Obama's Katrina
Within a week of that damn well exploding, I prophesied that this disaster would become Obama's Katrina. Look it up ... blogged for all to view. The trouble is, why isn't the media following up on this administration's complete bungling of this catastrophe? Katrina was an instant disaster for Bush, and everyone saw footage of irresponsible people in New Orleans looting and running amok ... all blamed on Bush by a compliant and hostile media, even though the Democratic Governor and Mayor told the feds to stay away for a week until the disaster was complete.
Here it is THIRTY-FIVE DAYS LATER and Salazar says that unless BP do something quick, that the Fed will be forced to move them aside to do something. WHAT THE F**K ARE THEY WAITING FOR IF THEY CAN DO BETTER?
You see, the amount of oil released every day is far larger than most of the press report. By some reports, there are VAST underwater slicks of the stuff miles long and thousands of feet thick and even if not, globs are washing up all over the Gulf, effectively rendering the whole ecosystem toxic. So what are they waiting for, if they can do better? Are they hoping for environmental meltdown so that they can advance their goals of a non-fossil fuel economy?
Can they -- the Feds -- do better? Fox News (OK, not so reliable, but easily as much as the Leftist Clinton News Network -- currently in the O-tank) reports that the Navy possess the technical ability to shut this thing down. No doubt if true a development of a military strategic technology -- but who cares? This is killing the Gulf environment. Maybe they can use the Russian nuke technique -- reports are that the Russians used a nuke a couple of decades ago to stop a massive natural gas fire.
So far the Fed have just sat on their asses waiting for BP to come up with a solution. Obama's stance being let the responsible companies sort it out. But this stance is COMPLETELY out of synch with his "regulate and control everything that moves" stance otherwise. So IS Obama in the oil companies' pocket? Possibly. But I'd rather think that they just don't know what the hell to do, and are afraid of doing something that might not work, so better to let BP take the rap. But after 35 days, it is a crisis of national leadership and this spill effects ALL of us: this is not the time to suddenly adopt a laisser faire attitude. Vastly hypocritical, vastly cynical ... we are all be hurt by the incompetence once again shown by the chosen one.
By the way, that butthole DooFus Patrick of the Commonwealth of Liberal Morons exclaimed that criticism of Obama was getting "dangerously close to sedition." Huh? Did anyone read the papers for 8 years of the Bush administration? Or listen to talk show hosts publicly wishing Bush was dead? Wishing for an accident to befall him? Remember when Hillary (shrieked) that it was the right and duty of every American to protest their government's misdeeds and failures?
Laughably, Patrick is "taking his gloves off, no Mister Nice Guy" in his campaign? He wants to run on his achievements. Lord please spare us the spectacle of Loyal Liberal Toadies sucking up to one of the most ineffectual governors ever foisted on a state.
A last thought ... what if they simply can't shut this sucker down? Wouldn't mean an environmental disaster ... that would lead to the necessity of shutting down offshore rigs until a solution can be found? You can't let another one happen ... with the result that a huge part of the U.S. domestic oil production will be shut down, raising oil and gas prices dramatically, exposing the U.S. to economic sabotage from the Middle East (Iran) ... and totally screwing the "economic recovery?" Which in turn only strengthens the hand of Tea Partiers and Republicans in the coming elections? Is this a case of don't look behind the curtain?
How deliciously ironic: man of the environment, saviour of mankind, is caught by the political need to "make this go away"but is simply running out of time? No fairy godmother/knight, no magic carpet ... and possibly only a nuke to save him? So he crosses his fingers to wait?
Here it is THIRTY-FIVE DAYS LATER and Salazar says that unless BP do something quick, that the Fed will be forced to move them aside to do something. WHAT THE F**K ARE THEY WAITING FOR IF THEY CAN DO BETTER?
You see, the amount of oil released every day is far larger than most of the press report. By some reports, there are VAST underwater slicks of the stuff miles long and thousands of feet thick and even if not, globs are washing up all over the Gulf, effectively rendering the whole ecosystem toxic. So what are they waiting for, if they can do better? Are they hoping for environmental meltdown so that they can advance their goals of a non-fossil fuel economy?
Can they -- the Feds -- do better? Fox News (OK, not so reliable, but easily as much as the Leftist Clinton News Network -- currently in the O-tank) reports that the Navy possess the technical ability to shut this thing down. No doubt if true a development of a military strategic technology -- but who cares? This is killing the Gulf environment. Maybe they can use the Russian nuke technique -- reports are that the Russians used a nuke a couple of decades ago to stop a massive natural gas fire.
So far the Fed have just sat on their asses waiting for BP to come up with a solution. Obama's stance being let the responsible companies sort it out. But this stance is COMPLETELY out of synch with his "regulate and control everything that moves" stance otherwise. So IS Obama in the oil companies' pocket? Possibly. But I'd rather think that they just don't know what the hell to do, and are afraid of doing something that might not work, so better to let BP take the rap. But after 35 days, it is a crisis of national leadership and this spill effects ALL of us: this is not the time to suddenly adopt a laisser faire attitude. Vastly hypocritical, vastly cynical ... we are all be hurt by the incompetence once again shown by the chosen one.
By the way, that butthole DooFus Patrick of the Commonwealth of Liberal Morons exclaimed that criticism of Obama was getting "dangerously close to sedition." Huh? Did anyone read the papers for 8 years of the Bush administration? Or listen to talk show hosts publicly wishing Bush was dead? Wishing for an accident to befall him? Remember when Hillary (shrieked) that it was the right and duty of every American to protest their government's misdeeds and failures?
Laughably, Patrick is "taking his gloves off, no Mister Nice Guy" in his campaign? He wants to run on his achievements. Lord please spare us the spectacle of Loyal Liberal Toadies sucking up to one of the most ineffectual governors ever foisted on a state.
A last thought ... what if they simply can't shut this sucker down? Wouldn't mean an environmental disaster ... that would lead to the necessity of shutting down offshore rigs until a solution can be found? You can't let another one happen ... with the result that a huge part of the U.S. domestic oil production will be shut down, raising oil and gas prices dramatically, exposing the U.S. to economic sabotage from the Middle East (Iran) ... and totally screwing the "economic recovery?" Which in turn only strengthens the hand of Tea Partiers and Republicans in the coming elections? Is this a case of don't look behind the curtain?
How deliciously ironic: man of the environment, saviour of mankind, is caught by the political need to "make this go away"but is simply running out of time? No fairy godmother/knight, no magic carpet ... and possibly only a nuke to save him? So he crosses his fingers to wait?
posted by Zaphod at Monday, May 24, 2010
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