Bobby "Volcano Of Government Spending" Jindal Frustrated By Pace Of Oil Cleanup

[hatrack]

As President Barack Obama made plans to get a firsthand look at the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and talk to responders today, a frustrated Gov. Bobby Jindal said he is tired of waiting for a master clean-up plan from British Petroleum and the Coast Guard on how to contain the huge spill, and that the state and parish governments will assemble their own.

"This threatens our way of life," Jindal told reporters during a Saturday afternoon news conference. "We will do whatever we can to protect our coastlines. . .our culture and our way of life."

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Jindal started his news conference by pointing out that Saturday is "day 12" since an explosion and fire rocked the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf leased by BP. The explosion killed 11 and is still spewing crude into Gulf of Mexico waters at the rate of at least 5,000 barrels a day. "We continue to be concerned about BP's response," and the Coast Guard's approval of any plan, Jindal said. Under federal law, BP is responsible for cleaning up and paying expenses of the oil spill.

Jindal said he will mention that slow response to President Obama when they meet on Sunday. State officials also announced that they've established their own Joint Information Center in the Baton Rouge headquarters of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

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http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/obama_to_view_gulf_of_mexico_o.html

[Myrina]

1. Fuck him. He can call his GOP "free market" private industry captains

... since he's such an advocate against 'big government' in the first place. Hypocrite.

[jaxx]

2. Doesn't he have any disaster plans of his own?

I thought he was elected to do it all right.

[old mark]

3. Bobb, this is capitalism - let the market take care of it, not big government...and

learn to eat oil.

mark

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Republicans hate government, think it shouldn't do anything.

That is, until they have a problem; then they think the government isn't doing enough.

[Bitwit1234]

5. So here we have Jindal complaining

about the cleanup. BUT when the bush administration ignored the mess of Katrina and did nothing to help for days and days after the hurricane he blamed the governor...and the mayor of New Orleans...isn't that a typical republican response. I suppose he is to blame because he hasn't gotten enough of his people out there to clean the mess up and make everything 100% pure by now.

[kestrel91316]

6. Jindal needs to STFU and let BP deal with this spill as it sees fit,

and when it damned well pleases. Since he doesn't want gubmint involved and spending those socialist dollars........