The Bush Leaguers have also played silly games with public relations, like wimpy babies trying to act tough, just as they did when the Vietnam-evader himself put on a flight suit and landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare "Mission accomplished" in Iraq, before the real war even started. Now they talk about how they're gonna "keep the boot on the neck" of BP to clean up the spill. Tough words, man. According to the New York Times, though, "Oil industry experts said they did not take seriously the sporadic threats by the administration that the federal government might have to wrest management of the effort to plug the well from BP. The experts said that the Interior and Energy Departments do not have engineers with more experience in deepwater drilling than those who work for BP and the array of companies that have been brought into the effort to stem the leak. "It's worse than politics,' said Larry Goldstein, a director of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, which is partly financed by the oil industry. "They have had the authority from Day 1. If they could have handled this situation better, they would have already.'"
Speaking of rank public relations maneuvers, Bush pretended to blow his top when the three companies (including Halliburton, of course) all blamed each other for the catastrophe, and called their antics a "ridiculous spectacle", despite doing little himself to deal with the issue for more than a month now. Then he professed anger and astonishment at the "cozy relationship" between the oil industry and the government. Imagine that! Putting on his tough guy face, Bush waved his arms and said, "I will not tolerate any more finger-pointing or irresponsibility". Oh, that's cute. What's he gonna do, order BP to act responsibly? Next year sometime? Over brandy and cigars in the Oval Office? I'll tell you one, thing, if Obama were in the White House you'd never see a "ridiculous spectacle" like the one the president is putting on right now.
And, you know, you would also think that Bush learned his lesson from 9/11 and Katrina about getting up off the couch and engaging himself when there is a national crisis going on. Apparently not, however. Just like when Katrina hit, he's running around doing political fundraisers while the country scrambles to deal with a crisis, and now he's taking a vacation, as well, just like he did in the month before 9/11, after being warned of an imminent attack. Unbelievable.
Speaking of vacation, I just can't take it anymore. These Bush clowns and their destructive antics are just killing me. It seems like it's taking forever for the Obama administration to start, and for these predators to go.
I just can't deal with it anymore. I'm gonna go take a long nap
Someone wake me up, oh, say, about a year-and-a-half into the Obama administration, wouldya?
By that time they should have really made their mark, and life will be so much better in America.
One thing's for sure, once Barack Obama comes to power you'll never again see an oil corporation-infested administration do nothing about a major crisis, lie about it, and protect British Petroleum instead of the American public.
That's change you can believe in.
Baby.
Speaking of rank public relations maneuvers, Bush pretended to blow his top when the three companies (including Halliburton, of course) all blamed each other for the catastrophe, and called their antics a "ridiculous spectacle", despite doing little himself to deal with the issue for more than a month now. Then he professed anger and astonishment at the "cozy relationship" between the oil industry and the government. Imagine that! Putting on his tough guy face, Bush waved his arms and said, "I will not tolerate any more finger-pointing or irresponsibility". Oh, that's cute. What's he gonna do, order BP to act responsibly? Next year sometime? Over brandy and cigars in the Oval Office? I'll tell you one, thing, if Obama were in the White House you'd never see a "ridiculous spectacle" like the one the president is putting on right now.
And, you know, you would also think that Bush learned his lesson from 9/11 and Katrina about getting up off the couch and engaging himself when there is a national crisis going on. Apparently not, however. Just like when Katrina hit, he's running around doing political fundraisers while the country scrambles to deal with a crisis, and now he's taking a vacation, as well, just like he did in the month before 9/11, after being warned of an imminent attack. Unbelievable.
Speaking of vacation, I just can't take it anymore. These Bush clowns and their destructive antics are just killing me. It seems like it's taking forever for the Obama administration to start, and for these predators to go.
Someone wake me up, oh, say, about a year-and-a-half into the Obama administration, wouldya?
By that time they should have really made their mark, and life will be so much better in America.
One thing's for sure, once Barack Obama comes to power you'll never again see an oil corporation-infested administration do nothing about a major crisis, lie about it, and protect British Petroleum instead of the American public.
That's change you can believe in.
Baby.
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