James Carville: Obama Administration Seems ‘Inconvenienced’ by BP Oil Spill

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by Frances Martel | 7:32 am, May 21st, 2010

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As a follow-up to Wednesday night’s interview with BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, last night Anderson Cooper had Democratic strategist James Carville and presidential historian Douglas Brinkley and, shockingly, Carville seemed to be more upset with the Obama administration than BP over their handling of the Gulf oil spill, calling them “naive” and noting that their behavior was “lackadaisical,” as if they were merely “inconvenienced” by the disaster.

Asked about the EPA’s latest request for BP to use less toxic dispersants, Carville was fuming, though not, as expected, at BP, but at the EPA and the Obama administration for being too trusting of the oil company. “They think that BP has some kind of good motivation here,” he commented. “They’re naive… somebody has got to, like to shake them and say ‘these people don’t wish you well! they’re going to take you down!’”

His stance that the Obama administration was acting out of naivete, however, didn’t stand for long, as he later accused the White House of going along with the BP plan because they saw the disaster as a mere “inconvenience” and preferred to forget about it and hope it goes away:

“I’m as good a Democrat as most people, and I think this administration has done some good things. They are risking everything by this ‘go along with BP’ strategy they have that seems like, lackadaisical on this, and Doug is right, they seem like they’re inconvenienced by this, this is some giant thing getting in their way and somehow or another, if you let BP handle it, it’ll all go away. It’s not going away. It’s growing out there. It is a disaster of the first magnitude, and they’ve got to go to plan B.”

Those are pretty harsh words from, as Carville put it, “as good a Democrat as most people” (though most people would probably say “a little better”). Given the proximity of the one-month anniversary of the tanker explosion coming up and yet no sign that BP is any closer to capping the leak, backlash towards both BP and the Obama administration is to be expected. Just not from one of the most loyal Democrats on TV.

Video of the segment, edited to put together all three segments where Carville gave commentary, below:

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BR

There can be only one reason for Mr. Carville’s comments. He is a………….RACIST!
Barney

The response, or better put, the lack of response, by the jug-eared Idiot-in-Chief and his administration is the result of his being in the pocket of BP (follow the money trail) and the utter incpompetence of Jug Ears and the buffoons he surrounded himself with.
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The Racism has just got to stop. Shame on Mr. Carville!
BR

There should be a boycott against CNN as long as they have this RACIST on!
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Is the snake man frustrated with Dear Leader??
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Thank goodness for Barney. Without that cute, purple, fuzzy little guy we would not know what really goes on inside the head of the tea party mind. But Barney cuts through the rubble right down to the bedrock of what motivates the tea party.
Liberty – Not Redistribution

Liberal: If he is criticizing Obama he must be a racist. There can be no other explanation.
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The Real Royal King

I sure understand from whence Carville is coming. President Obama can be very frustrating. We have a repeated pattern of apparent non-urgency, followed by a quiet period in which we reasonably assume that nothing is happening, followed by a dramatic, remarkable, successful conclusion. We saw this in the primaries, we saw it with the stimulus, we saw it with HCR, we saw it with financial reform, and we see it with BP. My best guess is we are going to wake up in a couple of weeks and see there is no problem. I suppose faith and frustration often team up with one another.
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Based on this and some of his previous actions, you can’t deny that Carville loves Louisiana.

Yesterday, Glynnis snarked that BP better hope that Fox doesn’t send Mississippi-native Shep Smith down there to shine his spotlight and I can point to a few other folks from that region who are up in arms.

If you add all this to the political aspirations of Bobby Jindal and the residual Hollywood focus from Katrina, if BP and the administration don’t get their act together and improve their public perception, they may be facing a “perfect storm” of unlikely political bedfellows.
Barney

The jug-eared Idiot-in-Chief has and is purposely allowing this to happen. My brother..the engineer with an oil service company in TX..and my brother-in-law ..the geologist with Conoco Phillips(who by the way is very liberal) both have told me independently of each other that the cause is suspect..that it was most likely caused by sabotage.

It took the jug-eared idiot almost two weeks to issue a federal gov’t response. Obama said he was going to look into allowing more off-shore drilling. Almost EVERYONE was shocked by that.

There were many of us who said that it was bullshit..that the jug-eared idiot was planning something that would “change his mind”.

Folks..the jug-eared idiot is behind all this. It’s all part of the plan to bring down the economy.

Did you all see the report from the SPANISH GOVERNMENT ITSELF that there green policies have destroyed their economy?/ If not, check it out here. You will not find this reported in the corrupt US media.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/leaked-spanish-report-obamas-model-green-economy-a-disaster-pjm-exclusive/

The jug eared idiot knew this was coming, so he put his plan into action. Did you see the reports that Jug Ears’ fascists would not allow journalists to see what was going on with their response? It’s because the government is doing NOTHING to stop the leak. Even the leftards at HuffPo reported on this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/bp-coast-guard-officers-b_n_581779.html
Barney

The Real Royal King is operating under the typical libtard delusion that the stimulus is working and that Jug Ears’ destruction of our healthcare system is a good thing.

Wre have lost almost 5 million jobs since Jug Ears signed his “stimulus” law. He promised it would create 3 million. That’s a delta of 8 million jobs.

This week’s job loss numbers are almost 500,000. Unemployment is over 10% again. Jug Ears said if he and the Jackassocrats were allowed to spend the $1.2 trillion that unemployment would not go over 8%.

The real unemployment number (U-6) shot up to over 17.5% this month.

Did you read where Kathleen Sebelius covered up the report BY HER OWN HHS DEPARTMENT that she, Jug Ears, and the rest of the criminal Jackassocrats were lying about the cost of Jug Ears healthcare scam.

Did you see the report by the GAO that debt/GDP ratio will be over 100% in the next few years? Not many did because the corrupt, criminal media didn’t bother to report on this.
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Carville lives in Louisiana, so now that Obama’s incompetency has affected him “personally” he is angry. Otherwise he wouldn’t care.
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RRK: “We saw this in the primaries, we saw it with the stimulus”

You mean the Stimulus package that bailed out Wall Street? You mean the Stimulus package that, if passed promised Obama, unemployment wouldn’t exceed 8%. Yeah….with foreclosures on the rise, 9.8% unemployment and a falling stock market , that Stimulus thing is really working out.
TylerDurden

Damn, I can’t believe that CNN is so desperate to put a racist on its program. We all know that Dick Cheney is responsible for this. He is the president of BP.

Well, I meant Cheney is president of Transocean. Actually, Cheney is president of Halliburton.

Damn, I mean Cheney is the VP of the USA.

Oh, damn, well it’s Bush’s fault any way you look at it. BHO inherited this spill!
writer

The King’s concern about the spill is a dramatic turnaround in his thinking. After all, the gulf is bordered by all those evil southern states.
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Memo To James “Dualin’ Banjos” Carville: The Obama administration is Always gonna feel like it’s being “inconvenienced” when it’s been pulled off of its Campaign Trail w/ TOTUS and has been told to actually…

1 a : exercise continuous sovereign authority over; especially : to control and direct the making and administration of policy in b : to rule without sovereign power and usually without having the authority to determine basic policy.

I Think “I won.”? But No Questions – at press freedom event – Anyway. LOL!
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@BR…..THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON THAT JAMES CARVILLE SAID WHAT HE DID! BECAUSE IT’S THE TRUTH! PLAYING THE “RACE CARD” IS UNACCEPTABLE! I NEVER THINK OF THE RACE OF THE PRESIDENT! I VOTED FOR HIM, UNFORTUNATELY, HE’S MORE OF A FOLLOWER THAN A LEADER IN THIS MAJOR DOMESTIC CATASTROPHE! THE FACT THAT HE’S HALF BLACK AND HALF WHITE MEANS NOTHING! IF HE DOESN’T “TAKE THE LEAD” AWAY FROM BP, EVERYTHING IN LOUISIANA WILL BE BLACK EVENTUALLY!
1phunter

Blind leading the Blind… Plus they all seem so calm like -Ho Hum.

Carville is right this is the Blind leading the Blind. And who would trust BP to do the testing and relate to us that this oil spill is not as bad as we thought… due to little oil coming to shore… when we know that large amounts of this spill is so deep… that I have heard there is oil that is frozen headed towards Cuba and the carribean.. the cleanest water ever… We will not get the truth till half the ocean is dead. And no one is discussing the air pollution… if no one can see that this is high pressure hydrocarbon gas being let loose. What about BPs carbon foot print… I think they have used theirs and others up. Read about the level of Oxygen on the planet and how it is dropping already. Greed will take us all down the tubes.

Has anyone thought of the stopper approach… You know make a huge pointed stopper that widens at the top… and jam it into the hole and keep pushing it till the hole is stoppered like a big bottle. Forget about trying to save the well so that they can drill or pump out what they need. Not now… stop the leak, Please. Because they can then drill in another spot later. Lets not wait till half the gulf and carribean are dead. I personally will not be buying any seafood from the Gulf. And forget about dispersing… they need to clean it up out of the ocean. And do not wait for it to come to shore… because most of it is going the other way headed towards Cuba. And for BP it is all out of sight out of mind they are not educating us. If this were you or I someone would have taken over already. WE NEED A LEADER… A RESPONSIBLE ONE NOW. Someone needs to tell BP to step out of the way. We have given BP enough time. Give someone else a chance. I still say we need to cork it. STOP THE LEAK WITH A STOPPER.