Why does FOX persist in throwing this moral degenerate, with no discernible understanding of our political system, into our living rooms? Every time FOX does this, I feel a need to bathe.

OK, Morris is right. Obama is responsible. Time to re-regulate the oil drilling industry. Do the Sarah Palin tea party conservatives also agree with that? Certainly the liberals do.

when was the last time Morris was right about anything?

Last week he claimed the Euro would collapse.

Please.

This clip is like the blind leading the stupid

De-regulate to Re-regulate — must have been peyote on that last toe Morris sucked.

“Morris is a conservative thought leader”

Seriously?
Morris may have conservative thoughts now and then…..but to refer to him as a leader is laughable.
The only reason anybody talks to Morris is because he was exiled from the Clinton inner circle after his famous run-in with a hooker. He immediately changed the song he had been singing and got media gigs bashing what he was once advocating.

Morris is many things….first and foremost an opportunist….but a leader? Of any kind? Let’s get real here.

Obama is an idiot.

A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62 negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.

I remember this moral degenerate pontificating how it would be impossible for W to lose the popular vote and win the electoral vote, using a ponderous flip of the coin analogy, then explaining it all away on O’Reilly. I remember this moral degenerate telling us how Palin would win away disaffected Hillary voters from Obama, how Michigan would be a solid McCain win, how Obama would not carry Ohio, &c, &c, &c. Wrong Way Morris strikes again. Bought to you by the Phine Pholks at Phox.

gordonbloyershow says:
June 8, 2010 at 9:32 am

Obama is an idiot.

A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62 negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.

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Same tune.

So basically a majority of Americans are not pleased with the disaster relief efforts of this president or the last one? Does that make Bush an idiot too, or is a negative rating of 62% two weeks after Katrina supposed to be an accomplishment?

a decent point Puter Boi, and you may have consistent disagreements with Dick Morris. However, he is ubiquitously featured on Fox News and consistently has a book on the NYTimes best seller list, and is consistently espousing conservative viewpoints. Not sure how you can’t fairly call him a conservative thought leader.

“valkyrie101 says:
June 8, 2010 at 9:08 am
OK, Morris is right. Obama is responsible. Time to re-regulate the oil drilling industry. Do the Sarah Palin tea party conservatives also agree with that? Certainly the liberals do.”

So, let me get this straight, the regulations we have on the books weren’t enforced by the administration so we need new regulations? Does this make sense to anyone but valkyrie and, perhaps, the real racist king?

I have to say Colby, on this one I am with Puter, in the sense that Morris’ ideology, if any he has, is erratic and opportunistic. He certainly argued a point here that was decidedly non-conservative. Morris is perplexing, in a petty sort of way. I have no doubt that would it advance him in some way, he would shun his current button down collar for a tie-dyed T-shirt in a moment.

Hell if he ain’t Puter. That is like saying Rush Limbaugh ain’t the leader of the Republican party.

Rich wasn’t there a real effort to deregulate the oil industry in years past? Hasn’t the oil industry developed very cozy, mutually-beneficial relationships with politicians?

Colby? These are just a few “thoughts” from Morris’s latest book. Not one of these is an original idea. This could have been said by any conservative about any liberal politician. All you have to do is change the names…it is mimicry….it is not leadership. If Morris had survived his hooker scandal, I suspect he would still be preaching to the choir…..but he would just be doing it in another church.

Obama has taken a suffering American economy-and made it worse.
He has tried to convert our health care system into a socialist one-at the cost of care to senior citizens.
He has ignored our jobs crisis-and turned us into a permanent debtor nation.
He has courted our enemies-and handed our economic reins to Europe.
He has extended our constitutional rights to terrorists-and offered them the protections of our courts.
He is bankrupting our treasury-by exploding the national deficit, sure to be followed by massive tax increases.

Here is a recent piece from the New Orleans Times-Picayune concerning deregulation.

Oil disaster brought to you by deregulation: Bob Marshall
By Bob Marshall, The Times-Picayune
May 23, 2010, 6:05AM

Watching our politicians and listening to oil industry voices during BP’s mugging of our coastal ecosystem has me repeatedly thinking of two things:

Horses out of barns, and the planet Mars.

The first thought is prompted by the endless parade of Louisiana politicos who can’t seem to get enough face time lately showing their concern for the potentially horrendous harm oil poses to our coastal wetlands, all the while stressing how important that habitat is to our economy, culture and future. Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sens. David Vitter and Mary Landrieu, Rep. Charlie Melancon and many more are doing a replay of President Bush’s 9/11 photo ops: visiting the scenes of destruction, hugging the hearty locals terrorized by the disaster and pledging to make those responsible accountable for the dastardly deed.

Well, if they’re serious about that accounting, they can start by looking in the mirror.
The shock and arrrgh being expressed by these folks — and many of their constituents — at the terrible environmental gamble that comes with offshore drilling goes beyond preaching caution after the horse is out of the barn. After all, these same groups helped open the barn door, hung a feed bucket around the horse’s neck and then gave it a good slap on the rump to speed it on its way.

I’m talking about the fervor for deregulation, the movement to eliminate federal laws that protect people and the environment.

That has been a battle cry for conservative politics for three decades. It was Ronald Reagan who famously made “get government off the backs of business,” a winning strategy. And it was George W. Bush who pushed to rewrite the rule books for energy development on public property, rolling back protections for fish, wildlife, air and water under the banner of streamlining the nation’s race for energy. That movement sought to turn 40 years of bipartisan environmental protection on its head, and it did.

Industry lobbyists and officials were appointed to key environmental positions with orders to make the environment safe for business — especially the energy business. Agencies became boosters for development, not protectors of the public trust.
Louisiana’s delegations, and most of its voters, cheered almost every step.

For our political leaders to act shocked that something like this could happen requires equal portions of gall and amnesia.

The media is now filled with testimony from whistle blowers at agencies telling how warnings of threats to the environment were down-played, ignored or tossed in the trash bin. Their bosses were only following orders.

Even after the disaster, industry promoters are saying how rare such accidents are, are talking (in almost reverential tones) about how amazing the technology for deep-ocean drilling is, often using the refrain “this is like stuff we do in space.”

That’s when I think about Mars.

You see, deep ocean drilling is much, much more dangerous and risky than the space program. We long have had the technology to travel, live and work in space. The sight of astronauts floating outside a space shuttle, tools in hand, to repair a satellite or the space station is so routine today, it doesn’t even make Page 1. We know if a life-threatening problem crops up, we either have people on hand to make the repair — or we can get them there — even if the site is 50 miles above the Earth.

We don’t have the technology to send them a mile below the ocean’s surface.

So minimizing the catastrophic damage possible from an accident in these locations is beyond technological hubris. It is closer to criminal malfeasance on the part of those sworn to protect the public’s property and health.

Look at it this way. We have the technology to operate robots on the surface of Mars. But would we permit, say, a mining operation with robots on Mars if an accident there could threaten health on earth?

If Louisiana is lucky, the Deepwater Horizon will be the Three-Mile Island of deep-ocean drilling. It will be the event that demonstrates to all who sneer at environmental regulation just what’s at stake here, and the enormous danger facing our coast each and every day.

We always knew accidents would happen, but what this event teaches us is the industry has no effective way to prevent a mishap from becoming a catastrophe.
I keep hoping I will hear the shameless oil industry boosters in our congressional delegation say something like “Until this industry proves it can react quickly and effectively to cap blowouts in deep water drilling, we shouldn’t proceed.”

And maybe that will happen before we send men to Mars.

Bob Marshall is outdoors editor.

“paulmdoro says:
June 8, 2010 at 9:50 am
Rich wasn’t there a real effort to deregulate the oil industry in years past? Hasn’t the oil industry developed very cozy, mutually-beneficial relationships with politicians?

Were there not regulations currently on the books that were not enforced? Hasn’t it been said that if the required safeguards had not been waived by the government that the spill might not have taken place or the spill’s effects would be greatly reduced? Shouldn’t we examine what wasn’t done correctly before running off and creating new regulations?

Definitely we should examine what wasn’t done correctly before running off and creating symbolic but meaningless new regulations. I’m just saying that the writer above has a point about politicians, the oil industry, and deregulation.

Our systems are always in need of upgrades. It makes no sense to me to blame Bush or anyone else for past regulations or their effectiveness. Rather, we need to carefully examine all aspects of the drilling industry, in light of the current crisis, and resolve to regulate offshore oil accordingly. It is important that we get to that, perhaps via executive order, because there are many other oil platforms in our waters.

But, our greatest fear ought to be, Valkyrie, nothing will be learned over this. Senators Cornyn, Landrieu and Vitter are already doing all they can to make sure BP suffers no lasting consequences and that oil drilling continue in the same dangerous fashion. Governor Barbour is out denying there is an incident.

RichS says:
June 8, 2010 at 9:45 am

So, let me get this straight, the regulations we have on the books weren’t enforced by the administration so we need new regulations? Does this make sense to anyone but valkyrie and, perhaps, the real racist king?

DING DING DING!

RichS wins the prize for figuring out the painfully obvious point that Dick Morris was making, and that the left “pretends” not to understand!

Let’s sum it up again:
There were regulations. The Obama Administration didn’t enforce those regulations. There’s a bunch of oil in the Gulf.

And that’s what the Obama Administration gets blamed for… not following the law.

The Real Royal King says:
June 8, 2010 at 10:53 am

Lies.

Hey, what do you think about Obama approving shallow water drilling? You know, he did that in private… but (unless I’m mistaken) the green light has been given to a new facility… first time the Democrats have allowed that in a long time.

TRRK: “and that oil drilling continue in the same dangerous fashion.”

Right, we should be drilling in shallow water and in anwr, and building atomic power plants by the dozens.

ImNotBlue there was no attempt to deregulate by certain politicians?

The Real Royal King says:
June 8, 2010 at 10:53 am

Lies.

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Yet, you elect not to refute, even address, but to move onto an unrelated matter. Interesting tactic.

does colby hall get ALL of his news from MSNBC alone?

hey bubba I suggest you try reading a newspaper past page one – then you would have learned that it was Obama that announced in April that he would be working to lift the 30 year old offshore drilling moratorium and that it was the Obama administration that gave BP the safety and environmental waiver to this rig (and all of BP’s Gulf rigs) instead of making BP follow written and set federal regulations.

how this came about we still dont know – but if you dont think it involved some work by Obamas pal and uber lobbyist (for BP too) Tony Podesta – well youre just not thinking at all…

It’s odd that after Katrina, Democrats Ray Nagin and Gov. Blanco were given a pass by the left. It was all up to the feds. Now the left says that it’s all local and the feds aren’t to blame. If Bush left lax regulations in place, shame on him. But Obama has been in for eighteen months. If he let those lax regulations stand and didn’t look into changing them, shame on him. It’s the same with bringing up Reagan. If he had lax regulations on oil, didn’t Clinton have eight years to fix it?

It is not true that the left gave a pass to Nagin and Blanco They received their fair share of criticism, and rightfully so. There was plenty of blame to go around.

No way Nagin and Blanco got the same heat as Bush. Remember the ‘Bush hates black people’ mantra? But I agree there’s plenty of blame to go around. If Reagan screwed up, why didn’t Clinton fix it? If Bush screwed up, why didn’t Obama fix it? Eighteen months not enough time? How long does an administration have to be in place before you quit blaming everything on the past one?

Blue,
The system of regulation we have in place failed. Thus, we need to review that system and modify it so that it does not fail again. Any one can see that. But apparently you are arguing that the offshore oil drilling regs were perfectly good, notwithstanding that the oil people and conservative’s in general have been complaining about the very existence of those regulation, and thus, it is Obama’s fault.

valk, if regulations were lax when Obama took office, that’s not his fault. Not changing those regulations is his fault.

I remember a useless celebrity saying that Bush hates black people while Austin Powers looked on uncomfortably.

writer,
Exactly. Though Obama has certainly had his hands full since he was inaugurated. The main thing is for our president and politicians to recognize we have regulatory problems and correct those.

It’s not exactly a secret that the left hated/still hates Bush with a passion. Why would Katrina have been any different? Bush did drop the ball after Katrina, though, and Obama’s dropping it now.

paulmdoro says:
June 8, 2010 at 12:01 pm

ImNotBlue there was no attempt to deregulate by certain politicians?

Can you blame “attempts” to deregulate? Are “attempts” enough to be responsible for anything, if they never actually happened?

Those in charge suffer the blame. Those attempting (allegedly ) to change something, who were unable to change anything, suffer no blame for results beyond their control.

The Real Royal King says:
June 8, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Yet, you elect not to refute, even address, but to move onto an unrelated matter. Interesting tactic.

Well, since you provided no evidence for your statement, I figured simply calling it out would be enough.

Why don’t YOU back up your initial statement… and we’ll take it from there.

paulmdoro says:
June 8, 2010 at 12:07 pm

It is not true that the left gave a pass to Nagin and Blanco They received their fair share of criticism, and rightfully so.

Which is why Nagin was re-elected…?

valkyrie101 says:
June 8, 2010 at 12:21 pm

The system of regulation we have in place failed. Thus, we need to review that system and modify it so that it does not fail again. Any one can see that.

Do we need to “review the system” or simply enforce the law. It doesn’t seem to me that too much of a review is needed… enforce there law! There, review complete!

But apparently you are arguing that the offshore oil drilling regs were perfectly good, notwithstanding that the oil people and conservative’s in general have been complaining about the very existence of those regulation, and thus, it is Obama’s fault.

It’s tough to know if the regulations were good or not… since they weren’t enforced. Obama is responsible for enforcing such regulations, isn’t he? Since his Administration didn’t enforce said regulations… aren’t they responsible?

And Republicans may have complained… but who cares? Since when does a complaint equate with not enforcing the regulations? These attempts to pass the blame are getting more and more desperate.

What I don’t get is why BP was granted these leases. Oh, wait?

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/jindal-faults-feds-cleanup-says-there

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/how-dick-cheney-and-tom-delay-caused-gulf-o

Asked and answered, even if some refuse to acknowledge the facts!

Bush did drop the ball after Katrina, though, and Obama’s dropping it now.

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I agree.

You could be right, but those oil balls are slippery.

rox, there are likewise leases for cars, leases for apartments, and so on. A lease comes with rules. If the rules aren’t enforced, you look to the person in charge. Who is the top man in charge now?

Blue,
You said: “Do we need to “review the system” or simply enforce the law. It doesn’t seem to me that too much of a review is needed… enforce there law! There, review complete!”

I think you are confusing your conservative argument for racially profiling Hispanics in Arizona with your argument for why Obama is a nasty evil guy for causing the gulf oil spill.

Nagin being reelected by voters in New Orleans does not mean he wasn’t subject to criticism. He was.

TRRK, sez “Governor Barbour is out denying there is an incident.” is bullshit…..You lie.

More brilliance from the Rpubliscum Right..Performing their usual dysfunctional dance with Demons of inadequacy & ignorance – sprinkled with hatred and personal failure all.

roxsteady says:
June 8, 2010 at 12:39 pm

I liked the one “attacking” Jindal. Sure it doesn’t have any real evidence of anything, but we won’t let that get in the way.

Oh, but a quick question. If Jindal is “in the pocket” of big oil… what does that make Obama?

During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html#ixzz0qHfHI6nK

But I’m sure that’s not you refusing to “acknowledge the facts”… right?

valkyrie101 says:
June 8, 2010 at 12:53 pm

I think you are confusing your conservative argument for racially profiling Hispanics in Arizona with your argument for why Obama is a nasty evil guy for causing the gulf oil spill.

Huh? Does that make any sense at all?

One, the Arizona law STILL doesn’t racial profile (despite the common left-wing lie). Two, Obama didn’t “cause” the spill, however his Administration did nothing to prevent it, and is failing at the cleanup and recovery. And three, there is a similarity between the immigration debate and this in the “enforce the law,” theory. I didn’t think enforcing the law and doing what you said you do, is something the right expects and the left doesn’t. Interesting.

paulmdoro says:
June 8, 2010 at 12:58 pm

Nagin being reelected by voters in New Orleans does not mean he wasn’t subject to criticism. He was.

Come on. How much criticism could he have gotten if he was re-elected overwhelmingly? Be serious. The guy botched so much in response to the hurricane, it was lucky he didn’t have to resign, let alone run again. His failure starts the chain of events leading to everyone else’s failure. He didn’t get nearly his fair share of scrutiny or blame.

Bush sure got a lot of criticism but was still reelected right? It happens. I agree that he handled Katrina poorly. He got his share of blame, just not as much as you would have liked I guess.

Dick Morris: ‘Obama Deserves To Be Excoriated For Failure To Regulate’

He should be tarred and feathered

Dick Morris: He should be tarred and feathered.

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I suspect Dick would find that a turn-on.

iT SEEMS THAT THE ONLY IDIOT THAT WILL JOIN ANOTHER IDIOT IS DICK MORRIS……..WHAT HAPPENED ….ANN COULTER WAS AT A WITCH CONVENTION LOLOLOLO