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May 27, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 27, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ah, this is just too good.
It's just too good.
Yesterday Obama said plugged a hole.
The DC school district said yes, we can, and went with more powerful condoms.
The students.
And then all of a sudden today we're getting conflicting reports that the top kill method of sludge mud and cement may have worked.
Just hours prior to Obama's first press conference in 309 days.
So Obama, just as he was getting ready to put on a scuba gear.
And plug the hole.
British petroleum appears to have done it.
Obama a month late and a few million dollars short.
His role, let's never forget this.
I don't know what he's gonna do in his press conference about this, but I can guess that he's gonna try to take credit for it.
I told the public, oh, I said, get do it.
Uh not gonna take it anymore.
Hey, today, oh, we got plugged.
Well, that's the way they think of themselves in uh and this administration.
So but his role amounted uh basically bad-mouthing the company while a company was struggling to stop the leak.
It was his first big challenge, and he flunked it.
Now, all of you leftists out there who uh uh get all uptight here about it's BP's problem.
It's British petroleum, why do you have what do you jump on an Obama schedule?
You limited government people, limbaugh like you, and you're demanding government go down there and stop this.
You have no credibility.
Uh-uh-uh ah.
Wait just a second.
You leftists out there got to keep one thing in mind.
By the way, Rush Limbaugh, you know that.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
One thing you leftists have to keep in mind out there is that your guy, this whole administration during the campaign campaigned on what?
Competence.
As opposed to the incompetence of the stupid Bush administration.
You guys were the smartest ever.
You were the ones we had been waiting for.
You were the ones that had all this ability.
You were gonna fix, you were gonna cause the sea levels to start sinking.
You were gonna stop global warming.
You were gonna cure every ill that is out there.
And then here comes an oil spill, and you are powerless.
All you could do is complain and blame British petroleum.
Well, meanwhile, British petroleum tries a number of things.
We're still not sure yet if the top kill method worked, but it appears to have at least had some effect enough enough for uh uh the the regime's leader to go out there and claim credit for it.
But you can't, you know, this is the kind of thing, you know, George W. Bush back in the I looked this up in the in the Exxon Valdez spill.
After 14 days, Bush 41 went out there and nationalized the effort to clean it up.
Now the news is out there today that this is the worst oil spill in American history.
It may be.
It's not the worst oil spill in world history.
The worst oil spill in world history was some odd 30 years ago, the Ishtak.
It's IX T O C Ishtak 1 spill in Mexico, which went on for nine months.
Mexico is still there.
The area of that oil spill is still there, the turtle nesting areas still take place.
And by the way, the Exxon Valdez spill is cleaned up and everything's back to normal there.
Now, in the America I grew up in, this is going to get fixed too.
We'll handle this.
This is not the end of the world, it's not a disaster.
Um with no recourse.
Uh and and plus we have the the most competent, the smartest, post-racial, post-disc, post-I mean, the best, unlike any politician we've ever seen.
If you're gonna portray yourself as that way, if you're gonna portray yourself as able to lower rising sea levels, then you damn well better be able to stop an oil leak.
Well, you can't stop an oil leak in six weeks.
All you can do is throw fingers of blame at people or point fingers of blame at people.
Uh, and then try to move in and take credit uh when BP apparently comes up with a method that works.
We'll see if that happens.
Now, the um the regime leader will have the press conference at 1245 today.
Uh, this is called counter-programming of the EIB network.
I mean, they could have done this at prime time, especially now that all of the season finales are taken.
Well, has American Idol finished?
American Idol was last night, dancing with the Stars is Over.
24 is done.
Lost is done.
I think all the finales are gone, right?
The May sweep.
So he wouldn't have had any problem getting on Primetime.
Wouldn't have had any problem at all getting on Prime Time.
Oh, people want to know what I thought of the finale of 24.
To all of I I got into arguments with all my friends who thought that they were going to kill Jack Bauer off.
I said, there's no way.
They still got to do a movie.
And they can't go back and do a prequel movie.
This show's been on eight years.
The technological advances in those eight years.
They can't go back and use the technology of seven, ten years ago before Jack Bauer even got to CTU.
So they had to keep Jack Bauer, i.e.
Kiefer Sutherland, alive.
I thought it was, I thought it was classic that uh Chloe got the last lines of the series.
Shut it down.
Meaning shut down these cameras, let's not follow Jack anymore, which also meant shut down the show.
Shut it down.
In many ways, I thought this was one of the finest seasons of 24.
Uh in other ways, I was a little bit disappointed with what they how they dehumanized Jack Bauer toward the end of the uh of the series.
But all in all, I thought it was great.
I've still trying to figure out the lost finale.
Uh I still don't understand the sideways flashes.
I now know I've just been explained to me that uh the the uh passengers, all the the the characters all died in the original crash, and that lost meant their souls, not where they were on the island.
And so the whole series was basically about lost souls uh finding themselves, getting back together and seeing their lives had they lived what they would be, and all this and that, which was a surprise.
I wasn't expecting it, but it is what it is.
I'm gonna miss that show.
I'm gonna miss both these shows.
Uh Lost, and I don't watch American Idol because of uh I just don't like amateurs.
I don't care who they are.
Golfers, uh uh college football, I don't like amateurs.
You know, the professional, give me the best.
Uh dancing with the stars, yeah.
The Tudors.
Well, I I tried watching the Tudors out there the first couple seasons.
Uh, but I know that Henry VIII was a big balloon, you know, a balloon belly of a guy, and they've got some stick.
Uh playing Henry the Eighth, Jonathan Reese Jones or Reese Jonathan Reese Myers.
Uh it's I it I'm sure it's it's a fine, fine uh series.
I don't but I just I I've watched it a couple, three times, just uh I don't know, couldn't couldn't get into it.
Anyway, Obama has his presser at uh 1245, a little over 30 minutes from now.
We are not going to carry it live.
We are not going to succumb uh to the regime's attempt to get us to give over what we do here to the regime.
This is clear, a classic case of uh counter-programming the regime trying to get everybody away from this program, and we're not gonna help them succeed in doing that.
So if you want to watch the regime's presser, you can do that, or you can wait for us to cut it up in various sound bites and give you what was important out of it.
I have some questions that I would ask if I were there.
If I were allowed to be in this press conference.
Well, no, I'm not gonna gyp some of it sturdy because running commentary, because I don't know it it would have that wouldn't have to be on the fly and have to be monitoring it just to see what's what's uh what's good.
Maybe we'll do that.
I mean, just for the fun of it.
Well, we could do uh on-the-spot commentary, running commentary while the regime's press conference goes on.
But here's just a couple questions.
Uh just a couple questions.
Um by the way, prime time, I think is not his constituency.
There's a reason Obama's not doing well, prime time is meant to people who work.
You do a prime time press conference because that's when people who are not working, who do work and are are off and can hear you.
You do a press conference in the daytime to reach your constituency.
Uh in Obama's world.
So that's I think uh one of the reasons.
Okay, ten, ten more questions for the vacationer in chief.
And there's a big sob story in the Washington Post today by Ann Cornblut.
I kid you not.
It's a sob story.
Oh, poor Obama when duty calls.
Obama has to put his holidays on hold.
He, how do you how do you get on vacation around here?
Events are conspiring against Obama, is what is written here in Corn Bluetooth.
Events are conspiring against Obama.
Last time he tried to go home the Christmas bomber.
The fruit of kaboom bomber got in the way.
Now it's an oil spill.
It's getting in the way of the uh of his.
Can you imagine any such thing being written about about Bush?
Okay, question number one.
Do you prefer golf or basketball when avoiding the hard work of being president?
Question number two.
Approximately 70% of the American people approve of Arizona's immigration law and want the border sealed.
What do you, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Felipe Collarone know about these matters that we don't?
Number three, you say that you won't rest until every American has a job and the Gulf oil spill is capped and the area cleaned up.
Well, why are you vacationing in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend than returning to Washington for a Paul McCartney concert?
Number four, speaking of Memorial Day, why not commemorate the day at Arlington National Cemetery?
Are you avoiding Arlington due to the fact that you embarrassed yourself there a few years ago when you said on this Memorial Day as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes?
And I see many of them in the audience here today, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Remember him saying that?
He saw many of our fallen heroes in the audience.
Meaning he saw the walking dead.
Remember he said that.
Number five, when you do deliver your Memorial Day remarks, if the word corman pops up on your teleprompter, how will you pronounce the word?
Corman or corpsman.
Number six, did you learn to solve big problems by putting your boot on people's necks from Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Olinsky, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, or Ron Emanuel?
Number seven, when you said to your staff, plug the damn hole.
Was it your impression that BP had not yet thought of that?
And did it take you five weeks to come up with that solution?
What were some of the other ideas you had, if this was your latest and greatest idea?
Uh plug the hole.
Number eight, when it comes to the Gulf Oil spill, would you say that better late than never is your motto?
Or is it why do today what can be done tomorrow?
Number nine, should the American people be saying thank you for the economy and for your response to the Gulf Oil Spill.
Number ten, does the Mexican president ever object to what you tell him to say?
It's El Rushball, and this, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And a limbaugh institute for advanced conservative studies.
All right, they canned the director of the Minerals Management Service, that's MMS, Elizabeth Liz Burnbaum.
Now, two stories either canned her or she quit.
We don't know which.
But guess what?
S. Elizabeth Burnbaum was the editor of Harvard's environmental law review.
Just like Obama was the president of the General Harvard Law Review.
So she was one of these smartest people in the world, one of the Ivy uh Ivy League uh elitists.
Before her appointment to MMS, she was staff director for the committee on House Administration, where she oversaw strategy uh strategy development, budget management, and staff activities for the committee that manages legislative branch agencies.
Anyway, if you have Apple stock, you need to know that the Department of Justice Is aiming at them.
And I knew this was going to happen.
We got the news yesterday that Apple's market cap is now larger than Microsoft's.
And you know what that means.
You know, Microsoft was pursued antitrust-wise by the Department of Justice.
They weren't, they didn't have enough lobbyists in Washington, greasing enough skids, and so they went after Microsoft.
And now it appears that the Department of Justice investigators began asking questions about Apple's business practices involving digital music.
At least three weeks ago, according to multiple music industry sources.
DOJ investigators have interviewed numerous execs at record companies and digital music stores, and according to those with knowledge of the discussions, it's clear investigators are interested in learning whether Apple has employed anti-competitive tactics.
This is what we know about the investigation so far.
By the way, this is some CNET.
DOJ investigators have interviewed executives from the four major music labels and several digital music retailers about how Apple wheedles its iTunes influence.
Part of what investigators are interested in is whether Apple used its market dominance to discourage two of the top record companies from participating in a special Amazon music promotion called the MP3 Daily Deal.
Apple has a history of throwing its weight around the music sector.
Apple's iTunes accounts for 70% of all digital song sales and wields huge power.
Apple has often used that clout to dictate terms to suppliers.
is the major record labels.
You don't need to be able to read the stitches on a fastball.
You don't need to be able to read between the lines to see what's coming here.
Keep a sharp eye on the DOJ's pursuit of Apple.
The feds are after them.
This particular DOJ does not like profit.
They don't like greedy profit.
It's not going to help them at all that Al Gore is on their board of directors.
Isn't gonna matter.
They don't like examples of capitalism working.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Apple just decides to um somehow find a way to deliver music via iTunes to minorities at no cost.
At no charge.
You know, just to make it fair.
Eric Holder.
Uh apparently wasting no time looking into Apple.
He can't look into the Joe Sestack claims, but he can look into Apple.
Keep a sharp eye.
Speaking of uh the oil spill, a column in the New York Post today by Kirsten Powers.
She of the liberal persuasion.
Her column is entitled, Where was Plan A?
And here's the pull quote from the piece.
It also shouldn't be a secret that no matter how many inspections and safety requirements you have, you can't ever completely prevent disasters like this one.
If you are gonna permit offshore drilling, be prepared to respond to a spill.
If he promised us anything, Obama promised us competence.
Instead, we've gotten the Keystone Cups.
This is a uh a body of thinking, uh thought that is starting to permeate uh throughout the political sector, uh, and including even people on the leftist side of things.
There clearly has not been any federal presence here oriented towards solving the problem.
There has been no competence on display.
There's just been a bunch of petulance, finger pointing, blame pointing, and uh demand plugged the dam, ho!
Just plug the house and as I pointed out yesterday, we don't have a leader here, a community agitator and organizer is not a leader.
Oh, everything has gotten done for Obama throughout his life.
Things have been taken care of.
If he's a C student in reality, he got an A or a B, probably.
There's been people around to take care of things.
Now he's in charge.
And even though he promised all this competence, we don't see any of it.
And a lot of people are noticing.
To the audio soundbites Monday afternoon on the House floor.
This is uh Steve Scalise, Republican Congressman from Louisiana.
Our governor over two weeks ago has been asking for the federal government to approve a barrier plan to actually protect our marsh from the oil.
And we're not getting an answer from the federal government.
All we're getting is excuses.
We don't need a finger pointer in chief.
We need somebody who's gonna step up to the plate and actually follow the law and take charge of this and stop not only the oil from flowing, but let our local leaders do what they said they need to do, and they've gotten no response from the White House.
They're not getting the help they need.
And Mr. Scalise was not finished.
He kept on.
We need a quarterback on the field like the law says the president's supposed to be.
He's not supposed to be the commentator in the booth.
It's time to live up to your obligation under the law.
Help us protect our marsh.
If you don't have a plan, we do, but you're not letting us implement our plan.
Get out of our way and approve our plan.
Otherwise you come up with your own.
But this is inexcusable.
And they don't have a plan at the White House other than plug the hole.
What he's referring to here is uh Governor Gendal wanting to build some sand mars, sand bars, essentially, uh miniature islands offshore that would uh soak up the oil before it got to the uh the active shore.
But they need federal permits to do this, and they have asked for federal permits to do this, and they have not received any answers whatsoever.
And they've been very frustrated, and Mr. Scalise here is airing the uh uh the frustration of of many.
In fact, you could say that uh Mr. Scalise and his quotes here could be almost word for word from anybody in Arizona.
If you're not willing to help us here, get out of the way and let us take care of the problem ourselves.
Which they don't want to happen.
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Well, hurricane season uh starts Tuesday, and the drive-by's are over the top excited because all the hurricane predictions out there say it's going to be an above average year.
Uh and they're saying this not because of any expertise, they're thinking it's law of averages.
Well, they're not admitting this.
I'm just I'm analyzing.
Law of averages.
We had a very slow season last year because of an El Nino that has now started to subside.
Although I have to tell you, I was uh I was at a Pebble Beach, boys and girls club uh every two years conducts a golf tournament on the U.S. open course three weeks before the tournament, in this case a month prior.
So we get to play the course as set up for the open, the narrow fairways and the impossible rough.
And I have to tell you, we played uh four days out there.
We played uh well, we played Cypress Point, and we played uh Monterey Bay Peninsula, Monterey Peninsula, we played spyglass and pebble.
Folks, it was cold.
It was fifty, fifty-five degrees.
You got down to the holes on the ocean, the wind off the ocean is thirty miles an hour.
I mean, it was winter time out there in May.
Uh and they said that we it was sunny weekend, and this it was the first sunny weekend they'd had as long as time as they could remember out there.
Um the last thing anybody was thinking about there was global warming.
All this was uh all going on.
So, and the effects of El Nino, as far as they're concerned, are still happening out there, regardless.
State control media is ecstatic.
Hurricane season starts June first on Tuesday, and they are beside themselves with the possibility of disaster.
So I myself am going to make my own hurricane forecast.
I can do better than the experts.
I can come up with a forecast that will be more accurate than anything the experts are predicting.
Here it is.
We will have between zero and forty named storms.
Zero to forty of which will become hurricanes.
Zero to forty of which will become major hurricanes.
That's the official hurricane forecast from the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Okay, we're counting down eight and a half minutes to the Obama press conference.
And after the success of plug the damn hole, apparently the topkill methods had some success.
So the regime will have been out there uh uh uh just pounding everybody with the notion that yesterday Obama said plug the damn hoe, plug the hoe, and lo and behold, a hole was plugged.
So now we can expect a new strategy for Afghanistan.
Just win the damn war.
Just win it.
And a new immigration policy.
Just fence the damn border.
Just build a fence.
And fiscal responsibility, a new policy there, just stop the deficits.
Just stop all the deficits.
That's all it takes is pronouncements from Obama.
Plug the damn hoe and the holes plugged.
Win the war.
Afghanistan will be over.
Build a fence.
Immigration problem solved.
Stop the damn deficits.
And the debt problem.
So by the way, stock market up crazily today, 200 points.
Last time I looked, everybody's wondering why.
What's happening?
The answer is, ladies and gentlemen, the Chinese have reassured everybody that they're not going to bail on European debt.
And this is causing everybody to go, oh, thank God for the Chicoms.
Does this not tell us how much they own us?
Stocks rocketed higher today after the Chicoms reassured investors that they don't plan to sell the European debt that they hold.
Concerns about debt problems in Europe have pounded stocks around the world this month.
Traders were initially worried that banks would get hit if weaker countries like Greece, Portugal, or Spain defaulted on their debt.
Now that a nearly one trillion dollar European Union rescue plan is coming together, the more recent fear has been that budget cuts in European countries will slow a global recovery.
But you D. Chang, principal of ACE Investment Strategists in McLean, Virginia, said investors know that the problem in Europe will come uh will take some time in solving.
Chiang said the uncertainty about whether the U.S. economy will continue to rebound is keeping many traders from making long-term bets on stocks.
But the fact that the Chinese promised to stay involved in their European debt investments has reassured everybody.
But this this is scary.
The ChICOM's owners, what if they decide to sell it on a whim?
Then what happens?
So the stock market up today, based on what the ChICOMs say.
To the phones we go.
We'll start in Cincinnati.
Jonathan, you're next.
You're up first, in fact, on the EIB network.
Great to have you here, sir.
And hello.
Hello, how are you doing, Rush?
Very well, sir.
Well, uh, I'm a long-time listener, and I never thought I'd have to do this, but I'm calling to tell you that you're wrong about something.
What's that?
You are wrong about the lost finale.
Oh, well, I'm not surprised.
I still can't figure it out.
If you know what it was, tell me.
Well, uh, you know, this is my take.
Uh, you know, I'm not a writer, but uh uh the the stuff on the island uh it happened.
Everything that happened on the island happened.
And um, so spoiler alert for anybody haven't watched it yet, obviously, but everything happened, the the alternate timeline um happened afterwards, after everyone who had been involved with the event from the island had had died.
Uh, and it was so that they could find each other uh and move on to, you know, whatever.
Wait a second.
Wait a second, you're going too fast for me here.
Sure.
So the original crash happens, the survivors did survive it.
They were not dead then.
Absolutely.
No, no, well, then when did they die?
They well, some of them died on the island that we we saw their death, some of them died later, some of them got off the island, uh, lived out their lives, and uh, you know, maybe died of old age later, but at some point all of them were dead.
You know, whether it be from the island, they died on the island, or they got off the island and died of old age.
Well, that's a cheap way out.
Yeah.
I mean, that's if that if you're right, that's a cheap way out.
That's that's they didn't answer any questions then.
They just ended with more questions than they have than they started with.
Well, that's what a lot of people think.
But uh, but yeah, I I yeah, my that's my take, and I I believe it's accurate.
I believe they they did survive the crash, but uh, you know, they they uh I'm gonna be able to do that.
Look, there was a nuclear ex there was a nuclear Explosion on that island at some point.
That had to wipe everybody out.
Then there was this time machine that got everybody uh whacked out 30 years behind times.
It was hard to keep up with.
Then you had the sideways flashes, in addition to the forward flashes.
And by time all that the sideways flashes started happening this season, I couldn't keep up with it.
I I didn't know what where they were going with it, and the finale didn't tell me.
Now maybe I'm too dumb to figure it all out.
But it seems to me that a lot of stuff in the first five seasons was pointless if the the given the way they wrap this up.
But again, I I'm I could be too dense uh to uh to figure all this out.
No, I'm I'm not one who watches television shows hooked up to an IQ meter.
You know, I I I I watch television shows to be entertained.
I don't look at them as big think pieces, although this one did have me thinking, but apparently uh everybody knows I'm one of the smartest guys around, and and I happily and proudly admit here I lost track of this one.
I thought I bought the hype.
I thought season six, the last season was gonna tie all this together.
What it tied together was they all died, and they had to gather someplace where in a church, uh finally found each other in the afterlife, purgatory however, and then moved on to wherever.
The afterlife took him.
They had to do so together.
In the meantime, they got married, they had boyfriends and girlfriends, had kids that didn't live, kids that did live, uh, kids that were born, but it was it was like Alice in Wonderland.
Which I still don't understand that either.
So maybe I'm off the beaten path.
Okay, I'm being inundated now by lost officionados, who tell me if you want to understand the finale, you have to understand purgatory.
It was just purgatory, but the producers didn't want to admit they're Christian or allude to it.
Purgatory.
Fine and dandy.
I'll dig into this analysis when I have time.
Right now, I don't have time.
I'm hosting the program, the uh most listened-to radio talk show in the country.
Obama, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you know this, is either going to announce today at the press conference or has announced a ban on all offshore drilling until 2011, including in Alaska.
Including in Alaska.
Because of what happened here in the Gov. And this banning of future offshore drilling is a lot like the way he's using financial reform to make sure we never have another recession.
He is in fact destroying the industry.
He's going to destroy the financial services industry in order to make sure we never have another recession.
So how do you how do you make sure we don't have another oil spill?
You ban drilling.
And I just want to remind you, you shouldn't be surprised.
April 1st, I said this on this program.
This is a head fake.
This is designed to show Obama's a moderate guy.
Position him uh as a moderate in favor of developing America's natural resources.
It's an attempt to draw rhinos into a cap and tax agreement, and it's no accident that Obama is going to Maine today to sell the health care bill.
Why sell the health care bill?
Why after the fact?
What's the big deal?
Well, very simple.
Two names, Olympia Snow and Susan Collins.
This offshore drilling, this is designed to uh mollify swing voters by misleading them again.
I think it's a test of political instinct, a test for the hopelessly gullible.
This is just temporary.
It's it's like the nuclear plants.
He's not gonna do it, and he's not gonna drill.
He's not gonna do it, not gonna drill.
He announced a limited offshore drilling.
Now it's all canceled.
Now all future offshore drilling canceled, including in Alaska.
And if you were listening here on April 1st, you knew it.
You heard it.
I wonder if uh April 23rd, 2009, the Charlie Rose show, David Brooks of the New York Times is on, uh, and they were discussing um the competence of Obama.
Charlie Rose said, Do you think you can argue that being A community organizer was very good training for being a future president.
The biggest shock to me, I thought the guy's 47.
The guy's barely been in Washington.
Can he run an effective administration?
Yes.
He has run in a tremendously effective, efficient managerial administration.
That is the biggest surprise.
And I think the biggest story of the first 100 days, because if he didn't do that, if he didn't have the essential level of competence, nothing else would matter.
People would not trust him.
But he is a competent manager.
And as David Brooks, one of the smart elites on supposedly our side, discussing the competence of Obama, which today everybody is questioning.
What competence?
Where was the competence that they all promised us when it comes to the oil spill?
The competence of lowering the sea levels.
We're going to cure every ill simply by virtue of Obama being present.
And April 23rd, same show.
Here's a montage of Charlie Rose and David Brooks talking about how smart Obama is.
This White House is very much an intellectual hot house, intellectual power.
The self-confidence and the intelligence.
There are certain intellects which are like fluorescent.
And the president is one of them.
He seems to be like Michael Jordan with 30 seconds to go.
He wants the ball.
He seems to be like Joe Montana with two minutes to go.
Emails him, you're like Michael Jordan, and Obama emails him back, just give me the ball.
I didn't even know that.
Yeah, there you go.
I mean, I'll tell you this this is.
I uh I feel like I need to wear a rubber suit.
Been listening to the soundbite for fear I'll be infected by all the waste.
That is uh that's being delivered.
All right, the press conference has started our microphones are let's jippa just see what he's saying here.
Just for a minute.
To try to stop the leak.
This involves plugging the well with densely packed mud to prevent any more oil from escaping.
And he never heard of it until yesterday.
Given the complexity of this procedure and the depth of the leak, this procedure offers no guarantee of success.
Just exploring any reasonable strategies to try and save the Gulf from a spill that may otherwise last until the relief wells are finished.
And that's a process that could take months.
The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort.
It's a lie.
As far as I'm concerned, BP is responsible for this horrific disaster, and we will hold them fully accountable on behalf of the United States as well as the people and communities victimized by this tragedy.
We will demand that ever they pay every dime they owe for the damage they've done and the painful losses that they've caused.
And we will continue to take full advantage of the unique technology and expertise they have to help stop this leak.
You believe this is no mistake.
BP is operating at our direction.
Every key decision and action they take must be approved by us in advance.
Designated Admiral Thad Allen, who has nearly four decades of experience responding to such disasters as the National Incident Commander.
And if he orders BP to do something to respond to this disaster, they are legally bound to do it.
So for example, when they said they would drill one relief well to stem this leak, we demanded a backup and ordered them to drill two.
And they are in the process of the Where's all this information been?
As we devise strategies to try and stop this leak, we're also relying on the brightest minds and most advanced technology in the world.
Where are they?
Relying on a team of scientists and engineers from our own national laboratories and from many other nations.
A team led by our energy secretary and Nobel Prize winning physicist, Stephen Chu.
Oh, relying on experts who've actually dealt with oil spills from across the globe.
Good.
Though none this channel.
God.
The federal government is also directing the effort to contain and clean up the damage from the spill, which is now the largest effort of its kind.
This is a crock.
The governor of Louisiana can't even get permission to build some sandbars down there to soak up the oil.
Roll in the response effort.
And I will be discussing this further when I make my second trip to Louisiana tomorrow.
But so far, we have about 20,000 people in the region who are working around the clock to contain and clean up this oil.
All right, that's enough.
That's enough.
That's enough.
That that's that this is this.
I don't believe a word of this.
Twenty thousand people working around the clock?
How come nothing's been done?
All we've ever heard about is what BP's doing, and now we're told today that BP hadn't done anything without having been given permission by Obama and uh if uh Nobel Prize winning physicist Stephen Jew.
Obama has not been on the case.
All he has done is badmouth the company, which he continues to do today.
While the company struggle to stop the leak, they're gonna pay it all.
We're gonna make sure they pay for everything, and then some it's their responsibility.
And he goes on to praise all the efforts that uh that they have engaged.
I I I can't take it.
This is why we said we were going to cover this thing front to back, and we're not.
There you have it.
Obama just said, cancel everything.
Cancel all the drilling off Alaska.
Cancel all the new leases in the Gulf off the coast of Virginia.
Cancel it all.
Destroy the oil industry.
He said BP is operating at our direction, which is bizarre.
If that's true, then BP wouldn't need permission from the Coast Guard, anybody else to do what they're doing, right?
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