to impose a job-killing national energy tax on struggling families and small businesses. Both parties should be working together to craft responsible solutions in response to this disaster. There's nothing responsible or reasonable about a national energy tax that will raise energy costs and destroy more American jobs."

SENATOR DAVID VITTER, LOUISIANA REPUBLICAN:

Vitter said the president was still falling short "when it comes to te military chain of command type" and the sense of urgency that Lousianians want to see from federal agency. "I was also disappointed that the president did not address (lifting the offshore drilling) moratorium and my suggestion that we conduct rigorous immediate safety inspections in lieu of the blanket moratorium that is already starting to impact our reeling coastal economy. I have organized a meeting with Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tomorrow with other Gulf state members of Congress to push for inspections over the current moratorium."

SENATOR MARY LANDRIEU, LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT:

"I firmly believe that BP should establish an escrow account to compensate all individuals, businesses and communities in the Gulf Coast who have suffered damages because of this spill. But, it must be done in a way that ensures BP remains viable enough to pay every penny of what they owe to those who have been affected by this horrific spill and tragedy."

CONGRESSMAN DOC HASTINGS, REPUBLICAN
"There is an ongoing crisis in the Gulf and the priorities of the Administration should be simple: stop the leak and cleanup the oil. Such a devastating crisis shouldn't be used as leverage to push a cap-and-trade national energy tax that will send energy prices through the roof and send American jobs overseas."

SENATOR TOM CARPER, DELAWARE DEMOCRAT
"I welcome the President's call for Congress to pass clean energy and clean air legislation this year. If there is anysilver-lining that we can take from this devastating spill, I hope that it will be a wake-up call for America to get serious about pursuing clean, renewable sources of energy right here at home."

I'm amazed at the comments from the D's - not one really even mentioned the spill except Landrieu from LA. Pathetic.

[TheMercenary]

[jinx]

Salon and Rolling Stone are wacko extremist now? Man, I must have missed a few issues...

[TheMercenary]

Imagine that. Any news source as in depth and many of the RS articles achieve are now the enemy.

In the bit about the current crisis the Obama Administration is totally fucked...

They dropped the ball big time.