OBAMA'S PEOPLE RIGHT ON TOP OF THINGS!

Like the nuclear family of old, Congress delegates roles and assignments.

While they all assist in creating garbage, some are assigned the task of seeing to it that it reaches the curb.

While they all feed from the dishes (some appear to doing more feeding than others), some are assigned the task of keeping the dishes clean in case company stops by.

Mom and dad assign these roles in the family context.

In Congress, these roles are assigned depending on which party controls Congress; the many congressional committees represent the family member who’s task it is to take out the garbage and clean the dishes.

Since taking over majority control of Congress in 2006, Democrats have been in control of Congress, and thus, in control of the many committees of Congress.

Since taking over majority control of Congress 2006, Democrats have been in control of taking out the garbage and keeping the dishes clean.

“Committees are an essential part of the legislative process. Senate committees monitor on-going governmental operations, identify issues suitable for legislative review, gather and evaluate information, and recommend courses of action to the Senate.”

In other words, Congressional committees are the watchdogs of government and the private sector, ensuring that everything works as it should.

Someone’s allowance ought to be taken away.

While American slipped into a banking and mortgage crisis, which precipitated the great recession, Democrats sat on the couch playing Wii instead of taking out the garbage and cleaning the dishes.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, as well as matters concerning public and private housing.

Heading the Democrat- majority Senate Banking Committee has been Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd.

This from Dodd’s Senate web page:

“ As Chairman, Senator Dodd sets the committee’s agenda; guiding the consideration of legislation under committee jurisdiction. A 29-year member of this Committee, Sen. Dodd has made his first year as Chairman about protecting consumers and their investments, ensuring that investment in our nation is monitored and that ultimately, Americans benefit from it, and keeping our economy on sound footing.”

No allowance for Chris.  Fortunately, in 2010 Dodd announced he will run away from home so another sibling will be assigned his position in the next Congress.

In the House, there’s another committee that is supposed to oversee the financial services industry, which includes the banking and housing industry.

That committee is the House Committee on Financial Services (this sounds really funny when said with a lisp), or the House Banking Committee.

Dodd’s fellow New Englander, Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, leads the majority Democrat membership of this committee.

No allowance for Ba’ney.

Then there is the Senate and House Natural Resources Committees.

In the Senate, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, this Democrat controlled committee is led by New Mexico Democrat, Jeff Bingaman.

Bingaman and his Democrat buddies are assigned the task of regulating many activities that deal with our good earth, among these are mining and oil and gas drilling regulation.

The Democrat controlled House Natural Resources Committee is headed by Democrat Nick Rahall, II, of West Virginia. 

Can you say Upper Big Branch Mine, 2010; the country’s worst mine disaster in 40 years?

Can you say Deep Horizon Oil Rig Explosion, 2010; the country’s worst oil spill ever?

No allowance for Jeff and Nick.

Then there is the Interior Department and its little bastard son, the Minerals Management Service.  These guys are responsible for protecting our natural resources and watching over everything that affects our natural resources, like mining and oil drilling.  This is government down to its finite parts, below the constitutional committees and overseen by them.

Former Colorado Democrat Kenny Salazar was appointed by obama to lead this group in December of 2008.

Passing the buck, Kenny has just ordered that the MMS be broken up into 3 separate divisions…ah, room for 3 more Democrats to “lead.”

No allowance for Kenny.

If your little Johnny forgot to take out the garbage, but then rolls out the cans as the truck rolls on down the street, do you pat him on the head and reward him?

OBAMA OWNS THIS OIL SPILL

…despite what you hear from CNN’s Anderson Cooper.  Cooper went so far as to put together a montage of film clips where he acts like a 12 year old school girl while repeatedly daring executives from BP to come on his show for an interview.

You go girl!

Perhaps BP executives feel they have more important things to tend to than to be interviewed by a third-rate reporter on a third-rate news station.

A New York Times story (May 31) criticized the obama administration for going ahead with  high level meetings that led to granting BP a license to drill in the Gulf despite knowing full well and totally ignoring the historical troubles of BP and of his Interior Department’s historic troubles (“years of scathing reports”) in regulating the industry.

The prophet obama said on April 2, after granting BP a license to drill baby, drill: “It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills.  They are technologically very advanced.”

Ken Salazar became head of obama’s Interior department in 2009 and promised change, said he was the “new sheriff in town” and agency heads would roll (New York Times, May 31, 2010).

Supposedly, after Salazar’s hiring by obama, Interior Department parties like those held in Denver in 2008 and which included booze, drugs, and sex, would be things of the past.

BP filed a plan with the federal government in 2009 that said it was “highly unlikely that a spill or leak would ever result from the Deep Horizon rig.” (New York Times, April 30, 2010.

Deep water oil drilling in the Gulf began on obama’s watch and with obama’s approval.

On April 20 the BP/TransOcean Deep Horizon oil rig blew up.

The Times article asks: “The question remains why Mr. Obama – and members of Congress charged with oversight of the agency – did not come to grips with its obvious problems before the accident occurred.”

obama’s government has much to do with the confusion among many who consider themselves to be part of the ‘news’ industry.

Obama and his little soldiers have been telling us that they are in charge, have been since day one, yet they continuously focus on BP in their criticisms.  At one point they say they are in charge and then in other public comments they say that someone else needs their ass kicked.

In a press conference on May 27, obama said, "The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort."  "There shouldn't be any confusion here (unless you work for CNN and your name is Cooper). The federal government is fully engaged," he said.

Did you plug the hole yet, daddy? 

On May 31, obama’s climate change and energy policy director (no, not al gore), Carol Brownie, err, I mean, Carol Browner, said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” (if you can find it), that it was “important for people to understand that from the beginning, the government has been in charge.”

Heck of a job, Browner.

Obama’s Interior secretary, Kenny Salazar wrote in USA Today on May 25 that the “government’s” response to “BP’s oil spill” has been a “coordinated…all-out campaign,” an “all-out, all-hands-on-deck battle,” employing “every human and technological resource.”

However, on May 3, Kenny said on CNN’s State of the Union program that his “job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum to…move forward and stop this spill.”

Someone ought to inform Kenny that the name British Petroleum was dropped years ago in favor of the acronym BP.

Similarly chiming in was Janet Napolitano, obama’s Homeland Security Secretary: “We are going to stay on this and stay on BP until this gets done and gets done the right way.” (USA Today, May 25, 2010)

According to BusinessWeek, online edition, April 26, obama Coast Guard top guard Admiral Mary Landry was “overseeing the rescue and cleanup.”

Retired Rear Adm. Robert C. North, former head Coast Guardsman, told the New York Times (April 30) that “the buck essentially stops with the federal coordinator – in this case, Admiral Landry.”

Admiral North said that if the “government determines that the responsible party is not up to the job, it can federalize the spill, running the cleanup operations without the private company.”

Admiral Mary said on April 29 that the government was marshalling resources to combat the spill; “If BP does not request these resources, then I can and I will” (New York Times).

The New York Times reported on April 29 that obama posse members, Napolitano, EPA green head Lisa Jackson, and Kenny Salazar were on their way to the spill site to “oversee efforts” aimed at containing this disaster.

Thad Allen, Admiral and commandant of the Coast Guard, told the New York Times on April 20 that “he remained satisfied with his team’s response” to the oil spill.  “While it may not have been visible to the public, from the very start, we have been working this very hard,” he said, citing his 30 years of spill clean-up experience.

You’re doing a heck of a job, Thaddy.

An AP story on BusinessWeek.com on April 29 mentioned that president obama “has directed officials to aggressively confront the spill.”

The New York Times headlined obama’s ordered spill effort on April 29: “White House Takes a Bigger Role in the Oil Spill Cleanup.”

Yet, despite claims that obama’s government was in charge from the beginning, they began, “for the first time,” to chastise BP for it’s handling of the spill; “sharp new criticism by federal officials of BP for not stopping the leak and cleaning up the spill before it reached land.”(New York Times, April 30).

obama used his weekly radio address to the nation on June 5 to tell anyone willing to listen of the many government efforts underway to clean up the oil spill.

Then, those like Anderson Cooper, refuse to acknowledge obama’s responsibility, self-claimed, in cleaning up this mess.

obama’s democratic bud, Sen. Dick Durbin said, “People have been waiting 34 days for British Petroleum to cap this well and stop the damage…excuses don’t count anymore…stop this damage and clean up the mess” (USA Today, May 5).

Or what?  obama’s government will get involved?  That has worked out well so far, hasn’t it , Dickie?

When George W. Bush was President of the United States he would be blamed if a dog catcher in Paducha, KY acted out of sorts; obama uses catchy phrases and a complicit media to avoid the same type of criticisms.

The gulf oil spill is bigger than Paucha, KY and it is obama’s baby.

Judge him so.