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Obama to Name Oil Recovery 'Czar' in First Oval Office Address
AFP via Canada.com ^ | Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Posted on 06/15/2010 6:26:29 AM PDT by kristinn

President Barack Obama, in his televised speech to the nation Tuesday, will announce the creation of an oil recovery “czar” to oversee progress in siphoning crude from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, his chief spokesman said.

Speaking on ABC television’s “Good Morning America” program, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the position is envisioned as “somebody that will be in charge of a recovery plan, putting a recovery plan together...when we get past the cleanup and response phase of this disaster.”

(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoczars; bhofascism; bp; communism; czars; democrats; energy; obama; oilspill; ovaloffice; tyranny
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To: kristinn

A czar is all well and good, but he also needs to appoint a Blue Ribbon Commission, because y’know, those are the BEST kind.


61 posted on 06/15/2010 7:07:55 AM PDT by PackerBronco
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To: a fool in paradise; null and void; MestaMachine; Armaggedon; sheik yerbouty
I think this is why Zero is a perfect fit for community "organizer". Is there all that much to organizing the rabble? Did anyone need to organize the Katrina looters? These thugs and opportunists were all of the same mind, to steal and strip bare what was left unattended/undefended.

Apollyon/Abaddon = destroyer, who is the king over the locusts [that don't actually need a king].

Revelation 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

12 abussos {ab'-us-sos}
from 1 (as a negative particle) and a variation of 1037; TDNT - 1:9,2; n f
AV - bottomless pit 5, deep 2, bottomless 2; 9 1) bottomless
2) unbounded
3) the abyss
3a) the pit
3b) the immeasurable depth
3c) of Orcus, a very deep gulf or chasm in the lowest parts of the earth used as the common receptacle of the dead and especially as the abode of demons

62 posted on 06/15/2010 7:10:12 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Shannon
If he'd name Lt. General Honoré of Katrina fame, I'd pay attention. Remember his nickname, the Ragin’ Cajun. That man could get the job done. Anyone else.....forget about it.

YES!

Recently, Gen. Honore said he would gladly serve, but he hasn't been asked.

sw

63 posted on 06/15/2010 7:11:00 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife )(Save the Brown Pelican)
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To: rockvillem
FReeper Quiz on Current Events.

Which is LEAST likely (pick one):
=======================

1. Pres_ _ent Obama will continue his pattern of uncontrolled corruption, bribery, and unconstitutional actions.
2. Pres_ _ent Obama will order nuclear weapons to be used against Israel.
3.Obama BF Ayers and financer Evans are behind the proterrorist, antiIsrael Gaza flotilla.
4. Pres_ _ent Obama will willingly release his birth certificate, like every other American citizen.
5. Pres_ _ent Obama was the biggest recipient of BP cash
6. British Petroleum (BP) pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
7. Pres_ _ent Obama's White House chief is tied to a BP adviser
8. Pres_ _ent Obama's White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is connected to BP
9. Pres_ _ent Obama shrewdly made money in the dispersements.
10. The dispersants contain PCB made by NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia.
11. BP's Fallen Deepwater Horizon was tapping second largest oil deposit in the world
12. Pres_ _ent Obama exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
13. Pres_ _ent Obama did this despite BP's long record of legal, ethical violations
14. Pres_ _ent Obama's Federal Regulator Repeatedly Failed to Inspect Deepwater Horizon
15. Pres_ _ent Obama exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study
16. Pres_ _ent Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement
17. Pres_ _ent Obama continued this despite that "Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig
18. Pres_ _ent Obama allowed drilling 'without required permits' (also Drilling Without Needed Permits)
19. BP Ordered Shortcut On Day Of Blast"
20. Internal Documents Showed Early Worries About Safety of Rig
21. There was a Heated Argument on Rig Hours Before Blast
Workers on doomed BP oil rig said Corners were cut to save money
22.Pres_ _ent Obama and BP Limited Media Access to Oil Spill
23. Pres_ _ent Obama had BP bus in 400 people only for a photo op for his visit
24. Pres_ _ent Obama ignored MILES OF OIL CONTAINMENT BOOM in Warehouse- Just Sitting
25. Pres_ _ent Obama couldn't determine if MMS head Elizabeth Birnbaum was fired or resigned
26. Pres_ _ent Obama will willingly release his birth certificate, like every other American citizen.


64 posted on 06/15/2010 7:11:53 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: spectre

Of course he hasn’t been asked. Someone doesn’t want the job done. Period. After this amount of time there’s simply no other explanation.


65 posted on 06/15/2010 7:14:46 AM PDT by Shannon
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To: Shannon

I can just imagine a big meeting of potential czars at the white house. “O” says he needs an oil clean up czar. The fingers go up to the nose in a milisecond. There is one guy who was up getting coffee who did not have time to drop his cup.

Nose goes...

Voila. Your new Clean up czar. The guy who wasnt smart enough to get out of it.


66 posted on 06/15/2010 7:20:11 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I lived in VT for four years. That was enough.)
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To: kristinn

You know, when I read the headline, I was really, really hoping this was another one of John Semmens satire pieces.

*Sigh* does Obama know how to do ANYTHING but create czars?


67 posted on 06/15/2010 7:21:52 AM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! SERPENTINE!)
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To: macquire

Don’t mean to quibble, but I believe the salary is now $400,000.00.


68 posted on 06/15/2010 7:23:46 AM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: kristinn

It has been clear for many years that Dems have only one measuring rod when it comes to response to anything, be it 9/11, Katrina, Murrah bombing, Elian Gonzales, the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran, Israel, whatever. It is not what is moral, not what is legal or constitutional, not what is effective, not what is good for the nation. The sole measuring rod for Dems is what is good for the party. And Obama and his people have decided that damaged environment caused by oil is good for their party and its environment agenda. Now, after nearly two months, they want to appear to be trying to repair the damage caused by evil oil. Never mind they could have mitigated the damage long before now.

It’s like a failing business owner stalling on calling the fire department when the factory is burning. The question becomes whether the owner is better off with a saved factory or one burned to the ground.


69 posted on 06/15/2010 7:24:30 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: kristinn


Obama to Name Oil Recovery ‘Czar’ in First Oval Office Address

Thank G-d Obama’s job-creation program is moving ahead.
(/SARC)

Why does he need an oil recovery czar when he has a Nobel Prize-winning
physicist already on staff (Chu?).
Obama was boasting about the guy when he (Obama) finally started to
pay attention to the Gulf oil mess.


70 posted on 06/15/2010 7:26:55 AM PDT by VOA
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To: musicman

Oh thank you for that.

I’d also like to see the same shot for the overuse of the word “vow”.

The most overrused word in print used be ‘thwart’ but that changed the last few months....


71 posted on 06/15/2010 7:27:21 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: ClearCase_guy


“I take full responsibility. Let me be clear — if anything goes wrong,
we’re gonna blame the new guy.”

Or on the old guy (Dubya) as much as possible.


72 posted on 06/15/2010 7:29:49 AM PDT by VOA
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To: kristinn
Oil Cleanup Czar?

A job for "Slick" Willy.

73 posted on 06/15/2010 7:31:05 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: All

Whew, I was beginning (and hoping) he’d appoint another czar. Thank god, now the leak will be fixed **heavy sarc**


74 posted on 06/15/2010 7:32:10 AM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: kristinn

Would that Czar be named Hitler by any chance or perhaps Goebbels?


75 posted on 06/15/2010 7:32:53 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: kristinn


Obama to Name Oil Recovery ‘Czar’ in First Oval Office Address

If I understand correctly, by tradition the President does Oval Office
addresses during a time of crisis.

Funny, Obama won’t understand that when he does his first Oval Office
Address, that he won’t understand the real crisis is the Gulf oil tragedy...
but the real crisis is that he occupies The Oval Office.


76 posted on 06/15/2010 7:34:49 AM PDT by VOA
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To: kristinn; Chigirl 26; prairiebreeze; flaglady47; Eden Scout; oswegodeee
Well, I'll bet Helen Thomas isn't doing anything these days. Nothing says he can't appoint a czarina.

Seriously, it'll be primarily a money man as opposed to primarily an oil man. Someone who can raid the billions in the new escrow account Obama is determined to hang around BP's neck like a petroleum-soaked albatross.

The escrow will be an inexhaustable supply for pork and patronage.

So, I'll make a wild guess that it will be William Daley, Clintoon's Commerce Secretary and bro to Da Mare, Richard Daley the Second, of Chicago.

Big Bill Daley is adept in the Chicago ways of pork and patonage, and his oil experience comes from decades of Daley experience in greasing the ways for graft and extortion.

What do I win if I've guessed the oil czar correctly?

Leni

77 posted on 06/15/2010 7:43:14 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore" - 10/20/09 "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: Col Frank Slade
He has to have someone to blame and plausible deniability when the recovery funds get mangled in government red tape.

Yep, and mr "I've been in charge since day one" and "daddy, did you plug the hole yet?" will have another way to (all together now)

Blame Bush

78 posted on 06/15/2010 8:07:51 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: kristinn

Our Hero

He needs someone to crap on and divert attention away from himself from now on.


79 posted on 06/15/2010 8:13:34 AM PDT by headstamp 2 ("No Good Deed Goes Unpunished")
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To: kristinn
Paging Joe Isuzu. Joe Isuzu please pick up the white courtesy telephone...


80 posted on 06/15/2010 8:20:01 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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