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Just a friendly reminder to the forum liberals that George W. Bush was not President in July of last year.
The failings of your Messiah and his Administration are now at critical mass. The George W. Bush Blame Game has officially been put to rest.
Today Obama blamed Bush again. He has had ample time to put his plans and people in place and he clearly does not know how to handle a disaster like this. He is no better than Bush with Katrina. In fact, his lack of concern while the immigration debate rages and the oil keeps coming is shocking. Go play golf Mr. Obama. We are safer with you out of the White House.
The people he has given high priority positions too may be feeling the pressure of actually having to do the job they were appointed to.
And if you so readily had this information dont you think Obama and team should have had a better plan in place? We need oil and anyone connected to the oil industry and Obama did receive millions in donations, should be suspect. Time to hold their feet to the fire.
Government seems to want to controls and regulate everything but when "sh*t happens" they can't do squat.
Maybe more state level oversight is needed as they can react quicker to problems in their state.
Let the Fed write the rules but let the states regulate and enforce them.
Smaller Federal government and more power to individual states. The states know which rules and regulations are important to them. Jindal LIVES down there, he sees the oil washing up on the shores while the EPA head up in DC expressed shock when she flew down and saw oil in the water..shock !
Another example of the cozy relationship oil companies have with the Federal Government. As late as July of last year, the regulators passed BP's disaster plan, which included plans for saving walruses, sea otters and lea lions, none of which are in the Gulf. A Plan, by the way that is mandated by federal law.
From the “top kill” to the containment dome to the riser insertion tube, BP has been desperately searching for a way to contain the spill currently raging in the Gulf of Mexico. The company has assured the public that, with the help of experts from around the world, its engineers are working hard to examine any and all possible ideas in order to find a viable solution, but they also seem to be scrambling, and are up against the clock to get results fast.
There is also a technique for handling an oil spill out sea called "In-Situ Burn." In Situ Burning | NOAA (http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/topic_subtopic_entry.php?RECORD_KEY%28entry_subtop ic_topic%29=entry_id,subtopic_id,topic_id&entry_id %28entry_subtopic_topic%29=225&subtopic_id%28entry _subtopic_topic%29=8&topic_id%28entry_subtopic_top ic%29=1 - broken link)
As liberal columnist Kirsten Powers put it:
Ron Gourget, a former federal oil-spill-response coordinator and one author of the draft, told the Times of London: "The whole reason the plan was created was so that we could pull the trigger right away." The idea was to use barriers called "fire booms" to collect and contain the spill at sea -- then burn it off. He believes this could have captured 95 percent of the oil from this spill.
But at the time of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the federal government didn't have a single fire boom on hand. Nor is there any evidence that the government required BP to have any clear plan to deal with a massive spill. How is this OK?
Ok? What's the point? Big Oil is in collusion with government. That much is obvious. But its necessary to point out that the failings of the Obama Administration are an inconvenient truth for those people (like you) who point fingers at the Bush Administration for every ill this country faces. The OP pointed out "last July...."........Unfortunately for the liberals on this forum, your Master is complicit in this catastrophe.
a previous poster just said that oil dictates policy in the government, the "plans" and "policy's" are just for show, and this has been proved by the lack of actual preparedness when a disaster happened. it goes for Obama, Bush, Clinton, and the other Bush. honestly its the consequence of a huge government not necessarily presidential desicions. Oil's what we live on.
Sure, those structures including corruption and lobbying are old and probably it will take some time to get rid of them. But if the government does not regulate, companies will do so even less. Just look at the way BP has been polluting the oil region in Nigeria for decades. If that were going on in the the US it would long have become a huge scandal.
Obama stated at the press conference the other day that his administration had been there from day one...so it would seem this would mean this disaster has been under their control from the very beginning.
Now as to the oil companies colluding with the government,well of course they are,the government is bought and paid for by large corporations...no matter what party is supposedly in power.
I might have missed it all but where is all the condemnation by environmental groups???
This is shaping up to be one of the biggest disasters in modern history and it is becoming more and more obvious that no-one was prepared for it...
Sure, those structures including corruption and lobbying are old and probably it will take some time to get rid of them. But if the government does not regulate, companies will do so even less. Just look at the way BP has been polluting the oil region in Nigeria for decades. If that were going on in the the US it would long have become a huge scandal.
And this isn't a scandel ? The MMS rubber stamping plans, not requiring permits, revolving door employment, partying and grafts ?
This is the regulatory body for the oil drilling. And you want MORE of this ?
Ok? What's the point? Big Oil is in collusion with government. That much is obvious. But its necessary to point out that the failings of the Obama Administration are an inconvenient truth for those people (like you) who point fingers at the Bush Administration for every ill this country faces. The OP pointed out "last July...."........Unfortunately for the liberals on this forum, your Master is complicit in this catastrophe.
Sorry for your luck.
Sorry for your luck too. As your masters want the tax payers to pay for cleaning up this mess...not BP:
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