"President Obama will address the nation about the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow night.... prime-time speech roughly modeled after.... the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001"
Obama's polls must be getting weighed down by oil.
Are they going to call it 4/20?
Isn't that copyrighted?
Better off using that kind of oil if you think about it, Obomber.
"Obama to report on how he’ll hold BP responsible; TV address is planned after 4th visit to Gulf" by Jackie Calmes, New York Times | June 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama will address the nation about the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow night and outline his plans to legally force
“The president will use his legal authority to compel them,’’ said Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman.
Gibbs did not elaborate on the legal basis for such a move but said that White House lawyers have been researching the matter for days.
Is torture legal?
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Why do I get the feeling Der Fuhrer is on shaky ground?
The president is seizing the initiative after reports on Friday from London that BP would voluntarily establish an escrow account — either for compensating victims or for delaying a planned dividend for BP shareholders — turned out to be less certain than the White House initially thought.
The escrow account that the White House envisions would be roughly modeled after the fund established for victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001....
WOW! This IS HUGE!!!!
The plans for a prime-time speech and Obama’s ultimatum on an escrow account escalate Obama’s personal engagement in the eight-week-old environmental and economic crisis. And they set the tone for a week of events that will have the oil company publicly on the defensive more than at any time in the nearly two months since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig a mile below the Gulf’s surface....
Obama’s visit to the Gulf coast today and tomorrow will be his fourth trip since the disaster struck on April 20. It will be his first overnight visit and, after three trips to Louisiana, his first to Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, which are in the direction of the spewing oil’s drift.
Yes, the MAGNITUDE of this and the lies told by industry, government, and MSM is starting to dawn on the toady figurehead.
The president will return to Washington to report to the nation tomorrow night, and on Wednesday will meet with the chairman of BP’s board, Carl-Henric Svanberg, accompanied by the company’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, who has been criticized for statements that many people considered insensitive and self-serving. And Hayward will be in the hot seat on Thursday, testifying before one of several congressional committees investigating the calamity.
Horse, door, barn.
Administration officials say that Obama, in his speech from the White House, will not only discuss the issue of claims against BP but also update the nation on efforts to contain the oil, and on his proposals to reorganize the federal system for regulating offshore oil drilling....
Yeah, NO TALK of STOPPING IT anymore!
Inside BP, there is a view that Obama’s unflinching criticism of BP and its chief executive represents an unprecedented example of a chief of state interfering in the affairs of a corporation.
Well, that tells you WHO RANKS WHERE on the HIERARCHICAL SCALE!
And while some officials inside the company recognize that the president faces severe political pressures, there is also a resentment that the company has become a whipping boy....
Thus the PRIME-TIME SPEECH!
And hey, look, the American people have been getting whipped for years so f*** off you environmental war criminals!!!!
Obama has summoned BP to a meeting at the White House on Wednesday.....
Yeah, sure.
And look who set it all up for him (just like 9/11):
"Clinton Catalyzed Gulf Oil Drilling Boom
All three Administrations - Clinton, Bush, and Obama - bear the blame for this abject failure. None took the danger of a massive spill seriously or sought to hold up the massive expansion of off shore drilling until failsafe measures could be developed.
But, as with the subprime crisis, policy initiatives taken during the Clinton years - with the best of motives - were implemented without adequate regulation and without due consideration of the dangers involved. We are now suffering mightily for this failure of foresight and planning.
That's what they left him.
Update: President Obama compares Gulf of Mexico oil leak to 9/11
Here comes your CARBON TAX, America!!!
