Half Truths and Distorted Messes

Half Truths and Distorted Messes:

The Oil Mess: The L.A. Times reported when “Top Kill” was the last, best hope for plugging the British Petroleum gusher that the Obama administration was saying it was all over the Gulf oil spill.

The only way Obama was all over that oil mess was when he was trudging through it which he’s done 3 times now and counting but nothing ever seems to happen about it except more rhetoric and more gushing.

Trying to make up for weeks of inaction and disinterest, “Batting away suggestions that the federal response has been lackluster and that BP executives have been calling the shots, Obama insisted that ‘BP is operating at our direction. Every key decision and action they take must be approved by us in advance,’ Obama said. If the Coast Guard orders BP to do something, he added, ‘they are legally bound to do it’: ” http://bit.ly/bHgLE3

Just whom does this guy think he’s kidding. The federal response was not “lackluster;” it was non-existent until the Obamian incompetence became as transparent as the president said his administration would be. Only then did Obama semi-mobilize the forces that should have been deployed in April.

To say now that BP is going to ask how high when Obama tells it to jump is as patently absurd as wanting the American public to believe our government even knows what to do with the hole in the Gulf. The best bet at this point is to let BP and assisting oil companies to do their thing since they are the putative experts.

We should keep a close eye on them and what they’re doing, provide all the logistical back-up they need and more, stay out of the way when it comes to technical details, focus on the clean-up operation, and bill them for every nickle expended.

Obama can’t be blamed for the gushing oil. He very defintely can and should be blamed for not dealing with the consequences on a timely basis. . .
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