Snooty George Will apparently couldn't decide which side of his mouth to talk out of, so he chose both. Sorry George but if anything what's happened during this spill just proves that conservatives view of government which is to dismantle it and make sure it can't function, is a failure. This is your free market no regulation heaven George. Why don't you go down there and swim in it and let us all know how wonderful it is?
The people in government are not miracle workers George. They can only do so much to take care of things once businesses f**k up this badly. If you and your ilk would allow them to regulate businesses in the first place we wouldn't have to be listening to the "drill, baby, drill" crowd scream and kick and cry now about that big evil "gubment" not doing enough to help them now.
TAPPER: So, George, let's start with -- with oil, with the oil spill. Is President Obama being unfairly blamed or is this just part of the job?
WILL: He's being unfairly blamed, and it sort of serves him right. I'll tell you what I mean by that. June 3, 2008, the end of the Democratic primaries, he gives a speech in St. Paul and he said, "This is the moment at which people will say the rise of the oceans began to slow," in other words, a kind of grandiosity has been part of his and the modern presidency's narrative.
Progressive politics from Woodrow Wilson to Obama have said concentrate power in Washington, concentrate Washington power in the executive branch, concentrate within the executive branch lots of experts, and there's no telling what wonders government can do. This just strikes at the narrative of competence that all of this depends on.
parade. I saw it lying there and I thought it was george will and as I got close I could smell it. It smelled like george will but when I really got close I could see it was just a big hores turd!
they are hard to tell apart. The clue is will smells worse!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
Politics aside.....Obama needs to be doing more. If nothing else, fully approve sand berm construction on Louisiana shores. He could('ve) set those 2000 troops headed to Arizona, to Louisiana to build these berms 30 days ago.
Sitting on your hands and hoping the same criminals that screwed this up will somehow right the ship, is asine.
... there's a process for sending in the troops, and if you want the George W. Bush version, then Obama has the right to say 'emergency!' and send them in.
At least Obama is mature enough to acknowledge that he doesn't have the knowledge to lead on this issue, as opposed to idiots like Bush (or John 'Secret Plan' McCain).
Still, there have to be oceanographers and geologists that understand the issue and can advise us better than we have been served by BP.
(The word you're looking for is asinine, BTW.)
The capping of the well is something the government does not have the expertise in and it has to be done by an oil company. The cleanup on the other hand is not rocket science. At the very least onshore cleanup should have been taken over by the feds when it soon became obvious that BP had little interest in anything other than spin. Instead BP looked like it was giving orders to the Coast Guard, it brought in hundreds of temp workers to do "cleanup" the day Obama was there, and it's thugs boated in the shallows ordering out camera crews. Something could still be done by Obama, it may help a few beaches and at least show some public humiliation of BP.
Some thought that having BP in charge of cleanup was the best way to get them to actually pay for it. The alternative being government agencies in charge of cleanup and billing BP for it later. In any event, MUCH better oversight of the cleanup should be in place and there should be NO beaches/areas that are off limits to reporters.
The state of LA has 6,000 National Guard troops that have bee designated for oil spill help in the Gulf.
Bobby J. has chosed to send on 1,100. What are the 4,900 doing?
Also, Bobby has chosen to allot $3 m of the $25 m he has been give to aid in the clean up and in providing assistance to the residents.
Why?
Politics.
The state of LA has 6,000 National Guard troops that have bee designated for oil spill help in the Gulf.
Bobby J. has chosed to send on 1,100. What are the 4,900 doing?
Also, Bobby has chosen to allot $3 m of the $25 m he has been give to aid in the clean up and in providing assistance to the residents.
Why?
Politics.
Look it up.
All the other bullshit he blurts out belongs on Fox News(for the incorrigibly fucked up).
this response is way too late, but your characterization of Will is what one might expect from a hockey fan.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
What, did Mr. Will just forget Dick Cheney's obsession with the "Unitary Executive"?
If he wants to talk about "concentrating power in the executive branch" he'd better look back at the fiesta of
oil company deregulation that was the boosh (misspelled and uncapitalized on purpose)administration.
What a tool. He should become a full time baseball writer.
Lonesome George thinks so. Wilson would have fallen in love with the Arizona immigration laws.
that he can't even empathize when the President is unfairly criticized; he continues to pile on.
The guy probably beat his kids when they got an A- in school.
Fuck off, pissant.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
the free market cleans this mess up George.
And while we wait let's read a book called Bold Endeavors.
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Bold-Endeav...
Obviously, full blame goes to BP. Every bit of it. But there is a point here. When you prop yourself up to be the be all, end all smartest president the world has ever known, people are going to call you on it when you don't display some kind of grandious omnipotence.
... 'propping up' that you accuse him of.
And perhaps you want to consider this in contrast to George W. Bush, the Education President, the Responsibility President, the War President, the Not-the-War-President, the Decider Guy, the Commander Guy, and the guy for whom 'I don't think anyone knew ...' was the default answer from just about everyone in the administration.
For extra credit, you can tell us how much better off we'd all be with John 'Secret Plan' McCain and Sarah 'What Does The VP Do, Exactly?' Palin in charge.
I endorse Bush, McCain et all. I don't. Could really give a flying fart about the lot of them. I simply made a point that the man has come across as "The Answer Man" since the primaries. No use denying it. If you're going to hold yourself up to that image, you have to expect people to criticise you when you don't deliver.
You specifically claim he has positioned himself as such.
Where? When?
If you have no facts, then you're as bad as George Will.
Will is interpreting "the point at which the rise of the oceans began to slow" as something God-like, when Obama appears to have meant he wanted to slow global warming. Will would never say ANYTHING positive about Obama without undercutting it, as he did here.
anyone where bin Laden is hidding?
He said that he knew how to capture bin Laden but must still be keeping it a secret/
Given the national narcissistic personality disorder...
humility..and the office of the President.....
well...you know.
Because he would never be so corrupt as the Bush Administrations corrupt and pathetic response to the Gulf of Mexico disaster. But this article expresses this better than I can.
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
As an aside.....I'm off today (memorial day) and about to head to a boil, so trying to get more info on this, I decided to switch to FXNWS and see if they have a better perspective than the others.
I've been watching for a good 30 minutes and not even a peep about the GoM!
Israeli attack on floatilla (really just a presser for iDF)
In depth Stesak coverage - oh brother
A bit on summer jobs (ending with a quip about "folks are on unemployment and don't want a job during the summer....") Playing up the economy thing.
Memorial Day coverage (with a soundbyte quip, "if you don't honor your fallen heroes, you're not a country at all....") That I would assume is geared to play up the Obama not at Arlington story.
Is the GoM disaster that 'political'? No wonder most Americans don't care about Louisiana
... because talking about Louisiana brings up Katrina.
... because talking about energy brings up Dick Cheney's secret meetings to set policy, plus the involvement of Enron's Ken Lay, who presided over another fuckup where a deregulated entity shat all over the American public.
... because talking about oil brings up the Middle East, and what great buddies George W. Bush is with the House of Saud.
Ain't enough dispersant for that much shit.
as a do-nothing President or an absentee 'dreamer' president.
1. O went to a cleaned beach, not a dirty one, so everything looks like it's no big problem and he can say nothing significant about the situation. 2. Or he's on vacation while the biggest disaster in world oil history is clunking along far offshore, and essentially he doesn't have a clue how to fix it. 3. His ending an offshore drilling moratorium coincidentally meets BP incompetence with the Horizon disaster, so this along with many other smaller blockages, omissions, insinuations, even facts, suggest a general trend to place the irresponsibilities of Congress on Obama. Pretty clever...eh?
I guess you were talking about boosh? I don't get the prop yourself up the be the end all most smart. I never got that. That he is smarter than a republican goes without saying. But I have never heard this president brag and posture the was boosh did.
example of the mythology that a well-dressed, even-tempered man who speaks in measured tones with an air of elegance is somehow automatically a member of the intelligentsia rather than a scheming psychopath.
Again I say....huh?
you have difficulty understanding the statement, I suggest listening to the complete works of George Will.
It will certainly become crystal clear.
And who were the biggest centralizers of power?
nixon, ray gunn, boosh...
You can even list laws like the patriot act etc...
(At least Wilson and FDR had the excuse that they had a World War to fight).
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Accuse the other side of what your side is guilty of.
George: The Fuck starts with you. You are a petty and contemptable idiot---in other words a typical Neocon hack. And erudite idiots---are still idiots.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Hey George, if you are going to accuse the president of being grandiose, don't do so while in the same tuxedo you wore to a DC cocktail party the night before.
While cribbing from william f buckley's thesaurus.
As a former college student myself I know that trick, inflate weak ideas with excess verbiage.
It's called Argumentum Verbosium...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"Progressive politics from Woodrow Wilson to Obama have said concentrate power in Washington, concentrate Washington power in the executive branch, concentrate within the executive branch lots of experts, and there's no telling what wonders government can do. This just strikes at the narrative of competence that all of this depends on." - George Will
This is nothing more than a diversionary tactic by Will to draw attention away from the death of another facile and dumbheaded conservative Republican campaign talking point; "Drill, baby, drill/Drill here, drill now!"
Following hot on the heels of the horrific deaths of "Cutting taxes increases revenues, reduces the deficit and grows our economy!" and "Deregulation of the markets is the key to keeping America strong!", the recent death of this favorite conservative Republican position utterly de-balls whatever suggestion they've tried so hard to make over the decades that their approach to tapping into domestic fossil fuel sources is so much more bold, brave and patriotic that the one those "looney tree-hugging environmentalist whackos" take.
Nice try, George. But it wasn't the Obama administration, progressives or the Democratic Party that lost a favorite key campaign talking point from their arsonal last month.
No George, the "Imperial Presidency" was George W. Bush.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
"Progressive politics from Woodrow Wilson to Obama have said concentrate power in Washington, concentrate Washington power in the executive branch"
As opposed to how the conservatives do it, in both the executive branch as well as in the judicial branch/SCOTUS.
IOKIYAR eh, George?
"He deserves to be blamed even though it's not his fault?"
This goes perfectly with the typical conservatard talking point that Bush and Cheney can never be blamed.......BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR FAULT!
The only reason these morons can spew this B.S., is because 45% of the American people are blithering idiots, and will eat it up - along with any other s**t-sandwich their hero's from Fox and Clearchannel are selling.
"Bein' unploy'd en' unsur'd is patrtiatick!"
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I can't even begin to take this silly man seriously.
He's an elitist performing clown....
he's also usually completely full of shit.
non-office holders only.
Bill Kristol
Matthew Continetti
John Fund
Ann Coulter
Karl Rove
Chuckles Krauthammer
Lix Cheney
Glenn Beck
Sarah Palin
I can see them piling out of the clown car.
In repugland it's wrong to look to a more hopeful future. It's wrong to try and make the world better except for your own little world.
Classic right wing "logic" by George Will ."flave1" pretty much hit the nail on the head , ditto that .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Do even Republicans pay any attention to anything this irrelevant old fart says anymore? He gets more exposure on sites like this than he does conservative ones.
your bullshit. Why would the conservatives contradict or criticize him in any way?
One day they are talking out of their mouths; the next they're talking out of their asses.
Yesterday it was 'The government is too big; big government is the problem; government doesn't create jobs; the government can't solve all our problems.
Today it's 'This is Obama's Katrina'; 'the government isn't doing enough'; 'please help us Mr. Obama'?
You can't have it both ways, dumb asses. Which is it?
strong, wrong and incompetent.
So, Obama's to blame because the DISASTERS created by INCOMPETENT and IRRESPONSIBLE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP are on such a GRAND SCALE that it will UNAVOIDABLY take DECADES to UNDO and or CORRECT THEM!
What is it about Republican hack commentators and bowties? George Will looks like Tucker Carlson's crazy uncle, and they're equally stupid-looking with their preppie neckwear.
The last man that could get way wearing a bowtie and look good in it was Harry Truman. He looked damned natty in a bow and a light summer suit; must have been something he acquired in those days he and his partner Eddie Jacobs ran the haberdashery shop.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
Mycorestoration is a fact. Oyster mushrooms can convert the oil to cellulose. Mycorestoration is the process of using mushrooms to decrease pollution levels in a given area.
Oyster mycelium is ravenous! It will eat through wood, paper, coffee grounds, and even petroleum products. Why will it decompose all these materials?
These mushrooms are found on hardwoods. They secrete enzymes that break down the organic bonds in wood into smaller molecules. The carbon-hydrogen bonds in wood are similar to those found in oil and pesticides. Thus due to their love of wood, oysters are also efficient in breaking down the organic bonds in toxic chemicals.
Imagine oil spills and pollution today being decreased by mushrooms. This is the subject of numerous studies in polluted areas.
But will BP or any other petrol biz or scientists involved in the cleanup after disasters like this one even THINK to allow the mighty oyster mushrooms to be tried???
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