Suppose this leak HAD happened on Georgie's watch?

[rocktivity]

It just occurred to me--WOULD ex-President Georgie be handling this any better? He's so in bed with Big Oil, he probably wouldn't even admit it was happening. There definitely wouldn't be cameras that the world could watch. He'd probably be starting up a charity for the oil execs, and insisting that the black stuff washing on on the Gulf shores was coffee from a shipwreck!

:rofl:
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[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. Well there's a low bar.

[Old and In the Way]

2. It really should have.

On his last day in office...it would have been a fitting end to the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton/Big Oil legacy.

[Blue Owl]

3. "It's not oil -- it's the hydraulics of freedom"

n/t

[11 Bravo]

12. Damn, I miss the DUzys! (Because that would have certainly have been a winner.)

[treestar]

4. He'd be getting them to agree to drilling in ANWR

Since this deep drilling is needed because we can't take advantage of shallower places. Palin has already been saying it.

He'd be implying that National Security is threatened because we won't have enough oil - all of the wasted oil in the spill.

Then they'd be making noises about Iraq and how we have to step up there - we'd need the oil, see?

And the M$M would be cheering him on.

Environmentalists who complained would be called traitors (probably by Cheney).

[CC]

5. Dubya would of grabbed

his bullhorn, donned his cod piece and bombed Iran while sending billions to the Dick Cheney's Halliburton then had the media convince the public it all fixed now and that tar was a natural phenom that happens all the time.

BP = British Petroleum Company = Anglo-Iranian Oil Company = Anglo-Persian Oil Company

[theoldman]

6. Bush would have said that mistakes happen.

He never would have criticized BP. He would have called all of us to action to clean up the beaches at our expense. There would have been very little public criticism except from some environmentalists. Instead we have Obama pushing BP to pay for the mess and the public is criticizing him for the problem. I know this sounds crazy but that is the way it is. Obama's biggest mistake was in not asking people to volunteer to clean up the beaches. That way not much government money would have been involved.

[MidwestRick]

7. But it didn't...

...and still the oil is flowing.

-MR

[Frosty1]

8. It did and this is the first we are hearing about it.

What we do know, is that in addition to the BP disaster, Since 2004 there is a ten mile long oil slick off the coast of Louisiana

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8555073

[Vickers]

9. We'd spend 10 years trying to cap Old Faithful. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Probably have pushed congress to grant immunity.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Bush would have 90% approval ratings for the handling of such a disaster too......

Just like he did for his first one.

[B Calm]

13. All the preparations for it did happen on his watch!

[lpbk2713]

14. We wouldn't have heard a word about it until the entire Gulf coast was brown and gooey.

Bush & Cheney and their Big Oil buds would have kept it under wraps for as long as they thought
they could get away with it. Then they would have looked for a way to blame it on Clinton.

[vicdoc]

15. Hmmm

well, for one thing Bush would have been bashed day in and day out and there would have been a lot more environmentalists and actors and talking heads saying "when will they stop the leak?" and "when will they send help?" on camera while wading through muck on the beaches.
Obama gets a major pass from the media: from the 2 month long, tepid and lazy response to the leak to Rahm Emmanuels' cozy relationship with BP and Obamas' huge BP cash donations.
If Bush gets bashed for a hurricane he responds to in 4 days then let's be fair and bash Obama for an environmental disaster he responds to in 2 months.

[rocktivity]

16. Big Oil, not Obama or Bush, get a major pass from the media

because the media needs their ad revenues.

:headbang:
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[B Calm]

17. Hmmm, Bush would have been rightly bashed as his policies created

the problem now facing President Obama!