Don’t Blink: Obamas Plan 26-Hour Gulf “Vacation”
Ben Johnson, Floyd Reports
After well-deserved public condemnation for Michelle Obama’s lavish Spanish vacation, the First Family is trying to change its image with a “vacation” to Florida’s Gulf Coast. And what an affair it is.
Mike Memoli of The Washington Post‘s blog, “The Swamp” reports: “From scheduled arrival of Air Force One Saturday to the time it departs on Sunday, the Obamas will have spent 26 hours and 50 minutes on the ground in the Panama City area.”
That does not quite compare to Michelle and the girls’ four-night sojourn in Marabella, Spain. The First Lady whisked along a small army of 40 friends, costing U.S. taxpayers $75,000 a day.
After the one-day “vacation” in the Gulf, the Obamas will leave for their real vacation: 10 days in Martha’s Vineyard.
It rather reminds me of John Kerry and John Edwards’ campaign stunt in 2004, pretending to have dinner at Wendy’s. While standing in line, Teresa Heinz did not recognize chili. And as soon as the cameras had recorded their face time with the little people, the Kerrys and Edwardses ditched the burgers and feasted on gourmet food.
Obama is trying to pull off another “common man” moment, showing he loves spending weekends with the NASCAR enthusiasts of the panhandle.
After the brief trip, he’ll return to raising money from fat cats and special interests for the Democratic Party. He has a five-state swing through Wisconsin, California, Washington, Ohio, and Florida starting Monday. He recently gushed, “I’m pretty good at politicking.”
You couldn’t tell that by his recent poll numbers.
Maybe Michelle realizes her husband is more popular in Spain than in Panama City? Or maybe the Obamas prefer to vacation in places heavily populated by socialists (like Spain and Martha’s Vineyard) because they are more comfortable around people who think like they do.
Obama Causing Depression in Louisiana
Floyd Reports
America’s media has moved on to other stories, but the devastation in Louisiana which is still ongoing isn’t from Katrina, isn’t from the BP disaster, the current devastation is the direct result of Obama’s wrongheaded policies.
Families are in despair as they see their economic opportunities and good jobs disappear.
We are fortunate that some of the International media doesn’t get distracted so easily. In this video Alastair Good of the UK Telegraph shares the story of one families despair caused by Obama.
Did the Government cause the Gulf Spill?
By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
The generally accepted view of the Deepwater Horizon disaster has focused on the blowout preventer and the non-standard procedures BP conducted just before the explosion and fire. However, most of the damage and the main source of the spill came from the collapse and sinking of the DH platform rather than the initial explosion. A new report by the Center for Public Integrity, based on testimony from people on scene and Coast Guard logs, contains evidence that the platform sunk because of a botched response from the Coast Guard, which failed to coordinate firefighting efforts and to get the proper resources to fight the fire:
The Coast Guard has gathered evidence it failed to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and is investigating whether the chaotic spraying of tons of salt water by private boats contributed to sinking the ill-fated oil rig, according to interviews and documents.
Coast Guard officials told the Center for Public Integrity that the service does not have the expertise to fight an oil rig fire and that its response to the April 20 explosion may have broken the service’s own rules by failing to ensure a firefighting expert supervised the half-dozen private boats that answered the Deepwater Horizon’s distress call to fight the blaze.
An official maritime investigation led by Coast Guard Capt. Hung M. Nguyen in New Orleans is examining whether the salt water that was sprayed across the burning platform overran the ballast system that kept the rig upright, changing its weight distribution, and causing it to list.
25 Reasons to Impeach Obama
By Fred Dardick, Impeach Obama Contributor
Last week Rep. Michelle Bachmann was asked what Republicans had in mind should they retake the House of Representatives this November, she replied “I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another and expose all the nonsense that is going on.”
Considering the sheer volume of illegal and impeachable offences committed by Obama and his cohorts over the past couple of years, the House will be very busy indeed.
Putting aside Obama’s inept leadership, weakening of our national defenses and transparent attempt to socialize our great nation, there are a number of more practical crimes that once investigated could lead to Obama’s impeachment and perhaps even his well deserved imprisonment.
25 Obama Crimes the House Should Investigate in 2011 Read more
Jindal: Obama, We Don’t Want a BP Check, We Want to Go Back to Work!
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“Damn your Constitution”: Pelosi illegally uses House “Observers” to beat anti moratorium act
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Shameless puppets from four nonvoting American territories plus the District of Columbia have been used by Nancy Pelosi in a desperate move to kill an effort to stop Barack Obama from reissuing his moratorium on Gulf drilling and oil exploration.
On July 12 when the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Barack Obama could not place a moratorium on drilling for oil in America’s offshore fields we thought this would be the end of this particular attack. It did seemed like America had won.
In order to permanently end this threat to our economy, Republican Congressman Bill Cassidy of Louisiana’s 6th district offered an amendment that would prohibit Obama from reissuing his destructive moratorium.
Cassidy’s amendment was offered and defeated last week during a meeting of the House Natural Resources Committee. The vote tally went against America although it carried 22 to 21 among elected Representatives! “How could this be?” you ask.
It’s who counts the votes…
The Democrats followed their hero Joseph Stalin’s way of “handling” elections. He said, “The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.”
Although Section two, clause one of the Constitution provides for voting members of the House of Representatives to be elected by the states they represent, the Constitution is always only an obstacle to be stepped around for Democrats. Since they are not elected Representatives, the people sent to Washing to by Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, America Samoa and the Virgin Islands are Constitutionally barred from casting meaningful votes. Nevertheless Nancy Pelosi…
Video: Obama on Leak Fix: Now I’ll take the credit.
The last time the president held a press conference to talk about the Gulf Coast oil spill it was all about BP. . .they did this, and they did that. And he was making it clear THEY WOULD PAY. There was no sense of WE.. we were not going to assist them in shutting off the flow. WE were not going to bring in the skimmers. WE were not going to clean the beaches.
Today’s was very different. WE closed the spill. WE succeeded. WE did this and WE did that. Today was all about Obama’s victory. Only at the end, when he said; And BP is going to have to pay not only for the clean up, but to reimburse the people and businesses for their losses, that BP was mentioned.
To this president…. all problems belong to someone else … and all successes are a result of his action.
Oil Spill: The Video Obama Doesn’t Want you to See
The Obama administration has something to hide.
The Administration has now made it a felony crime for any reporter or photographer to get within view of any oil cleanup operations. Anyone caught is subject to “arrest, a 40,000 dollar fine, and prosecution for a federal felony crime.” In addition, the FAA has declared a no-fly zone over most of the Gulf, under the excuse of protecting oil workers.
This is the video that Obama doesn’t want you to see…
The video shows one of the last views of the Gulf Oil Spill before the FAA shut down the airspace.
Why is Obama trying to cover up this incredible devastation in the gulf?
Because Obama knows that his response to the spill has been nothing short of catastrophic.
And he doesn’t want you to know that.
Early on when Alabama wanted to buy snare booms to catch oil as it came up on the beaches, what did the Obama administration do? Read more
Whatever It Takes: Obama Sidesteps Law to Halt Domestic Energy Production. Twice.
by Clarice Feldman, Pajamas Media
It is disturbing, to say the least, how little deference the president and the administration give to the strictures of the Constitution and existing law. Whatever suits Obama’s partisan political interests takes precedence, regardless of the cost to us. However, it is heartening that judges are increasingly unwilling to let this rampage continue.
The most recent example involves the planned nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Almost everyone acknowledges that nuclear power is clean and safe, even though there has been a decades-long campaign against it by ill-informed advocacy groups. The remaining concern about nuclear energy in this country, for some decades, has been how to dispose of the spent fuel created in the electrical generation process. In Europe, they have largely dealt with this problem by reprocessing that fuel and reusing it to create more energy. In this country, that option was discarded years ago in favor of long-term geological storage. Decades of expensive studies zeroed in on Yucca Mountain as the best site for such storage.
Presently, the nuclear waste generated by energy and weapons production is being stored in vulnerable storage facilities throughout the country, waiting for transfer to Yucca Mountain. The cost of that facility has been borne largely by electricity consumers paying into a nuclear-waste fund — already, $10 billion has been spent on developing Yucca.
Many Nevadans don’t like the idea of the repository. To garner these votes, candidate Barack Obama contended that he had questions about the safety of the storage facilities there and that he wanted to further study the issue. With the reelection of Harry Reid in jeopardy, last fall Obama signed into law a spending bill funding energy and water programs for 2010 that contained a provision to close down the Yucca nuclear-waste repository. The Department of Energy, which had earlier filed an 86,000 page application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to open the nuclear-waste dump, sought to withdraw that application under the new leadership.
Video:”I will not rest Obama” takes a rest in Maine while Gulf Jobs float away.
From the Man who said: "I won’t rest until leak is stopped", "I will not rest until the economy is fixed," "I will not rest until…" You get the picture.
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Barack Obama, the man who has continually said he “would not rest” until the “damn hole is plugged” and “everyone has a job” spent this weekend vacationing in Maine, which is about as far away from the Gulf of Mexico as any of the fifty seven states he has visited.
If he bothered to come off the golf courses up there he heard that the damage he planned to do to America’s Gulf of Mexico off shore oil industry is well underway.
Last week Diamond Offshore (DO) announced it can not wait for the Courts to finally hold the Obama Administration in contempt and order an end to its frivolous attempts to shut down all off shore oil drilling. This is an immediate move. Diamond is so determined to take Obama’s “No” for an answer it is willing to take a $31 million early termination penalty hit to be able to pack up and leave.
Diamond is sending its “Ocean Endeavor” drilling rig to the “friendlier” waters off Egypt.Apparently it would rather take its chances off the shore of the traditional home of the Muslim Brotherhood than deal with the economic terrorism of the Obama Administration.
