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Anderson Cooper From Gulf Region: ‘Anger Is Rising’ Over Oil Spill
When President Obama spent the day with Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser last week, the President gave the parish president an order: if anything goes wrong, call the White House before you call Anderson Cooper.
That alone signifies the extent to which Cooper, who has made disaster coverage his trademark, has owned the coverage of the BP oil spill.
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Tagged Anderson Cooper, anything, billy nungesser, bp, bp oil spill, call, coverage, day, disaster, extent, order, Parish, parish president, Plaquemines, president, president billy, President Obama, week, White, white house
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Shout at Obama to Muscle BP aside is Futile and Wrongheaded
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell minced no words in a talk with ABC News. Powell said President Obama should muscle BP aside and move in with “decisive force.” The general had one thing in mind, and that’s a military type response to and seizure of the operation. Powell thinks and talks like a hard-nosed military man. So his demand for a military solution to the BP spill is understandable. Powell didn’t say how the government, let alone the military, could cap the runaway well and insure that it stayed capped. But Powell and the wave of media pundits, politicians, and much of the public still shout at Obama to impose a total government takeover of the operation. The shout is futile and wrongheaded. The Obama BP critics shout it at him in part out of ignorance at what the government can do, and in part to beat up on him.
When a hazardous substance poses a major threat to the health and well-being of US citizens, the president can invoke provisions of the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act to take full charge. But the BP spill is in international waters and technically federal law doesn’t apply to that. Even if the government makes the compelling legal case that the BP spill poses a grave enough threat for government agencies, the military, or both to step in then what? Every credible military expert that’s weighed in on what the military can do if it were called on to take over the cap and control of an errant off shore drill operation has said that it would be totally lost. Its deep sea technical capability and undersea imager technology is too limited, and untested in this kind of complex, intricate, and uncharted operation. The bitter pill every scientist, engineer, and technician that’s weighed in on the spill said the public must swallow is that BP created the problem, and despite its flop so far in fixing it, it has the technology and expertise to do the job. The military and government agencies can take over containment, cleanup and construction. But the government has dispatched more than 20,000 responders, dozens of ships, and floating operation stations that are doing those functions.
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Tagged abc news, act, clean water act, decisive force, government, government takeover, media pundits, military, military expert, oil pollution act, operation, part, President Obama, public, secretary of state colin powell, Shout, spill, technical capability, Technology, threat, type response, US
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Elliot Abrams Giving Advice On The Middle East Is Like BP Giving Advice On Capping Oil Wells
It really must be understood how ridiculous it is for Elliot Abrams — whose incompetence bears as much responsibility as any American official’s for the current sad state of affairs in Israel-Palestine — to presume to criticize the Obama administration for its handling of the Israel-Palestine file. That’s certainly not to say that there’s nothing to criticize, it’s just that when you’re the guy whose (possibly illegal) attempt to reverse the outcome of Palestinian elections (that your own administration insisted on having!) blew up in your — and Israel’s, and Palestine’s — face, resulting in a Palestinian civil war that left Hamas in control of Gaza and Israel targeted by its rockets, you might have the decency to think twice about bad-mouthing the current administration to anyone who will listen.
Not Abrams, who seems to relish the opportunity to tell Israelis how bad President Obama is for them. (Apparently it’s okay now for former U.S. officials to criticize the current administration in foreign media. Something tells me this will change when a Republican is president.) Writing in the Weekly Standard, Abrams is unsatisfied with the Obama administration’s statement of solidarity with Israel and its watering down of the United Nations statement on the flotilla attack, and insists that Obama administration has left Israel to “stand alone“:
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Tagged administration, current administration, Elliot Abrams, Flotilla, Gaza, handling, illegal attempt, incompetence, Israel, israel palestine, nothing, official, Palestine, palestinian elections, President Obama, presume, responsibility, sad state of affairs, state, state of affairs, statement, U.S., weekly standard
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Will Obama Go To Indonesia or Stay Home and Deal With Oil Spill?
The President canceled a trip abroad to stay home and deal with the health care bill as it worked its way through Congress, so will he cancel his trip again to deal with the country’s largest oil spill in our history?
The public perception is growing that President Obama is staying way too cool and calm during this major environmental and financial disaster. He may be seething inside at BP and the oil spill but to the average American he looks anything but angry. The President couldn’t be bothered to stay overnight in Louisiana. The President has not appointed someone of stature like Bill Clinton or Colin Powell to move to New Orleans and take charge of this massive oil spill and its cleanup.
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Mark Kirk Gay Rumor Reignited By Blogger Who Outed Larry Craig
Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk has had a dramatic few days, and now a popular gay blogger known for outing politicians claims to have sources confirming that Kirk is a closeted gay man.
Before the February Illinois primary, Kirk, a Republican vying for President Obama’s former senate seat, faced attacks from birther Andy Martin claiming that Kirk was gay. Kirk denied the claims, but now faces an attempted outing from the other side–the gay community.
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Law and Order: AIG
President Obama’s Department of Justice announced last week that there would be no indictments in the collapse of AIG, an event which led to a worldwide economic collapse and cost the American taxpayer trillions. As someone who once worked for AIG I was shocked, but apparently that’s how this mystery ends: Hundreds of millions of victims, smoking guns in every room, and not a perp to be found anywhere.
Yves Smith is disappointed that PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the auditors who signed off on AIG’s financial claims despite mounds of disturbing evidence, escaped serious legal scrutiny. She observes that our “Potemkin” financial reform (her word) won’t remove the barriers that prosecutors face in pursuing secondary parties like auditors (although I believe the Supreme Court ruling she cited only addressed civil suits.) Not only is the auditor protected, but that allows the fraudster himself to use the defense that he kept his auditor informed – kind of like Bush and Cheney using John Yoo’s legal opinion to inoculate themselves from criminal prosecution.
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Tagged AIG, american taxpayer, auditor, bush and cheney, civil suits, collapse, criminal prosecution, Department, event, fraudster, John Yoo, Justice, legal scrutiny, President Obama, smoking guns, someone, supreme court ruling, taxpayer, week, worldwide, worldwide economic collapse, Yves Smith
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Who Is Don Berwick and Why Do the Republicans Want to Kill His Nomination?
President Obama’s nominee to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) is a Harvard physician named Dr. Donald Berwick.
If you haven’t heard of him, you will soon. He is awaiting confirmation and the agencies he will head have been waiting for a leader for over four years. Who is this man whom the Republicans are calling a radical but almost every health professional seems to love? (And who says we don’t need a radical at CMS anyway!!) One of the major accusations is that he “loves” the NHS, Britain’s National Health Service. Ergo, he loves socialism, ergo he is a Marxist.
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LeBron James: Cavs ‘Absolutely’ Have ‘An Edge’ At Signing Me
LeBron James is just one month away from free agency, and speculation about his destination is running rampant. One rumor placed him in a package deal with Kentucky coach John Calipari, while President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have both lobbied for King James’ services. But it turns out his current team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, may have the best shot at holding on to him.
In an interview with Larry King, the CNN host asked James if the Cavs have an advantage at keeping him. The reining NBA MVP replied, “Oh, absolutely.”
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