His favorables are slip, slip sliding away. Obama's performance during the Gulf oil spill crisis is getting worse reviews than Bush's on Katrina. The results of the following poll would be comical if so many lives had not been devastated. You know he is in trouble when even the American Pravda won't completely cover for him.
Read from Hot Air:
Poll: Louisianans think Bush did better on Katrina than Obama’s doing on the oil spill
"Devastating. Especially since it comes from left-leaning pollster PPP.
'Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy voters in the state are with Barack Obama’s handling of the oil spill but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than Obama’s done dealing with the spill.
50% of voters in the state, even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question compared to 35% who pick Obama.
Overall only 32% of Louisianans approve of how Obama has handled the spill to 62% who disapprove. 34% of those polled say they approved of how Bush dealt with Katrina to 58% who disapproved.'
The big winner? Bobby Jindal, whose 63 percent approval (65 percent on handling the spill) is the highest for any senator or governor in PPP’s polling this year. He lost some of his righty rock-star luster after that SOTU disaster, but I think it’s safe to say that he’s gotten it all back: The latest is that he’s lost patience with BP’s containment efforts and given the order to the National Guard to start building a barrier wall off the coast to try to protect the shoreline. 70 percent, here he comes!"
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I guess nobody in the rightwingnut community has noticed that, while Katrina was a relatively momentary event, the Gulf spill is an ongoing disaster of unprecedented proportion...like another Katrina happening every week or so.
Has Obama stopped the gusher? No. Has anybody ever stopped a gusher of this magnitude? No.
Cheapshots from the rightwingnnut peanut gallery...enjoy!
In case you didn't know, a nuclear explosion would also be a temporary event, so would an earthquake or a tornado. So according to you, once Katrina was over, everyone just resumed a normal lifestyle. Wow, how long did you think about that one? I would say that tens of thousands of people instantly becoming homeless after Katrina is no momentary thing. The damage to the gulf states economy is ongoing from Katrina. Maybe obama should kick mother natures A@% for that event too. Or he could stop making speeches and appointing nobel prize winning blue ribbon panels to study the spill 60 days after it happened, get the EPA out of the way, and temporarily repeal the Jones act. This would allow private industry to solve the problem. BUT NO, obama is a government kind of guy, thinking a study will solve this mess.
As is usually the case, JD, you fail to understand. I wasn't suggesting that there weren't aftereffects from Katrina, or from the Exxon Valdez, or from any assortment of natural disasters. The poor residents of New Orleans, in particular, are still suffering the aftereffects of Katrina, and the odds are that they'lll continue to suffer, if for no other reason than many of those in control of Louisiana seem to view Katrina as a great enema. The poor black folks were "temporarily" evacuated to Texas, Oklahoms, Colorado et al and, now that they're gone, nobody in Louisiana seems to be in any great hurry to rebuild those homes and bring those people back to N'Awlins.
The point I was trying to make is that the task facing the government NOW in the Gulf is twofold, at least: they have to figure out a way to turn off the "disaster machine" AND handle the aftermath. The oil gusher didn't just stop, naturally, like Katrina did, or any other natural disaster. "Stopping it" and "fixing it" are two quite distinct challenges.
And enough about the "Nobel prize winning blue ribbon panels", OK? Isn't it just a bit contradictory to lambast Obama for bringing together a group of the best minds in order to deal with the myriad problems BP's spill has caused, and then in the next breath, insist that Obama needs to bring together the best minds in order to deal with the spill?
And the whole Jones Act non-issue seems to be a Trojan horse of sorts. From what I've read, nobody's actually asked for a waiver of the Jones Act... and it's possible that, in an emergency of this type one isn't even needed; the Jones Act didn't stand in the way of anything done in the aftermath of Katrina, for instance. My personal hunch is that the oil industry is doing exactly what rightwingnuts accuse Obama of doing: take advantage of a "good" crisis. Could it be that the oil industry is seeking a broad waiver of the Jones Act (if not, indeed, a repeal) just because they see an opportunity to rake in some more bucks down the road? I don't know enough about the Jones Act, and I'm pretty sure nobody reading this little rightwingnut blog knows much more.
The real problem is that obama needs to stop getting the "best minds" together and cut the red tape of the EPA and other agencies and allow the gulf states to protect themselves. And why is it the responsiblility of gov't to house all "poor blacks"? Wonder why so many of them stayed in New Orleans knowing the hurricane was coming? To loot the place, of course. The footage is there for all to see. Then when the flooding started, they all began crying for help and shooting at the National Guard. But the NOPD went around disarming ordinary people in their homes instead of dealing with the criminals. Liberal stupidity at it's finest.
obama and all his brainiac friends can't stop the leak, but they could try to protect the shorelines of the gulf states. Could it be that obama is paying back Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana for voting republican? He seems to think Katrina only hit New orleans when Mississippi took the brunt of it. obama is the biggest racist of them all!!!!
Obama has brought the best minds to this Gulf disaster? Since when? He's brought in those from academia.
Where are those who have worked in the oil industry? You know, those with experience. Obama hasn't bothered to seek their advice.
Quite frankly, Ms. MoreLies, neither you nor I would know who a real "oil expert" is if s/he but us. Yeah, there are lots of disgruntled mouthy "experts" populating Faux Noise, claiming they weren't consulted. But were they not consulted because they were industry experts, or because they're bags of hot air? Faux seems to specialize in the latter.
How about listening to what the REPUBLICAN governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, had to say on the subject, on today's "Meet The Press" (a real news show):
"DAVID GREGORY: Governor, welcome. You met with the president he's been down there visiting here in the past week and a half. What is your assessment of how well-coordinated the federal, state and local officials are, not only in your state but also in Louisiana and Florida?
GOV. HALEY BARBOUR (R-MS): Well, of course, there's nothing satisfactory until the well's shut in. It's when the well's capped and then clean up the oil and then BP pay the bills. Until, until all of that is done, nothing is satisfactory. But as I've said before, and said to the president, I think the federal government's done more right than wrong. I thought appointing Ken Feinberg, who's got a great reputation that's well-deserved, is good for BP and good for the government. Get BP out of that. But BP's got to pay, and everybody has to understand it. BP's the responsible party, we expect them to pay for everything."
And then, Gregory questioned John Hofmeister, the ex-CEO of Shell Oil:
"MR. GREGORY: John Hofmeister, you--you've been in the industry. I've talked to people in the oil industry this week who are not very impressed with BP. They said that they--there were about five different stop signs that they ran through when they drilled this well. What is your assessment, though, in this narrow space of how well things are operating right now toward the goal of plugging the leak?
MR. JOHN HOFMEISTER: I think we obviously have to find out what happened to cause the blowout. That sounds like gross incompetence or negligence or, or just pure mismanagement. But with respect to what was done at the bottom of the sea to try to stop the blowout in the first few weeks, I don't think any company could have done it better because they had people from all over the world, people from every major oil company advising, and they are competent in what they're doing at that level."
The biggest issue, as far as governmental agencies are concerned, sounds like it isn't the EPA... it's the Coast Guard.
But I don't blame you all for not knowing what's going on. Paying attention and reading and listening for a whole HOUR takes a lot of effort. It's far easier for you all just to flip on Faux for a sound byte, or read a few snippets from rightwingnut blogs, so they can tell you what to think.
Sure, like we can depend on olberman, maddow and tingly legged chris matthews to tell it like it is? Conservative haters one and all. If not for the crazy environmentalists pushing drilling further and further offshore, this would not be nearly as difficult to stop. And one gulf spill since WW2 is a pretty good safety record. But obama shuts down drilling in the gulf. HHMM Wonder where these rigs will go? Maybe Brazil? Oh thats right, obama gave them 2 billion for exploration didn't he!! Maybe he's planning to line his friends pockets, and using the spill to make it happen. What about all the jobs that will be lost over this ridiculous move? I forgot, most of his supporters are either gov't employees or gaming the system anyway. No skin off his back huh.
JD, are you operating under the misapprehension that oil drilled and extracted within the United States is American property? It doesn't matter WHERE the oil is extracted, it ultimately gets sold on the open market. So if Brazil wants to take chances with a major spill off THEIR coastline, they should go for it. Brazilian oil production doesn't hurt us one iota. More petroleum produced, less environmental risk for us. A win-win.
It's about American jobs fool!!!
Liberals in congress are now trying to push through more money for their union thug teacher friends while obama puts oil workers out of a job. Private sector workers pay gov't thugs salaries. See what i mean? To claim to be so smart, idiot liberals can't do simple addition and subtraction.
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