Re: obama losing the war on the oil spill

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Munn
David Brooks on the mess that is the cleanup effort: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/opinion/18brooks.html?hp On Tuesday, The Times ran a front-page article on the chaotic efforts to clean up the oil washing around the Gulf of Mexico. Campbell Robertson reported on an incident in which boats t

Re: obama losing the war on the oil spill

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Munn
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > > Honestly how difficult would it have been to tell the crews to bring their > life vests and fire extinguishers if they were in that big a hurry to get the > boats out on the water? > The story did not say whether there were vests and fire

RE: obama losing the war on the oil spill

2010-06-18 Thread Sisk, Kris
: cf-community Subject: Re: obama losing the war on the oil spill On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Maureen wrote: > > The President can't win this war of words with Jindal because he will > be painted as the villain no matter what he does. Jindal is more > concerned about making

Re: obama losing the war on the oil spill

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Munn
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Maureen wrote: > > The President can't win this war of words with Jindal because he will > be painted as the villain no matter what he does. Jindal is more > concerned about making political points than he is about getting the > job done right. That's just not tr

Re: obama losing the war on the oil spill

2010-06-17 Thread Maureen
The President can't win this war of words with Jindal because he will be painted as the villain no matter what he does. Jindal is more concerned about making political points than he is about getting the job done right. The Coast Guard shut down the barges to make sure they were in compliance. I