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'Obama's Katrina': an Illustrated Timeline

hypocritexposer

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20 April 2010: An oil rig rented and operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, killing 11 workers.



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21 April 2010: All 115 workers are evacuated from the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.



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22 April 2010: The Deepwater Horizon collapses into the sea and sinks.



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22 April 2010: President Obama delivers a speech on Wall Street to advocate more government intervention in the country's financial sector, but offers no reforms for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which helped precipitate the 2008 meltdown. He also delivers a speech regarding the contributions of Earth Day to environmental awareness.



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Meanwhile, 200,000 gallons of oil are spilling daily.



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23 April 2010: President Obama blasts the Arizona governor, state legislators, police officers and residents for backing federal laws that prohibit illegal immigration.



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23 April 2010: The oil continues to flow.



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24 April 2010: The president delivers his weekly radio address, which focuses on further regulation of Wall Street. He also calls upon certain segments of his original supporters -- African-Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, and women -- and asks them to mobilize for political action.



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24 April 2010: Efforts to contain the spill are hampered by lack of resources and difficult weather.



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25 April 2010: President Obama interrupts a weekend getaway to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham in North Carolina.



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25 April 2010: Oil spreads across the gulf and heads toward the Louisiana shoreline.



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26 April 2010: President Obama appears in a "Vote 2010" video, distributed by his political action wing Organizing for America, which serves as a stark appeal to blacks and Latinos -- specifically -- for their votes in November.



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26 April 2010: The Coast Guard warns that the spill could become one of the worst in United States history.

Cuts to the U.S. Coast Guard budget proposed by the Obama Administration are nothing short of a recipe for disaster and could severely undermine the nation’s port and maritime security.




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28 April 2010: The President holds a rare, impromptu press conference on Air Force One, addressing "questions on the Arizona immigration law, the financial regulation bill and other issues." Obama also prepared to make his second nomination to the Supreme Court and warns of a "'conservative' brand of judicial activism in which the courts are often not showing appropriate deference to the decisions of lawmakers."



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28 April 2010: large pools of oil are spotted close to the Louisiana shore line.



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29 April 2010: the White House Flickr Feed is updated with a photo of the President meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and senior administration officials, including National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, which indicates that they are urgently working the issue of the oil spill.



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29 April 2010: Meanwhile, local officials, the Coast Guard and private citizens continue their efforts to prevent damage to the Louisiana coastline.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledging even as late as Thursday afternoon that she did not know if the Defense Department even had equipment that might be helpful.

Ron Gouget, who also managed Louisiana's oil response team for a time, said federal officials missed a narrow window of opportunity to gain control of the spill by burning last week, before the spill spread hundreds of miles across the Gulf, and before winds began blowing toward shore.


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30 April 2010:By Friday afternoon, she said, the Defense Department had agreed to send two large military transport planes to spray chemicals that can disperse the oil while it is still in the Gulf.

President Barack Obama hosted activist and U2 frontman Bono at the White House's Oval Office Friday to discuss US development policy ahead of key international meetings later this year.




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Obama: "We can't expect to solve our problems by tearing each other down," Obama said, using his speech to respond to some of his critics who depict the U.S. government as repressive. "It may grab headlines but it puts us on a level of murderous regimes."
01 May 2010:But before heading for the Gulf, or the correspondent's dinner, or both, Obama dropped by Ann Arbor to deliver the commencement address at the University of Michigan.




Gouget, now an environmental consultant with Windward Associates in Seattle, was part of the group that created the 1994 plan designed to allow federal responders to begin burning oil as soon as a major spill occurred, without an approval process.

"They had pre-approval. The whole reason the plan was created was so we could pull the trigger right away instead of waiting ten days to get permission," Gouget said. "If you read the pre-approval plan, it speaks about Grand Isle, where the spill is. When the wind is blowing offshore out of the north, you have preapproval to burn in that region. If the wind is coming onshore, like it is now, you can't burn at Grand Isle. They waited to do the test burn until the wind started coming onshore." ....

He said the NOAA officials involved at the Unified Command Center in Louisiana know how to respond to spills, and know burning should have started as soon as possible after the initial release was detected.

Gouget said they may have been overruled.

"It may have been a political issue.
 

hypocritexposer

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Just wanted to add to this that NOAA was estimating 64,000-110,000 barrells a day on April 22, 2010. (date is on bottom of notepad in photo)

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video of meeting

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/video_shows_federal_officials.html
 

hypocritexposer

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Department of the Interior chief of staff Tom Strickland was in the Grand Canyon with his wife last week participating in activities that included white-water rafting, ABC News has learned.

Strickland, who also serves as Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, was in the Grand Canyon with his wife Beth for a total of three days, including one day of rafting. Beth Strickland paid her own way, Obama administration officials said.

The Stricklands departed for the Grand Canyon three days after the leaks in the Deepwater Horizon pipeline were discovered.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/while-oil-slick-spread-interior-department-chief-of-staff-rafted-with-wife-in-grand-canyon-.html
 
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