I’m with Shep on this one, if this spill procedures until August, the people of the Gulf Coast have no chance!

This is a dreadful, dreadful tragedy. A true catastrophe. The Gulf will endure, however. I’m less sure that we will have learned any lessons, however. Big Oil will probably still run Amerika.

Can I be the first?

“Is The BP Oil Spill Obama’s 9/11??”

tune into F&F for the updates.

We don’t need any more apologists. Get a clue, people; Obama has NOT exercised leadership and HAS failures on this issue. Face the facts! (NOTE: I am a Progressive Dem who voted for Obama.) Here’s a list of easy things that he could have done but without them his (mostly in-) action has brought him failure. To wit:

He failed to:

1) ensure US assets boom properly and/or provide oversight for booming done by BP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8kMXufu3w

2) realize that dispersants are exactly what are NOT needed / desired – we want to get the oil OUT of the sea, not disperse it so it’s there until it biodegrades.

3) stop the use of chemically disastrous dispersant when a better, less harmful one is available.

4) oversee and compel / raise the urgency of a competent solution to the continued “leak.”

5) amp-up the creation of artificial sand berms to catch / slow the oil before reaching the most sensitive marshes / swamps. (The ArmyCorpsofEngineers is scared of screwing up a pipeline somewhere, but this is just an excuse. New pipe is laid all the time and has the same issue; this CAN be done safely.)

6) put serious recovery ships in operation to suck the oil from the sea (at the ends of the PROPERLY used booms, of course!).

…And these are just the easy things to pick out…

My dear ex that would seriously impede the prime objective here which is to preen and posture while menacingly assuring the American people that the boot will be kept on the throat of BP.

One of the top officials at the press conference Monday said in response to Jindal’s urgent plea for approval for the dredging to build berms raised the objection that they needed to study the impact on the dredging areas that could cause harm to the ecosystem of the area being dredged. That is why political solutions are usually so ineffectual. Forget the massive damage that is spreading under your feet while you study all the possible harm that might be done.

The Gulf will survive. Shemp needs to go back with Curley and Mo.
BP is going to pay for everything. They have the money. They are not trying to get out of paying. No business down there should be complaining about BP. The wild life will recover. I am sure glad BP makes big profits so they can pay the damages.
Get to work on the clean-up and give the dems payback by blaming everything on Obama.
Someone needs to check RRK’s papers. I smell a rat.

Are there 3,000 dead people in the Gulf? How could I have missed that?

Grammie says:
May 26, 2010 at 7:34 pm

My dear ex that would seriously impede the prime objective here which is to preen and posture while menacingly assuring the American people that the boot will be kept on the throat of BP.

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Janet: One of the by products of oil drilling is natural gas. You have provided a very good illustration of that for us in one preposterously pompous sentence. Our thanks.

I think we’ll have to change one of our commentator’s names to the Pollyanna Blower Show.

The oil spill is a wakeup call that the Obama administration is more incompetent than any other administration. They are more interested in postering and protecting their behinds than delivering and protecting our economy and environment.
BP is working hard but not getting support. Yes, there have been delays but we should have had absorbent, burnable materials in the water and near the land and marshes like hay and dried grasses that can absorb the oil, make it easier to collect and burn.
The fact that local boats have been restricted from going in and removing oysters and other harvested seafood by local and federal representatives is wrong. Oysters can be flushed with clean water to make them edible. I can not attest to the shrimping industry situation. But, I personnally do not want to pay a substantial increase for government stupidity.
Where are all the FEMA people? Where is the mobilization of Americorp? Where is the re-direction of oil equipment to the area? Where is the Sierra Club and Greenpeace? They paid Obama off during the election to protect the environment. Do we have another broken promise????

how about if we stop referring to this disaster as a spill and call it what it really is a Leak!!! The only reason it hasn’t been plugged yet is because the only way to do it would be to destroy the well and where is the money in that ?? Greed is running this show and it is time for it to step aside…This is a problem that will effect the whole world as the contamination will spread. We are so oppossed to Japan whaling ships yet an oil rig is a more acceptable method for killing them and no one will benefit from their death. Obama is so ill prepared to handle this situation that George Bush looks like a savior in comparison between this mess and Katrina.