Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List

[Yonivore]

Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List

Many of these, Obama could have done with the stroke of a pen, today, 7 days ago, or 70 days ago. Why hasn't he?

Seriously, why?

[SnakeBoy]

Well some would say it's because he has no executive experience but I think it is because this admin is in permanent campaign mode and early on made the calculation that they would benefit politically from damage caused by the spill.

[ChumpDumper]

Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List

Many of these, Obama could have done with the stroke of a pen, today, 7 days ago, or 70 days ago. Why hasn't he?

Seriously, why?

Because you said it wasn't a big deal, yoni.

Remember?

[DarrinS]

Just saw on the news that they are sending in the "A Whale" vessel.

70 days later.

[TeyshaBlue]

Like the Katrina disaster, with it's bizarre cascade of failure events, there are just some things that cannot be gamed. Were I in charge of either, I would've immediately started crying like a 9 year old girl.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I always thought the resident dead enders were against arm chair quarterbacking.. ' you are only as good as the intel you have"...

[Mr. Peabody]

Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List

Many of these, Obama could have done with the stroke of a pen, today, 7 days ago, or 70 days ago. Why hasn't he?

Seriously, why?

Which countries have been prevented from sending aid by the Jones Act? I know this is a GOP talking point right now, but I haven't heard any specific details on what types of assistance are being hampered by the Jones Act. In fact -

http://www.sunherald.com/2010/06/30/...int-jones.html

GOP's false talking point: Jones Act blocks Gulf help
By WILLIAM DOUGLAS

From former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Arizona Sen. John McCain to junior members of the House of Representatives, conservative Republicans have accused President Barack Obama of failing to do all he can to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill because he hasn't waived a U.S. maritime law called the Jones Act.

. . . .

Maritime law experts, government officials and independent researchers say that the claim is false. The Jones Act isn't an impediment at all, they say, and it hasn't blocked anything.


. . . .

In a news briefing last week, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said he'd received "no requests for Jones Act waivers" from foreign vessels or countries. "If the vessels are operating outside state waters, which is three miles and beyond, they don't require a waiver," he said.

. . . .

FactCheck.org, a nonprofit website operated by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, analyzed claims that failure to waive the Jones Act is blocking foreign-flagged vessels from assisting in the Gulf. It concluded last week that "In reality, the Jones Act has yet to be an issue in the response efforts."

The Deepwater Horizon response team reported in a news release June 15 that 15 foreign-flagged ships were participating in the oil spill cleanup, FactCheck.org said. "None of them needed a waiver because the Jones Act does not apply," it said.

That hasn't stopped conservatives from making the act a talking point to criticize Obama. Joseph Carafano, a foreign policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy-research center, suggested on Fox News that labor unions are pressuring the Obama administration not to waive the act.

[boutons_deux]

"Jones Act has yet to be an issue in the response efforts"

The Repugs are reflexive liars, always willing to help those in need.

iow, " America, Americans"

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, it's just made up bs.

No surprises.

[Blake]

Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List

Many of these, Obama could have done with the stroke of a pen, today, 7 days ago, or 70 days ago. Why hasn't he?

Seriously, why?

you really don't know why he hasn't done many of those things?

seriously?

[George Gervin's Afro]

you really don't know why he hasn't done many of those things?

seriously?

The Obama haters don't know what he has or hasn't done. That doesn't stop them from making up fake charges.. .

[boutons_deux]

Heritage Stink Tank?

A key propagandizing mouthpiece of the VRWC, financed by the super wealthy, MIC, oilcos, BigPharma, etc.

"2006 Budget

In calendar year 2006 the Heritage Foundation spent over $40.5 million on its operations. That year the foundation raised over $25 million from individual contributors and $13.1 million from foundations.

While corporations provided only $1.5 million - 4% of Heritage’s contributions in 2006 - they none the less have significant interest in the foundations policy output. There's defence contractors Boeing and Lockheed Martin, finance and insurance companies such as Allstate Insurance, Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, and American International Group (AIG), auto company Honda, tobacco company Altria Group (Philip Morris), drug and medical companies Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, oil companies ChevronTexaco and Exxon Mobil, software giant Microsoft, and chipping in over $100,000 each, Alticor (Amway), Pfizer, PhRMA, and United Parcel Service (UPS). [2]

Historical funding

Between 1985 and 2003, Media Transparency reports that the following funders provided $57,497,537 (unadjusted for inflation) to the Heritage Foundation [4]:

* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Scaife Foundations: Sarah Mellon Scaife, Scaife Family, Carthage
* John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
* Castle Rock Foundation
* JM Foundation
* Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
* Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
* Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
* Roe Foundation
* Rodney Fund
* Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation
* Orville D. and Ruth A. Merillat Foundation
* Bill and Berniece Grew Foundation
* Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
* William H. Donner Foundation
* Walton Family Foundation
* Armstrong Foundation
* John Templeton Foundation
* William E. Simon Foundation"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...age_Foundation

Heritage is as credible as Fox Repug News.

[TeyshaBlue]

Heritage Stink Tank?

A key propagandizing mouthpiece of the VRWC, financed by the super wealthy, MIC, oilcos, BigPharma, etc.

"2006 Budget

In calendar year 2006 the Heritage Foundation spent over $40.5 million on its operations. That year the foundation raised over $25 million from individual contributors and $13.1 million from foundations.

While corporations provided only $1.5 million - 4% of Heritage’s contributions in 2006 - they none the less have significant interest in the foundations policy output. There's defence contractors Boeing and Lockheed Martin, finance and insurance companies such as Allstate Insurance, Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, and American International Group (AIG), auto company Honda, tobacco company Altria Group (Philip Morris), drug and medical companies Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, oil companies ChevronTexaco and Exxon Mobil, software giant Microsoft, and chipping in over $100,000 each, Alticor (Amway), Pfizer, PhRMA, and United Parcel Service (UPS). [2]

Historical funding

Between 1985 and 2003, Media Transparency reports that the following funders provided $57,497,537 (unadjusted for inflation) to the Heritage Foundation [4]:

* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Scaife Foundations: Sarah Mellon Scaife, Scaife Family, Carthage
* John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
* Castle Rock Foundation
* JM Foundation
* Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
* Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
* Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
* Roe Foundation
* Rodney Fund
* Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation
* Orville D. and Ruth A. Merillat Foundation
* Bill and Berniece Grew Foundation
* Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
* William H. Donner Foundation
* Walton Family Foundation
* Armstrong Foundation
* John Templeton Foundation
* William E. Simon Foundation"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...age_Foundation

Heritage is as credible as Fox Repug News.

ROFL..this from the guy that posts bogus polls from Harris and KOS..

BTW...you think Media Matters and Source Watch aren't well funded by the progressive elements? Probably doesn't matter, eh?

[Winehole23]

Whether one posts from Media Matters or the Heritage Foundation makes very little difference: you're log-rolling for the biases of private *philanthropy* either way.