3 Reasons Obama Should Kick His Own Ass

President Barack Obama made news on The Today Show when he talked about kicking some ass over the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

If he is interested in punishing those responsible for what is shaping up as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, he should think about giving himself a boot.

While BP is ultimately responsible for the spill (and for cleaning it up), the federal government is a major player in the problem for at least three reasons:

1. It owns the property on which the oil well is located.

2. It regulates offshore drilling. And

3. In order to protect small players in the drilling industry, it capped economic damages from this sort of spill at just $75 million, a way-too-low cap that encourages risky behavior.

"3 Reason Why Obama Should Kick His Own Ass" is written and produced by Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie, who also hosts.

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[bigboss686]

@MrSinister84 Of course you didn't, you never put up a decent argument so why would you mention it LMAO. BTW you've got no high horse to ride on, because ALL of your comments clearly demonstrate that the ONLY thing you are capable of is pointless name-calling, don't cry like a bitch when somebody meets you on the ideological battlefield with the same tactics an superior ordinance/evidence ;-) DUMMY

U mad your the worst the most ignorant unsophisticated debater who's ever lived?

YAH U MAD LOL

[bigboss686]

@MrSinister84 Wrong, arrogance is thinking people are to unobservant to notice that most of your comments on this page are nothing but pathetic insults to start with, congratulations, chiding me for that when you're the original guilty party destroys your credibility, dummy.

BTW you understand nothing about debate, because everything you said is incorrect, when a dummy like you says 2+2=9 I need do nothing to refute you save sight the evidence, doing that defeats you lock stock and barrel LOL

[StateExempt]

@liberalmike1994 It is pretty self-evident that if you cannot make your own decisions you are not free in the first place.

[mixmastermeeks]

@liberalmike1994 Sweden. Where "hate" speech is outlawed. Meaning you can go to jail for saying something "offensive" about someone who belongs to "a group". Which is obviously everyone.

[pretorious700]

Intellectual arrogance-Obama is the poster child.

[lifesuckedthenidied]

slimey evil fuck

[liberalmike1994]

@bweazel got evidence to support that claim?

[Rtfune]

The reason he can't kick his own ass is because he can't find his OWN ass with a map!!!

[bweazel]

@liberalmike1994 Hah, leftist countries have the illusion of freedom. I mean it's easy to be happy when you just follow the mob. As long as you do what the State (or the mob) wants, you have "freedom". But what about when you disagree with the State, what about when you disagree with the mob? If you're a follower, it's easy to say leftists have more freedom than us, in reality, centralization and central planning is freedom for no one. If you're not planning your own life, you're not free. Ok?

[bweazel]

@JakeBlakeProject The dollar is fine, you and I may not be, but their baby isn't going anywhere.

[bweazel]

@roonalwazlib Leftists are against power? Umm, explain that more please. Leftists can't be against power, they're more than happy to vote your rights away to the government if it benefits themselves somehow.

[bweazel]

@roonalwazlib Well, that's not entirely true, nationalism is what gives fascism its right-wing ideals. Fascism really doesn't belong anywhere on the spectrum, because it is a segmented society. The people were definitely socialists, industry though, was still organized very capitalistically, granted they had to do institute many socialist policies to weed out the capitalists that did not agree with Nazism. It's tough classify fascism or Nazism since so much disinfo has been spread about both.