Thin-skinned Golfer-in-Chief “chews out” Parish President for having the nerve to criticize him (while he golfs)
PolitiPage.com
5/29/2010
Via ABC News…
GRAND ISLE, La. — Billy Nungesser, the president of Plaquemines Parish whose frustrations about the federal government response have been featured prominently on TV in the past few weeks, told ABC News that in the private meeting the president had with local leaders here today, President Obama “chewed me out.”
Nungesser, a Republican, told ABC News that President Obama “told me that we need to communicate.”
He said that he told President Obama that after his first visit to the region a few weeks ago, “We got the jack-up boats done cause of you. And you spent more time with us than any other president. But since then, it was a bottleneck. Things weren’t getting done. All of it was sitting in the marsh.”
Nungesser said the president told him, “‘Well you know, if you can’t get it done through the chain of command’ – and he’s made some changes; we’ve got a guy on the ground now that can make decisions — he said, ‘you pick up the phone and call the White House. And, if you can’t get me on the phone, then you can go blast me.’”
Remember, he’s been right on top of things…
Damning timeline at PolitiPage.com, too…
We’re wondering whether the President also took the time to chastise Bill Maher and James Carville. And, according to PolitiPage, Chris “Leg Tingle” Matthews opined: “Matthews, speaking during an appearance with Jay Leno on NBC’s ‘Tonight Show,’ said Obama’s response ‘scares me. He’s been acting a little like a Vatican Observer here. When is he actually going to do something?’ ”
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At the time of the accident, Deepwater Horizon was working on BP’s Mississippi Canyon Block 252, referred to as the Macondo Prospect. The rig was last located 50 miles (80 km) off the southeast coast of Louisiana. In October 2009, BP extended the contract for Deepwater Horizon by three years, to begin in September 2010. [Emphasis CAJ] The lease contract was worth US $544 million, a rate of $496,800 per day.
This makes it clear to us George W. Bush is to blame.
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