Nice try at pinning the BP disaster on Obama, it was a direct result of Cheney/Bush handing the store over to the sleazy Texas oil industry, Kenny-boy and the rest on Jan. 21, 2001! The energy cronies of these creeps WROTE energy policy and Bush rubberstamped it! All regulation and oversight was put on an 8-year hold while these pigs filled their coffers and plotted their offshore leases to drill baby drill. Bush&Co. should be prosecuted for their many high crimes--and the BP disaster is prime evidence of just one of those crimes. So yes, this mess is George's Katrina II. I have predicted that we will be feeling the pain of their malfeasance of office for decades, and so we will! To those in the U.S. Senate who sat and watched this evil moron steal the White House and did nothing--thanks a whole!

Hahahaha, a "government Americans deserve?" Really Bloomie? You fucking asshole! According to you, "a government Americans deserve" is one that bails out Jeb Bush's financial shenanigans, right?

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/14/us/a-savings-and-loan-bailout-and-bush-s-son-jeb.html?pagewanted=1?pagewanted=1

Not only is his name Bush, he's also a scumbag. With the economic meltdown still burning most Americans, too soon to bring this clown on stage. Obama would have a field day running against him.

I used to love Obama but after all that has happened I'm actually missing the Bush days. I never thought I would ever say that. Obama's oil spill is just wrong. It's just like Bush with Katrina.

You're so full of shit. The oil spill is Bush's SECOND Katrina. It's his administration's policies and the corruption of the MMS that led to this disaster.

Second, there is NOTHING that Obama can do about it. Once the oil is in the water, it's over. The thing with oil is you have to keep it out of the water to begin with. The Exxon Valdez spill was the biggest until now. Billions of dollars were spent, tens of thousands of people participated in the cleanup effort. It was the largest cleanup ever. And despite all that, barely 8% of the oil was estimated to have been cleaned up. Maybe we should bring all our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan and deploy them to the clean up of the coast. Even then, with the amount of oil STILL spewing into the water, it will be futile.

The ONLY effective thing that can be done is to STOP the oil from getting into the water. It's been almost two months now, and no one has any answers. What exactly do you think Obama can, could have or should have done about it? The best and brightest are working on it, but no one has any solutions yet. TWO MONTHS. Where's your free market solutions now? Maybe we can plug the hole with the works of Ayn Rand. Please, keep your stupid bullshit misinformed opinions to yourself.

Obama opened up the east coast for drilling oil. That is HUGE. Bush never did that.

agreed. I was rather surprised when it was done.

(I hope I don't get yelled out.)

*put hands over ears and sings Mary Had a Little Lamb*

All new drilling has been suspended.

@EastRiver - QQ

Walking away and declaring yourself the winner doesn't mean you won.

I haven't walked away from anything. You've added nothing to the discussion. All you've done is whine about how butthurt you are. Still waiting for you to make some kind of argument. But you won't because you don't have one. All you can do is tell me to shut up, because you have nothing to say.

You have entirely missed the point. I'm not trying to engage you on the topic of the oil spill. There is no point in trying. Unless posters agree with your narrow point of view you tell them to shut up. Don't pretend that you're interested in a discussion.

More whining. It's pathetic.

LOL. Call it whatever you want. You just made my point.

You must also be an expert at the "I Know You Are But What Am I" defense. Loser.

LOL. I called you out for telling everyone else to shut up and then you threw a tantrum like a five year old child when I told you to do the same. You call me a whiner yet you keep on whining. So, if the shoe fits. . . .

What does that have to do with this? He authorized new drilling less than three weeks before this disaster. The Deepwater Horizon rig had been operating in the Gulf of Mexico since 2001.

@EastRiver - try not to cry too hard as you bite your pillow.

Nice comeback. Apparently you can dish it out but you just can't take it. Typical.

Dude, give it up. You have nothing to say. I'm not impressed.

I'm not impressed with you either. But keep screaming about Ayn Rand and blaming everything on Bush. Keep calling everyone an asshole and keep wishing that people get hit by a bus. Nobody takes you seriously.

Please, keep your stupid bullshit misinformed opinions to yourself.

Take your own advice, asshole.

I thought Jeb quit politics?

Also, I think Bloomberg is smart enough to realize that no one named Bush is ever going win a Presidential election again.