Mr. President, You're Stuck on Stupid

It is true that liberalism is cruel, corrupt, wasteful, and unjust. But one should never forget its delusion. The delusion is a simple one. It is a belief that government can be made rational and efficient. This delusion leads our liberal friends into disaster after disaster.

Liberals were shocked that President Bush failed to get everyone tucked up in bed in a couple of days after Hurricane Katrina. They knew that a rational and efficient government, run by people like them who believed in government, could do better.

Unfortunately, conservatives aren't helping. In pointing out the serious lapses in the president's leadership qualities, we conservatives are missing the point. We are encouraging liberals in their delusion. Instead, we should remind everyone that of course a bunch of corporate bureaucrats, combined with a bunch of government bureaucrats, are going to be a bit off the mark.

A bit of presidential leadership might have made a difference, we could have said, but not much. The president brings the talents and experience of twenty years in left-wing organizing to the presidency. In that school, the attitude, the gesture, is all-important. So obviously he's not going to be much help in a crisis.

But leader or no leader, it takes time to plug a hole -- especially a hole under five thousand feet of water.

The big problem for the president is that the Gulf oil spill is his fourth major presidential mistake. The first big mistake was the $787-billion stimulus package. The second was the appeasement of thug dictators, Islamist and leftist. The third mistake was ObamaCare. The fourth is the Gulf.

I don't expect 0 to stop the leak himself. That's a job for professionals.
He *could* have mobilized resources to contain the spill and prevent it from reaching the shore.
He *could* have called PB and asked "What do you need?".
Even if BP pays for it all, he could have arranged for oil booms, tanker ships, dispersants, whatever it takes, to be available.
He did not have to figure it out for himself, he could have called the other oil companies and his precious EPA with two simple questions: "What will we need?" and "What do you have?".
He could have signed an executive order to cut through red tape.
His job is to organize, he claims to be a "Community Organizer" after all. But he didn't.
Instead, he let the problem grow bigger and bigger to make it into a political excuse to stop oil exploration.
His real title should have been "Community Agitator".

I DISAGREE wholeheartedly with Mr. Chantrill.

Within THREE DAYS of the oil leak happening, the DUTCH government, with all of their expertise in land and water management, OFFERED to send many ships loaded with tech to help draw up the oil off the water and with tech in building sand braces to protect the marshes and shorelines.

FIFTEEN OTHER NATIONS OFFERED HELP.

The uhbama stooges REFUSED the help with letters sent to the embassies.

Later we learned that UNION PRESSURE caused this refusal to go into immediate action.

WHY? WHY????????

The UNIONS were not prepared to put their people to work helping....they have no expertise in this area!!!!!!!

WHY DID OUR PRESIDENT REFUSE IMMEDIATE HELP??????????

On last night's TV show, Glenn Beck described offers of international aid, one coming immediately the accident occurred offering ships and equipment, numerous others since -- forgive me, poor memory, I cannot recall the specific nations or the offers this morning, I hope someone else can lay them out. But 0bama and his people, to every call, offer, the response has been "Thanks, but no thanks". Glenn asks a correct why? Why did they not accept help that is so obviously needed, necessary??

Until yesterday, I had no idea any other country had even offered the assist! I had this thought occur to me after that devastating earthquake hit Haiti, all the calls for international aid, the celebs with the telethons, commercials during the Super Bowl to "Text this to donate $10", tasking former presidents to put the hand out, etc. It always happens when the disaster hits another country, but I don't ever seem to see the rest of the world mobilizing, fund-raising or the like when it happens here. Is is just me, is it that I don't watch a great deal of international channels in order to see the same kinds of commercial ads running through their programs? Or is it that the rest of the world sees America as this oh-so-rich, self-sufficient country, we have everything we need and thensome, so when disaster strikes, "Meh, they can take care of it themselves" ?? I am just so happy to know that this time, at least, the world understands that we aren't the be-all and end-all and some human compassion was sent our way.

Glenn made a point about the turn-down of the aid might have something to do with the Jones Act (do I cite that correctly?), the legislation that requires commerce in American waters be done with American-built ships, American labor ... others would know the proper way to put this better, that these offers would require a waiver of it, one GW Bush signed after 9/11. But 0bama hasn't signed it, and Glenn says probably won't because he's beholden to the unions, they will claim it hurts their people, takes away jobs, yada yada. So we're in the crisis, the worst environmental disaster to hit our country, maybe the world ultimately, but we can't do all the necessary to stop it, correct the situation because of a handful of people who helped him gain the office need appeasing, and the thought that they would tell their members to vote another way come re-election time.

More than stupid, this borders on criminal, to my way of thinking. At the very least, it is obscene.

“Unfortunately, conservatives aren’t helping. In pointing out the serious lapses in the president’s leadership qualities, “

Nonsense. Taking revenge on the Kenyan and the for the vilification of W is a good thing. The more damage we inflict on the Kenyan, the better.

Expect no quarter, give no quarter.

sigh, we have so many weaklings on our side.

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He could have called the NEXT President and asked HER what to do....SHE has experience.