Finally, Democrats blame George W. Bush for Gulf oil spill--Chris Dodd video as the blather spreads

Hey, it's worked before. If you watch no other video today, you gotta watch this one.

Don Imus on the Fox Business Network Tuesday interviewing jolly old Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who was forced into retirement by the certainty of defeat this November.

Like pretty much everyone else on the planet except the makers of oil dispersant, Dodd is 110% very safely opposed to the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He's also appalled.

As is the Obama White House.

Actually what the White House is appalled over is that the fingers of blame are starting to turn toward the Obama White House, the Oval Office to be exact.

Not that the White House has the technology either to address an oil spill of this magnitude and oceanic depth.

The Obama administration can't do anything about it, except lay on the PR. But the president wants to spend Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

And how would that look enjoying Hyde Park and maybe yet more golf or a Sox game while one of the nation's worst environmental disasters gushes unabated down south?

So to assuage that anticipated criticism, the White House has quickly laid on a Friday presidential trip back down to Louisiana, his second. He didn't see a drop of oil during the first one. But it looks good on TV. (See Related Items links below the video.)

Chris Dodd has been in the U.S. Senate now for five six-year terms and might have been looking into drilling safety precautions instead of special mortgage deals. So he too is eager to spread blame elsewhere.

You'll never guess which recent Republican president Dodd tries to finger for last month's underwater blowout.

You'll get a good chuckle out of Imus' incredulous response starting around the 1:20 mark.

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Comments

[B-Man]

First the associations, then the Idealism and hate for America, Then the implimentation of every social program known to man shuved down our throats, Then the waist of tax payer money to house and support terrorists onto our soil to live, Then the disrespect for our flag in several pictures where he and his loser wife can't find their heart with their hands, Then this total spit in my fathers face and all of the soldiers who gave it all for our freedoms.
GOD--- DAM YOU OBAMA, I HOPE AND PRAY THAT GOD WILL DAM YOU AND ALL YOUR ASSOCIATIONS.

[Dredd]

Dodd... yet another corrupt donk fleeing the sinking ship that Obama has created. Good riddance, indeed!

As for the rest, BUSH DOESN'T WORK HERE ANYMORE!!

The donks are doomed. They will loot the treasury as much as they can before they're finally fired.

[John C]

Bush may be responsible for Hurricane Katrina, global warming, our collapsed economy, and the oil spill in the golf, but Obama will be responsible for the next terrorist attack on the U.S.

[Anonymous]

quote: "Bush and Cheney turned the regulation of oil drilling into a free-for-all that had the regulators doing drugs and having sex with the regulated. Eight years of do as you please and when the excesses finally result in a disaster it is Obama and the Democrats who are to blame. It took a ruling from the Supreme Court to keep Cheney's deals with big oil secret. Why on Earth is the LATimes trying to spin the baloney that Democrats are to blame for what BP and Halliburton set in motion during the Bush/Cheney years? You are not informing your readers, you are misinforming your readers and you understand that perfectly well. Why?"

Isn't that a bit hypocritical? How is this any different from people coming out and saying that "it was bush's fault for 9/11" or "it was bush's fault for Hurricane Katrina"...

It's just another incident over the past 10 years that we *were not prepared for.* Time to stop laying the blame and just start figure out ways to stop the leak and prevent it in the future.

[marylou]

OBAMA is using this oil leak crisis as an excuse to deny drilling.
He DOES not want us to be oil dependent..you all know that!

He insisted that we do the DEEPEST oil drilling ( the most costly) which is what caused the problem of capping it. How smart was that??
Now he has an excuse to try to nationalize the big bad oil companies like he nationalized the big bad auto industry, big bad banks,big bad health care ins co. and now the oil companies. Do any of you see a trend here? His goal is to control every aspect of your life. It's up to you to stop him!

[John Buro]

YEAH,And he caused the earthquake in Haiti too.

[Tyler Durden]

I really find it amazing that those who claim that this accident is the fault of the Bush Administration because of 8 years of "do as you please" (their words, not mine) concerning the oil industry, yet those same talking heads still don't want to blame the Clinton Administration for 9/11. Remember, Obama's been in office for a year and a half already and still they blame Bush. Well, Bush was only in office for 9 months, HALF of what Obama's been in so far, before 9/11 happened, yet somehow, both are Bush's fault. Liberalism is a sickness.

[dbd]

You people have no clue how to permit a well, you have no clue what it takes to engineer the equipment necessary to drill, you are completely clueless, like an armchair quarterback who never played football. Educate yourself before you spread your ignorance around the net.

[Erik Osbun]

The government has nothing to do with the responsibility for the oil spill. The
drilling crew has the responsibility, and not meeting that cost 11 of them their
lives. All necessary mechanical protection was in place. All inspections and
regulations under which they operated were sufficient to meet the challenge.

All of this conversation about responsibility after the fact is specious. Think
more about the 11 dead men.

[VeritasEst]

How stupid is this IDIOT Dodd?
For 6 of the 8 "Bush" years, we had a Democratic Congress - so who's fault is it?
Obama has been in the offoce (UNLAWFULLY) for the 1-1/2 years - who's fault is it?
Dodd claims that there were NO safety devices on the Horizon? BULL! All of the rigs have multiple, redundant safety devices.

Dodd is an absolute idiot - if they allow execution for idiocy, he'd be a prime candidate.

[isnrblog]

That darn Bush!! He's at it again!! I saw him in that scuba outfit with a hacksaw cuttin' on that oil pipe. I bet he caused them earthquakes in Haiti and I’m sure it was him who got my dog pregnant! Ruined here pedigree!!

Dodd, you're an idiot, blaming Bush!!!

The point is that Obama has been, as James Carville said "lackadaisical” about the whole situation. I am sure there were lax oil regulations before, during, and after this disaster. The point is Obama has done nothing. Look at what Carville said: “Mobilize everything ya’got! We’re dyin’ down heeeah”.

Hey, let’s make Carville President.

2010, Obama gets declawed as Congress goes hard right. 2012 Obama becomes a “one termer”…..if we can survive his management style until then. Oh yea, Dodd gets to go home in 2010.

[Kevin]

Typical Democrat, doesn't know the facts, so blame Bush. It was the current administration that gave them permission to drill this well. And the response from this Administration to this disaster is horrible. I never thought I would agree with James Carvel, but he's absolutely correct. Can we get some adult leadership in Congress and the White House. This guy Dodd is such a hack, thank God he's on his way out.

[MikenTn]

No... he's a double damn fool.
The question was about the administration's response to the spill.
Idiot, spin-master, leftist Dodd tried to push it off on Bush who came into office under the same conditions (as far as the oil rig and polices go) as did Obama.
tarkowski is just another, cool-aid drinking, mental midget who would love nothing more than to go down on Obama.

[VirginiaNick]

Ya know, liberals have no shame. They know they can't re-write history so they have to go to the "bash Bush" playbook . They were disinterested for a week. But today we learn from day one they were all over it. Really? Pathetic liars!

[efdeng3]

The only problem in blaming Bush is that Obama's people approved this oil well, without the usual review (according to the NY Times) so this is just like all the other things they are blaming on Bush, just a smokescreen to try to cover Obama's abyssmal record.

[Tony D]

Imus is a ignoramous and so is Dodd but in reality the republican administration had slowy and silenty cut the regulation laws and also cut the budgets of the regulators and of course the ones we did have are mere rubber stamping idiots who think they really work for the oil companies they take gifts,partys,vacations,sex drugs rock n roll then look the other way while oil companies do as they please how can a new administration with everything else going on find out in time about the lack of oversite on these oil rigs this thing just happened and then they realized the wolfs was garding the henhouse and to say its obamas fault is nothing more than republicans shifting the blame we all know the republicans have been begging and chomping at the bits to let oil companies drill anywhere they want but the democrats have fought them tooth and nail and now we have this disaster and now its obamas fault does Imus think we are idiots he is a big dumbass now dont get me wrong im not a big Obama supporter because he is also an Idiot but it was not his fault and the republicans can not lie out of this one because the proof will all come out soon.

[The Bald Eagle]

Well, why doesn't Dodd just blame Cain for picking up that rock five thousand years ago..... Obama is useless, and corrupt focusing on bowing to dictators and cow-towing to union thugs. So much for change, hell, literally change - the economy is so in the tank many don't have a dime in there pocket.

The American gulf coast industries are decimated, we are on a verge of nuclear hostilities with that nut case in N Korea, Iran will have the bomb next, our national debt is inexcusable and its in question whether our economy can sustain such debt. We still don't see any victory in view with the enemies who attacked us almost ten years ago. We have suffered successful probing attacks by terrorists only by (a) the terrorist incompetence (b) a dutch film director and a t-shirt salesman had we averted a larger tragedy, nothing the government did to prevent these incursions.

Whats Obama doing this week, Duke photo op, lunch with Bill and a vacation.

[MNGerbs]

Their all idiots and now they voted against sending 6000 troops to the border. We do have first hand knowledge here in Minnesota of the idiots since we have Franken and Klobuchar

[VoiceofReason]

First of all.. the Oil industry is massively regulated by the the government. Second, why would BP or any other Oil company cut corners that would result in an accident that would cost them BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in clean up and liability. BP would have to cut corners for the next 100 years to gain back what they will certainly pay out.

This is a disaster... and Obama will shut down domestic off shore oil production. So.. when folks are paying 7,8,9 dollars a gallon for gas... (and being taxed more to subsidize gas for the poor) they will reconsider just how bad of disaster this has been. Anyway..maybe all the fat asses in this county will start walking or riding a bike to work.... of yea forgot..nobody is working...

[Mark Chamberlain]

After seeing what Democrat Chris Dodd has said, that the oil spill is Bush's fault instead of Obama's I would have to say that using that so-called logic, Bill Clinton is then responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attack because he did not kill Osama bin Laden when he had Predator camera on bin Laden in 2000 and hellfire missiles at his disposal. Democrats you cannot have it both ways; either Bush is responsible for the oilspill and Clinton is responsible for 9/11 or not. Think about this folks.

[william neal]

It has been the policy of the democrats to blame a president whom is not even in office anymore. Obama and the democrats have been blaming everyone for their inability to do the job of running this country. Bums off the street could do the job that the democrats have accomplished.

[MLEE]

Hey...let's get back to the REAL Problem, the REAL cause of this disaster!!! The environmental groups are responsible for this: Green Peace, the Sierra Club, and the others, who pushed through the laws and regs that have made it nearly impossible for oil companies to operate efficiently and safely. These groups have caused more problems than they've ever helped our nation. Give me a break. And don't forget EPA, that is trying get control of all the states. Start thinking, People. Start using those brains and some common sense.

[Guy]

From what our idiot in office say on TV today was that the oil company was working under rules and regs. that was singed into law in 1990 and that was before Bush,s time

[Eric S]

The portion of this video concerning the building of a mosque on the site of ground zero of the trade center buildings is insulting. It is saying we bombed you and now whe are going to take you over. I would think that it would be insulting to a muslim too. This shadows the radical extremes of some muslim thought.

[bobby]

how can you say it is anybody but bps fault they are in international waters they pretty much have to answer to no one we can not control international waters get a clue you cant stop them if you try china is still drilling there so it dont matter who is in power quit with the blame game and fix it bp dont want to stop the flow they are trying to harness it and still get oil we need to quit saying dem or rep and kick all of them out of office and start overwe are losing our great country and anyone who say we are not needs to wake up they are all crooked and about money cut their pay like all of the rest of the country and see who stay for the love of the job and if they can live on redused bugets like all of us working people have done the think we should do more well they work for us but since reagan left the all dont care about the peolpe who make this country work wake up people replace them all and see what will be fixed and how quick it gets done and we sould be the ones who say wheather the get a raise not their buddies get informed on what is going on look at the small print in these bills that they slam down your throat look at what russia is saying they been there they see it we need real people that care about our country not thier pockets and stop spending money we dont have you dont get that right why should they

[hugh jass]

Nothing is Bush's fault. Ever.

[on Cramer]

If this is Bush's fault because of all the failure in regulation of the past, then the failure of the levees in New Orleans is the past Democrats fault. They owned the city and state.

[Al Sharpton Fanatic]

This is 100 percent Bush's fault IMHO, just like the levees breaking in 2005, him not helping out our victims in Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and countless other actions. Barack Obama will take care of Bush's mess. I guarantee it. It is great that we are finally being represented in Washington by an honorable man.

[Sugaree]

The spill IS George W. Bush's fault! what's wrong with YOU!?

It was most certainly the lax regulation and oversite that was the 8 years of misrule and cozy relationship building between regulators and Haliburon, TransOcean, BP during Bush/Cheney that allowed that unholy trinity to bring us this ecology wrecking disaster...

A bridge collapses in Minnesota and it doesn't occur to anyone that maybe 30 years of Republican led tax cuts have gone too far? We have a massive economic near collapse just at the tail end of the most questionable administration in U.S. history and you still aren't questioning the damage that follows when you see it? The worst oil spill occurs after the MOST corrupt Presidential administration in U.S. history leaves office and you haven't questioned the 8 years that preceded it?

[Bill Cruse,Jr.]

Dear CIC, and my hero,
You know, and your Father too, how to stop the Oilspill problem. I know this, so would you please do it?

There must be an alterior motive for the Obama ADm too keep saying that all is well when it is not!

You, Dad, have been blamed already, so why dont you make a stand for AMERICA, yes for AMERICA!!11

Y'all know, so please get involved! Were you waiting until it is too late? NOW IS THE TIME!!!!!

Bill Cruse, Jr.

[Brad]

Of course Dodd is going to divert the blame for the oil spill. That's what he does...remember Freddie/ Fannie. I can't wait until the day we start investigating the fraud surrounding Dodd and Frank regarding the lies they told America involving the above.

[Cathy]

Hahahahaha, Ten years ago? Wasn't that on Clinton's clock?????