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RUSH: David Axelrod was on Good Morning America today. George Stephanopoulos: ‘Will this be Obama\u2019s Katrina? Should the federal and state governments have done more and earlier?\u2019<\/p>\n

AXELROD: This is always the case in Washington that whenever something like this happens, the political speculation sets in. Now, I\u2019m not concerned about that. What I\u2019m concerned about is that we do every single thing we can to remediate this problem, to stop the flow, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t it comforting to know that this guy, Axelrod, is the leading expert here on oil wells and rigs. So he\u2019s not afraid this will be Obama\u2019s Katrina, and the reason is because Axelrod controls the media. Remember, the media was out there saying, ‘Bush hates black people.\u2019 You had all kinds of elected Democrats during Katrina, ‘Bush hates black people, Bush wants black people to die, Bush wants New Orleans to be half empty, blacks moving out of the city and out of the state, Bush wants this.\u2019 And Axelrod said that\u2019s what always happens. It doesn\u2019t always happen, Mr. Axelrod. Your guys always get a pass. <\/p>\n

Now, there are some State-Controlled Media today that are trying to do stories on this, there are a couple of them, one is ABC\u2019s The Note: ‘Slick Waters: Heckuva Dilemma, As Sludge Sticks to Politics and Policy — While our eyes gazed downward at Florida, what if the biggest political story of the week was creeping up toward the Gulf Coast? Like the scale of the environmental impact, the political impact has the potential to get worse with the sticky, deadly mess that\u2019s already lapping onto shore. The Obama administration, like the rest of the country, was a beat behind. It took eight days before we began to see the full efforts of the federal government brought to bear.\u2019 Can you believe ABC is reporting that? Eight days. I mean Bush flew over Katrina on day two. FEMA was on their way down there. <\/p>\n

Calvin Woodward in the Associated Press here, eight people to write this one: ‘A Containable Accident, Then Suddenly A Crisis — Suddenly, everything changed. For days, as an oil spill spread in the Gulf of Mexico, BP assured the government the plume was manageable, not catastrophic.\u2019 Oh! This is new. We\u2019re going to blame Big Oil not telling Obama the truth. They hid it from him. We were all watching the slick on TV but Obama never saw it because BP was not telling him the truth. Yeah, right. By the way, whatever happened to putting all this stuff on fire? Two days ago all I saw all day was, ‘Coast Guard getting ready for controlled burns of oil on surface of sea.\u2019 They waited too long, it got too windy. I\u2019m just an average, ordinary run-of-the-mill layman on stuff like this, but it seems to me if you start this fire, these controlled burns of oil while they\u2019re moving ashore, if they don\u2019t fully burn out before they get to store you\u2019ve got a double problem. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got more than oil-coated birds. You got oil-coated birds on fire. Yeah. Prince William Sound times ten, Exxon Valdez. And Obama didn\u2019t know. I shoulda known. British Petroleum lied to Obama. ‘Government scientists realized the leak was five times larger than they had been led to believe…\u2019 Of course BP lied again. Ahem. ‘… and days of lulling statistics and reassuring words gave way Thursday to an all-hands-on-deck emergency response. … On Thursday, President Barack Obama set in motion a larger federal mobilization, pledging to deploy ‘every single available resource\u2019…\u2019 And, of course, we see it, do we not? ‘…to the area and ordering his disaster and environmental leaders to get down there in person. Only a few days after the Coast Guard assured the country there was ‘ample time\u2019 to protect the coast if oil came ashore, warnings from the government were newly alarming.\u2019<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s two reports. You got ABC, which is pretty head on, pretty straight. Here\u2019s six people at the AP, a containable accident and suddenly a crisis — hint, hint — it\u2019s all because British Petroleum didn\u2019t tell Obama. Obama is the only one who did not know the severity of this. Here\u2019s more Axelrod. Stephanopoulos said, ‘How about the broader policy implications? Several of the president\u2019s allies, Senator Nelson of Florida, have said that right now the president\u2019s call to expand oil drilling should be suspended until the investigation\u2019s complete. Do you agree with that?\u2019<\/p>\n

AXELROD: Let\u2019s understand what the president has said. All he has said is he\u2019s not going to continue the moratorium on drilling. But he hasn\u2019t — no additional drilling has been authorized and none will until we find out what happened here. No domestic drilling in new areas is gonna go forward until there is a adequate review of what\u2019s happened here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Meanwhile, the Chinese are drilling in the Gulf, the Russians are drilling in the Gulf in association with the Cubans. The Vietnamese are drilling in the Gulf. The Angolans are drilling for oil in the Gulf, and they\u2019re not shutting down. <\/p>\n

By the way, speaking of Vietnam. Folks, I don\u2019t know if you know this but ‘Vietnam marked the 35th anniversary of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War with a grand military parade today through the former Saigon, with the government basking more in its economic achievements than its historic military defeat of the United States. Some 50,000 invitees, many waving red and gold ruling party flags, crowded the parade route. They marked the day that North Vietnamese tanks smashed through the gates of the former Presidential Palace in Saigon and ousted the US-backed South Vietnam government — the culmination of one of the most seismic military achievements since World War II.\u2019 This is the AP praising the military acumen of the North Vietnamese. Now, there\u2019s no evidence that John Kerry was there, and I wonder why. You know, he served in Vietnam. And where was Bill Clinton? Where was Obama? I mean this is made to order. This is the kind of ceremony they have to have the current crop of Democrats present \u2019cause it makes the US look horrible, which is what they\u2019re after, what they\u2019re about. I got a new name for the Democrat Party, by the way. I\u2019ll share it with you later.<\/a><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Louisiana National Guard was mobilized to fight the oil spill threatening the fragile coastal ecosystem. Folks, we were joking about this and treating it a little lightheartedly, but eight days went by and Obama didn\u2019t do anything. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we\u2019ve got the Haiti situation, all we\u2019re told that, ‘Yeah, this is a different administration, we\u2019re going to go in there, we\u2019re going to fix that problem, we\u2019re going to fix it up, everybody is gonna get relief.\u2019 Nothing\u2019s happening in Haiti. <\/p>\n

Eight days. Nothing was done to stop this oil slick or to prepare the people can you blame the people of Louisiana? Now it\u2019s headed for Florida and people there are a little panicked in its path. I\u2019ve mentioned this earlier on in the program, but seriously, here we have a president who obviously does not like the job. He doesn\u2019t like running the bureaucracy, managing it, being the chief executive to see that these things that the government is literally there to do get done. Instead he\u2019s totally focused on advancing his agenda, transforming our culture and our society, raising taxes, redistributing wealth, all of these other things, and nobody is at all upset about it. I mean, Bush had flown over Katrina days before Obama did anything about this. FEMA was down there as soon as they could get in, and still Bush was beat up, ‘Bush hates black people.\u2019 Look, there\u2019s still black people down there, can we say that Obama doesn\u2019t like \u2019em? <\/p>\n

Paul Krugman in the New York Times on his blog today tried to make a satirical statement, ‘Just wait, just wait \u2019til the Republicans start blaming the oil slick on Obama.\u2019 Uh, Paul, we haven\u2019t blamed the oil slick on Obama, but you did blame the hurricane on Bush. You blamed the hurricane on Bush, and you blamed global warming for the hurricane and you blamed Bush for not caring. You people on the left obviously do not hear yourselves. Here is last night The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, but Jim Lehrer wasn\u2019t there. The fill-in anchor was Jeffrey Brown. He spoke with correspondent Tom Bearden about the oil spill in the Gulf. The question, ‘You\u2019re hearing some anger from people about the level of speed of response?\u2019<\/p>\n

BEARDEN: There\u2019s great concern among some people that this is, at least in the early stages, a repeat of the lack of response that occurred in Hurricane Katrina. The president of Plaquemines Parish says he\u2019s very afraid that there\u2019s a lack of coordination and leadership being exhibited here, much the same way he saw occurred in Hurricane Katrina, and things are just not happening fast enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, not happening fast enough. Obama\u2019s not doing anything, we went through the timeline, he\u2019s not doing anything. He addressed it today for 30 seconds and then spent the next three minutes touting this so-called great report on economic growth the past quarter. On MessNBC today Bill Nelson, Democrat, Florida, was asked, ‘We got news the White House is saying no oil drilling in new areas will go forward until a review of this spill is finished. Are you satisfied with that?\u2019<\/p>\n

NELSON: No, and they\u2019ve gotta go further. They\u2019ve gotta suspend their five-year plan for exploration and seismic testing until we get to the bottom of this and find out what happened. Now, as the White House looks down the line, it wants a climate change bill later on this year, Lindsey Graham was insisting that there\u2019s going to be offshore drilling. I think that\u2019s dead on arrival.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And just as our first caller of the day from Houston said, ‘Yeah, and they\u2019re just happy as they can be in the White House about this,\u2019 just rubbing their hands together in glee. As we head into the summer driving season, is it reasonable to expect, ladies and gentlemen, that we might get close to four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline? They start talking about the size of this spill equaling that of the Exxon Valdez if they\u2019re unable to stem the tide of this leak for the next ten days or so. And here\u2019s a Democrat, Senator from Florida who wants no progress whatsoever on energy. So the next question, ‘Mary Landrieu points out these spills are very rare, a spill rate of .001%, most of the time oil is produced and transported safely. What do you say to that?\u2019<\/p>\n

NELSON: Well, look at the potential magnitude and why did not the backed-up safety mechanisms work? This thing is moving east now toward Florida. I can tell you, people down here are panicked. Our tourism, our pristine beaches, our bays and estuaries where so much of marine life is spawned, our military testing and training area, the largest for the military in the world, all of these things are threatened.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay, what are we going to do about it, Senator Nelson? I mean the leader of the regime is out there touting his great economy, and he\u2019s sending Janet Napolitano — he-he-he-he — to do what? He\u2019s sending SWAT teams down there, the Justice Department sending lawyers down there. Louisiana is dispatching the National Guard. What\u2019s being done about it? Doesn\u2019t seem very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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