The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 that limits BP’s monetary damages to $75 million for losses to private parties was sponsored by, amongst current names that I recognize, Nancy Pelosi (D), Barbara Boxer (D), and Joe Kennedy (D). –Dick Cheney *wishes* he was so evil.
“And who was President at that time?” was a question I got on this observation and the answer is of course Bush Sr, though thats as relevant as who was on the Supreme Court at the time since the bill came from a Democrat controlled Congress, not the Presidents desk (passed 375-5). But it’s also irrelevant because im not actually calling anyone evil – im doing the opposite: illustrating the absurdity of the lengths people go to demonize politicians instead of actually investigating the details of a certain policy.
Instead of openly debating how it may or may not be fair to add a loss limit in a bill containing a ton of other regulations and rules on oil companies to prevent such accidents or acknowledging the fact that Halliburton is the only company that can do certain jobs, we’re given smears of how “eeeevil” Dick & Dubya are because everythings a vile scam in service to their oil baron puppet masters. If we’re to believe those smears then the Dems who signed this bill must be REALLY evil and Obama must reall REALLY be a monster for doing things like awarding Halliburton a no bid contract for half a BILLION dollars. That’s an odd thing to do for someone who campaigned on the promise of not awarding any no-bid contracts over $25,000. Quick – remind me again: is 500 million more than 25 thousand?
President Bush was attacked for playing golf by critics who manufactured as much phony outrage that they could muster. Things got difficult for them when Bush stopped playing golf in 2003 because he agreed that it wasn’t a good image to be seeing the President enjoying a leisure sport while troops were engaged in combat. Since that destroys the entire smear of Bush being a heartless elitist robot that plays all day and cools off with a bottle of his own Blood of American Patriots brand of Gatorade, his haters had to scramble to turn even THAT into a “Bush is evil” meme by claiming he “lied” about not playing golf since he did in fact pick up a club after 2003 *gasp*. Good work, critics! You totally exposed a “lie” that in no way is a desperate attempt to cling on to a phony meme you invented despite being based on nothing but personal hatred!
Except now you’ve made a problem for yourselves. By inventing the ridiculous smear that a President playing golf is a soulless act that spits in the face of Lady Liberty, you fuck yourselves when the guy you like comes in and does that 8 times worse (literally).
President Obama has already played more golf than Bush ever did. 8 times more. Where as Bush canceled golf games as a symbolic gesture, Obama canceled a trip to Poland for the funeral (attendance of which is a symbolic gesture) of the Prime Minister and then played golf instead.
But its all par for the course for Barry – which doesn’t make him “evil”, it makes him just as bad as any other politician who did similar unethical things. No problem there, UNLESS you call those other politicians evil corrupt manipulators and give a free pass to Obama because you like him better. That’s the definition of a hypocrite.
So here’s an idea: how bout we save the ‘that guy is evil’ stuff for real evil instead of just saying ‘its evil when THAT guy does it, but not MY guy’?”.
Sean Hannity just played a clip from Obama’s speech where he talked about Bush and came back with the awesome come back of “will the Bush bashing ever stop!?”. ooooo! zing! LOL Sean! Good one! that is such an annihilating smackdown that it in no way illustrates what an untalented hack you are! who cares if Obama’s list of Bush foibles was accurate – YOU SURE TOLD HIM! lulz. Hannitee 4 Prezident LOL lulz roflma fml.
This part of the speech is what Hannity was referring to:
The worst part is that he could have actually made a point there if he weren’t such a knee-jerk Republican shill that thought non-hilarious one-liners like that were acceptable retorts to the opposition in power.
He could have, for instance, maybe brought up the fact that Obama is going to triple the national deficit this year and even the Whitehouse’s own estimates show they plan to put Bush’s spending to shame.
And it doesn’t stop there, Woody. This Buzz Lightyear is going to Infinity and Beyond:
Karl Rove gave an ACTUAL response to the Bush stuff (is it too late to give him Hannitys job?):
transcript from Karl Rove’s segment with Greta Van Susteren:
“I can find no administration in which there is such a frequent recourse to blame the previous administration…
They want to blame the Bush Administration for the debt. I happened to be last week in a debate with David Plouffe in which he blamed the Bush Administration for the deficit this year. And I said, “Wait a minute, what about your spending bill? It was your bill, President Obama’s $787 billion Stimulus Bill. What about the $33 billion SCHIP bill that he signed? What about the $410 billion Omnibus Bill?” In reflection didn’t Senator Obama support the rescue package the recovery package last fall, the $750 billion to help rescue the banks? $350 billion dollars of that was spent by the time he got into office. If he didn’t like that spending he could have said, “You know were not going to spend another dime of that $350 billion,” and yet he did…
I think this is wearing thin. This is causing the American people to say, “Wait a minute. This is all your spending. Why do you keep blaming the guy who came before you?”
I hate that this video is from Sean Hannity and apologize in advance for posting a clip from the 2nd biggest hack in cable news approvingly, but i didnt see these collections of points made in video anywhere else (only blogs and print) and its a decent point, unfortunately.
Gotta love that president we have. He’s got an awesome talent to get grades, degrees, book deals, law review editorships, presidencies, and now Nobel Prizes based on doing nothing.
Mainstream media sources didn’t quite understand why the award was made to the big O, and even Obama himself was like “wtf. lol. seriously?”
People outside the White House and in President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago say the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama may have come too soon. They are waiting for more concrete results.
Obama dealt with the fact that Chicago is a crime ridden ghetto shithole with a deft and brilliant strategy: Shhhhhhhhhh.
Back in Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago, Illinois, some members of the black community are incensed at the president for not personally speaking out about the murder of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old boy who was beaten to death last week in a predominantly African-American neighborhood.
What really set them off was that Obama, in an awkward case of bad timing, instead flew to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago to the International Olympics Committee as the ideal city to host the games in 2016. And as it turned out, it didn’t put Chicago over the top. The city didn’t even make it to the final round in Friday’s voting.
What exactly made anyone think that our nations top 3 competitor for “most violent and crime ridden city” would be an awesome choice worthy of hosting the Olympics? Of course, Rio has a huge drug and crime problem, but that’s on the Olympic committee. I’m pointing my “wtf, really?” finger back at America and American’s who thought a non-Chicago Olympics was a bad thing.
Judging from what’s being said on talk radio, Web sites and blogs frequented by residents of Chicago, the fact that Obama put the Olympics ahead of responding to the breakdown of the social order in Chi-Town is a slap in the face.
Just yesterday, a self-identified African-American called into “The Rush Limbaugh Show” and complained about how Obama flew off to “a foreign country” while black kids in Chicago are being consumed by violence. The caller wondered when other African-Americans were going to realize that Obama wasn’t like them, because he’s an elitist living an extraordinary life and breathing rarified air.
That sentiment was all over black-oriented blogs. One blogger wrote: “More children died violent deaths in Chicago this year than in any other city in America. But all Obama cares about is bringing the Olympics to a city where basic services like water, sanitation and power often don’t work. … If Chicago does win the bid there will be plenty of police and National Guard on hand to protect the international visitors. That’s more than they are willing to do for their own residents.”
And then there’s the question of whether 2012 deserves your movie-going patronage or not. Some critics, basing only on the trailer, saying not:
It looked, however, as if the CGI experts have been given a completely free hand designing this apocalypse – with the net result that the trailer bordered on laughable.
Then the second trailer hit, which starts with a peaceful domestic scene between Cusack and Peet and ends up showing us more of that dramatic plane ride through a city which plunges into the depths of Hell as they fly by
Critics in the U.S. are already beginning to describe the movie as a disaster in itself.
The OTT effects and over-dramatic story has come in for some criticism even before the film hits the big screen.
If the trailer is anything to go by, we’re likely to see every kind of disaster imaginable, all crammed into one big turkey of a film created by a director reknowned for his overboard use of effects.
One critic says of the trailer: ‘The 2012 The Worst is Over Movie Clip that recently found its way online is full of the absurd action and grand special effects audiences have come to expect from a Roland Emmerich film.
”At the beginning of the clip we are given a glimpse of the Curtis’ family dynamic present in 2012. As the clip continues, the delivered action is so over-the-top it almost looks like an cartoon.’
Dude, whats with people lately? It’s like, they’re all actin like my boy Obama is doing something wrong by not accomplishing anything in his first 10 months as President. Whats with that? Leave Barack alone!
More importantly though is the question of why is the actor in this skit not even attempting to mimic his target? Would that be racist? It’s one thing to do it badly, but the dude isn’t even trying to sound like Obama. whats the deal with that?
Is the honeymoon really over? Pssh. I’d say “nigga pleez” but that’d be funny racist. So how dare you.
I hate to lol at peoples failures, but… LOL… The president, the first lady and even Oprah showed up to make the pitch for Chicago to be selected as host for the Olympics; it was whispered that Obama knew he had it in the bag and that was the reason he made the special trip to advocate for his home city; the much needed victory was on its way to be delivered to the administration; Chicago was to get some pay-back for giving the world the YesWeCan president… and it ended up being the very first city eliminated.
Clearly this means that the Olympics are total raaaacists, right?
Barack Obama pushed his healthcare bill on 5 sunday talk shows yesterday.. Five. That’s every single one, right?
1. CBS
2. NBC
3. ABC
4. CNN
5… Gotta be FOX, right?… wrong.. #5 was Univision. wtf?
ABC News asked White House spokesman Josh Earnest about this and he answered “We figured Fox would rather show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ than broadcast an honest discussion about health insurance reform.” In other words: Revenge.
That’s a reference to the program the Fox network aired at 8 p.m. on Sept. 9, when other major broadcast networks were airing the president’s speech to the joint session of Congress.
MSNBC’s Morning Joe panel asked wtf was with this “only avoid the highest rated channel” strategy…
“And who was President at that time?” was a question I got on this observation and the answer is of course Bush Sr, though thats as relevant as who was on the Supreme Court at the time since the bill came from a Democrat controlled Congress, not the Presidents desk (passed 375-5). But it’s also irrelevant because im not actually calling anyone evil – im doing the opposite: illustrating the absurdity of the lengths people go to demonize politicians instead of actually investigating the details of a certain policy.
