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Obama can’t take a legal “no” for an answer

It seems that President Obama can't take no for an answer, even when comes as a legal order from a federal judge. After Judge Martin Feldman issued an order that lifted the administration's insane moratorium on offshore drilling, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said that he would issue a "reworded" order to ban drilling for a six month period of time.

Not only has the president wasted nearly two months golfing while oil spilled from a single oil rig, he makes the mistake of killing off more jobs by closing down all of the other deep water rigs. The judge compared this to grounding every airplane because one crashes.

Or maybe it wasn't a mistake. Considering how capricious this order was and the fact that the president is willing to violate a legal order from a federal judge just to get his way it seems like he may be deliberately allowing this situation to continue for his own political reasons. Especially since this is mostly the government's fault to begin with. Certainly the oil companies are no saints, but the government has been lax in its oversight. Now it suddenly wants to take the reins and do so in the most asinine and over reactive way possible? Something smells and it's not just the crude oil some forty miles south of where I am writing this.

The Dems have argued that this is all Bush's fault for lack of oversight. Again the liberal's favorite boogeyman rears his head. However, Obama has been in office over a year and a half, and the Dems have controlled both houses of congress since 2006, and they have failed to do any better than they claim the Republicans did.

So far, outside of the inane ban on drilling, what has been the administration's big answer to the problem? They renamed the Minerals Management Service, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. These idiots are so inefficient they went from a three word name to a six word name. That's double the amount of paper that would be required to print letterheads and business cards with the moniker. Oh the poor trees.

How about this for the new name: Bureau of Nonsensical Energy Regulation, or BONER for short.

SOURCES:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-22/u-s-deepwater-oil-drilling-ban-lifted-today-by-new-orleans-federal-judge.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/22/judge-halts-obamas-oil-drilling-ban

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GGL7R06&show_article=1

Helen Thomas: The Anti-Zionist Troll

Helen Thomas, what some have called the Grand Dame of the White House press corps, put her gnarled foot in her mouth. The other day at the Jewish Heritage Celebration, she claimed that the Jews should move out of Israel and back to Germany and Poland. She was forced to apologize by her masters at the Hearst Company. However, just after her "apology" she accosted White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. She claimed that the Israelis were monsters and that the administration should have been more forceful about condemning the raid that the Israeli defense force made on a ship trying to run its blockade of Gaza.

Perhaps some Lebanese immigrants should return to Lebanon. That little troll is the only monster I see.

The white coats at the White House

The president had another photo-op yesterday. Supposedly a bunch of doctors showed up. I wonder how much it cost us to buy those new jackets.

California wants to ban cursing. Oh f@$k.

Blogging mobile from my Samsung Flight

I am just testing blogging from my Samsung Flight.