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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:40 PM
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Forget Obama. Forget Carville. Listen to Rep Melancon.
Edited on Thu May-27-10 10:54 PM by Clio the Leo
In case you missed his appearance on Rachel's show tonight it's a must watch.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/ns/msnbc_tv#37390084 (starts at the approx 5 min mark)

In short he said: This is not another Katrina, this is not a natural disaster ... there are laws affecting this ... we ALL need to stop blaming one another and get this thing fixed.

Louisiana congressman cries discussing spill

Thu May 27, 6:38 pm ET
The Gulf oil disaster has provided a slew of indelible images: puddles of oil in the ocean, coated birds, blackened shoreline. But there have been few human faces that capture the enormity of the crisis, until now.

In a House subcommittee meeting on the spill, Louisiana Rep. Charlie Melancon, who represents much of the coastal area being directly affected by the spill, broke down in tears while delivering his remarks.

"I'd like to remind my collegues ... that the recovery phase is just as critical as the response phase," he read. "Everything that I know and love is at risk."

His lip quivering as he tried to maintain his composure, Melancon was unable to finish his statement. He submitted it for the record and walked out of the hearing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100527/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2300_3
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Unvanguard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:42 PM
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1. Indeed. Let's hang together.
We brought this about as a society, with our addiction to oil and our neglect of the environment: now we must fix it as a society.
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:08 PM
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15. thank you. NT
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:44 PM
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2. I feel his pain, somewhat. But is kind of scummy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8434711&mesg_id=8434711
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:46 PM
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3. huh? how?
Edited on Thu May-27-10 10:49 PM by Clio the Leo
We didn't point fingers after 9/11 ... and we shouldn't now.

Pray for the animals ... pray for the fishermen ... pray for those working on the scene ... and PRAY PRAY PRAY that Congress and the President can WORK TOGETHER to fix this.

And if you're not into praying ........ CALL!!! lol
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:51 PM
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8. He took money from big oil and voted with Rethugs numerous times against regulations.
I don't question his pain of seeing the gulf coast but he is complicit in it too.
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:53 PM
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10. Again, we didn't point the finger on 9/11 ....
and we shouldn't do it now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=317727&mesg_id=317748
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 01:33 AM
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25. We have to do it now
Or nothing will ever change. This isn't 9/11. This is something that we've got to fix. Fuck these stupid-ass democrats who join the drill baby drill team and then boo hoo for help when it all blows up in their face. I don't even know what Democratic legislation this guy voted for.

I just watched the dumbest commercial in Oregon from the natural gas people. A guy standing in a beautiful creek saying how wonderful it is that there's gas pipes under it. WTF? How stupid can they be? Clearly the pipes aren't going to come out, but to suggest more considering the gulf spill? To even air the ad now is stupid.
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 08:00 AM
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26. And we CAN do it after the problem is mitigated...
... the point NOW is that we need to use our proverbial mops for their intended use, not for beating one another over the head with.
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freddie mertz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 08:18 AM
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28. Exactly! OBAMA SUPPORTS DRILLING TOO. But it's not the problem right now.
Obama also said "there are no red states and blue states, only the United States."

Is it asking too much that we try and bring ourselves together?
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 08:36 AM
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29. I didn't think so .... but after reading this thread, apparently it must be. NT
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freddie mertz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 10:48 AM
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32. It really is unfortunate.
I totally support your effort, if that is any consolation. :thumbsup:
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:50 PM
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7. Wow.
I don't know if they're crocodile tears, or the signs of devastating emotional shattering in realizing he personally had a hand in destroying the coast.
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1776Forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:22 PM
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22. Yes, money can buy some things but when they turn their back on this it catches up to them.
I know I have asked people who were Repub's who said that they thought there should be no help for anyone and that we should be as rich as anyone can get to no matter what and I said "So you want to have to drive through slums to get to your gated community and then when you do have to stop how do you protect yourself from those who have nothing?" India I understand is like this is most areas. Is that what they really want? That seems like what Cong. Melancon is living through now!
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Go2Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:48 PM
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4. It is all about confidence. People don't have confidence in the law or the laws
It's difficult for the population to be patient when they don't have confidence in the laws and are not sure if the system will take care of everything equitably and with justice.
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:50 PM
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6. He's not talking about CONSTITUENTS playing the blame game...
.... he's talking about people inside the beltway.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:54 PM
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11. That part is true. We do need to have people come together.
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:48 PM
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5. No Surprise, Ma'am, this Wretch wants No Blame Apportioned

http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Charlie_Melancon

'In 2006, he worked for a bill that opened an area in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil drilling and increased the amount of federal royalties that went to the states.(13) The bill was considered a huge win for offshore drilling and for Louisiana.(14)

'Melancon, who is on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has also focused on allowing oil drilling off the Louisiana coast.

'Melancon is one of the least reliable Democrats. During the 109th Congress, Melancon voted with the Democrats just just 67 percent of the time. He supported President George W. Bush's proposals 72 percent of the time in 2006.'
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:52 PM
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9. How does assessing his merit as a Democrat help anything?
What party does this pelican belong to?
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 10:56 PM
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12. He Voted For It To be Drenched In Oil, Ma'am: His Whimpering Now Is Unseemly
He felt the benefit of drilling was worth the risk to pelicans, and fisheries and all the rest, and he put it out on the table with the wheel in spin: a man stands by his stake, and faces up to the consequences, taking responsibility for them, win or lose....
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:02 PM
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13. And when a man is down you dont spit on him as you walk by....
.... no matter what he may have done to you in the past.

You help him up, clean him off ... and then put him on the right path. If you've helped him learn from his mistakes, then you've made the world a better place.
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:13 PM
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17. Not Spit, M'am, Kick....
If this man was taking responsibility, that would be one thing. If he were standing up and saying, "I voted for this, I argued for it, I worked for it, I worked hard for it, I insulted and denounced people who opposed it ---- well, they were right, and I was wrong, and I am sorry for what I have done to the people I represent and to my state and my country and the world, and I will work now as hard to curb the oil industry I sold my soul to cheap as in the past I worked to make them sleeker and fatter," then he would be a man worthy of respect as a human, and could be forgiven what he had done in the past. As it is, he is just an amateur thespian familiar with the uses of glycerin and onion juice....
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 12:52 AM
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24. was he apologizing ?
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:16 PM
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18. ....
:cry:

What's important is that we continue to work to fix this/these problems. So much of what's destroyed doesn't belong to a political party. Doesn't know nor care who's president or who voted for what. This is the reason that we stop finger pointing and work so that this doesn't happen again.
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:18 PM
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19. exactly. NT
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:06 PM
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14. Kinda looks like his chickens are coming home to roost and
he has had a glimpse of how actions have consequences.
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:10 PM
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16. I saw the video of him breaking down. It was heart breaking.

:hug:
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EffieBlack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:15 AM
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30. I thought it was very touching, too - but I can't help but be a little offput by
his - and others' - insistence that these are "America's wetlands." While I agree that they are, many of these people sang a very different tune a few weeks ago when they rejected calls for preservation and environmental responsibility and treated those of us who see nature as precious and belonging to us all as the socialistic rantings of a bunch of tree huggers.

I definitely sympathize with him, but I wish that more people recognized and appreciated what the earth meant to us BEFORE the sludge destroyed their own backyards.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:20 PM
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20. I used to be a fundie Christian.
I believe anyone can learn from their mistakes. After seeing him, I think he may have learned something. I feel bad for him. Sue me.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:21 PM
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21. new orleans survived katrina just fine.
it was man made levees that destroyed it.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 12:30 AM
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23.  Wow. Just wow. The levees were weak it is true but NOLA did not survive just fine
and no levees at all would not have helped.
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freddie mertz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 08:16 AM
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27. K & R. I was profoundly moved by this as well.
Edited on Fri May-28-10 08:16 AM by freddie mertz
We are indeed all in this together, ignorant remarks about "redneck fisherman not able to fish" notwithstanding.

It's time to put politics and poll numbers aside.

Thanks for posting this.
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agentS Donating Member (922 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 10:42 AM
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31. As bad as he is, he's nowhere near as bad as Vitter the Shitter
Having spent enough time in land of good food, LA, I know enough to know we're not gonna get a Sen. Boxer out of that mess, unless a whole lot of people on the west side move out. So we're stuck with the Landrieu's and the Melancon's for awhile. But I'll take a Blue Dog over a Vitter any day of the week.

That said, I don't doubt his sincerity here. I think he has come to realize the price of deregulation. Maybe this will make him think a little more clearly about that windmill on oil rig idea a little more.
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