Republicans really have a lot of nerve...

[MrScorpio]

They ARE the traditional Big Oil party and are the force behind letting the oil companies get away with murder.



It's because of the GOP that US based oil rigs don't need to have those cut off valves that are the standard everywhere else in the world.



And after years of all this coddling, when the shit hit the fan, it's now all Obama's fault?

[democrank]

1. K & R

"......valves that are standard everywhere else in the world."

[EFerrari]

2. They keep topping themselves as brain dead zombies.

You'd think after the first 500 times they were wrong, they'd do a re-assessment.

But, no, reality doesn't phase them. Not even if it will wipe out their kids.

[Synicus Maximus]

3. I'm sorry but didn't Obama just sign an execitvie order to increase

offshore drilling? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6961465.html

[tabasco]

4. Nope.

"The plan that was announced is, in fact, more restrictive than what was already in place,"

http://petroleumtruthreport.blogspot.com/2010/04/nothing-new-in-obama-plan-for-offshore.html

[girl gone mad]

10. It was an expansion of offshore drilling.

Now you're just attempting to spin it into something that looks less ignorant and irresponsible than it was.

Good luck!

[tabasco]

13. Any response to the information I provided?

Or just more stupid comments? :shrug:

[girl gone mad]

15. Stupid spin deserves stupid comments, I guess.

[MrScorpio]

5. Done as a misguided ploy to placate Republicans

I really think that President Obama needs to stop doing that.

[tavalon]

12. Ya think?

Geez, I wish he would let his inner Leo out more.

[Bitwit1234]

6. The rep from LA WHO was on Ratigan said

Obama didn't act quickly enough. Correct me, when this first happened, the same day didn't Obama say that we would supply any thing they needed to contain the spill and help in the clean up.

what more is he supposed to have done? Fly over the oil slick in an airplane.

[NecklyTyler]

7. The Republicans will just spin this into an astro turfed ground swell for more nuclear power plants

[flyarm]

8. so do democrats..don't forget this and how many dems here unrec'ed those of us who live on the Gulf

who warned of this when Obama opened millions of miles of US coastlines to drilling! and these fucking rigs off our Florida Gulf and Atlantic coast lines!

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/04/29/obama-oil-rigs-today-generally-don’t-cause-spills/


And don't forget what Obama's promise was to Floridians when he was campaigning..a promise he broke!

We Floridians won't forget.........

[bridgit]

9. Like OMG - its fully Fast Time At Halliburton High

[tavalon]

11. As an aside,

in the first picture, McCain looks a lot like crasher squirrel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crasher_Squirrel

The chutzpa is just mind boggling, isn't it?

[MkapX]

14. the real reason

Of course what is the REAL reason why the republicans want to drill in the US. The answer is simple..cause it benefits their wealthy corporation friends at Exxon and Helliburton. Instead of looking for a cleaner solution to our fuel. So when the republicans get their way, these oil companies can charge 4 dollars a gallon

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. That's a really diverse group of young uns standing behind McCain

who knew the GOP was so diverse

[MrScorpio]

18. They were a family of child actors hired by Gingrich to play oil drilling activists

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7161766

Old story

[EFerrari]

17. But not enough nerve to light up both frontal lobes. n/t

[political_Dem]

19. K and R. People need to see these hypocrites as they are. n/t

[Lagomorph]

20. You realize that the government makes...

...more money on a barrel of oil than the oil companies, correct?

He needs to replace all those lost revenues that evaporated during the "Great Recession" or we're going to turn into a financial Greece.

It's drill, dig, cut and tax or a "severe austerity plan". Nobody is going to buy our debt just because we want the money.

* This is not an endorsement of any one option or the other.*