Louisana Gov. Jindal blasts Obama inaction, moves on sand booms
This is leadership on the front lines, not just on the sidelines. Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal has been working non-stop over the past month to protect his state from the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill — and from the bureaucratic delays in the Obama administration.
Click on the image to watch the video of his latest press conference as Gov. Jindal explains what he is doing to contain the damage:
Here is the Emergency.Louisiana.gov page with extensive updates and resources on the state’s emergency response to the crisis, dating back to April 22.
Via NECN:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said the state will not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Oil has pushed at least 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes, with two major pelican rookeries awash in crude.
Gov. Jindal was critical of the amount of boom his state received to ward off the oil seeping toward the coastline. But his major gripe comes at the expense of the Army Corps of Engineers, who have yet to give the go-ahead for the building of sand booms to protect the Louisiana wetlands. He used photographic evidence of oil breaking through hard booms, soft booms and another layer of protection, before being finally being corralled by a sand boom built by the National Guard.
“It is so much better for us. We don’t want oil on one inch of Louisiana’s coastline, but we’d much rather fight this oil off of a hard coast, off of an island, off of an island, off of a sandy beach on our coastal islands, rather than having to fight it inside in these wetlands,” Gov. Jindal said, making the case for sand booms.
The governor said he has been forced to protect Louisiana without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is weighing the ecological impact of the construction of more sand booms.
“We are not waiting for them. We are going to build it,” Jindal said.
At least one federal official is taking some responsibility:
The oil mass continues moving west, and as the toxic sludge begins to make landfall in Terrebonne, Capt. Edwin Stanton, who heads up the Coast Guard’s response, is taking blame.
“The governor is right. It’s too slow, and if it’s anybody’s fault, it’s mine, for not pushing (BP) hard enough perhaps,” Stanton said.“We did have a problem with getting boom down here to begin with, but there seems to be boom that is in the staging areas that needs to be put out.”
Then, in an exchange with a reporter, he went further.
Stanton: “It’s my job to direct this response in Louisiana.”
Reporter: “Why didn’t you do it?”
Stanton: “Well, the why — is that really important?”
Reporter: “Yes sir, we live here.”
Stanton: “Well, I guess I’m just slow and dumb.”
It’s a start.
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More: Jindal is scheduled to speak with President Obama in a conference call later today.
Put the boot on their necks, Gov. Jindal.
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Obama has sent the Justice Department to look at the oil spill. Inquiring minds want to know: Are they going there to uncover things…or cover things up?
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It’s Booshes fault. No, wait. that was Katrina. Obama owns this one.
The timing is so peculiar and the damage too timely that I hope they haul up the equipment that failed down there for a full examination and investigation — FBI included. I’d REALLY like to know exactly how that thing failed or was made to fail and got passed detection prior installation.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I just wonder how far the MSM will go to protect Obama in this.
The Sunday Miami Sun-Sentinal ran a story that outlines a history of many months of trouble with the well, the geological difficulties in drilling the Gulf, and BP trying to do the job on the cheap. Not being any sort of engineer, I have no idea if it’s an accurate story, or a platform for people to scapegoat BP. Who knows if the various Federal agencies who are supposed to inspect the rig did their jobs. Seems we have plenty of laws, just the lack of will or integrity to enforce them. Congrats to Jindal who showed some testicular fortitude & started to move. Screw waiting for permission in thse circumstance.
Palin/Jindal ticket, anyone?
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Yeah, I’m curious too. but there is this:
After Bush got wrongfully excoriated for Katrina (IMHO), I’d bet this administration will be a lot more cautious in dredging up things that make them look bad.
If ever one wanted to see inaction and a lack of effectiveness of the federal government in responding to a catastrophe, this is it. How long before it’s pointed out that Obama’s administration hasn’t a clue? I’m sorry, I meant to say, how long before there is outrage at the Obama administration? Their cluelessness has been pointed out on numerous occasions.
Bush had a natural catastrophe of epic proportions inflicted on a liberally run city that had become complacent in fending for itself expecting the federal government to “save” them. Metaphorically speaking, it’s much easier to help a person who uses his or her legs and arms to assist in evacuation than to carry a completely dead weight.
Obama had a slow moving, man-made catastrophe with a far greater warning and more time to head off the worst part but did nothing. I’m not buying their “we were on the scene from the very first” sound bites. Anyone can be on the scene of an accident first and watch ineffectually from the sidelines. We need leaders that can assess the situation and start taking action right away rather than trying to circle the political wagons and find someone to blame.
This country won’t survive if we keep waiting for the Obama administration to take the lead. The states are going to have to adopt an attitude of “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” to get anything done.
Well it least it’s not Boooshes fault … Oh wait, the media is working on that angle.
Who didn’t buy the fire booms and who didn’t require blowout preventer tests?
Obamao will not take a hit for the Regime response. The doofus people that love him will never be convinced the man child President ever does anything wrong.
Any questions will be deflected and spun to protect him. He is squeaky clean while oil gushes unabated, but Urkel will get away with blaming others, part of his MO.
Is this not the perfect picture of hopeychangey government in action?
While millions of gallons of raw crude are washing ashore and into wetlands, the government spends months researching the environmental impact of making a sand pile to stop it??!?
The government should be in charge only of cleaning toilets.
No, I take that back. I may need to use one.
Bho’s skills are not found in any sort of leadership. If it doesn’t involve inciting some group to protest until the other side caves, then he doesn’t know what to do. He’s never provided solutions which work, only demands which must be met. The oil simply refuses to comply.
If it was not for that Evil Bush, there would never have been drilling in the gulf. Oh, I forgot – its Halliburtons fault also – somehow. Oh wait, it was a Cheney and Halliburton in a plot to make the Sock Puppet look bad.
Obummer hates white people!
Obummer blew up that oil derrick!
I know someone who knows someone who’s uncle’s, cousin’s, aunt’s father saw Obummer himself plant a bomb on that derrick!
I learned well from the lame stream media during Hurricane Katrina.
The Corps of Engineers is weighing the ecological impact of the barriers? Oh, that’s a good one! At least humor hasn’t totally disappeared under the Obama administration. Maybe they could involve the same rocket scientists who were in charge of the levies around the 9th Ward.
This leads one to believe they don’t actually want the spill contained. If we’ve learned anything from Democrats in the last 20 years it’s that they live for the photo-op. I’m betting Obama would just love miles and miles of destroyed coastline footage with which to help destroy his political enemies–except it’ll be his own fault (not that that matters to Dems).
That was a great reply by Capt. Stanton, slow and dumb. That pretty much describes the entire Obama regime. And then add crooked and we have a true disaster.
Simple:
LOOK AT RAND PAUL!
Forget Blumnethal…
LOOK AT PALIN!
Forget that little oil thingie…
See a pattern emerging yet?!!?
Yoou have to ask? This is the most ethical and transparent administration…EVAH!
These people make me sick.
O-bow-mao’s chickens are coming home to roost.
The man-child president has never had a clue. He continues to be in campaign mode. It was a shock to him to learn there was an actual job description for the POTUS. He thought all he’d have to do is make great speeches and travel the country like a rock-star.
I feel sorry for Stanton from the CORPSE of Engineers but someone has to be the fall guy.
Errah, Where’s Anderson Cooper?
In fairness, one reason they were so slow in getting boom deployed was due to the heavy weather right after the event. Of course, they don’t consider that an excuse for BP, just for BO.
Obowmao’s theme song:
Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin’ crude.
Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
Well the first thing you know ol’ Jed’s a millionaire,
Kinfolk said Jed move away from there
Said Californy is the place you ought to be
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.
Hills, that is.
Swimmin pools, movie stars.
The Beverly Hillbillies!
Sung at the end of the show:
Well now its time to say good-bye to Jed and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You’re all invited back again to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality
Hillbilly that is. Set a spell. Take your shoes off. Y’all come back now, y’hear?
I am sure that Obama’s daily speeches will solve the oil problem. Or, monitoring! That’s it! Sending the justice department down to MONITOR the oilspill. That will do it! Or, better yet, SPEECHES AND MONITORING! YES! That IS the solution. YES, THE GUY IS CLUELESS! Give another speech Mr. President, or, maybe two. Blah, blah, blah, that’s all we get from our great president O’BLAH-MA. Maybe Obama thinks he can talk the oil away. Give him a flute and maybe he can tweet the oil away.
Crisis Management at it’s Best to say the least. Yes Sir good people-when the house is on fire do not call the fire department: call the Justice Department and investigate the building inspector.
“Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
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An Armed Society is a polite society.
Bobby, put Louisiana’s boot to the ‘Bomma – and keep it there for the whole country to see. Leftist losers. Suppose BHO’s too busy planning his next Kobe/Martini party to bother actually doing the work of an American President.
Louisiana booty call? I heard Lisa Jackson was being called in.
LOL
what a bunch of losers.
Obama’s Katrina. “Let them eat arugula with mole.”
Say it again ‘yall. ‘Bomma. Huh! What is he good for? Absolutely nothin’!
Don’t forget the EPA. Before dispatching the fire trucks, a study needs to be done to determine if the trucks will emit more carbon than the fire.
The ability to community organize and the ability to lead are mutually exclusive traits. We should see BP and the Federal government standing around a table, sleeves rolled up, heads down working together on a common problem.
All I see is the Feds standing from afar, “providing oversight” (whatever the h@11 that means) while doing nothing to assist BP and the states. Big Sis doing a flyover is indicative of this administrations approach.
I can tell you from a logistical standpoint in a situation like this you “push” critical assets forward until the organization that needs them tells you to stop. LA has to PULL (i.e. request) assets. This is competely backwards.
I guess President Obama just doesn’t care about black people.
Teh Stoopid is strong in this one.
I am waiting for Obama to send Andy Stern down there on a Presidential jet so he can get the disater workers unionized. That’s Jon One at this White House.
Jon = Job either a typo or a Freudian Slip….
Gov Bobby jindal is taking the “Man’s Approach” to this situation; Fix the problem first, then look at what & who to “blame” for preventive measures, not to push an agenda. O’Bambi is an empty suit,a confirmed fact, that took less than 18 months to certify, and O’Bambi, et al are causing major damage on every front, aided and abetted by the media and the Dems. The only worthwhile question now is what do we do to fix the problem, ASAP?
It isn’t Obama vs Bush. It’s Obama = Bush.
The federal government is too big, no matter which party is in the executive branch.
Agreed. Massive swaths of the Federal government need to be cut away like a gigantic political liposuction operation. Man would I love to run a machine that huge! Imagine the size of the cannula! The suction! The heavy lift trucks to haul that crap away! I could do some serious damage.
Where would you dump all that Marxist fat? eeeeeee scary.
Jindal will prove himself (yet again) on handling this situation. He is a problem solver. Furthermore, he will get a lot more done if obama stays the hell out of the way.
There are two ways to get someone to lose fat – lipo, or STOP FEEDING THEM.
GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING WELL.
GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING QUICKLY.
Obama and his allies are looking forward to pictures of oil covered beaches for political purposes.
It is not a accident that the government has dawdled and dithered in one of the most pathetic cases of government ineptitude in recent history.
Go, Bobby! It is your state and it is your job to lead.
Do the right thing and tell the feds to get out of the way since they are clearly the greatest impediment to resolving this crisis!
Finally, someone has something intelligent to say about this while actually doing something about it.
Sure beats Palin’s incoherent and factually wrong flip-flop from “Drill baby drill!” to “Obama is in bed with the oil companies!” when McCain took in $2.4 million from big oil to Obama’s $800,000. Go away Sarah. We don’t need another factually-challenged maverick.
Errah, Will all that oil what is O’s carbon footprint now? Al Gwhore is astoundingly silent about this one!
BTW, what is it with Obama pointing to the Justice Department having a team on the scene when responding to questions about what he is doing to address this problem? Shouldn’t he have engineers and scientists?
Phil,
One sends lawyers to blame and threaten people, screw things up and slow things down. One sends engineers and scientists to fix things. I think that says it all…
What’s Obama’s professional background? That makes the answer pretty obvious. It’s predictable.
I guess Obama plans to seal the oil leak by stuffing the well with subpoenas.
If it points to someone Obama can throw under the bus, he will. If it points to him or one of his close cronies, he’ll find someone to throw under the bus.
So that segues to this => I think Stanton wants out of his job. He sounds like he’s tired of working with the incompetents in the Obama administration.
That is what I was thinking. First how in the heck did he leave this in the hands of BP. He is still responsible. Then he treats it as a crime, rather than as a problem. I think this points to the essence of Obama.
First, the government does not have the capability of dealing with this oil spill and the oil companies might have failed to prepare properly for such an event but they are the only ones who CAN resolve it.
Second, even if the government had the capability, as soon as they take control of the situation, they own it. That is not Obama’s MO. His MO in an emergency is to delay, assess, blame, shake down and then move in with a narrative of blame but having taken money from the guilty party, give them what they want legislatively.
I just heard that a bi-partisan congressional team is ON THE WAY to investigate the oil spill.
SPEECHES AND MONITORING AND INVESTIGATION. YES! This is INDEED the answer to the problem!
Unless those cleaning up this mess are union members from the AFL-CIO or SEIU, there will be no clean up. Capice? Our members are standing ready to strike unless our demands are met./sarc
“I just heard that a bi-partisan congressional team is ON THE WAY to investigate the oil spill.”
Yep, a bunch of Gov hacks traveling on the Tax payer dime to go look at the oil hitting the beaches and determine it is from the Oil Rig that blew up –
All standing around saying the same thing – this is tragic, BP is to blame – and that will be the sum total of their useless input.
Actualy, you are incorrect on both parts. BP does not have the capability to stop the flow of oil, or they would have already done so…
While the US Navy… does… its a solution the Soviets used at least 5 times, using a Nuclear weapon to seal the wellhead.
Of course, as this would proove that a Nuc is not the inherently evil thing that Obama wants us to believe (so we will ban them all)… it will not be done.
O-hole’s administration wants to weaken Jindal by inaction at the federal level. Bobby does well for himself by taking action. And he should just walk like a duck….let O-hole point figers while his non-crony peers in the states take care of business… Jan Brewer is doing the same as Bobby…get er done. Let the poser in chief point fingers and play his fiddle while “Rome burns”. O-hole has become irrelevant.
Bear1909 out.
While oil companies have the responsibility and the know how, the government has a significant role it can play, because of the resources it has available. The US Navy and Coast Guard have perhaps the best deep water capabilties in the world. The military can move massive amounts of equipment, material and people anywhere in the world.
It is up to the government to make BP aware of what capabilties they have and make them available. This all gets back to thejim’s comment of taking the Man’s Approach.
The government does not support and assist the private sector anymore. The government is the private sector’s adversary; an adversary that will take full advantage of any mistake in the private sector to further grow its power and reach. it is that underlying reality that is causing things to fall apart in the Gulf.
I think the most important thing here is to see that the MSM doesn’t portray oily birds and turtles as the omen of DoomsDay to feed its Obama-supporting campaign to mandate windmills and solar panels on every home, hilltop and building, all oil-related jobs be damned and dumped. Yes, it’s an ugly accidental spill, but the public has to get a grip on perspectives that the environment has suffered far far worst situations and bounced back. Maybe not to our artistic liking, but recovers nonetheless.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars” herolizes pirates and sabotage.
The Coast Guard is telling the media that the efforts are going very well, all things considered. The Obama admin is where the BP bashing is coming from and apparently they aren’t talking to people who are actually involved.
Who else has noticed a running theme here? The states (Arizona, Tennessee, and now Louisiana) have had to take things into their own hands because Washington just couldn’t give a crap. We have an expensive but largely worthless bureaucracy headed by a junior varsity ideologue who is at best indifferent to his own country and would much rather enjoy the perks of his job than actually do his job.
We have all these foreign countries drilling in our gulf region and then selling us our oil. We can’t drill in Alaska because of enviro-nuts. We are in debt to the Chinese, who have been buying up mineral rights all over the world. Has our government secured our debt with our minerals to the Chinese and that’s why we can’t drill for our own oil? Is our government selling us out in ways we don’t even know yet????
b-b-but, greenfaerie–they now have universal health coverage!
But Fearless Leader now has a full tilt, 5 alarm fire in Korea to deflect from his complete failure in anything he does, thinks or says. Or at least he hopes so.
When the Alaska pipeline first opened, an enviro-nut punched a hole in it and caused a massive spill and cleanup effort. (Yeah, go figure.) Anyway, in about a year, the birds were all back. The Gulf environment will recover. All we are doing is making that recovery easier for the wildlife.
He’d best show some resolve or he will have a shooting war on his hands. Strength never got us in a war, but weakness has several times, including the last time on that penninsula.
We have 37,000 soldiers within miles of the DMZ and primary avenue of approach into the South. He’d best have his act wired tight or we are going to lose a bunch of people.
I am not buying this as an excuse. We have been putting 100′s of Billions of dollars into the DOE. We lease all this land (below water) to oil companies. We are ultimately responsible. I have worked in avionics. There is always a failsafe plan in case things go wrong. There are standards in place for all hardware and software. When you dig a well about 1 mile under water, you MUST have demonstrated that you can plug any leak that may arise, before getting that permit. Meanwhile the US must have ways to jump in and take over the problem. After all a company like BP can go out of business.
Certainly sitting passively by as oil floods our shores is not acceptable. Nor is the red tape.
We have EPA, NOAA and the Army Corps of Engineers that have done more to get in the way than to help. These are all examples of incompetent leadership and too many regulations to get things done. Big government can’t get out of it’s own way, but it can host a party in the White house. Too bad that private sector wasn’t allowed to help. All ideas needed to be on the table.
Flyoverman said:
While I agree Fearless Leader had best have his S–t wired I totally and completely know he does not. NK is a proxy of China and our lien holder and sad to say, Fearless Leader will buckle. The crime will be, like you stated, we will loose one hell of alot of people if this spirals out of control.
You have to wonder what is wrong with the people of Louisiana, as a whole. I’m sure there are plenty of take-charge types there, don’t get me wrong, but as a state they are a disaster.
What has kept Jindal from doing this – or at least calling for it – 2 weeks ago? The booms should be complete in some areas, by now.
It’s no different than seeing those school buses all parked in a row, unused, as Katrina was approaching.
Nagin, Jindal – what’s the difference? What’s Louisiana’s State Motto: Wait for Federal Aid?
There must be no such things as Louisiana Boy Scout troops, because nobody EVER seems to be prepared down there…
The responsibility for things offshore is clearly the Federal government. Also, only the Federal government has sufficient booms to complete the work. If all states had all the booms they needed it would be extremely wasteful and a waste of state funding.
Further, until the oil got closer based on wind, currents and tides, what would you have protected; the whole LA coast? Again, protecting the whole coast was both wasteful and impractical.
Throw in the daily amount of oil leaking is 5 times larger than estimated and its lasted proabably two weeks beyond what anyone thought as additional wild cards.
I think your expectations of the Governor are unrealistic.
Indeed…….
Why? How about Federal Environmental law?
They need Federal permission to put up booms, and especialy to build the types of sandbars they wish. Remember, all those wetlands are Federaly Protected… thus even the STATE can’t do anything there without Fed permission.
I can guess who will be doing all the talking: Obeyme
In spite of the fact the Soviets appear to have used nukes to shut down leaking wells I am not sure we need to or want to go that route.
It would seem we be able to use conventional explosives to accomplish the same end if we can’t think of something else soon. It might take a bit more planning and drilling but the potential for a worse disaster seems much lower using conventional explosives. “Oops” and “nuclear ordnance” are not words you want to see used in the same sentence…
This site says the Soviets tried this 5 times and it worked 4 times. This site states that the nukes were used under water. It is not clear that the leaks were 5,000 feet deep or not and that might complicate matters a bit.
Politics aside… its quite a do-able solution.
Yes BP will loose its investment… but the real Eco damage being caused is pretty large at this point… much larger than a subteranean clean Nuc would do.
One of BPs problems is that there is more than one leak… and a properly place Nuc would force a compresion wave outwards, and should seal all the leaks at once.
As to 5000 ft? We’ve a lot of data in the US Navy about using Nuclear Depth Charges from tests during the Cold war… does not seem like a large concern to this old US Navy Cold Warrior.
One other issue I’d bring up… we keep talking about BP and the US… remember there are a lot of other countries out there who are in the Gulf… just wait until they put their hands out, to both BP and the US for damage to THEIR countries from the spill…. I for one don’t really want to bail out Cuba’s economy due to our own squemishness, and BPs greed.
They’re not all city busters. You can regulate the explosive yields of nuclear charges down to less than a hundred tons TNT, an explosive effect many industrial accidents are familiar with. The great advantage is they’re compact and far more easily transported and placed than conventional explosives. It’s only the Hiroshima stigma that keeps us from using them in this case or mining.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Romeo13,
Politics aside, sealing leaks with nukes has a 20% failure rate. And it has been a long time since the USN popped off a nuclear device. And they have never done it for this purpose. The “oops potential” would have to be enormous.
Remember, no matter how bad things are, the government can ALWAYS make it worse…
Praze be unto Oil-Bama. He will straighten Jindal out for acting stupidly by calling for a solution before they can blame others.
Thank you Flyoverman.
We are very resourceful people. Don’t judge us by Nagin please. The generational welfare recipients elected Nagin…TWICE and they were the ones who had no plan. Thank God he is gone.
What you need to remember is that an estimated 1,300,000 of the New Orleans population DID evacuate.
Would I hand a Nuc over to the EPA? uh… no…
But we are talking the US Navy here… and we did a LOT of research on subsea nuclear detonations during the Cold War… and if the Soviets had an 80% success rate… I would be willing to guess our success rate would be higher.
And whats interesting is that the one failed attempt for the Sovs was a Gas Leak… not an oil leak… not an expert but it seems to me the pressure amounts and volitility of gas vs oil would make sealing a gas leak much harder…
But what I find MOST interesting, is that NO ONE is even talking about this as a potential solution… even though it HAS been done before.
I think we all realize that there is no reason for this to have gone on so long.I heard Gibbs saying today that “people are waiting for BP to do something”.WTF?I’m waiting for the USGovt. to do something.
The excuse that Bambi doesn’t want to subject the govt.to POSSIBLE law suits is just as his excuse for voting for the baby-killing legislation when he was in the Senate-a POSSIBLE threat to Roe v Wade,or his opposition to Arizona’s immigration law-POSSIBLE racial profiling.
Progressives are so concerned about POSSIBILITIES that they can’t see the ACTUALITIES.
There is oil flowing into the gulf-STOP IT
Newborn babies are being left to die-STOP IT
Illegal immigrants are flooding into Arizona-STOP IT
Which part doesn’t Bambi understand?
Before you get all warm and cozy about Jindal, understand that he is an occult liberal. If you look closely at him, he does nothing. That is actually good in a politician, but here in Louisiana we need someone to reverse years of liberal laws and corruption that follows. Jindal is more worried about not making a decision that he would have to worry about is a race for president. His polocies that he has had a voice on would make him about like Bush, who I think was a liberal as well. Jindal has advocated socialized medicine. So don’t get to happy about this guy.
As to bombs on the ocean floor, think about this. Right now we have two or three heads with no cap. If you bomb them, the pressure will be high enough to push through the resultant mud cover. Thus no concentrated head. As long as it is concentrated, you can plug it. Now think of this, if it hadn’t been for the idiot environmental people, we could be drilling in safer waters where this would be easily taken care of. Also, consider that BP in “nationalized” just like The One wants to do for our companies. Also, it is my understanding that any country can enter the Gulf and drill outside our waters. So our country ultimately has little say in what can occur.
Get the government to leave us alone. Get the government out of everything. Reduce the size of the Federal institution and markedly reduce taxes. Enough is enough.
Once again a Republican Governor takes charge and Obama votes “present.” Good job Govs. Jindal and Brewer.
Hey GOP old guard, this is leadership- not sitting on a couch with Bella Pelosi or reaching across the aisle. And for the young turks, follow their examples.
Romeo13,
You sound like an optimist. At least the local DMV doesn’t have nukes…
I haven’t seen the nuclear option discussed except for SCOTUS nominations but I wonder how long this leak can go on until people get desperate. Frankly, the US Government ISN’T doing anything to help. I’m not convinced the US government wants it to stop.
BP hasn’t found anything that will work at this point. And everybody else is just sitting on their hands. This isn’t going to get better by doing nothing.
Maybe if Obama just delivered a really, long speech the oil well would collapse into a coma and stop spewing oil…
I remember the Democrats and their Euro friends laughing and pointing the finger at the incompetent American/Bush government during Katrina or some other crisis we were going through at the time. They touted how wonderfully efficient socialist governments were at solving problems like this, and how evil capitalist systems inevitably fail “the people”…. Not long after that France had over 10,000 elderly people die in a summer heatwave that struck Europe.
Oddly no leftists ever noted the irony.
Jindal also buys into global warming and creationist theory. I’m more than okay with him being governor of LA but I have no interest in seeing him run for president.
Phil,
I have never heard that Jindal supports AGW. Do you have a reference for that?
LOL…. not so much an optimist as a Ret. US Navy guy, who believes that there are very few problems that cannot be solved with an overwhelming amount of Explosive force…
I have not heard that either WarEagle.
Well, if you want “shock and awe” then a nuke will definitely do the trick.
Still, I’d like to see BP try a lot of other things before they start using nukes. Even a “clean” nuke would make a pretty big bang. It looks like atomic/nuclear demolition warheads are pretty small (1KT to 15KT) but that is a lot of bang…
If you only need 1KT then several well-placed large, conventional charges would seem to be worth trying first.
Anyway, I don’t see Obambi suggesting a nuke. I don’t think he wants this stopped until he has milked it. Of course, he may find he can’t milk this disaster. But the press is sure giving him a free ride on this spill…
What I would do if I were in charge:
Seize all info (logs, surveys, technical specs) pertaining to well.
Have an AMERICAN competitor (not BP) side-track and plug that well.
Confiscate the mineral lease and use the proceeds (100%) to pay for clean-up. No royalty percentages.
The lease should have enough oil to pay for clean-up for many years to come.
But we probably couldn’t do it because of laws.
LOL Conservatives caring about the environment. LOL
Time for the Obama media to decide oil all over the environment is a good thing.
Obama hates black people.
You are right moonshot. I do not give a rip about the environment.
1) I would rather use my incandescent light bulb or an LED than the “green” CFL bulbs that are now appearing in landfills. Oh and did I mention for the frst time in 30 years, mercury in the environment is on the rise?
2) I would rather drive my conventional car than the “green” Prius that is three times more environmentally damaging to build than a Hummer and whose operating life is 1/3 of a Hummer making it nine times more damaging than a Hummer.
3) I would rather drill and put pure gasoline in my car than be the first nation in history that burns its own food supply and depletes the richest top soil in the world to produce fuel instead of food for a starving world. And please note I live in the Midwest.
4) I would rather build a nuclear reactor that operates 98% of the time and has a footprint of a couple hundred acres and produces hundreds of megawatts of power than install solar panels and wind turbines (made in China) that take up thousands of acres to produce the same power intermittently 30-35% of the time. In addition each farm has to have transmission lines of their own to the grid. How wonderful, a landscape filled with spinning turbines and transmission lines. Wind and solar, just the kind of technology you need on a -25 degree, windless night where I live.
Shall I continue?
Writing slurs and being a bigot is no substitute for understanding the science involved in environmental issues.
Just pretend they are immigration laws.
Well we’ve cleared that hurdle.
– On Mon, 5/24/10, Tomas Kaselionis wrote:
Please pray for all those whose lives have changed because of all of this. v
From: Tomas Kaselionis
Subject: Oil Spill Deepwater Horizon Response
Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 10:52
Hello Family/Friends from Venice Louisiana,
I have been in the field now for three days (as a Coast Guard Reservist) and we have performed a number of sampling operations to scientifically evaluate the use of oil dispersants on the oil slicks. I have attached three photos. The first is a teammate and I performing sampling on weathered oil that is not dispersable, but we need samples for the scientists for evaluation. The second and third show pre and post dispersal. You can see how the right oil will disperse in the water column. Until next time, Tomas
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I am sure that Obama can control and end the oil spill, and the damage from it with diplomacy. Just a few more speeches and all will be well.
So while the oil washes ashore killing birds and other wildlife, the geniuses in gov’t are still debating weather we can set up effective measures to stop the oil. Somehow I’m not surprised.
Be careful, Bobby J. AG Eric Holder might sue you for acting on your own without approval from the Feds. Haven’t you learned from Arizona’s experience?
If you give a hat to an old man, he would use it to protect his head from the Sun’s intense heat.
The same hat, if given to a Trial Lawyer (current occupant of Justice Department), he would use it to panhandle.
With this opportunity, Erik Holder will play the role of defender of the poor helpless people against big bad BP.
To me, this whole accident smells fishy.
While Congress is dealing with Cap-n-Trade legislation -without traction – a “man-caused-disaster” strikes in a West Virginia coal mine. Coincidently, another “man-caused-disaster” strikes in the Gulf of Mexico.
This time, a well functioning drilling rig explodes on the platform, but raptures the pipes at the mouth of the well 5000′ under water?
Seems like a ploy to gather support for the legislation and, may be, raise gas tax.
Yeah, I am not a big “conspiracy” person but one starts to wonder if Obama’s “Disaster Response Teams” are here to respond TO disasters or respond WITH disasters…
The new Øbama mantra: “slow and dumb, unless we want to jam unpopular and unconstitutional legislation down your throats”.
My apologies to Barney Frank.