Comments on: CATASTROPHE IN THE GULF

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:47 +0000

Daily Dish Commenter says “Amen” to Sullivan:“Bless their hearts, many of my closest friends are hardcore lefties (and — dare I say it? — former humanities majors, *sigh*), and I love them with all my heart, but omg, they are getting on my last nerve. I'm an old yellow dog Democrat, like my daddy and his daddy before him, and God knows I don't like watching the Gulf of Mexico fill up with crude oil any more than they do, but they need to (a) grow up and stop living out of the emotional, lizard part of their brain all of the time, and (b) stop w HuffPo 24/7. They all huff and puff about Fox News, but nobody seems to get that MSNBC and HuffPo make their money by scaring people and stirring them up every bit as much. For God's sake, get a hobby! Go for a walk! If they're so upset about animals, go volunteer to work at their local wildlife rescue!”HAH. I say "AMEN" and pass the biscuits_lol. As a Conservative Democrat, I had no choice but to become a registered Independent because the Dems seem to wallow in a chronic state of MELODRAMA and MISERY. Quite frankly, most of them seem to love CRYING and WHINING so much they wouldn’t recognize “Sh*t Getting Done” IF it rose up and slapped them in the face! I’ll take the President, Pelosi, H. Clinton and 2 or 3 other smart and competent Dems over the rest of the Party and “friends” (HuffPost, MSNBC, Dailykos) ANY. DAY.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:19:39 +0000

Follow-Up: Thurs. 6/17/10Andrew Sullivan (Daily Dish) take on Obama's competence in the face of the media and partisan critics on both sides. Excerpt: “Getting Sh*t Done”What are the odds that Obama's huge success in getting BP to pledge a cool $20 billion to recompense the "small people" in the Gulf will get the same attention as his allegedly dismal speech on Tuesday night? If you take Memeorandum as an indicator, it really is no contest. The speech is still being dissected by language experts, but the $20 billion that is the front page news in the NYT today? Barely anywhere on the blogs. This is just a glimpse into the distortion inherent in our current political and media culture. It's way easier to comment on a speech – his hands were moving too much! – than to note the truly substantive victory, apparently personally nailed down by Obama, in the White House yesterday. If leftwing populism in America were anything like as potent as right-wing populism – Matt Bai has a superb analysis of this in the NYT today – there would be cheering in the streets. But there's nada, but more leftist utopianism and outrage on MSNBC. And since there's no end to this spill without relief wells, this is about as much as Obama can do, short of monitoring clean-up efforts, or rather ongoing management of the ecological nightmare of an unstopped and unstoppable wound in the ocean floor.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:00:29 +0000

The fact that men and women have lost their lives as a result of what appears to me to be BP's depraved indifference in the name of chasing $$$ (see documents now emerging showing BP shortcuts and expressed concerns about this rig long BEFORE the disaster) leads me to the conclusion that some people should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law and sent straight to JAIL if found guilty. BP should also be slapped with a HUGE fine and have NO LIMIT on its monetary liabilities. After a very poor initial response it's important for the Obama administration to send a strong message! Speaking of the President: I'm NOT at all pleased with his initial approach on handling this monsterous man-made calamity. In the world of politics_and the lives of REAL people directly affected and all over this nation_perception IS reality. "Effective leadership" ain't just a phrase. Sometimes the Prez. is too "cool" for his own good and this time he may end up paying a bit of a political price for it.