Obama Looking for 'Ass to Kick' for Oil Spill

It's funny when obama tries to talk tough. He has already proven that he has no spine, bowing and scraping to every lesser world leader on the planet. If it came right down to it, my 15 year old daughter could stomp a mud hole in his ass...

If he wants to know were to begin with the ass kickings, maybe he should start with his own ass. His response has been excellent in his own mind, but in reality he hasn't done anything. The Gulf States have been begging for money, resources and help for over a month, what have they gotten? Stupid comments from a guy not fit for command.

You can bet, there are some folks over at BP who could use a good ass kicking, but this is not all their fault. Our federal government is just as culpable in this mess as anyone. Last year the federal minerals management agency issued the Deepwater Horizon rig a safety award. It's safety track record was so good that there were big gaps between inspections, inspections that are supposed to be performed at least once a month.

There is plenty of blame to go around and obama may not be as much to blame for the explosion or the leak, but he owns his piss poor response...

From Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says his talks with Gulf fishermen and oil spill experts are not an academic exercise. They're "so I know whose ass to kick."

One target for the presidential foot: Tony Hayward, the embattled chief executive of BP.

Obama was asked by Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today" about Hayward's past comments that "I want my life back," that the Gulf was "a big ocean" and that "the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest."

"He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements," Obama said, according to excerpts released by NBC.

The interview was to air Tuesday. NBC aired portions and put out some excerpts Monday night.

It was part of a stepped-up White House effort to show Obama is actively engaged in dealing with the worst oil spill in the nation's history, and to distance itself from the London-based oil giant, formerly known as British Petroleum. Polls have shown a majority of Americans believe Obama has handled the crisis poorly.

The administration isn't even using the same figures as BP any more for how much oil is flowing from the blown-out well and how much is being captured.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told a White House briefing Monday that a cap on the damaged oil well is now keeping up to 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the Gulf, up sharply from previous amounts.

But his figures conflicted slightly with BP's numbers. In a statement, BP put the amount being captured at 466,200 gallons. Allen said the government was using its own flow-rate calculations and no longer wanted to rely on those from BP.

Obama met Monday with his Cabinet and Allen for a briefing on the oil spill, which began April 20 with an explosion and fire that killed 11 workers on a BP-leased rig.

In remarks after that meeting, Obama sought to reassure the nation that the Gulf Coast would "bounce back" from the spill -- but not without time, effort and reimbursement from BP. BP is the majority owner of the oil well that blew, but other energy companies are also partners and will bear proportionate financial responsibility.

Obama stepped up his rhetoric with NBC's Lauer while on a trip to Kalamazoo, Mich., to deliver a high-school commencement address.

He strongly defended his role in dealing with the crisis, including his three visits to the region since the spill began.

"I was down there a month ago before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," Obama said.

Obama said he has talked to a variety of "experts" on the oil spill in addition to the fishermen.

"I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers -- so I know whose ass to kick," the president said.