John F. Kerry

James Carville is one of the most well known democratic pundits out there. He was clintons rotweiller for 8 years and has until now been doing the same for obama.... but look at his scathing criticism of obamas inaction while the oil keeps gushing into our gulf....





.....and here we see that not only the house, but the senate also is looking pretty bleak for obamsky....

RealClearPolitics - 2010 Election Maps - Battle for the Senate

awww shucks , no more new taxes , unfunded entitlements , and "changing" all the things americans love about america like healthcare and nasa....


what a shame.... ps sorry for mispelling disaster

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Kompressor

Uh... do you know how to read a graph?

All they need is one toss up to maintain majority.

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John F. Kerry

laura bush in w - "it isnt good".

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stoneric

Yeah, right on the top of everyones list. You are a tool.

kamikazi89

carvilles dead on(liberals aren't motivated)

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Prophet Saddam

Video no play.



Obamsky - that's cute. Were you also making a point?

NEW TAXES?!

Did you get some new taxes? Please enlighten us...

Prophet Saddam

kamikazi89

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* MAY 28, 2010

Frustration, Fury Greet Obama in Gulf

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By JONATHAN WEISMAN And LAURA MECKLER

When Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen saw plumes of fire shooting from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, he knew oil would eventually start gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, he said in an interview.

Under pressure to step up his response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, President Obama vowed tougher regulations for the oil industry. Joe White, Evan Newmark and Dennis Berman discuss. Also, a discussion on why 'Bluedog' Democrats caused a new jobs bill to falter.

White House energy czar Carol Browner said in an interview she realized the situation was grave when the rig sank on April 22. But BP PLC had assured her that a blow-out preventer atop the well could be used to stanch the gusher, she said.

On April 30, she learned that wasn't so, she said.

A BP official said Friday that the device is designed to be activated by remotely operated submarines if it isn't triggered automatically. For at least the first week, that was the focus of efforts to stop the flow of oil.

To foes and even some friends, the White House has appeared reactive to what is now the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Until Thursday, President Barack Obama, while responding to developments, had refrained from making dramatic policy gestures.

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President Barack Obama, left, picked up a "tar ball" on Fourchon Beach, La., as LaFourche Parish president Charlotte Randolph, center, and U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen watched.
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On the Gulf Coast in particular, critics say, the federal effort has been uncoordinated and undirected. Top officials were late to grasp the magnitude of the problem and to respond to requests from local officials, and at times overestimated the federal government's ability to stem the gusher, say local officials.

But White House officials say the administration has responded aggressively from the moment the rig blew up.

In the 37 days since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 people and touching off a huge undersea oil leak, Mr. Obama and White House officials have mobilized what they say is the largest oil-spill cleanup effort in U.S. history. But while the government response officially was launched April 22, the administration has struggled to convince Gulf Coast residents, and political figures on the left and right, that its efforts have been sufficient.

Mr. Obama made his second trip to the Louisiana coast Friday, picking up tar balls at Grand Isle and meeting with the governors of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida and local officials.

Administration officials now say they relied too heavily in the days after the explosion on statements by the Coast Guard and BP—which owns the well—that just 1,000 barrels of oil a day were leaking. On April 29, the official estimate of the flow rose to 5,000 barrels a day; on Thursday, government scientists said the figure was more likely 12,000 to 19,000 barrels.

At a congressional hearing Thursday, BP America Chairman Lamar McKay said the 1,000-barrels-a-day figure "was a unified-command estimate." He acknowledged BP "had input" on the figure, but said that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "contributed information" as well. He added that Adm. Allen "has been clear that whether it was one, five, 10 or 15 [thousand], it would not have changed the response."
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“ Throwing multiple levels of bureaucracy and politically fearful middle managers into a project does not tend to get things done quickly or efficiently. ”

—Tom Tucker

Many agencies were mobilized. On April 21, Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes flew to Louisiana, while the first Oval Office meeting on the issue was held April 22—the day the Deepwater Horizon sunk. Navy and Coast Guard boats were dispatched immediately to fight the fire.

John Brennan, the White House's counter-terrorism and emergency-incident chief, was put in charge. Ms. Browner, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, joined as co-coordinator to assess policy implications.

Much of the command structure for the spill response is dictated by law. The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 mandates the structure of a National Response Team, now headed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; a National Incident Commander, Adm. Allen; and an on-site coordinator, Coast Guard Adm. Mary Landry.

But that law gives BP primary responsibility to prepare for such an event: lining up contractors to supply boom and skimmers and deploying them when needed, then controlling any accident and cleaning it up.

The White House's assessment of the unfolding crisis changed drastically April 28, when officials learned of a third leak. If true, the president said, the government had to plan for "catastrophic failure," according to National Security Council Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.

Louisiana officials had said all along that keeping oil away from the coastline should be the federal government's top priority. But late last week, in Terrebonne Parish, west of the Mississippi River along the coast, boom sat waiting to be installed for more than a day. Local leaders were incensed, and lashed out at federal officials and BP.

"Boom and workers sat for days waiting for orders," Gov. Bobby Jindal said on Monday. "We've been frustrated with the disjointed response to date." Adm. Allen said BP has had problems delivering boom from warehouses. "That's where the formation has got to be tightened up," he said.

The BP official defended the company's efforts, saying two million feet of hard boom and another million feet of soft, absorbent boom have been deployed. At least a dozen staging areas are in action, he said.

Write to Jonathan Weisman at jonathan.weisman@wsj .com and Laura Meckler at laura.meckler@wsj.co m

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