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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 2:02:57 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224769

Obama had 18 months to fix the the "cheney" policies, instead he did nothing. Thus making the cheney policies the "Obama" policies. In fact, were they really cheney/bush policies or were they Clinton policies that were carried over into the Bush administration? One and a half years and Obama did nothing to fix these flawed policies. Obama was finally right about something, he is responsible for the mess in the gulf.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 5:16:30 AM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

Kenneth, the whole ass kicking was silly and you are being silly too. Drop it.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 6:44:10 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224769

In her prepared testimony, Ms. Kendall cites a series of reports over the years by her office that document how MMS employees have at times accepted gifts from, socialized with, and even had sexual relations with oil and gas industry representatives.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 6:59:29 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224769

The Coast Guard and BP each had written plans for responding to a massive Gulf oil spill. Both now say their plans failed to anticipate a disaster threatening so much coastline at once. The federal government, which under the law is in charge of fighting large spills, had to make things up as it went along.Federal officials changed their minds on key moves, sometimes more than once. Chemical dispersants to break up the oil were approved, then judged too toxic, then re-approved. The administration criticized, debated and then partially approved a proposal by Louisiana politicians to build up eroded barrier islands to keep the oil at bay. "We have to learn to be more flexible, more adaptable and agile," says Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's response leader, in an interview. Because two decades have passed since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, he says, "you have an absence of battle-hardened veterans" in the government with experience fighting a massive spill. "There's a learning curve involved in that." how idiot odumba handles the spill ????

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 7:07:44 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224769

idiotOdumbama first heard of the problem the night of April 20, when a senior National Security Council aide pulled him aside to tell him a drilling rig 50 miles off the Louisiana coast had exploded. It would be "potentially a big problem," the aide said. Adm. Allen, then the Coast Guard's commandant, was dispatched to the scene; he later said he knew right away the spill would be serious. The next day, Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Hayes flew to Louisiana to set up a command center, leaving Washington in such haste that he had to buy a change of underwear at a Louisiana K-Mart. On April 22, the day the rig sank, idiotOdumbama convened his first Oval Office meeting on the disaster, with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and others. As far as they knew, no oil was leaking. Two days later, the White House received word that oil was escaping into the Gulf. White House science adviser John Holdren, an environmental scientist, pulled aside two top security officials, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan and National Security Council chief of staff Denis McDonough. He pressed them on what secret technology the government had—a submarine, for example—that could help, Mr. McDonough recalls. The answer was none.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 7:11:22 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224769

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was worried about another threat: the use of dispersants, chemicals designed to break oil into particles that can be digested by bacteria. BP was using unprecedented amounts—about 1.3 million gallons so far, according to federal officials. According to EPA data, one dispersant, Corexit 9500, is especially toxic to the shrimp and fish used in tests. But it was available in large quantities, so that's what BP was using. On May 10, with the boom and berm plans foundering, Ms. Jackson met about 25 Louisiana State University scientists to discuss the spill. Most of the scientists urged her not to let BP spray dispersants directly at the leaking well without more research, recalls Robert Carney, one of the LSU professors. Ms. Jackson responded that the EPA was "under extreme pressure from BP" to approve the move, Mr. Carney recalls. An EPA official confirmed Ms. Jackson met with the LSU scientists. Five days later, the EPA said it would let BP spray the dispersant on the wellhead. In mid-May, large globs of oil started washing ashore. idiot odumba sucks oil spill with straw ????

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 7:47:21 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

kenny...do you approve of all the dangerous radical commies that hussein obama surrounds himself with? How did these filth ever ever get political power over sane and good American citizens? scary, how long will it take to purge these crazies from any power over the " small people " hussein really cares about? Senate Republican Accuses Kagan of Staying Silent on Saudi Gift to Harvard Published June 16, 2010 \| FOXNews.com foxnews.com A Senate Republican is accusing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan -- who protested the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy as an influential dean at Harvard -- of remaining silent about the university receiving $20 million from a Middle East country that sanctions the oppression of gays. The accusation comes as the both sides in Senate gear up for the start of confirmation hearings for Kagan, as Republicans opposed to her confirmation seize on "anti-military" fodder. On Wednesday, during a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, noted Harvard University accepted a $20 million gift from Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz in 2005 that was used to establish a center for Islamic Studies in his honor. Sessions cited an Obama State Department report that noted that homosexual acts are a crime in Saudi Arabia under Sharia law and punishable by death or flogging. At around the same time the university was accepting the gift, Kagan, as dean of the Harvard Law School, was actively seeking to exclude military recruiters from the campus for banning gays from serving openly in the military. "Ms. Kagan was perfectly willing to obstruct the U.S. military – which has liberated countless Muslims from the hate and tyranny of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban," Sessions said. "But it seems she sat on the sidelines as Harvard created an Islamic Studies Center funded by – and dedicated to – foreign leaders presiding over a legal system that violates what would appear to be her position." In a widely circulated 2003 memo, Kagan called the military's ban on gays "a moral injustice of the first order," as she explained to students and faculty why military recruiters were allowed on campus again after almost 25 years of being banned from the law school's main recruitment office. She said that under a federal law known as the Solomon Amendment, the university risked jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding unless the school helped recruiters. The law allows the government to deny federal grants to schools that prohibit military recruitment on campus. The following year, after a federal appeals court struck down the law as unconstitutional, Kagan re-imposed a ban on recruiters – a move that was criticized by Republicans during her confirmation hearing last year for her current post as U.S. solicitor general. Military recruiters were still allowed to recruit students on campus through the Harvard Law School Veterans Association, a student group. But within months, she lifted the ban when the Supreme Court overturned the appeals court. "She fought the ability of our own soldiers to access campus resources, but not those who spread the oppressive tenets of Islamic Sharia law," Sessions said. "Perhaps her response was guided by campus politics. But Ms. Kagan lacks experience as a judge, as a lawyer, and as a scholar. Much of her career has been spent actively engaged in liberal politics – not legal practice." A Justice Department spokeswoman did not return messages seeking comment on the accusations against Kagan. Harvard University did not respond to a request for comment. A Judiciary Committee aide told FoxNews.com that Kagan should have "at the very least, given the clear dictates of Sharia law, voiced public concern and at the most she could have pursued the same level of dramatic action that she wrongfully undertook in discriminating against the military.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 12:14:47 PM
From: JakeStraw	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224769

When's Obama going to get us out of Iraq as he promised and stop increasing troops in Afghanistan?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (86070)	6/17/2010 1:48:27 PM
From: mph	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

Obama's campaign was based on fixing all that. He was just too busy partying, jabbering, and appointing useless people to get it done. It is unseemly to campaign pretending you know how to fix everything, fail to do anything to address what you claim is broken, then fail to lead when a crisis occurs and not even know how to muster the resources open to the Executive branch to mitigate the damage, all the while blaming Bush. It's childish, stupid and insulting.