Jindal Furious: Rips Obama For Dismal Response to Oil Spill Disaster
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 5:26 AM
Governer Bobby Jindal (R-LA) ripped President Obama’s dismal response to the Gulf oil spill crisis during a press conference on Sunday.
NECN reported, via FOX Nation:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said the state will not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Oil has pushed at least 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes, with two major pelican rookeries awash in crude.
Gov. Jindal was critical of the amount of boom his state received to ward off the oil seeping toward the coastline. But his major gripe comes at the expense of the Army Corps of Engineers, who have yet to give the go-ahead for the building of sand booms to protect the Louisiana wetlands. He used photographic evidence of oil breaking through hard booms, soft booms and another layer of protection, before being finally being corralled by a sand boom built by the National Guard.
“It is so much better for us. We don’t want oil on one inch of Louisiana’s coastline, but we’d much rather fight this oil off of a hard coast, off of an island, off of an island, off of a sandy beach on our coastal islands, rather than having to fight it inside in these wetlands,” Gov. Jindal said, making the case for sand booms.
The governor said he has been forced to protect Louisiana without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is weighing the ecological impact of the construction of more sand booms.
After a weekend of golf and basketball, President Obama will travel to the West Coast to help raise money for democrats.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
Andreas K. commented:
Imagine how Obie would perform during a really bad crisis.
He’d probably hide under his desk.
Jack commented:
Who did Obama play golf with? Someone should find out.
Militant Conservative commented:
post #1, I’m afraid your wrong on this one.
He would “take” as much advantage of it as possible.
As long as he has guards he is afraid of nothing/ while spitting on the military that protects him. Won’t last forever. powder is dry
HandyBill commented:
Obie playing the irons while Louisiana sinks into the oily muck. We will remember you Marxist POS.
DINORight commented:
“After a weekend of golf and basketball, President Obama will travel to the West Coast to help raise money for democrats.”
There has never been a president, that I am aware of, that has been allowed by the press, by the public, to take so many “breaks” while there are eminent domestic and international issues requiring federal action.
I saw in an earlier post that Dick Morris has evaluated the legality of this clown’s administration offering a job to Sestak. This should add fuel to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” fire. “Nero fiddled while Rome burned;” The Won played b-ball and golf, raised Dem funds, and attacked individual citizens while Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arizona “drowned” (either in oil, water, or illegal immigrants!). Did The Won take any of these states in the 2008 election? Hmmmmm……more fuel, perhaps.
mark commented:
Facts and analysis have already shown that Obama’s stimulus money was disproportionately given to Democratic friends and Dem controlled geographies. Is Obama punishing the people of Louisana because they elected a Republican Governor?
olm commented:
Odopey is ignoring LA beccause he has no idea what to do.
They’ve got to figure if they ignore it, no one will pin the blame on him. Unfortunately for Odopey, Jindal is not following the script.
Glenn S commented:
do i hear a fiddle/lyre from Washington DC?
neomom commented:
Bobby is displaying that most rare of all public servant qualities….. Leadership.
newton commented:
“Is Obama punishing the people of Louisana because they elected a Republican Governor?”
BINGO!
Charles Johnson commented:
Rand Paul Sarah Palin
archer52 commented:
Typical government employees unable to really make a decision that will be reviewed later by some other government employee. Career protection at its best.
Sand booms will not have the long term effect if they aren’t there for the long term. Build it, do the work for a couple of months, then tear it back down.
The vaunted ecosystem won’t even blink. It gets hit by shifting sand bottoms and bars every time it gets hit by bad storms.
Dummies. We’re surrounded by dummies.
Auntie Em commented:
But, but, but, but….he said “he wouldn’t rest until it was cleaned up.”
Toonces lied again…for the 146,874,490th time.
myohmy commented:
Obama and his liberal cohorts are waiting for crisis they can capitalize. Unfortunately, oil spill is not one of them.
HandyBill commented:
I am sure the sand bars will block the mating path of some endangered turd worm which will have the environmentalist all bent out of shape and suing the state of LA.
Still waiting on the outrage of the Sierra club/Environmental wacko’s to the Won’s response….
Crickets, anyone hear crickets?
All I have to say is lead Bobby lead. It’s your state, don’t wait on the bumbling bureaucratic idiots to the north.
Chris commented:
Let’s see….potential golf partner?
OJ!!! When OJ asserts he’s stil looking for the real killer, The One will have ready his constant, one-size-fits-all answer, “Bush did it!”
Meanwhile, Lousiana Republicans (and everyone else) is geting slighted and punished by our spiteful, vengeful, narcassist-in-chief.
Environmental impact indeed!! What a joke… from the Joke that currently inhabits The People’s House.
seven commented:
Time for Plugs Biden to trip down there and give a speech.
BP can wad up all the EPA Red Tape and have plenty left over after plugging the well.
Insufficiently Sensitive commented:
The Corps of Engineers is just another cog in the reactionary machine against human actions in the natural world. Environmental studies serve the purpose of delaying such actions as long as possible, to provide maximum opportunities for progressive machines to upset the best-laid plans by other humans for beneficial use of the world.
In this case, the beneficial actions are the booms, and they need immediate application. The Corps won’t buy that practical explanation, its delaying politics must come first. In this case Governor Jindal would be exactly right in declaring an emergency (why didn’t the Corps do that two weeks ago?) and mobilizing those booms ASAP.
Perhaps the Feds under you-know-who are resisting his action, simply because voter enthusiasm would increase in his favor if he charged out and did it, and the Dems might not be able to rig the next Louisiana governor’s race so easily in their favor.
chuck in st paul commented:
Damn that President Bush!
(what? who? not Bush any more…?)
Never mind.
Joanne commented:
Obama doesn’t give a sheite…that’s the reality, and he certainly doesn’t care about Louisiana.
Padre Steve commented:
Billy Nungesser hits the nail on the head:
http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2010/05/gulf-oil-disaster-update.html
scroll to the bottom of the post and watch Billy tell it like it is.
Sy commented:
Let me get this straight:
The ACOE are doing an environmental impact study to see if temporary sand bars will impact the environment more than an oil slick the size of Maryland (and growing). Is it me, or does this sound really stupid.
Sy commented:
DINOright#5: Did The Won take any of these states in the 2008 election? Hmmmmm……more fuel, perhaps.
I said this from Day 1.
1) the bigger the slick, the bigger the outcry to shut down all offshore drilling
2) Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are all red states. What does he have to lose.
wanumba commented:
Bush offered the Federal government resources to Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco BEFORE Katrina hit. Nagin and Blanco stalled, obsessed with politcal calculations (can’t allow a Republican to look like he’s effective) Nagin huddled, practically AWOL, even though the first response was absolutely the responsibility of the local (Nagin) and state (BLanco)government. The Federal response was blocked and hampered by the local failure to act.
This is the reverse situation. Governor Jindal is ready and able to divert whatever state resources he can to reducing damage, but the first response is absolutely the responsibility of the Federal government in this case due to the spill occuring in international waters and a multi-state intervention. The states need more help than they can individually provide.
Obama is AWOL. The bureaucracy is left to dither and fuss over trivialities in a matter they don’t understand or have any experience in.
wanumba commented:
Put Jindal in charge of the BP spill. He’s got the mind, the skills and the quality of staff that could deal with BP AND the clean-up, the whole enchilada.
But, the Democrats won’t EVER allow THAT practicality. The Party of Green will let the wetlands smother, 100,000 species of wildlife glob to death before they’ll relinquish control of anything, even for an emergency, even for the good of the entire Gulf of MExico, the USA, Mexico, and Central America.
Free Jindal! Let him do the job the Democrats can’t!.
Mike Mose commented:
The Republicans need to Identify Obama as a gutless coward!
Every time !
Sojourner commented:
.. Take the pOSer off the golf course
…(Collect all the golf balls while you’re at it)
….Bring him down to Gulf
…Prop him /golf balls on oil preventer pipe
…Apply high pressure.
…Junk shot the leak.
{there, that’s better}.
Michael commented:
The delay of federal intervention is purposeful. 1. Let the problem develop into a crisis and then show government as the savior. 2. Government comes in and controls the oil business.
jonyjoe101 commented:
screw the “Army Corps of Engineers” , governor Jindal has to do what is required to protect his state. The ecological damage from the “oil spill” is more destructive than building the barrier. I didn’t need to go to college to figure that out.
Send the “Army Corps of Engineers” to Iraq to disarm mines or if they want to make themselves useful they can “plug” up the hole that is causing the oil spill.
The whole government is operating in slow motion. It’s more incompetent than usual.
Peggy commented:
All those who judged Bobby Jindal just on one stilted silly speech…watch him now. A good man and great leader!
vikingTX commented:
Anyone else notice how intelligent and articulate Gov Jindal is without a teleprompter?
Chip Bennett commented:
…of course, we’re still waiting for Jindal’s response to his staffer getting assaulted and her leg broken in multiple places, outside of a GOP fundraiser.
wanumba commented:
During the Katrina emergency Jindal didn’t cut thru red tape, he wound up the roll and tossed it. His people linked donated aid to locations needing it – no administrative delays.
Very very effective – a major reason he’s governor right now – he’s already proven he can get things done, fast.
Kevin P commented:
O.K. – it’s Nike time! JUST DO IT!!!
We conservatives always say the locals know best – the Feds don’t.
Let’s PROVE it – and DO IT!!! Build the damn levies and save the interior! If it fails – so what? It would have gotten there anyway. Just Frickin’ DO IT!!!
Then tell the Feds to F Off if they try any prosecutions!
Bring it on!
Kevin P commented:
We’re only giving the Feds the power by our consent.
Our consent is given by not DOING anything – filling out the required paperwork is not SOLVING anything!!!
Build the DAMN LEVIES NOW!!!