USGS On Gulf Oil Spill: Worse Than The Exxon Valdez

That’ll take an awfully big sponge….

Where are the oil skimming tankers anyway?

They’re not comparable. Bad as the Valdez was, BP is bottom-up rather than top-down and the impact on fisheries will be worse many many times over.

When up from the ground came the bubbling crude – Oil that is – Black Gold – Texas Tea……..

Noted on Morning Reads – Obama has fired the Head of the MMS.

http://www.nationalconfidential.com/

BP drinks Exxon’s milkshake.

The Hillbillies ref was yesterday. Besides, Jed woulda plugged it cold with EM’s biscuits.

Oh goodie, we have some ACTION!!! Obama is finally making a move. Instead of pointing fingers he’s actually fired someone!! Yippee!!!

Why hasn’t the press been covering McCain’s demands that the federal government clean up the oil that is fouling Arizona’s beaches? Coverup.

UPDATE: “Obama’s Watergate”, and it’s not the Gulf Oil spill either. It is the job-gate that Congressman Sestak has yet to explain why quid-pro-quo job he turned down to stay in the PA Senate race.
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Life just keeps getting better for Obama and the Dem-wits.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/100067-issa-sestak-scandal-could-be-obamas-watergate

Seriously, you need to stop making me laugh so hard.

Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) is hoping that people are too young or stupid to even understand what Watergate represented. I don’t think Rusty’s particularly young…….

My nightly prayers always include “Please let my enemies be as dim as Darrell Issa”

From the Physician’s The Hill link-
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A Senate GOP aide said the comparison was perhaps a bit “melodramatic.”

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Is that shorthand for “Issa is crying again”?

Issa’s the one who insisted that the SEC lawsuit against Goldman Sachs was a political hitjob from the Obama administration that was launched only to boost the chances of financial reform legislation.
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That would, of course, be the same SEC lawsuit that was announced a year and a half earlier under the Bush administration.
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I need to go find that video of him crying after the California recall effort he wasted all his money financing led to the election of someone other than him as governor. Priceless.

“The Physician”? Is earljr another one of rusty’s alter egos?
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I’m thinking with the oil spill affecting Louisiana, it’s time for rusty to unveil another personality here. In honor of New Orleans and “Treme” he could use the name “rustytrombone”

I do love that Rusty keeps insisting this is “Obama’s Katrina” or that is “Obama’s Watergate.”
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I guess even he recognizes that Republicans always represent the gold standards for incompetence and criminality.

Good point.
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From what we have been told Bush’s Katrina wasn’t even Bush’s Katrina.

Maybe I’m being a little too cynical, but is anyone else annoyed by Bobby Jindal’s whining about how the federal government isn’t doing enough for the oil spill, when just a little while ago he made a big show about turning down stimulus money because he didn’t want the federal government all up in his jizz?

Don’t know about earljr.
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When Rusty used to trumpet his ever expanding personal history he would always capitalize the P in physician which for some reason always amused me.

Nice, Kevin!

“Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) is hoping that people are too young or stupid to even understand what Watergate represented. I don’t think Rusty’s particularly young…….”

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Oh please enlighten us on what Paul Dirks deems to understand what “Watergate represented”. I’m dying for this explanation.
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Are you able to put enough syllables together to make up words to explain this?

Apparently, if it doesn’t involve volcanoes, it’s okay with Bobby J.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000045.htm
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A link just for you Paul-not

Although to follow up on correct grammar, do you capitalize Stupid when referring to Liberals?

So you think “physician” is a proper noun? Uh, no.

Your link doesn’t support your use of P.
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How surprising.

Funny, but if you Google “Jindal” and “disaster,” at least half of the top links are to his godawful Kenneth the Page response to the State of the Union last year.
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I’m not kidding:
http://www.google.com/search?q=jindal+disaster&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Reposting this from the “Muddying the Oil” thread:
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This from Jon Chait:

“There’s no such thing as offering somebody a job in return for them dropping out of a Senate race. The acceptance of a job means dropping out of a Senate race. The concept of offering somebody a job “in exchange” for them declining to seek another job is like offering to marry a woman in exchange for her not marrying some other guy. It’s conceptually nonsensical.”

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http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/75178/sestak-gate-getting-dumber

http://www.google.com/search?q=Physician+as+a+noun&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=
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I rest my case.

This might be the most moronic “scandal” since Travelgate.

About time too! This is becoming an embarrassment for Obama. I voted for Obama but there is some sort of disconnect somewhere.

Are his advisors fighting among themselves???

What is going on here. Obama might be one of the brightest President’s in recent history and yet he makes some mis-steps that are somewhat inexplicable.

Once the spill became big on the second day, the action within the WH should have started.
They should have done everything to protect themselves to the best of their ability.

Instead, they danced around the entire issue and went on fund raising meetings??

The President is allowing himself to be roped into something that has nothing to do with him and I find this to be baffling.

There are clear guidelines which directly implicate BP and yet no real and vigorous effort was made to hang the ball and chain on them all the time.

This is politics not rocket science, people! It cannot be so hard to posture, anticipate and lay blame where it is due!

I am watching a bad soap opera (which I do not watch by the way) and it is beyond belief.

This is fast becoming absurd. The WH needs to line up its ducks and bring out the politcal machine guns. Its time to FIRE, already and I do not mean literally!

Messy messy messy!

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http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/fully-support-gun-ownership-and-pity-women-who-do-not/

A near Revelation: Obama said just now, “all of the easy oil to get has already been sucked up out of the ground”.
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Brilliant!!
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rustyblogwhore, you are the gift that keeps on giving. Are you so utterly stupid that you didn’t even look at the links that came up on your Google search? Just because it’s capitalized on the search page does not make it a proper noun. Try this instead:
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http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=moron
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You’ll notice that “moron” is capitalized too. I guess they know you.

Holy. Sh!t.
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Yes, Rusty, “physician” is a noun. But it is not a proper noun, and those are the kind of nouns that warrant capitalization.
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Here’s a link that might help you out, Rusty. It’s all about proper nouns and it’s written right at your level of intelligence.
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http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/g/capitalizationl3.cfm
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Don’t let the fact that this was meant for seven year old elementary school students dissuade you. I’m sure you can prove you’re as smart as a second grader.

Wow.
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So much more than I expected.

This is priceless. If we would have combined Joe Klein’s columns and Obama speeches in that crap flow this leak would have been stopped in minutes.

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Obama says we were in charge since Day 1 but took 3 days to hold Strategy meeting. I guess they must have taken a wrong turn fro the basketball court.

We were prepared for worse scenario but equipment still not there. Sounds like the economic excuse (It is the worst economy ever…it was worse they we expected)

They failed in oversight but the same group is now making all decisions. Obama tells us the federal government has no particularly expertise or assets for this but they are approving every BP decision. I feel warm and fuzzy.

They will hold BP accountable for all costs. True Obama will never miss an opportunity to extract money from someone else.

Obama holds a press conference in Washington to explain to the people in the Gulf states they have been on this since Day 1. Maybe he should have sent a stern letter.

He doesn’t want any excuses but offered plenty.

Its a sad day for rusty.

Rusty:
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We had “Obama’s Waterloo”, now we’ve got both “Obama’s Katrina” and “Obama’s Watergate”.
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As usual, only the feral crackheads that are your peers keep up the slavering howl for this stuff.
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Why don’t you go bite some fart bubbles. You could call them “Obama’s Bhophal”…

“Obama says we were in charge since Day 1 but took 3 days to hold Strategy meeting.”
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Perhaps if BP hadn’t been hiding the evidence and lying through their teeth from day one about the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf, we’d have had a more appropriate response.

Frothing at the mouth again I see. They really must believe that Obama is the messiah, they way they rant on about how he isn’t waving his magic wand.
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Oh well.
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If Rusty and freeinpa havn’t got anything better to do, then I guess their days truly are numbered…

see 10.9

Ah yes the everybody lies but us defense. Tiresome but predictable.

Freeper,.
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We went through this already.
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Remember the example of if a neighbors leaking septic system and your well next door?
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Would you sue the government or sue your neighbor if you, literally eat sht?
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If somebody drives recklessly and runs your sorry a$$ over, do you sue them or the police department?
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So, when MMS are the cops of oil wells and are corrupted so badly that Boss Tweed is rolling over in his grave for giving corruption such a bad name, you want the government to pay.
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Well, MMS is a wreck, but MMS didn’t spill a drop of oil. Under Bush they may have polluted the environment with the meth they were smoking, but they didn’t spill any oil.
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We have three problems.
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First, plug that hole. No, not your pie hole, Freeinpa, but that couldn’t hurt. Plugging the well would be very productive.
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Second, to get the money for the next, most likely, 30 years from BP to reimburse small businesses along the Gulf Coast and, as far as I am concerned, reimburse American consumers for the next 30 years for increased prices of seafood and temporary increases in crude oil prices.
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Third, rebuild MMS to be an effective regulator.
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Yet, you, freeper, want government to subsidize oil drilling by paying for all of their mistakes with tax dollars.
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Now, that would be a waste of tax dollars if I ever heard of one!
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Do you want us to send tax dollars to help Ross Perot while we’re there?

“Ah yes the everybody lies but us defense. Tiresome but predictable.”
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So, your saying that if Bill Clinton lied about sex, then it is okay for BP to ruin the Gulf of Mexico and have our tax dollars pay for it?
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Are you sure that you haven’t been partying with the Bush MMS, freeper?

Odd. The only thing that appears on my screen for 15.1 & 17 is Blah blah blah blah blah

“The only thing that appears on my screen for 15.1 & 17 is Blah blah blah blah blah”
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In other words, Freeper’s a coward who won’t respond, or an idiot who can’t respond.

So the Federal government actually knows how to stop the leak, but isn’t telling BP? Are BP engineers incompetent? Is it possible that nobody really knows how to halt this disaster? Or would it help if Obama got Tony Stark, James Bond, and Jack Bauer into a room and told them to figure something out?

Similar questions about gauging the magnitude of the spill. Is there some really easy way that the Federal government (or, heaven forbid, BP), should have known this? Perhaps by employing Maxwell’s demon?

Lastly, to the Republicans: When this is over, you’ll support much stricter government oversight of offshore drilling, right? You’ll stop complaining about burdensome regulations? You’ll stop saying “drill baby drill” as if offshore drilling was like changing a spark plug?

No it’s if you continue to argue with idiots people won’t notice the difference. Thanks for playing along though.

In other words, Freeper, if you’re gonna lose anyway, you might as well take your ball and go home.
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Or you just lack the courage to defend your convictions.
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Either way, you’re still a coward.

“Blah blah blah blah blah”
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Please!
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Your supposed to stick your fingers in your ears and say, “I can’t hear you. Ha Ha!.”
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And “I’m rubber you’re glue! Nya-nya nya-nya-nya”
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Try and at least get up to that second grade level.

Lastly, to the Republicans: When this is over, you’ll support much stricter government oversight of offshore drilling, right? You’ll stop complaining about burdensome regulations? You’ll stop saying “drill baby drill” as if offshore drilling was like changing a spark plug?

I’ll hazard a guess that these are rhetorical questions that you really don’t expect the right-wingers to answer, let alone support, correct?
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By the time this disaster gets plugged and the MSM forgets about it, the right wing will be right back to the standard, “drill baby drill” and “dig baby dig” mentality……..more oil, more coal.

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Check out Issa’s tears at 4:38. All that money wasted.
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What will the Sestak scandal be called?
Sestak offered a job not to run, an action used by other administrations, Gate. Please, let Issa investigate. I want to see his always bogus outrage and them maybe he will cry again.
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I haven’t forgiven him for enabling Ahnold to become my state’s governor.

In other words, Freeper’s a coward who won’t respond, or an idiot who can’t respond
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I realized that a long time ago, after this exchange
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http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/24/thanksgiving/

I haven’t forgiven him for enabling Ahnold to become my state’s governor.

Things could be worse………..Issa could be your governor!

In other words, Freeper’s a coward who won’t respond, or an idiot who can’t respond.
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Or, like earljr, he could be both.

Ah yes the everybody lies but us defense.
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No, it’s the “those liars were lying” argument. What anyone else said or did doesn’t change the fact that BP insisted in the early days of the spill that it wasn’t that bad. Eventually, they released a still photo of the leak, and only much later did they let out the live video feed of it.
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They lied. It doesn’t matter what anyone else did, they lied.

die: You are right. Governor Issa makes me shudder. Plus we wouldn’t have the fun of having the Gropenator disparaging “girlie men”.

Kevin,
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You shouldn’t keep bring up Earl name.
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Every time you try to debate him you come up looking like a total fool. But again if the shoe fits you might as well ware it.
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None of you Liberals can match Earl’s wit or intelligence. You make ignorant comments and then pat each other on the back like you accomplished something.
The only thing you accomplish is to show your ignorance of reality.

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