While we all saw this coming a mile away, it's still enraging. This administration is a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States of America. I'm beyond frustrated. I realize that frustration won't change anything. I simply have an increased measure of the cold, hard determination to do whatever it takes (without violence, of course!) to restore America I have had for years now.
We must save America from this anti-American traitor! Please PRAY FOR AMERICA today!
This is wrong on so many levels, it is like this occupant of the White House is tearing off his mask right now, and not bothering to wait until after the elections. This is the sort of thing you would expect from Josef Stalin, not from an American president.
"I take responsibility." Nothing could be further from the truth, Führer. Reasonable people could be excused for assuming that you and your Commissars are hell-bent upon the "fundamental transformation" of America into a Communist dictatorship, destroying our prosperity and our liberty.
The failed Communist dictatorships of the past have proven over and over that they have nothing to offer anybody except total power and control for those at the top, and unparallelled misery and oppression for those who survive the inevitable genocide. When confronted with true American history, truly evil individuals who stalk the earth, lusting after that which they did not earn, and to which they have no right, are the only ones who think this sort of total government control is desirable.
Here's the blood pressure-raising article that covers this news story (ridiculous wording substituted by words in brackets [ ] ): JL – 9/12 Project
Obama cancels Gulf drilling projects
Takes responsibility for response, works to clean up mineral agency
By Kara Rowland
9:01 p.m., Thursday, May 27, 2010
Just weeks after he opened up new areas to offshore drilling, President Obama [flip-flopped] Thursday and suspended or canceled drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic and the Arctic, as promising signs emerged from BP's latest effort to plug a gushing oil leak off the coast of Louisiana.
While [uttering the words "I take responsibility"] for what critics have dubbed a [criminally negligent] response to the worse oil spill in U.S. history, Mr. Obama - without naming the Bush administration - [blamed Bush yet again].
Mr. Obama said his administration has been trying to clean up that agency, the Minerals Management Service. MMS' chief, Elizabeth Birnbaum, an Obama nominee, quit her post Thursday just before Mr. Obama held a press conference. Mr. Obama was not sure whether Ms. Birnbaum resigned or was asked to leave.
On Thursday, [government] scientists said the leak, caused by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 people last month, is thought to be spewing as much as 1 million gallons of oil a day - making it far worse than the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
The White House press corps put Mr. Obama on the defensive, repeatedly questioning the speed at which his administration has responded to the disaster and its oversight of BP's efforts, which repeatedly have failed over the last five weeks. A frustrated public has voiced its disapproval of the administration's efforts in recent polls.
Mr. Obama dismissed critics, saying they "don't know the facts." But he did say he'd leave it to others to judge when asked about comparisons to President George W. Bush's oft-criticized response to Hurricane Katrina.
The president, who will visit the coast on Friday before heading to Chicago for the holiday weekend, said the spill serves as an [excuse to shut down America's drilling and take over the oil companies], and he argued that despite his now-reversed overture to open up more drilling, he was never that fond of the idea.
"That's part of the reason you never heard me say, 'Drill, baby, drill,' " Mr. Obama told reporters in his first full-scale East Room press conference since July.
In response to a preliminary report on the spill by the Interior Department, Mr. Obama said he's decided to suspend the planned exploration of two locations off the coast of Alaska and cancel lease sales for locations in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Virginia. In addition, he ordered a six-month extension of an existing moratorium on issuing new permits to drill deep-water wells and suspended action on 33 exploratory deep-water wells currently being drilled in the Gulf.
The decision to stop oil exploration in the deep Gulf and in Alaska drew harsh rebuke from [reasonable Americans].
"I think putting our drilling programs in those areas in a deep freeze is exactly the wrong approach," said Rep. Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the House energy panel. "All we're going to do is cause unemployment and cause the price of oil to go up, which is going to hurt our economy even more."
But [anti-capitalism] groups who opposed Mr. Obama's initial announcement in April that he was opening up some new swaths of land for drilling while closing off others, praised the steps.
"The ongoing tragedy in the Gulf Coast clearly demonstrates that our dependence on oil - be it from hostile nations or friendly coasts - hurts our economy, threatens our security and harms our environment," League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski said.
Mr. Obama said that BP is "operating at our direction" as it tries to stop oil from spewing into the water, and assured Americans that he takes responsibility for the response to the crisis.
"In case you're wondering who's responsible, I take responsibility," he said. "It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy. It doesn't mean it's going to happen right away or the way I'd like it to happen. It doesn't mean that we're not going to make mistakes. But there shouldn't be any confusion here. The federal government is fully engaged, and I'm fully engaged."
Judging by recent opinion polls, the public doesn't seem to think anyone is doing a good job of handling the disaster. In a CNN/Opinion Research survey released Monday, 51 percent of Americans say they disapprove of the way President Obama is handling the crisis, though even more - 76 percent - say they disapprove of BP's response to the spill.
Mr. Obama [blamed Bush, and] ...cited as "appalling" a recent inspector general's report that chronicled what he described as corruption at the agency...
...In April, Mr. Obama announced plans to expand drilling off the coast of the southern Atlantic seaboard, in the Gulf of Mexico and some parts of Alaska. At the same time, he ordered a halt to future sales in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort seas that drilling advocates say could account for far more oil than the new areas he wanted to open up. Click the link in the article title to see the full story or HERE.
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