On Obama's Ferocity Over The Oil Spill:

[MannyGoldstein]

Here's the complete list (as far as I know) of everyone actually held responsible by Obama for anything:

1. March 2009: Rick Wagoner, CEO of GM, sacked (OK, that was a good call).

2. June 2009: Obama fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin. "Obama's move follows an investigation by Walpin finding misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star. Johnson and a nonprofit education academy he founded ultimately agree to repay half of $847,000 in grants it had received from AmeriCorps."

3. September 2009: White House Green-Jobs Czar Van Jones "resigns" after signing a 2004 petition asking that government participation in the 9/11 attacks be investigated.

4. October 2009: Interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn "resigned" when Fox News fought back after she declared war on them.

5. February 2010: White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers "resigned" after two uninvited guests snuck into a White House soiree.

Feel free to add whoever I'm missing.

War crimes? "That was the past, must look forward".

Financial crimes bringing the world to the brink of catastrophe? "Hey, give them hundreds of billions, and guarantee trillions of loans, and make sure they get 1% of US GDP in bonuses"

The guy who made up crap when Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan? Now he's in charge of the whole marvelous mess that is Afghanistan.

Forgive me if I highly doubt that the BP et al will pay much of the cleanup cost, or that any of the management will end up in jail.

[truedelphi]

1. he did ignore the "God would not want us to use stem cells"

Religious freepers.

But that is the only other person(s) that I can think of to add to your list.

Oh and while he is a bit timid about doing something REAL about the Banksters, Geithner, or The Big Oil People, he is firmly against the legalization of marijuana.

[Enrique]

2. the teachers at Central Falls High School in RI

he didn't fire them of course, but he said they should be.

[pnwmom]

3. It was the Bush administration who approved B.P.'s Gulf Oil drilling.

Who should Obama have fired in his own administration?

[amborin]

5. it was Salazar who promised to shape up the MMS, yet did zip; but did give exemptions to BP

and who went to court to fight against environmentalists who complained about the travesty of giving categorical exemptions to BP.....

[pnwmom]

6. How did that cause the BP accident? n/t

[amborin]

9. Salazar's Int Dept gave BP an exemption for this Deepwater Horizon project

it exempted it from the required environmental impact study; had the EIS been conduted, this project would not have been approved

[Cant trust em]

4. Does holding someone responsible always entail firing someone?

This post is not to say that Obama should call for more heads or anything, but merely to suggest that there are other forms of holding someone responsible than just forcing them out of their jobs.

[jefferson_dem]

7. He routinely holds the teabaggers, repugs, and a small cabal of vocal serial malcontents...

on the "left" responsible by calling them out on their foolishness ... and by continuing to promote a positive agenda, and racking up the legislative accomplishments in spite of their obstructionist efforts.

Thing is ... it is "us" who should be holding "them" accountable come November 2010. But some seem confused about who the "us" and who the "them" are.

[depakid]

16. Unfortunately, he's routinely held few in government and few in corporations to account

preferring instead to "move on" and look the other way.

As with the SEC personnel who willfully ignored or were in on Madoff's (and others') scams, or at the Department of the Interior- and especially at the MMS.

The former's "only" resulted in some looting and vacillation in the market- the latter will be, shall we say- a bit harder to toss a rug over.

[lib2DaBone]

8. Mr. Obama is 'real mad' about the oil spill.. so they better watch out..

Female Voice: Ring... Ring.... Hello...Mr. Obama? This is the front desk... there is a Mr. Lloyd Blankfein from Goldman Sachs on line one and he wants to talk to you right away..."

Mr. Obama: "OK.. put him on.."

Mr. Obama: "Hello Lloyd 'ol Buddy. Errr.. yes... yes... B- B -But... Yes.. I understand Mr. Blankfein... Yes sir.. I will.. I understand... there is no oil spill... it is only minor... yes sir.. we will make sure the clean up bills go to the taxpayers. Yes.. thank you Mr. Blanfien... I will do as you say.. goodbye sir."

[jeanpalmer]

14. +100

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Primary him

We'll see how you do.

:rofl:

[dionysus]

13. they won't be puffing out their chests so much when they get thoroughly embarrased doing that.

[Go2Peace]

11. Yep, better than the old Repub status quo, but does it represent justice? Not near

We are back in a "Kinder and Gentler" era. Which will make for a few more pleasant years, but land us back in the same mess before we know it.

[ClassWarrior]

15. Bingo. Why don't Dems ever learn from history? Oh yeah, that's "the past," and...

...we must "move forward."

:eyes:

NGU.

[polichick]

12. All his huffing and puffing is a diversionary tactic - good theater...

...that's wearing very thin to anyone who isn't mesmerized by his charisma.