Louisiana Official to Obama: Your Oil Drilling Suspension "Will Kill Us"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, May 29, 2010, 5:13 PM
A Louisiana official pleaded with far left President Obama to lift his moratorium on new oil drilling and exploration. With the unemployment rate at 9.9% President Obama set up the moratorium after the BP oil spill in the Gulf.
CNN reported, via Free Republic:
A Gulf Coast official is pleading with President Barack Obama to scrap the moratorium on new oil drilling and exploration as the investigation of the massive oil spill continues, saying the economic impact to her Louisiana parish would be too much to bear.
Charlotte Randolph, president of LaFourche Parish, said she spoke to Obama in person during his visit to the oil-stricken region Friday.
“I expressed to the president that we are dying because of the oil spill, but if he allows this suspension to happen it will kill us,” she told reporters Saturday, noting that her parish has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.
“First I’m hearing from fisherman who are dying because of the oil spill,” she said. “Now I’m hearing from the oil and gas industry and all of those associated services that they will be put out of business.”
Obama’s tour of the oil damage along the Gulf Coast came a day after he announced steps to limit new oil drilling and exploration during the oil spill. The president said he is “fully engaged” and ultimately responsible for what he called a catastrophe.
The president is vacationing in Chicago this weekend.
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Published May 15, 2012 at 8:05 pm - 33 Comments
Buffalobob commented:
Obama dribbles while the gulf gushes.
Opaobie commented:
I hear they are putting golf balls down the hole to try to plug it. I wonder how many Obama got to hit during his “tour”.
gail commented:
This may be the first American citizen to plead with an American president not to destroy her community’s livelihood, but I dare say she won’t be the last.
Joe College commented:
Why should Obama care about Louisiana? They have a Republican governor.
Joe College commented:
And by the way, now that the press conference is over and Obama got a real live bump for fixing the leak, this can now be told…
http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=85813
BP says “top kill” isn’t working
jonyjoe101 commented:
He reminds of “el douche” from 1930′s italy. “el douche” use to walk around with his “aura of superiority smug look on his face” he use to hang out with the scum of the earth back in the 1930′s.
He didn’t care about the population, only about his “greatness”.
Hopefully “sestak” brings him down. But dennis hopper and gary coleman just died, this unfortunate (or fortunate for the whitehouse) event might dstract the media from the sestak story.
Little Orenthal commented:
The human wrecking ball at work. At what point does this become treason? And BTW, how in hell can our ‘president’ single handidly shut down an entire industry? Is he a full blown dictator now?
Time to ask questions, msm. This man should be on trial for treason at minimum. He’s intentionally murdering young families and forcing poverty upon them. SICK
squeaky commented:
the higher you go – the farther you fall and obama – remember to be nice to the people you pass on your way up cuz’ they’ll be the same people you pass on the way down.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/29/maher_obama_not_acting_like_a_real_black_president.html
USMC Thomas commented:
SOBama: let them eat cake!
Wendy commented:
Destroy more of the US economy? Everything is going as planned for OILbama….
Marsh commented:
Do you think you could implement a share feature, Jim? I’d love to share your blogs on twitter.
Chisum commented:
Do you remember this?
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/9492/magic-lightbringer-messiah-not-new-terms-obama
Or this?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article4392846.ece
Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmmmmm
down with dems commented:
Obama doesn’t see BIG PICTURE.
“What’s that? Oil spill? STOP DRILLING! I’m a hero.”
Never mind that there is a ripple of consequences that radiate out from his off the cuff gut response.
How about properly supervising off-shore drilling instead of banning it? You know, like doing all the stuff that WASN’T done with this particular oil rig.
Proactive prevention, not late-to-the-party reaction.
Richard bagg commented:
Obama. Won’t help because the people most affected by the moratorium will be White
Obama hates white people
wanumba commented:
“The president said he is “fully engaged” and ultimately responsible for what he called a catastrophe”
…………
Most people would be ashamed at that, but evidently he’s proud of it.
Has he energized the bureaucracy to let loose the permits, the booms, the WORKS Louisiana needs to start protecting itself? Nope. Off to Chicago to let the Gulf states twist in the wind.
He detests the duties of POTUS so much he can’t even abide to be present at Arlington on Memorial Day. Memorial Day has been on the calendar for this weekend since they printed the calendars for 2010, but hup! He just HAS to be out of town on a family outing. Fob off the annoying chore to Joe Biden.
Chisum commented:
King Barack the Verbose
He is less accountable than the older kind of royalty.
One of the chief characteristics of Barack Obama’s speechifying is its contempt for words as anything other than props of self-puffery. Consider, for example, his recent remarks to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy:
“America has not succeeded by stepping out of the currents of cooperation — we have succeeded by steering those currents in the direction of liberty and justice.”
“Steering those currents”? How could even a member of the president’s insulated, self-regarding speechwriting team be so tin-eared as to write that line? How could the president be so tone-deaf as to deliver it in May of 2010? Hey, genius, if you’re so damn good at “steering currents,” why not try doing it in the Gulf of Mexico?
http://article.nationalreview.com/435157/king-barack-the-verbose/mark-steyn
xxx commented:
http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=24718773587
Sarah Palin weighs in on the Oil Happenings and Hussein’s insane non-responce.
“Over 20 percent of Alaska’s electricity currently comes from renewable sources. As governor, I put forward a long-term plan to increase that figure to 50 percent by 2025, which is the most ambitious renewable energy target in the nation.” — Sarah Palin.
“I eat warm grits yummm. ” — Hussein on vacation.
Is Obama smoking crack cocain again? He seems literally out of it, so to speak. I think the main Hussien media smokes crack too.
Alana commented:
He loves the opportunity to play the stern father figure and tell his children “no” for their own good. Even if – and especially if! – it isn’t for their own good.
Perhaps this makes up for the fact that he probably has little to nothing to say about his own children, having been an absentee father for most of their lives.
Not to mention being up against Michelle and her mama.
Jean commented:
Obama hates white people…
bg commented:
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Louisiana Official to Obama: Your
Oil Drilling Suspension “Will Kill Us”
Obama: damn i’m good!! &
“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
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bg commented:
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why is he still usurping the US Presidency?? gah!!
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Douglas commented:
As someone who was born and raised in a chicago suburb. I would NEVER “vacation” in Chicago. I love the city, it’s my home, and there is a lot of crap here, but I would never go “You know? I want a break from the workaday life, I will go to Chicago.”
It’s a decent place to live (as long as you are in a burb) and to visit, but “Vacation?” That just ain’t gonna happen.
Diana commented:
Go, Walk, Run to the polls in November and
VOTE and CHANGE all the progressive,liberal
“hope and change” hucksters out on their bums.
This disregard of and unresponsiveness to the needs of Americans is demonstrated daily by the border problems, national security disasters, out of control spending, health care cram down, and now this unconscionable lack of concern for the suffering people and industries in the Gulf.
But don’t wait until November to be involved:
Find the good, trusted,Conservative candidates in your area and invest time and money into their campaigns. Complaining isn’t a strategy.
Everyone has to do more than they have ever done before- Everything is at stake. Don’t give up and don’t give in.
The progressive agenda will destroy America and more and more people are seeing that everyday.
bg commented:
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Barry & the Purple Crayon
[SUMMARY
BARRY AND THE PURPLE CRAYON concerns a
little boy who literally "colors his world" by using a
crayon to draw whatever he happens to need. The
story begins with the little boy, Barry, wanting to take
a walk in the moonlight. Because there isn’t a moon,
Barry decides to draw one, as well as a path to follow
on his walk. When Barry realizes that the straight
path is getting him nowhere, he decides to draw a short
cut. As the story moves along, Barry and his crayon
move along too. Barry draws what he desires, finds
himself in difficulty, and draws his way out of his
dilemmas.]
disclaimer: used for analytical purpose only..
unfortunately, the real Barry is stranger than fiction..
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Marsh commented:
Everyone knew the anti-capitalist left would exploit this accident to further destroy our country.
kansas commented:
I think it’s getting be time that Obama’s decrees are ignored.
Simsalabim commented:
This stupid MF jackass in the whitehouse reminds me of a character in a Rube Goldberg drawing. Picture this: Some dumbass pulling a lever that is attached to a mechanism that has a boot that keeps kicking himself in the ass. Everytime he thinks he pulling the lever to ‘get’ someone, he keeps kicking his own self in the ass. Keep pulling dumbass! You’re doing a great job!!!
MGB commented:
He needs the crisis, the disaster, the environmental damage (with the anger and dismay that will come with it) as well as destruction of the oil industry BECAUSE it’s the only way he thinks he will be able to ram through his cap and tax regime. They are ALL heavily invested in this carbon trading Ponzi scheme–Obama, Gore, Shorebank, GE, on and on and on. Global investors, too.
I’m at the point where I don’t believe they’re trying to stop the leak. And now I even wonder whether this was an accident in the first place.
The American people are solidly against cap and tax. They know this, but they are all too heavily invested in ramming this through because their future billions depend upon it. Global redistribution of our wealth, the new world order, and cutting the USA down to size also depend upon cap and tax. It’s the means to all their ends. These Marxist elitists won’t let any manufactured crisis go to waste.
bg commented:
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Chisum @ 6:22 pm #15
whether sarcastic or humorous, it’s truly not
a laughing matter.. you see, O believes in O..
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ …
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Jacqueline Hines commented:
If you will notice, the various speakers for BP, Suttles & Hayward included, never mention the new rig they are supposedly drilling which is supposed to be the “real fix”. As far away as it is, timewise, for God’s sake, it is better than nothing and that seems to be all we have now. How far along are they? Can they get it done before a hurricane runs up their ass? They have obviously tried their “best shots”. I think we are set in to wait for the new rig.
archer52 commented:
He is either dumber than a bag of hammers not to realize that banning drilling will kill off the rest of LA. or he really does understand but doesn’t care as he caters to his real base, the eco-nuts.
Either way, this is like GWB telling airliners because they let hijackers on the planes there would be no more flying for them, any of them.
That is just stupid.
Anyone else miss GWB yet? Even maybe Clinton a little?
This guy is a special level of screw up. Must be a Harvard grad.
bg commented:
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archer52 @ 2:17 am #35
re: [or he really does understand but doesn’t
care as he caters to his real base, the eco-nuts.]
and his sponsors..
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Valerie commented:
Wanna know where the real racists are? Listen up.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/29/maher_obama_not_acting_like_a_real_black_president.html
Dave In Houston commented:
Louisiana Official to Obama: Your Oil Drilling Suspension “Will Kill Us”
Like he cares?
Stuart commented:
No doubt that $5.00 a gallon gas will make Obama the most popular president ever. 2012 can’t get here soon enough.
AuntieMadder commented:
Want to know what Ohblowme is doing this Memorial Day weekend?
ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: President Obama Skips Arlington for Chicago BBQ — Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam Thugs Skirmish with Secret Service and Press pool
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/president-obama-skips-arlington-to-spend-memorial-day-with-louis-farrakhan-amidst-nation-of-islam-th.html
Joanne commented:
Repeat after me – Obama does not give a crap!
bobc commented:
This is the plan! No access to our resources!
I found this interesting:
Was economic collapse
a planned power grab?
Europe clamors to expose Bilderbergers,
alleged masterminds behind money woes.
“Bilderberg is not a bogeyman,” Estulin told WND, “but it is a powerful organization. It’s a medium for bringing together financial institutions – the largest, predatory institutions in the world – which acts in ways that are now the worst enemy of society.”
How is it an enemy? Estulin believes the current destruction of the economy, and particularly the assault on capitalist economics, is something that has been done on purpose, a meltdown orchestrated from behind the scenes to keep the masses dependent on the elite.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=160549
It is also about oil…
bobc commented:
Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
05/30/10 2:42 PM EDT
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Top-PR-firm-for-BP-tied-to-White-House-Chief-of-Staff-Rahm-Emanuel-95223369.html#ixzz0pTFDGua7
Mitch commented:
That’s what happens when you make a big deal about an oil spill.
You said he didn’t give enough of a response, didn’t you?
William Charles commented:
I am in a state of shock. I am not politacal at all.
How in the name of god can you blame obama. Bush and Chaney relaxed the safety regs for the drillers. People tell me the locals wanted more wells . The gulf got lota of wells with less safety regs. There were blowout protection that Chaney eliminated….and now nobody mentions his name. Are you guys not seeing this?