Posted on 06/06/2010 12:53:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Huffington on ABC’s This Week: ‘Absolutely a Thousand Percent Bush-Cheney's Fault’ By Brent Baker Created 06/06/2010 - 14:13
“Sooner or later, we’ll blame this on George W. Bush,” George Will presciently predicted on Sunday’s Week during the roundtable’s look as how President Barack Obama is handling the gulf oil leak. Seconds later, the Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington didn’t let Will down, declaring “the truth is, that right now we have precisely the regulatory system that the Bush-Cheney administration wanted. Full of loopholes, full of cronies and lobbyists filling the very agencies they're supposed to be overseeing the industry.” Then this exchange:
GEORGE WILL: So, it's Bush's fault? Just clear this up.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: It is absolutely a thousand percent Bush-Cheney's fault.
Huffington proceeded to hit the Obama administration for not having “really done enough fast enough to change” Bush’s policies so “we are seeing the complete success of the kind of regulatory system that Bush-Cheney wanted.” Prompting Liz Cheney to marvel, “I don't know what planet you live on,” Huffington also charged that “right here we have the poster child of Bush-Cheney crony capitalism, Halliburton, involved in this.”
From the Sunday, June 6 This Week on ABC:
GEORGE WILL: First, Arianna, this is what the President has said: “The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort. Make no mistake, BP is operating at our direction.”
Now, with regard to whether or not we should regulate, this is a regulated industry. The Minerals Management Service evidently didn't do a good job. Now, sooner or later, we’ll blame this on George W. Bush. But, right now, it is a regulatory industry, of the Obama administration, that seems to have failed at a moment when the federal government has taken over one-sixth of the economy on health care. It is saying we have a thousand page bill because we just know how to turn down the thermostat on the planet. Lord knows what else they're doing to rationalize American society at a moment when the country is saying maybe the regulatory state isn’t all that it's cracked up to be.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: George, the truth is, that right now we have precisely the regulatory system that the Bush-Cheney administration wanted. Full of loopholes, full of cronies and lobbyists filling the very agencies they're supposed to be overseeing the industry.
WILL: So, it's Bush's fault? Just clear this up.
HUFFINGTON: It is absolutely a thousand percent Bush-Cheney's fault, plus the fact that the Obama administration has not really done enough fast enough to change what’s happening at the MMS agency and all sorts of other administrations. Not just when it comes to energy problems, when it comes to Wall Street, all over we are seeing the complete success of the kind of regulatory system that Bush-Cheney wanted and we're seeing this as the inevitable result of what that they wanted.
LIZ CHENEY: It's truly amazing. I actually heard that George Bush was responsible for the breakup of Tipper and Al Gore's marriage, too. I mean, it's incredible the extent to which people are now trying to shift blame....You got to look at the facts. The left is going to try, you guys have been for years have been demonizing Bush and Cheney and I'm sure you will continue to demonize them for years going forward. But we have got now, a catastrophe on the gulf coast, a catastrophe that happened on this administration's watch, which this administration is failing to clean up and responsive and lead, frankly. And it is a problem we are seeing with this President across the board. A President with no leadership experience.
HUFFINGTON: Liz, right here we have the poster child of Bush-Cheney crony capitalism, Halliburton, involved in this. And we haven’t said about that. They, after all, were response for cementing the well. Here’s Halliburton, after they defrauded the American taxpayer, out of millions of dollars-
CHENEY: Arianna, I don't know what planet you live on, it's not facts. Arianna, what you're saying has no relationship to the truth. No relationship to the facts.
HUFFINGTON: Halliburton was involved in involved in this. How can you say there’s no relationship?
JAKE TAPPER: Halliburton was cementing the pipe.
CHENEY: Her assertion that Halliburton defrauded the U.S. government-
HUFFINGTON: It did, it did.
CHENEY: -that there was Bush-Cheney cronyism These are the left’s talking points. Ariannam it's absolutely not true. It is absolutely not true.
He was just kidding. He had his fingers crossed behind his back when he said it. /s
nvestors were advised to buy BP stock, and a major symposium was held involving several key players in the Obama Administration, which focused on modern technological advances in developing ‘clean water.’ NALCO is the major source for such ‘technological advances.
How did buying BP stock work out for them?
I think they're making a lot more money than they lost on BP>
How much did they invest in BP? Was BP a willing victim?
I know for that BP funneled millions and millions to these people and the Democrat Party.
And the investors we're talking about here know how to manipulate the market.
And they're in charge of making and enforcing the rules.
So in the long run, any BP stock losses are a blip on their radar screens, and the stock will eventually come back around.
By Huffington’s logic- the Islamic terrorism on 9/11 was a thousand percent Clinton-Gore’s fault, absolutely.
The story is so not played out. They may file criminal charges against them. No matter what happens BP is hurt for years to come.
The left can’t have it both ways, if this is Bush’s fault, 9/11 was Clintons
So a few billionaires might lose a few millions in the long run.
But their agenda is moved forward. No more drilling - Big Oil is the villain - The federal government needs to control (seize) the oil companies - Leading to one big happy, socialist world.
Oh yeah, and they make BILLIONS and BILLIONS, while gaining more control over you and me and everyone else.
Ariana Huffington could turn any man gay. Oh, wait...
I agree that there is probably not much more that Obama and/or the Federal Government can do to stop the leak that is not already being done. Containing the leak was and is another matter entirely. The initial response to the leak was painfully slow and woefully inadequate. We should have been burning that oil from almost day one but relied instead on dispersants. They proved not only ineffective, but also hampered any efforts to burn or skim oil on the surface. Admiral Allen gets lots of praise in the media for being a standup, take charge guy. It seems to me, however, he was inexcusably slow to react to the initial leak, and painfully wrong in his assesment of how to attack the problem. Containment booms and burning should have been his first response but weren’t. He is Obama’s personal representative on the scene, and they both bear responsibility for the containment failures to date. As for the Federal cleanup efforts, all I can say is what efforts? It appears that Bobby Jindal is the only one who is even trying to do anything, and oh yeah, where are the dredges and booms he asked for three weeks ago? This has been an epic failure on the part of the Federal government from the very first day and that means it has been an epic Obama failure. If this were Japan he would already have rightfully resigned or killed himself
“..the regulatory system that the Bush-Cheney administration wanted. Full of loopholes, full of cronies and lobbyists filling the very agencies they’re supposed to be overseeing the industry”
tell any lefty who spouts this to NAME the NAMES.
The only names booted so far have been obama appointees.
didn’t Arianna make her money from her former/now gay husband whose family owned and oil company?
Actually, he was on the panel, but was unusually quiet. It was hard to get a word in edgewise with Arianna and Liz going back and forth.
So they had DAily Kooks and Huffandpuffington yet nobody from the Conservative websites. Fair and Balanced.
Pray for America
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