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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:03 AM
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Just turned off CNN
They brought on Carville and his wife. Had to turn the channel immediately.

He's as bad as Buchanan.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:03 AM
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1. I agree he's bad. But he's right on this oil spill.
Haven't agreed with him in years.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:06 AM
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2. i don't want to hear Matalin gripe about this
knowing she worked against almost every environmental policy while working in the White House for a very long time in recent years.

virtually everything the government could have done years ago to make this less likely was philosophically opposed by Matalin.

the only critters she should speak for look like this:

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:09 AM
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6. +1. While I have plenty of sympathy for everyone living on, near and
working on the gulf coast and I want this well shut down asap, I have zilch sympathy for Matalin or Carville.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:17 AM
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21. NIMBY. Has CNN no shame? She has advocated for unregulated
drilling everywhere since I first became, unfortunately, aware of her. Alaska, yes, of course. Exxon Valdez, a libr'l lie, it's all better. Drill, baby, drill. Environmentalists are nut jobs.

Now it is affecting her, and her property values on her NO house...OMG! She's running around with a coke bottle filled with oil. Ms Iamsoupset. She's so low that she doesn't even qualify as a hypocrite.

And if they stop the leak, she'll start pounding Obama for the moratorium on CNN next week.

I'd call her a name, but I really like dogs.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:06 AM
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3. At the risk of raising bad blood, but didn't Carville pretty much have it
in for Obama until the nomination? I think he also damned him with faint praise during the campaign.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:07 AM
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4. Yep, he's been looking for anything to tear down Obama since.
Nothing but critical of the man since he won, too.

His Right High and Mightiness, Lord Regus Douchenozzle Carville.
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:07 AM
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5. Yeppers... and Mary has been pushing drilling in the water hard and heavy
To hear all this angst now, is a little hard to swallow..
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:20 AM
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7. Carville needs to stop listening to the voices in his head
or maybe its the voice of that sea hag he sleeps with.

Whatever. He sounds more unhinged and shrieky every time he appears. I saw him on that ABC morning show puking out a list of all the shit Obama failed to do. He sounded like a madman and he appeared to be on the verge of a cardiac event.

And now we even have a bunch of DU'ers saying that Obama's presidency is in the crapper if he doesn't do what James fucking Carville tells him to do. The man is a fucking clown and in need of some serious therapy.

And that freak show with his wife? That went into the shitter 15 years ago. Putting shit like that on is why CNN is worse than Fox IMO.

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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:21 AM
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8. Tom Coburn was going on over at Morning Joe and that was the end of it for me today.
I won't listen to any more about the Sestak thing.

Joe is mightily discomfitted by Blumenthal's huge lead over McMahon and the polling that show 51% of those polled say the Vietnam thing has no effect on whether they'd be willing to vote for him.

Joe is eating some fine sour grapes just about now...
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:13 AM
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20. I guess Joe forgot to ask CT residents what they think, huh?
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 09:01 AM
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25. Mika primly told him. Then Joe said "Well, ya know, there are some states
where a candidate with Linda McMahon's background wouldn't be so bad..."

See, he's got to put his smarmy spin on it.

Yes, Joe, there are SOME people in this country that want nothing to do with your republican garbage. You should be ashamed of yourself.

And Mika's a disgrace, too. I love how she sits there like Miss Priss and talks about how she knows all about CT people. Well, then, she ought to have sensed what we think of HER...
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:25 AM
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9. Mary Matalin was an advisor to Cheney
She has blood on her hands.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:41 AM
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10. They kept having them on last night. Every time I flipped by they were on.
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:43 AM
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11. The "LIBRUL MEDIA" at work, eh? n/t
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:44 AM
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12. Carville is on CNN now. He's on fire! I'm so proud of him taking on BP.
Yes, this could be our President standing up for the people?

Where is he? :(
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:46 AM
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14. Carville to Obama: Don't do the BP sanctioned tour.
He's being ILL ADVISED. Carville says he doesn't want to criticize the President of my own party but we need some action here. He's correct.

John Roberts with his new face (lift) is playing the role of the loyal corporate shill.
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:01 AM
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18. ROFL... Mary is that you??
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:50 AM
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16. The President has many times held BP accountable, but they
are the ones with the technology that will likely end this nightmare. It is completely in their interest to fix this as quickly as possible. Screaming at BP will not fix this a second earlier.

The President has more dignity and integrity in a finger nail than Carville does in his entire body.
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woodsprite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:08 AM
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29. They weren't interested in stopping it until it got out of hand.
Otherwise, they would have tried the 'Top kill' before more than a month had passed.
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:29 AM
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31. Not true
Every method they tried had some probability of working and some possible down sides. The sure way to end it was the relief wells, but that had a 90 day time frame. They started that as soon as possible, but worked in parallel with other methods.

The danger with Top Kill was that it had the potential of not just not working, but doing greater damage. In addition, it apparently could not be done until the pressure the oil was coming out at had declined. That's why the "top hat" and its variants were tried first. With people like Dr Chu leading a team of scientists to consider the various options, it is clear that they were working in a very methodological way to deal with the problem as best they could - as quickly as they could.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:44 AM
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13. The only news network I watch on TV today is Bloomberg. The networks lost me years ago
because they no longer were journalists, but instead gossip mongers or faux want-a-bes

as for carville and matallin, they are irrelevent, just like palin, limbaugh, beck, and the other loudmouths that constantly bombard the airwaves with ther pollution

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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:47 AM
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15. WTF! Billionaire "Bloomberg?" How about EuroNews, France24, RT or Al Jazerra?
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:57 AM
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17. Bloomberg actually presents BOTH sides. WTF to you. A billionaire makes it already "evil" in your
mind?

Most important, unlike faux, where murdoc involves himself in a political agenda, Bloomberg does not

You may not like bloomberg personally, that is fine, however, his network is one of the few in this country that still informs on ALL levels, and relative to the rest of them is pretty fair for all views and debates.


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JamesA1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:12 AM
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19. I doubt he'd be raging if Hillery were President
and doing the exact same things Obama is doing.
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Gin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:18 AM
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22. they must be low on funds.....shouting all over CNN....makes me ill...
go back under the rock with "Shooter."
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:19 AM
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23. Nobody wants to hire either of them any more.
Matalin is considered damaged goods in Republican circles and Carvile is just an idiot.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 09:03 AM
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26. Hillary would have had a stick of dynamite up BP's ass by now
Edited on Thu May-27-10 09:04 AM by Catherina
caveat, I supported Obama over her but that's the truth and everyone knows it.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 09:03 AM
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27. You have a strange definition of "fact"
Edited on Thu May-27-10 09:04 AM by SemiCharmedQuark
It really resembles "opinion"
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 09:52 AM
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28. "that's the truth and everyone knows it" -- LOL!!!
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:34 AM
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32. You think that would have worked?
I seriously doubt that Clinton would have been any more aggressive towards BP. The fact is that the President needed BP to work with the Cost Guard and people like Chu who were representing the President. There likely was no one more wanting this problem fixed quickly than BP - it was their reputation and money to clean things up at risk.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:50 AM
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24. He's never forgiven Obama for throwing him over for Howard Dean
Edited on Thu May-27-10 08:54 AM by rocktivity
which cost him a bundle in political consulting fees. It's possible that his sentiments concerning the spill are sincere, but it's also possible that he's just trying to re-establish himself as THE Dem strategist.

:eyes:
rocktivity
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:09 AM
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30. Freaking freak show..
Here's matalin whoring for drilling and I'm sure there's some vid somewhere of her denying Climate Change. She lied to America about dick cheney every single day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x468916

What the fuck are they lying about now? Yesterday there was a thread that had carville crying that President Obama could have come down there..we'll he had already gone "down there".

Just more whiners who want to blame everything on President Obama and see their chance.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x314235

Starting Day One

Joint Information Center

At the beginning of the event, the Coast Guard elevated the response and established a Regional Command Center and Joint Information Center in Robert, La., inviting all partners in the response to join.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Since the moments after the oil rig explosion on the night of April 20, DHS has played a lead role in federal response efforts—deploying the U.S. Coast Guard to search and rescue the 126 people aboard the rig, and quickly leading efforts to establish a command center on the Gulf Coast to address the potential environmental impact of the event and to coordinate with all state and local governments. Secretary Napolitano leads the National Response Team, an organization of 16 federal departments and agencies responsible for coordinating emergency preparedness and response to oil and hazardous substance pollution events.


U.S. Coast Guard

The Coast Guard has played a major role from the very beginning, when it responded to the explosion on a search and rescue mission to save lives. Pursuant to the National Contingency Plan, Rear Admiral Mary Landry was named the Federal On-Scene Coordinator to lead a Regional Response Team which was stood up that included DHS, DOC/NOAA, DOI and the EPA, as well as state and local representatives. As the event escalated, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen was announced as the National Incident Commander for the administration’s continued, coordinated response—providing additional coordinated oversight in leveraging every available resource to respond to the BP oil spill and minimize the associated environmental risks.


Department of the Interior (DOI)

The morning after the explosion, Secretary of the Interior deployed Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes to the Gulf Coast to assist with coordination and response to the event, and provide hourly reports back to the administration. Since then, DOI has played a vital role in overseeing BP’s response efforts while—at the President’s request—working to deliver a report with recommendations on what, if any, additional safety measures should be required for offshore operations. Secretary Salazar has announced that inspections of all deepwater rigs and platforms are underway.


Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Since the BP Oil Spill, EPA has provided full support to the U.S. Coast Guard and is monitoring and responding to potential public health and environmental concerns. Environmental data, including air quality and water samples, will be posted and frequently updated on this site as it is collected and validated by EPA’s response teams along the impacted coastlines. This data is meant to determine potential risks to public health and the environment.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

As the nation’s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the Deepwater Horizon spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations.

Small Business Administration

SBA is making low-interest loans available to small businesses in the Gulf Coast regions of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi suffering financial losses following the April 20 Deepwater BP oil spill that shut down commercial and recreational fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) are available immediately in designated counties and parishes of each of the four states to help meet the financial needs of qualifying small businesses following the oil spill.


Department of Defense (DOD)

DOD continues to support the ongoing response effort by lending Naval and Air Force bases to provide vital staging areas for boom deployments and other activities, and providing C-130 aircraft equipped with Modular Aerial Spray Systems, which dispense chemical dispersant—capable of covering up to 250 acres per flight. DOD also plays a significant role in the National Response Team, helping to lead the coordination of response actions for the federal government. Secretary of Defense Gates has authorized use of Title 32 status for up to 17,500 National Guard members in four states: Alabama (3,000), Florida (2,500), Louisiana (6,000) and Mississippi (6,000).


Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service

The Fish and Wildlife Service continues to support the joint agency response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with experienced specialists, land managers, and support personnel. Booms to capture and deflect anticipated oil are being deployed at Breton National Wildlife Refuge, where thousands of brown pelicans and shorebirds are currently nesting. The Service also is initiating Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration activities in this incident to assess and address the long-term damage to impacted resources.


Department of the Interior’s National Park Service

The National Park Service is focused on human safety and resource protection in eight national parks in the Gulf area. These parks are working to assess resources, collect baseline data, coordinate boom placements, plan for responsible cleanup, install barriers for shore bird and turtle nest protection, and plan for potential park closures, if necessary.


Department of the Interior’s National Park Service

The National Park Service is focused on human safety and resource protection in eight national parks in the Gulf area. These parks are working to assess resources, collect baseline data, coordinate boom placements, plan for responsible cleanup, install barriers for shore bird and turtle nest protection, and plan for potential park closures, if necessary.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/deepwater-bp-oil-spill

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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:48 AM
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33. I recevied a fundraising e-mail from Carville yesterday and I
returned it to the DCCC, from which is originated, with a message . . Go fuck yourself, Carville.
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