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J.E. Dyer has today's Armus roundup.  Lowlights:

***House Donks are flipping the double-barrelled bird to Republicans who want to see Armus and the Hussein administration's deliberate neglect for themselves:

House members who had planned to travel to Louisiana next week for a tour and meetings on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill being organized by Rep. Steve Scalise won't be able to tap their member accounts to cover the costs, the Republican congressman said he was told Tuesday.

The travel would appear to be to in the category of "general oversight" into an issue in which several committees have already been authorized for member visits to the Gulf Coast, said Kyle Anderson, spokesman for House Administration Committee Chairman Robert Brady, D-PA Such trips, Brady said, are "not eligible for payment from the financial accounts" that finance members' offices.

Brady's committee decides on whether to allow congressional funding of trips.

Scalise said he was surprised that the House administration panel would deny compensation for a trip designed to help members understand the issues related to the Gulf disaster, especially given that they soon will vote on spill-related legislation.

 

"House Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi has the ability to approve this trip, but she's decided to deny (payment for) this site visit," Scalise said. "What is Speaker Pelosi afraid of?"

Pelosi's office referred all questions to [drumroll] the House Administration Committee.

Yeah, what could Crazy Nancy be afraid of?  Like maybe more members of the oppressed opposition getting a firsthand look at how Godbama is using Armus to hold the Gulf region hostage in order to extort the GOP into giving "bipartisan" cover to economy-crippling cap & trade legislation.  But that's just a wild guess, right?

At least I HOPE that question is rhetorical to Congressman Scalise.  Beats me why he'd be surprised at the dark fathomless depths of the Dems' partisan spitefulness.

***Remember a coupla weeks ago when Barack Obama sat behind Old Irresolute and announced that he'd loansharked British Petroleum into volunteering to be the federal government's newest omnibus welfare agency and would pay for...well, everything even the slightest bit tangentially related to Armus up to twenty BILLION dollars but really past the clouds and the skies and the starry heavens beyond?  Remember how Benedict Stupak pavlovianly popped up like a Whack-A-Mole dummy and chirped that we should tap that slush fund for ObamaCare?  Guess who is being inexorably written out of that mafiaesque bonanza:

The director who'll disperse $20 billion to victims of BP's oil spill warned Wednesday that companies hurt because tourists have stayed away from the Gulf region may not be eligible for reimbursement.

 

Kenneth Feinberg, whom President Obama appointed to handle claims, told the House Small Business Committee in Washington that determining whether to pay businesses and individuals that didn't suffer direct damage is among the most difficult issues he faces.

Indirect claims — such as those made by companies that lost revenue because wary tourists stayed home thinking a beach would be damaged — may not be "compensatory," he said.

Feinberg, however, told committee members that the compensation fund would make initial payments equal to six months of reimbursement. Elected officials in the region have said month-to-month payments to small business are insufficient to help companies stay in business.

"Not compensatory"?  As in "not relevant"?  For what possible reason, aside from the general detrimental effects of Obamanomics, could account for the additional damage wrought on the local Gulf states economy if not Armus and how the Hussein administration just lets it go on and on and on and on while hiding its calculated ideological malevolence behind the entirely plausible facade of bureaucratic ineptitude?  Sounds to me like Barry has plans for that twenty bil that do not include even tossing a token blizzard of checks at the people whom he's designated for sacrifice to a "greater and greener cause".

***The Huff 'n Puffers thought they finally brought down Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal - the closest thing there is to a hero in this catastrophe, with the poll numbers to prove it - by springing the "gotcha!" of why he (and other Gulf state governors) had cruelly, callously, and hypocritically not activated all the National Guardsmen the Chicago Cherubim had graciously and benevolently authorized for anti-Armus combat.  AHA!  AHA!  WE GOTCHA NOW!  WE GOTCHA NOW!  NOW YOU'LL PAY, YOU !#$%^&* BLASPHEMER!!!

Would you believe their triumphant story was a tad....incomplete?

A Defense official told Fox News that governors are afraid that activating more troops would be politically harmful, charging taxpayers a high cost for duties that won't keep troops busy. The skill sets these troops have don't match the needs, the official said, and the governors aren't about to pay soldiers to stand on the beaches waiting for oil to wash up.

Gates told Fox News Sunday that there isn't more the Pentagon could be doing to help stop the spill or to prevent millions of gallons of oil from washing up on the Gulf Coast.

"We have offered whatever capabilities we have," Gates said. "We don't have the kinds of equipment or particular expertise."

In other words, Governor Jindal and his counterparts aren't interested in doing what Red Barry has done every time he's gone to the Gulf for another photo-op: send out veritable actors as background props to make it look to the press like a cleanup is being actively and vigorously pursued instead of calculatedly and cynically obstructed.  Or, put another way, make themselves into higher-level props and even accomplices to the Armus coverup.

Governor Jindal vented about the whole situation on the Hannity radio show today.  RightScoop has the audio but wouldn't let embed code anywhere on the 'Net, so I'm helping myself to all their text in lieu of adding an extra ten minutes to my day posting a jpeg to click.  Trust me, peeps, it's as cathartic as catharsis gets while still retaining a G rating.

Sean Hannity got Bobby Jindal on the radio today to talk about the Gulf oil crisis and just let him go. One thing is clear: Bobby Jindal does not need a teleprompter to give you the entire run down on the Federal response to this crisis. In fact he spit out so much information I had to listen to this a couple of times because he really does lay it out in detail. The bottom line is what we all know already, that the Feds have botched this oil response royally from day one. But it’s the specifics that Jindal divulges that makes the account of the federal response so harrowing.

Everyone should listen to this audio, including the MSM. The truth of this botched Federal response needs to be exposed so that substantive action will take place and we can get this cleaned up. It’s a little over ten minutes, but well worth your listen. Thanks to Hannity for getting this interview and just letting him go. Truly a great interview.