First the Dixie Chicks, many since and now Jimmy Buffet.

WHEN WILL IT ALL END?

A relative of mine put it rather succinctly. It was President Bush's fault that the deepwater rigs weren't adequately regulated and that inspectors were apparently on the take. It's President Obama's fault that that situation didn't change in 2009 or 2010.

I am not surprised.
I had my sixth visit by Census workers yesterday and wrote about it on my blog.
I was told yesterday that the blame on the problems with the Census was because of none other than George W Bush.
Enough already!

as an afterthought I wonder if generations down the road will not pray to God, but to the all- powerful George W Bush who can manipulate weather, time, space, and even the US Census many times without a thought.

It won't end, Epador. There's no downside - the true believers aren't going to admit that anything Obama has done hasn't turned out perfectly. If something ISN'T working, then it's the fault of Bush, or a Bush appointee, or a piece of legistation Bush signed (even if it was pushed and promoted by Pelosi and Reid) or a contractor that was hired while Bush was in office (no matter the orientation of who hired them) or an organization that was in existance while Bush was President - even if there's no direct (or even indirect) connection.

And if they've got to do a 180 flip in their ideological thinking (see Loyal Lee, and his um... dislike of Obama before he got the DNC's nod) they'll do it in a heartbeat.

What we're seeing is the left putting into action all the things they screamed bloody murder about with the Bush administration. And they're not going to see a damn thing wrong with them as long as THEY are doing them.

The roots of the spill go back to the enviro-whackos and their liberal enablers.

As for the childish blame game by Buffet...
Typical liberal defense mechanism that they've perfected over the decades. They usually employ it to deflect criticism over their failed policies and programs. Now they have to use it to deflect attention from the incompetent in the White House.

Still, I'm a little curious as to what Buffet is talking about.

Really. What gulf oil leak?
Nothing in the MFM about it.
Nothing in my local Boston paper either.
Obama doesn't mention it.
What leak?

James H.
It not Bushes fault.
1. In all that caltrap since this stated what new Regulations were proposed on deepwater rigs?
2. If a spill assessment had been done what would have been discovered?
a. We do not know because it was not done.
3. It turns out that BP was sending reports to the Administration that they were having issues with stability. Instead of sending people on site it was ignored.
4. Knowing that DPH was having issues they allowed DPH to deviate from the standard process.
We know from modern history it take a long time to plug a well.
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Not to mention, of course, that the Democrats have had control of Congress for three and a half years now, which seems like plenty of time to pass new environmental regulations that the EPA and other agencies could be enforcing.

At first, blaming Obama was mere payback for the asinine, trite and pretentious way the entire left and media blamed Bush and Bush alone for Katrina.

Now, however, Obama's utter incompetence and fatuousness and fecklessness over ***responding*** to the spill means he OWNS this.

HCDBBZ:

Forgive the punctuation flame, but please, please learn to use the apostrophe. It is your friend.

Also please reread my comment if you will. It has two component parts:

1) President Bush was responsible for the regulatory regime during his administration; and,

2) President Obama was responsible for the regulatory regime during his administration, including a failure to remedy the regime's deficiencies when he took office.

Does this make sense to you?

I blame Boooossshhh!!!

"2) President Obama was responsible for the regulatory regime during his administration, including a failure to remedy the regime's deficiencies when he took office.

Does this make sense to you?"

And now? It's a friggin' GOLD mine - extort money from the oil companies to continue drilling, constantly threaten to shut 'em down to appease his environmentalist supporters, stall the remediation efforts to make things even worse so he'll have more legislative power later - he's playing it for all he's worth.

And the folks on the left will blame Bush, because they literally can't blame Obama.

Hey Jimmy, STFU and sing

Jackass

Jlaw:

I don't think I'm as cynical as you are. But don't think the Left isn't taking aim at Obama right now. A lot of the Left -- including both far left and moderate left -- is pissed off with him for various reasons.

This regimes paradiagonal scheme is quite simple: Rape America for all you can get and hope her parents never find out. Unfortunately for Barry, we saw what you did last summer.

Jimmy's obviously been smoking crack in Margaritaville.

George W. Bush...Is there anything he can't do?

Be honest--just imagine the volume of screaming Dems and Lefties if Bush was in office during this.

Then again, if he were, I'm sure he'd have not stood in the way of all the cleanup capability.

Hell, Buffet would be still searching for his lost shaker of salt instead of doing a concert.

Obama had a hamburger and it was burned, he and Michelle blamed Bush.

Cirby put it right. Democrats have had oversight and regualatory power for 4 years. This is far from GW's fault. This one is in the Dem's column and Obama's. ww

"Fruitcakes in the kitchen/Fruitcakes on the bus/There's a little bit a fruitcake left in every one of us...."

Particularly you, Jimmy. So pay attention, educate yourself with the facts, then speak. Otherwise, you're stepping on a pop top and blowing out your flip flop, intellectually speaking, bud.

WW

lIEberals like Lee Harvey for example, fixate on a subject i.e. Bush and blame thier failed control agenda on said subject.

Its called projection. Right Lee Wright.

James H -

I wasn't nearly as cynical as I am now a year ago. I was HOPING that Obama would turn out to be capable and competent after a few missteps, but so far...

You know the old saying about never ascribing to malice what can be ascribed to simple ignorance? I'm past thinking he's just trying to get a handle on the job and these are rookie mistakes.

We're seeing Chicago politics writ large. And I, for one, don't think it's a great thing.

Buffet has been a loud mouth liberal for a long time.

I used to enjoy his music but there comes a point in life where being stupid and drunk on a beach somewhere becomes a liability to being a functional member of society, unless you have legions of 'parrot heads' funding it.

Personally? He needs to STFU about his politics and sing. I will not be funding his endeavors on Casino beach or buying into his Parrot head lifestyle.

James H: Do you really think before you post?

1. How long have they been drilling in the Gulf?
2. How far back do you want to shift the blame?

The current regime, the (P)resident specifically, has been closely associated to BP with campaign funds and ecological endeavors they have proposed. They SPECIFICALLY gave that rig an award for good performance. To say that it's Bush's fault for not enacting stricter regulation is hind sight and an assinine comment. The oil is in the water, its still flowing. The (P)resident is doing everything in his power to limit what can be done to stop it either by inaction on his part or deliberate regulatory intrusion or outright ignoring obvious mitigating measures.

To blame Bush for the inaction and deliberate interference by this regime is trying to shift the responsibility from the person MOST responsible for solving the problem NOW.

Actually, GMac, I do. I was thinking in particular of this report, which documents corruption among those charged with enforcing drilling regulations from 2000 to 2007. Safety violations tolerated because of corruption happened on Bush's watch ... and I blame the Obama administration for not correcting this state of affairs in a timely manner.

Buffett......just another blow job for Barry. Maybe he'll get an invite to the White House.

Wasted away again in Liberalrittaville,

searchin for my last shaker of salt

Some people say that there's a socialist to blame

I dont know? It's Barry's own fault.

As with any comment, one must consider the source.

Buffets' resume consists of: drinking, drugging, partying, strumming three cords on a guitar.

He's a pop entertainer and an intellectual midget. If his comment was about music, it would have carried more weight. Unfortunately for him, he comments on issues he (apparently) knows nothing about.

I say Unfortunately, because in this country, some people mistake popularity in one narrow area with competence in totally unrelated areas, then they (ab)use their "stage" in life to preach that which they know nothing of.

Take our current pRESIDENT for example. (please take him)

If the oil well had an acoustic cut off switch than the crisis likely would have been avoided. Bush's 2005 energy bill dropped this equirement, this makes it fair to say that Bush actions did contribute to the crisis.

Tina:
So the waving of restrictions by the CURRENT administration, WHICH COULD HAVE SHUT DOWN THE OPERATION - mean nothing?

How many years do you get to run with "It's Bush's fault?"

You going to blame Bush for the fuck-ups of the economy by the current administration? After all, if Bush hadn't screwed up, McCain might have won the 2008 election. So Bush screwing up gave us Barack Obama, ergo all of Barry's screw-ups are because of Bush?

That how your logic works?

So the waving of restrictions by the CURRENT administration, WHICH COULD HAVE SHUT DOWN THE OPERATION - mean nothing?

How many years do you get to run with "It's Bush's fault?"

You going to blame Bush for the fuck-ups of the economy by the current administration? After all, if Bush hadn't screwed up, McCain might have won the 2008 election. So Bush screwing up gave us Barack Obama, ergo all of Barry's screw-ups are because of Bush?

That how your logic works?

GrandFan,

There are politicans from both political parties whose actions contributed to the crisis. Presidents do have the power to implement policies that can last for decades after they leave office. Therefore, a presidents accountability does not end when they leave office.

Again...

Bush is NOT the current president.

The current (P)resident is responsible if ACTION is going to be taken to stop and resolve the problem.

You cannot assign blame for this to Bush because it was an unforeseen possibility to him and he no longer has the ability to do something about it.

OBAMA is the sole person in charge and he's sitting around with his thumb up his ass watching the economy of 4 states go straight to hell because of his inability to formulate and enact a plan to stop the problem and clean up the oil.

Ccome to grips with reality and stop trying to blame anyone other that the person directly responsible for what is currently happening, you to Tina. By your logic I can pin ALL of this on Clinton.

tina s - "If the oil well had an acoustic cut off switch than the crisis likely would have been avoided. Bush's 2005 energy bill dropped this equirement, this makes it fair to say that Bush actions did contribute to the crisis."

You do know acoustic switches have never been proven to be effective in anything other than computer simulations right?

And those simulations were never conducted in depths of one mile or more.

Tina S -

"If the oil well had an acoustic cut off switch than the crisis likely would have been avoided."

From what I've read, it wouldn't have helped. Something apparently blocked the shear rams, keeping them from closing. An acoustic switch is simply another way to activate the system, not a separate system itself.

Tina S sees no wrong of the democratic oversight and regulations they controlled for FOUR years. Obama had more then enough time to put (by executive order) the acoustic cut off but yet Tina is still in the tank for the incometent one. Sold her soul, she did. ww

I have two words for Jimmy Buffet, one four letter and one three letter. The first starts with F and ends with K the second starts with Y and ends with U.

It couldn't be any clearer. The man is a twit.

Tina S sees no wrong of the democratic oversight and regulations they controlled for FOUR years. Obama had more then enough time to put (by executive order) the acoustic cut off but yet Tina is still in the tank for the incometent one. Sold her soul, she did. ww

WildWillie,

Both democrats and republicans are deep in the backpockets of big oil. Neither wants to pass laws that might upset the oil companies. I have posted comments on Wizbang that have been critical of portions of Obama's response to the oil spill.

You do know acoustic switches have never been proven to be effective in anything other than computer simulations right?

And those simulations were never conducted in depths of one mile or more.

Marc,

I was under the impression that they are not fool proof but have prevented actual spills. I'll probably fact check myself on this later this evening.

From what I've read, it wouldn't have helped. Something apparently blocked the shear rams, keeping them from closing. An acoustic switch is simply another way to activate the system, not a separate system itself.

JLawson,

It's a real travisty that undersea drilling has been going on for 50 years and nobody has come up with a fool proof way to stop a blowout or effective technique to clean a spill. Both the oil industry and the government is to blame and that's 50 years of blame spanning both parties.

Tina -

It's been my experience that when you make something 'foolproof', all you're doing is asking Murphy to prove you wrong. And there does come a point of diminishing returns, where you can design a system to take 150% of expected stresses for $XX, but to make it take 300% costs exponentially more.

From what I've read (again) the steel piping alone should be able to take something on the order of 30,000 PSI. Your standard high-pressure oxygen tank in a welding rig is charged at about 3,000 PSI, for comparision.

To thicken the piping so it would take a 60,000 PSI... I don't even want to think about what that'd cost, or how thick the pipe would be. I think we're pushing at the limits with current technology of what we can do with drilling - but I ain't an expert on the subject by any means. I AM amazed at what we CAN do, however.

But again, we wouldn't have to be drilling so far offshore and so deep if we could drill on land, or drill in the shallows.

I find it horribly ironic that the disaster that the environmentalists feared would happen occurred as a result of their political maneuvering to keep oil companies from drilling on the land or in shallow waters near the shore. A blowout like this would have probably taken about a week to correct on land, and the containment would have been MUCH easier.

JLawson,

I'm not talking about making the equiptment foolproof. We do need a technique that would be virtually foolproof in stopping a free fowing leak in an underwater pipe. I refuse to believe that we are uncapable of figuring this out. I don't see why it would take more than a few years to come up with.

I have a technique to stop the leak - empty both houses of Congress and the Oval office, and stuff 'em all up the pipe. Leak's done, and we can clean up Washington as a whole.

As for Buffett, well, he's just another stupid douchebag lefty without the capacity to think. Sure, his tunes are OK - that's all he's programmed for. Deep down he's really insecure that people will see that he's really an intellectual fraud, and won't buy his crap any more.

Well, JB has lost my respect. I will never listen to his stuff again and will never give him my respect again. I never dreamed he was so stupid. He can plum go to hell.

Wow! It's amazing that the "stupidest" president we ever had, has had so much influence and power as to effect things this long after being out of office. Democrats are the kings of the typical "I'm not responsible for anything" syndrome going on in this country". At least Bush would "man-up" and take responsibility for his actions - and he has NOT ONCE criticized O'bama. Clinton couldn't stop criticizing Bush for one day when Bush was in office. And let's not forget wonderful Al Gore - what a moron.
The democrats are just too stupid to realize how stupid they are.

How relevant is Jimmy Buffet. He had one stupid song 35 years ago about being drunk all of the time. Who cares what that clown thinks.
Glad he's heling the Gulf -but he should perform and not try to carry on big people talk.

Too bad we can't have a benefit for the democrat, to raise money and buy them all a soul.

We don't we all get drunk and support those who have never had a real job, run a real company, or made payroll? That we can all get screwed. Oh shit.....that's what we have done.

Good lord Jimmy Buffey has an opinion and wants to make sure all us get to hear it. When did he sober up enough to put 3 words together? A drunk ass waste of flesh just said something completely stupid what a surprise. I just don't understand why we continue to put micrphones in front of these jackasses when they decide to talk. I guess it's because our short attention span celebrity obsessed "society" can't keep focused. OH Jimmy Buffet said it's all GWB's fault wow there for a minute I thought it was the idiots that are currently running our country, that's a relief now back to ET to see what's new with Lady Gaga.

No -- its Earth to Wizbang. The Obama administration only continued a disastrous policy set, authorized and enforced by THE BUSH CHENEY administration which gave drillers the ability to police themselves. Blaming Obama admin for the spill is like blaming FDR for the great depression. Facts are stubborn things and those of you who live in Fox News echo chamber have a hard time with them.

Walter Borded says that, "Blaming (the Mussolini-modeled modified Marxist,0zero, for his oil) spill is like blaming (the traitor, Roosevelt, for his) Depression."

See.

Even stopped clocks and dhimmicraps get it right now and then.

When does Obama get to be responsible for HIS presidentcy? It took him 1 day to issue an executive order to close GITMO, it took him 1 month to pass stimulus, but he couldn't manage to get a handle on this, he can't seem to get a handle on unemployment, he can't seem to get a handle on a tanked economy. GWB. IS. NOT, PRESIDENT. Obama is and it is way past time he and all his "supporters" stopped passing the buck and pushing the blame on the president that left office in Jan of 2009. GROW UP take charge and quit blaming others IT'S OBAMA'S JOB TO BE PRESIDENT now not GWB's.

Please all you Obama supporters can you please, please, please give us a date when Obama will become responsible for the actions or lack there of for his administration.

The sad part is do we know what caused the spill?
We do know that the current administration failed to follow prescribed procedures.

1. 1996 Plan to deploy ships in the event of spill was ignored.
2. They waived procedures on looking at potential spill and how to temporally abandoned the well.
3.They refused to allow clean up efforts to begin
4. They stopped states in their efforts to limit damage.
5. When wells did leak under Bush Administration they were controlled.
The problem was that the administration response was not to
1) limit damage
2) Control the spill
It was to make as much money and assign blame.
Why else do you dispatch lawyers , yet refuse the aid of countries in containment of the spill?

This is why this is BHO fault. Not Bush, Not Clinton not Carter, Reagan or any other man who has sit in the office.
Bush had given the permit to BP then you might have had a point but this all occurred on BHO watch, with a company that has been lock step in implementing polices that BHO likes.

I was disgusted that Buffet said such things. One thing's for sure. I won't spend money in Margaritaville or his sister's place, LuLu's, in Alabama. People, sometimes when money talks it says, "No, way!!" Maybe he needs to experience a little economic straits of his own in order to understand the impact that "his" President has made on the nation.

I was so happy to find out that Jimmy Buffet was going to do this concert for the Gulf Coast People. Then he has to play politics. And to blame Bush for this oil spill is CRAZY! If we are going to go down that route... Then why didn't Buffet blame his buddy Obama as well?! Obama took thousands of dollars from BP, Obama did not allow those foreign ships to help us clean up the oil until 71 days later which the oil hit our shores! Obama gave orders to not allow People in Louisiana to put up sand walls to prevent oil to go on the beaches, Obama gave orders to not allow the locals to use there boats to help out!But no mention of that right? Hey JACKASS! Shut up and sing! If not let somebody else be the HERO and sing!

So by all this "logic" if Obama isn't responsible for anything after 18 months in office, I guess the blame for 9/11 belongs completely and wholly to Bill Clinton, you Obama supporters good with that?

Wow! I never considered Mr. Buffett to be a target as such.. I mean honestly, who cares who people want to blame? I am more up for talking about what is getting done about this mess. Placing blame will not get the oil off the beaches, I am proud to say, I am a fan. This artist has survived the winds of change that very few have..His life at one time was a mess, but he cleaned up his act, he has a loving relationship with his wife and enjoys his family life. It gives me great pain to read the words that people are using in this room of heartless people. This man has put forth a huge amount of effort, and time to help create funds to help clean up this mess.
So, you do not agree with what he said, big deal, get over it and focus on the trouble that is at hand. The oil companies are not going to clean up this mess, they are going to sweep every thing they can under the rocks and hope to get us fooled in to believing that the job has been completed. It is going to take real people who truly care to make sure that this job gets done right. It is going to cost us money via donations and volunteers to clean up this mess.. Jimmy Buffett and many of his fans are going to be a large part of those people. So, before we go throwing a rope over a branch, or in Buffett's case, send one of our best supporters out on the plank, just remember, there is still so much that has to be done..So he is a little emotional, he is an artist, he loves his home, but remember, we all make mistakes, we are all human, and I am glad to know that he is going to be there till the coast is clear...

Koreen Toler