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In 2010, on this day Sarah Louise Palin was sworn in as the first woman President of the United States after John McCain suffered a heart attack at the Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana where he had been overseeing the crisis management of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.
Woman solves man-made disaster
Characteristically, McCain had been honouring a campaign pledge that had he been president during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster, he would have flown to the nearest Air Force base to oversee the response.
The Deepwater catastrophe had begun with the initial rig explosion on April 20. "And, unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days" ~ former President Candidate Barack ObamaThe subsequent fire on a semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit created a massive ongoing offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest in U.S. history and an environmental disaster.
Doubtless, what was required over the coming months was the deft crisis management of a national leader such as John F Kennedy. Instead having charged down to Louisiana McCain could hardly disengage with the crisis worstening.
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~ McCain is an old time aviator. Be more fun to have him do a flyover of the disaster in a small plane and crash no?
~ And the liberal half of the population lifts hemlock to their lips rather than have to say "President Palin.." :)
Comment from Margo Barotta on Facebook: When john mccain choose sarah palin to be his vice president it was a great choice it show us that he is free in his politics he is not under presure of powerfull vice president like obama make : biden is a powerfull man and he has long history in politics .and sarah palin will be for the interior subject ,the foreign policy and the diplomacie will ... See Morebe in his hand .but if this accident happened to mccain (if he was president)i dont think sarah palin will succes to take the charge and she is not forge in politics like mccain or hilary clinton .she has not the politic karisma to stand in face of global issues.
Comment from Norton James on Facebook: Bush spent 1.5 trillion dollars to kill Sassam Hussein and his administartion caused the worst finacial crisis since the Great Depression. Military spending represents 53.3 percent of the US budget. Bush TOLD people to go spend money, buy stuff thereby not saving.
He started the bailouts and stimulus waste of our ...tax... dollars, he did nothing ... See Moreto address the trade deficit, loss of jobs, HC and so on. Clinton had a surplus, Bush deficit. Bush started two wars. Bush didn't construct any road. Bush didn't reform the schools. Bush let the financial sector implode. Obama' ll end Bush's wars and so we ll have money to finance Obamcare.
Comment from Dennis Schneider on Facebook: Bush didn't start the war, Clinton's weak foreign policy emboldened Muslim fanatics (al queida) into attacking us. And the whole world agreed that Sadam was hiding WMD's so you pinheads can stop trying to blame Bush for that one too. Obama has sent more troops to die with less funding to help them. He has spent more money than every president in our history combined!!! Not to mention dividing this country almost beyond repair. Wake up!!
Comment from James Hyman on Facebook: Dennis, your Limbaugh-Hannity-Palin tin-foil hat is on WAY too tight. You need to get out and take a break from all TV and radio for a month and make some human contact.
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In 2012, the Hundred and Twelfth Congress of the United States settled in for a session that would last a total of three weeks before it disbanded for the year. The majority of the American people had conveyed through Tea Party rallies nation wide that they wanted a brief, truncated legislative session so that no one in Congress could usurp power and spend months in constant and expensive session.
Woman solves man-made disaster Part 2On the first day of Congress, both Houses were convened for memorial services in memory of John McCain and his journey to the Gulf Coast.
"Maybe John did not know what to do there," said Joe Lieberman, "but he made sure he was on the spot, even if nobody had figured out all of the details by the time he got there". Speaker Boehner called two Democrats out of order when they attempted to introduce criticism of McCain strategy when the purpose of the memorial was clearly labelled "commemoration of the life and activities of John McCain".
The sixty Democrats left in Congress (forty in the House and the rest in the Senate) tried again to complain about the President's policy in stopping the oil spill. "Okey-dokey," said Sarah Palin addressing Cogress. "You would have let that leak go on for years and even longer, and everything that could have gone wrong in the Gulf of Mexico would have up and happened. I made the tough choice and stopped the deterioration of the Gulf in one step, saving it from the misfortune that would have come had no one had the gumption to do what was necessary, when it was necessary".
In the second week of Congress' session, two thirds majorities in both Houses passed the Life Amendment that expressly cancelled Roe and outlawed "any research on human genetic material" and sent that amendment out for the States to pass on its merit. Similar majorities outlawed gay-sex marriage and gave States the ability to make homosexual sex a felony, and abolished all "laws, rules and regulations, which restrain law abiding Americans from the posssession and use of weapons and firearms of their choice".
"Sarah. Mrs.President Palin," said Justice Scalia at a televised dinner in her honor, "we all miss John McCain greatly, but we have to be honest and admit that your movement to the Oval Office liberated this country and made possible our restoration of American values. All the problems have been wiped away and you are restoring everything that needs it".
On the top floor of the White House. Palin looked through her calendar and Todd commented:
"You got a full hour with Clinton, Obama and Kerry at the Oval Office. All those wimps are going to insist that the denial of citizenship is unconstitutional for babies born in the States".
Sarah shrugged and grinned. "Duh. Dontcha think they ought to someday tell me they will let me make up my own mind on what I read in the Constitution?"
"They are a waste of time," said Todd.
"I'll have my secretary buzz me if they get too tiresome for me to stand them," said Palin. "But I have to keep my ears open to what the other side is saying, or else my opinions will close up and I will be like them: a know it all asshole who goes out.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Deepwater Source: Wikipedia Labels: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Gulf of Mexico. Editor says, This is a continuation of DEEPWATER, where John McCain died of a heart attack and leaves SarahPalin to deal with the situation. When I wrote my commentary, I had McCain's widow complain that the mainstream media never gave her husband support for his try in fixing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. On inheriting the office, President Palin had a nuclear bomb detonated on the leak, which froze the polution under a huge, immobile glass plug.
~ Frankly, I wish congress would give NASA enough money to move up into space, start mining asteroids and the moon with which to build space islands around L4 and L5 as Professor Gerard K. O'Neill envisioned so we can all get up, pack up our things and leave. I really doubt government listens or cares. I believe we need to start over.
~ This is more a future history than an alt-hist, I think. And the Tea Party isn't too fussed about gay marriage. That said, I do think that the gays, by using the courts rather than working through the legislatures, really made a bad mistake.
~ I agree this is not alternate history. We need to stick to the past and see and think on what things might have been if things had gone another way. But at the same time Our politicians are going to have to either remember or learn that they are the elected agents of the people. They are the employees of the people. The Courts are going to have to remember or learn that they are not the makers of law or the creators or social policy, because; big thing is with the way some liberal judges think, just because it is in the constitution does not mean they feel they need honor or follow it. Some o f them are looking to the UN to be the new secular Pope to give them dispensation to ignore these things things they don't care for just as Prince John did when trying to avoid having to fulfill his obligations after signing the Magna Carta.o
~ AIIIIIEEEEE! Mining space as rthe solution to our problems?
I used to be very enthusiastic about Gerard K. O'Neill's vision. Then I actually did the numbers. It's not going to happen, not any time soon and maybe not ever.
Prof. O'Neill was wildly optimistic about the way the costs of getting into space and working there would come down. I've seen nothing in the past thirty years to convince me that it's affordable with known technnology, even assuming that letting private enterprise take over would result in huge improvements in efficiency. (Right at the moment, that doesn't seem persuasive.)
And I've never, ever seen a serious, detailed explanation of how very large structures could be assembled in space from materials mined there, as opposed to finished pieces built on Earth--or even how such mining would be carried out, or the products milled into components for big structures. The necessary technology and infrastructure just seem to be assumed. I'm serious: if anyone can point me to some references which address these issues, I'd appreciate it. It's not that I haven't looked.
And Michael, two things:
(1) the courts have always taken it upon themselves "to say what the law is," as I believe Chief Justice Marshall put it two centuries ago. (I think it was Marshall; I haven't time to Google it just now.) When they do it too egregiously, there has always been pushback--but what counts as"too egregiously" is not decided objectively by anyone, and tends to shift over time. And (2) most of the judges now in the federal judiciary were appointed by conservative, if not hard-right, Republican presidents; the idea that the Constitution is being shredded by liberals on the bench is, and I can use no softer word, nonsense.
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