Remember the Gulf!

Heritage Foundation
July 6, 2010

Often, after a disaster of epic proportions, we are urged to remember the victims and the lessons of how to avoid a similar catastrophe. These reminders are necessary because after the moment of impact passes, people’s attention is drawn to other major events. Rarely ever, however, is the phrase used while the crisis continues unabated; while the administration that the media needs to hold accountable flounders in a sea of ineptitude, red tape and finger pointing.
 
It has now been nearly 3 months since the Deepwater Horizon platform exploded, killing eleven workers, and setting in motion the spill still gushing today. Over that time, the outflow has gotten worse, goals have been missed and attention has waned. 
 
The Gulf oil spill may be the first time in U.S. history that a president and the national media’s attention need to be refocused on a crisis while it is still, in fact, underway. Remember the Gulf. To be fair, even when focused, the administration continues to flounder.  Obama’s cabinet, including the EPA, continues to let ridiculous regulations stand in the way of oil being removed from the water. Skimmers that discharge separated water containing less than 1% of oil residue are being met with bureaucracy. Local authorities were unnecessarily stopped from dredging to build protective sand berms, out of concern the dredging was too close to the shoreline. The environmentalists who wish to protect our nation from some uncertain catastrophe are ignoring the one happening right this very moment.  According to the Associated Press, thousands of volunteers remain on the sidelines endlessly waiting for instructions. Skimmers remain docked at port.
 
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Let's pray...  Louisiana residents, businesses, oilmen, fishermen, shrimpers, etc. Let us all pause and declare "Praise God for a successfully capped well!  Father we make much of your providence, favor and provision in that now, oil no longer flows  in our deep waters!

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It’s the Economy S***id!

LFF Commentary
July 13, 2010

President Obama's Interior Department issued another moratorium on deep-water drilling yesterday, this time based on the type of drilling and blowout prevent-er instead of the water depth.  Obama's original moratorium was struck down by the 5th Circuit, as "arbitrary and capricious”. This ban also applies to most deep-water drilling activities and is certain to face another court challenge by angry and desperate oil industry interest including.
 
Meanwhile, Obama's approval ratings have slipped to a record low, according to a just released Washington Post/ABC poll.  The article states that "nearly six in 10 voters say they lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country."  Furthermore, the article reports that those most likely to vote in the upcoming election "prefer the GOP over continued Democratic rule by a sizable margin of 56 percent to 41 percent."
 
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was uncharacteristically honest about Democrats' prospects of retaining control of the House of Reps recently, don't expect him to concede on Obama's high negatives and unpopular agenda. Despite Obama's best efforts to change the subject to "anything but the economy," this seems to have only frustrated Americans more with BO's agenda. Most now realize he has no idea how to address the current economic situation and encourage job growth, but the majority also oppose virtually every other domestic agenda item he has put forth: energy tax, ObamaCare, immigration "reform," DADT repeal, DISCLOSE Act… just pick one.

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U. S. Debt Clock!

LFF Commentary
July 13, 2010

Take a look at this real-time, mind-boggling website which will show you just how President Obama's liberal spending binges are killing America. This U. S. National Debt Clock is spinning out of control, just like the liberal spenders in the White House and Congress.

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