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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 745105" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>My Fox Friends keep repeating false suggestions that no international aid has been used in response to the Gulf oil spill because President Obama has not waived the Jones Act, even after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs informed them that this was not the case. Indeed, there are currently 15 foreign-flagged vessels in the Gulf responding to the spill -- each of which reportedly did not require Jones Act waivers....</p><p> </p><p>The idea that Obama is mishandling the crisis and that its his fault is much too important to let the truth get in the way. Notice how this will continue to be repeated even after it has been debunked. Unfair and unbalanced!</p><p>Blaming Obama and criticizing his response is particularly important because this disaster is potentially way more damaging to conservative ideology and leadership. </p><p></p><p>This is clearly situation where trusting the corporate governance to be competent and to look out for the public interest has failed. It also gives us an example of how the public, through our government, ends up being responsible for private sector irresponsibility. If we are going to expect leadership from the government to fix the disaster, then government is also responsible to regulate to prevent the disaster. </p><p></p><p>Also the oil damage destroys the libertarian notion that ecological problems are really property losses and should be rectified through the courts as property losses. Some things can't be fixed during our lifetimes if ever. </p><p></p><p>They want to keep drilling the narrative (no pun intended) that government is always the problem, no matter what. Yea, they want to make Obama the bogeyman here to distract their audiences from the fact that industry can't regulate itself. Reagan was wrong the whole time and the financial disaster, the Virginia mining disaster, and this oil spill are all proof of that and Republicans know that, so they have to keep scapegoating our President to keep their audiences distracted from the fact.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 745105, member: 9859"] My Fox Friends keep repeating false suggestions that no international aid has been used in response to the Gulf oil spill because President Obama has not waived the Jones Act, even after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs informed them that this was not the case. Indeed, there are currently 15 foreign-flagged vessels in the Gulf responding to the spill -- each of which reportedly did not require Jones Act waivers.... The idea that Obama is mishandling the crisis and that its his fault is much too important to let the truth get in the way. Notice how this will continue to be repeated even after it has been debunked. Unfair and unbalanced! Blaming Obama and criticizing his response is particularly important because this disaster is potentially way more damaging to conservative ideology and leadership. This is clearly situation where trusting the corporate governance to be competent and to look out for the public interest has failed. It also gives us an example of how the public, through our government, ends up being responsible for private sector irresponsibility. If we are going to expect leadership from the government to fix the disaster, then government is also responsible to regulate to prevent the disaster. Also the oil damage destroys the libertarian notion that ecological problems are really property losses and should be rectified through the courts as property losses. Some things can't be fixed during our lifetimes if ever. They want to keep drilling the narrative (no pun intended) that government is always the problem, no matter what. Yea, they want to make Obama the bogeyman here to distract their audiences from the fact that industry can't regulate itself. Reagan was wrong the whole time and the financial disaster, the Virginia mining disaster, and this oil spill are all proof of that and Republicans know that, so they have to keep scapegoating our President to keep their audiences distracted from the fact. [/QUOTE]
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