President Obama loves fracking

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22. On March 31, 2010, the President reversed his stance and allowed offshore drilling. Less than a...

....month later, televisions were lit up with round the clock coverage of the BP oil disaster.

His reversal was part of a televised speech and I remember watching it and just having my jaw hit the floor. A few months later, he's talking about who's ass he needs to kick. Hrm.

Here's some quick links:
Barack Obama reverses campaign promise and approves offshore drilling
Remarks by the President to the Nation on the BP Oil Spill

A few months from now, is he going to be on television talking about needing to know who's ass to kick again?

I want to leave you and everyone else with a quote from Sam Seder (about President Obama's choices) from November 15, 2010:

"Is this a question of him compromising too much or at the end of the day, is this his agenda, and he actually is playing this 11, uh, 14-dimensionsional chess, it's just that we don't realize that's his agenda. I mean, who knows? And ultimately from a Progressive point of view, at the end of the day it's starting not to matter.

I mean, at one point Progressives are going to pivot from trying to convince Obama from doing what Obama feels is right, despite himself, to "Obama doesn't, isn't necessarily on our side, regardless of what we may have thought and we've got to actually start to make a design, a plan, to force him to do what we want with the presumption that it's not what he wants to do."

Right now the President's playing his own game, House & Senate leadership on the Democratic side are playing their own games, I don't think anyone's on the same page, especially because politically he has to run against Congress in order to get re-elected. I would like to ask how all these 14-dimensional chess moves...and what I'm really talking about is his supposed "triangulation" against the Right by adopting many of their positions...are going to miraculously pay off for the promotion of Democratic Party platform planks.

I'll be filling in the little arrow with my ink pen next to Obama's name in November but I'll be shaking my head at the direction he's taken this party. I'll be filling in the little arrow next to DeFazio's name in November but I'll be shaking my head at the lack of support he's gotten with that fucking loon Art Robinson and his wads of corporate cash.

I guess some years all you can do is fill in the little arrow with your ink pen and just shake your head at the fucked up mess of a situation.

PB