Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 67: Crisis Management


“In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”
President Ronald Wilson Reagan

For an Administration who’s primary operational objective is to “Never miss an opportunity to take advantage of a crisis”, real or fabricated, Week 67 had the Change Gang busier than the proverbial one legged man at an ass kicking contest. With all manner of man made and natural disasters to exploit our Crisis Manager-in-Chief and his political hacks infesting the West Wing are all tinkled pink and just as happy as if they had good sense with this over abundance of opportunities.

Presented with so many options it’s surprising the President hasn’t appointed a Crisis Czar to coordinate and prioritize their efforts to claim undue credit; assign unwarranted blame; mislead, confuse and hide the truth from the folks; and overtly advance their Socialist agenda. Following is a brief review of the current crisis’s that’s got the “Yes We Can and Will Exploit Any Crisis To Our Own Political Advantage In a New York Minute”gang, in the words of the President hisself, “wee weeing” all over themselves.

1. BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
2. Time square Terrorist
3. 500 Year Flood in Southern States

1. BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Mexico – On April 20th a deep water oil rig blew it’s cap killing 11 and initiating a massive leak one mile below the surface of the emerald green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Initial efforts appropriately focused on search and rescue while BP and the Obama Administration assured us the oil leak was marginal and easily contained.

• With the passing of several days it started to become abundantly clear the leak was anything but contained and it had the potential of developing into the worst oil related ecological disaster in the history of offshore drilling. The only response from the Administration was to assure us the evil corporate villain BP was responsible for the clean up and all associated cost. That is very comforting but seems to miss the most important point – resolving the problem.

• Realizing they might be facing a genuine disaster of unprecedented proportion and demonizing BP just wasn’t getting the bulldog fed the Obama propaganda machine hit overdrive sending out their high level political hacks over the weekend with talking points touting their 24/7 involvement and command of the situation.
• Making the rounds on the Sunday news programs Secretaries of Homeland Security and the Interior, Janet Napolitan and Salazar, along with Admiral Thad W Allen, Commandant of the Coast Guard, dutifully repeated no less than 24 times the focus group tested cover your political ass phrase “since day one”.
• We’ve been on this since day one Chris; David, our number one priority since day one; We’ve had this one covered since day one like white on rice Jake
• After 9 days our Defender of the Public Against the Evil Dolphin Killers BP-in-Chief finally spoke out on the subject rejecting any responsibility or blame, again assigning said blame to the environmental criminals BP, and of course assuring us the situation has had his full and undivided attention since day one
• When asked about the status of this growing disaster at Monday’s press briefing Senior political hack, Presidential mouthpiece and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs proclaimed openly and without shame standing right on up there at the podium just as if he had good sense that they had their boot on BP’ s throat. Boot on their throat? That analogy certainly conjures up some disturbing images. The disdain this crowd has for the private sector and capitalism is truly troubling.
• If oil does infiltrate the Gulf coast including our beloved “Redneck Riviera” if the White House thought the Tea Party folks were angry, let us tell you what, they ain’t seen nothing yet.
• Attempts to maximize opportunities created by this crisis are already well underway. The President has halted any new off shore drilling, proposed intrusive new regulations, and his comrades in Congress have a renewed fervor to push Cap and Trade/Tax down our throats. Rumor also has it Al Gore has been on a 10 day binge and probably won’t sober up till they finally get the leak capped off.

2. Times Square Terrorist – Similar to the “Under drawers Christmas Bomber” thank the Lord Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American born in Pakistan Islamic Jihadist who parked a crude car bomb in New York's Times Square, also must have skipped class at Terrorist U the day they covered Demolitions 101. In both cases we dodged a huge bullet as the terrorist plots remained undetected right up till the moment the explosives failed to ignite.
• Typical to form, the Administration proclaimed a victory in both attempts and they plum wore themselves out patting each other on the back for another alleged thwarted terrorist attack.
• Also typical to form, the “Change/Believe/Yes We Can” crowd have totally disregarded reality, misled the public and refused to acknowledge their abject failure to acquire any intelligence, none, zero, nada, the big goose egg, about either incident prior to the actual attacks.
• With hourly updates about terrorist Faisal’s pursuit, arrest and alleged spilling his guts with actionable intelligence the White House is trying create the illusion their tough on terrorism. Apprehending these Islamic head cases after the bombs go off and keeping their potential accomplices informed with constant leaks to the press and 24/7 reports on cable news is a PR campaign and not a serious effort to combat Jihadist Muslim extremist.
• For 71/2 years after 9/11 W and his storm troopers, as referred to by the pin headed media elite liberal press, kept us safe with not one successful attack on the homeland. They also kept most of their anti-terror activities undercover and we the people on a need to know basis. We’ll never know and don’t need to know how many maniac Jihadist were captured, subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, renditioned off to Allies and if a few of the more nasty ones just disappeared along the way, just chalk it on up to the fortunes of war.
• Our Champion of Transparency-in-Chief as with most issues has it “Barackasswards” when it comes to anti-terrorism and other policy initiatives. His Socialized Medicine; who he is interviewing for a Supreme Court Justice; their relationship with Solomon Brothers; and plans to further raise our taxes are all treated like highly confidential State Secrets. Anti-terrorism, an open book.
• The alleged crisis the Obamaites are attempting to exploit here is the so called civil liberty violations and war crimes committed by W. Considering W’s successful anti-terrorist strategy after 9/11 compared too their own failures at Ft Hood and subsequent pre-attack screw ups at Times Square and on Christmas the boneheads in the Administration as well as us tax payers would be much better served and safer if they’d just follow W’s lead.
• Chances of that happening – when pigs fly; hell freezes over; Yankees quit dressing and behaving in a tacky manner; and President Obama publicly denounces his Socialist ways and embraces capitalism.
3. 500 Year Flood in Southern States - Just in case you haven’t heard floods in Tennessee have claimed dozens of lives and billions in property damage. Couldn't say why the Administration or main stream media pinheads haven’t given this truly record breaking natural disaster the time of day.

• Media elite doesn’t rightly care about dead southerners
• The White House has no call to get put out about a natural disaster in a solid red state populated in their way of thinking by a bunch of no count white trash crackers
• A flood, even one of this magnitude, doesn’t have the same PR value as terrorist attacks and Texas size oil spills
• The preferred music at this White House is Rap, Hip Hop, R&B and Jazz. They could give a happy by damn that the Grand Ole Opry is under water
• According to highly placed sources the President will blame the flood on global warming and evil corporate America next week during a press conference announcing new and unprecedented expansion of power for the EPA to battle climate change

These are truly dangerous times for our great nation. Smack dab in the middle of all this chaos Immigration reform is exploding on the political scene fueled by a misinformation propaganda campaign by the President and his loyal supporters in the left wing press. We also have a financial reform/Socialist/ Government take over of the financial industry Bill pending in Congress.

There is absolutely no telling what manner of crisis the Obama gang will exploit, create, and/or manipulate to advance their Marxist/Socialist initiatives. To paraphrase President Reagan, this Government ain’t just the problem their potentially one crisis away from a total catastrophe.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes