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Larry Kudlow served in the Reagan administration..his RW politics are no secret.
What kind of audience do you expect for a guy like that?
Kudlow started his career at Federal Reserve Bank of New York and worked at the OMB during the Reagan years. He's a sharp guy and normally attracts a sophisticated audience, often with different points of view about the economy, which was why I so surprised by some of the callers.
Well something prompted him to finally act. It's better he been seen in LA, AL and MISS than attending some basketball dinner.
Also good to hear he finally deployed some assistance to the gulf to help with cleanup.
I don't consider 30+ days "nearly instantaneous" as you do florida.bob for finally doing more than finger pointing on TV.
Ummm... Federal support has been on the scene since the first day - Coast Guard, engineeers, scientists, etc...
You really shouldn't spread false rumors. Obama was on top of this from the beginning. Being a private sector mistake and considering the feds don't have the tools BP does to fix it, there just wasn't a lot more he could do.
To answer the OP - absurd. The extremists are trying to craft a false narrative and skew everything around it. Extreme liberals did it to Bush. I guess presidents just have to tolerate that level of ignorance.
Yes, I definitely believe that Obama is using this disaster to further his agenda of destroying "Big Oil" and gaining support for "green energy" and here's why. I asked a geologist friend of mine, whose entire career has been spent in the oil industry, if oil-eating bacteria were being used to clean up the oil. His reply was yes, BP had been doing that but "the feds made them stop"....said it "might harm the wildlife". Like DUH.....and the oil itself isn't going to destroy the wildlife? I think the Obama administration is insidiously trying to make the damage worse so public opinion will swing around to support Cap and Trade and steer us away from dependence on oil.
The Governor is the first line of defense for the people of a state. Perhaps Governor Jindal could have expected BP to have more contingencies in place just in case. If an oil well needs a blow out apparatus then a chance of a blow out exist. In the oil industries revenues flowing into the state speak louder than moral obligations that should of been demanded of a company up front. who lets a company come into a state with no back up plan to protect the lively hoods of its people, not the president.
But I was listening to economist Larry Kudlow's radio show this morning and I was astonished at the number of people calling in claiming Obama was just following the Cloward/Piven and Saul Alinsky method for the destroying the economy.
I just think Obama is a terrible manager and has no one on his staff good enough to help him. Surround yourself with academics and you get a lot of pithy talking points, but these folks couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag, much less a crisis the magnitude of this oil spill.
I agree 100% with your assessment.
This guy was a good campaigner, but none of this "hopey changey" crap translates into knowing what he's doing. He's surrounded himself with those just like him. Folks that may have a college education, but aren't leaders, don't have the pair that it requires to make tough decisions and are generally so far over their head that they'll continue to make things worse and worse.
They campaigned and won on making people feel good, but they have NO idea how to run a country or respond to emergency. Their first and only solution is to try and find someone to blame. They're good at that. They can find all sorts of people to blame, but can't seem to do anything beyond that.
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