The BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is President Obama’s fault because... ??? OK, I’ll admit it- I don’t get it.
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For 8 years Bush and Cheney controlled the White House and executive branch. Cheney had his secret cabal Energy Task Force. They put industry cronies inside the agencies charged with overseeing the oil industry. Because, you know, they have all that higher knowledge about oil exploration and the government bureaucrats were just making things too inefficient for Exxon, Chevron, BP, et.al.
You had Florida Republican Congressman John Mica (R-Winter Park) calling this "Obama’s oil spill". This Tea Party idiot is on record advocating drilling in the Florida Everglades in the 1970’s and has said he’d do it again. He voted "no" to remove oil and gas exploration subsidies (HR6, vote 2007-040 1/18/2007). Oh, did I mention his brother, David Mica, heads the Florida Petroleum Council?
Don’t forget Florida Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio, the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. You know, the guy for fiscal responsibility who used Florida Republican Party credit cards for personal items like haircuts, car repairs, groceries. He’s part of the "Drill here, drill now" crowd in Florida Republican politics. I haven’t seen too many of those stickers in the last couple of weeks.
And let’s not forget our favorite man of color, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio). When President Obama announced the proposed expansion of drilling in some parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts this Spring, here was Boehner’s response: "Keeping the Pacific Coast and Alaska, as well as the most promising resources off the Gulf of Mexico, under lock and key makes no sense at a time when gasoline prices are rising and Americans asking, ‘Where are the jobs?’"
I could throw in the Former Half-term Governor of Alaska, FHTG Sarah Palin, but that would be too easy. Drill baby, drill. You betcha! If you still like Sarah Palin now, you too, are an idiot.
I’ve even heard folks say that the President should have spent the Memorial Day holiday weekend back in Louisiana. Doing what, no one knows. I thought the guy had a law degree, but I guess he secretly has an engineering degree and a geology degree that he forgot to tell us about. Maybe the Tea party nuts think the degrees are hidden in a secret file with his Kenyan birth certificate and Al Qaeda membership card!
The sad truth is, no one knows what to do. We are in uncharted waters, pun intended. The real shame is that only two relief wells are being drilled right now. Hopefully we’ll get lucky and one of them will work in August. If more need to be drilled, which is a real possibility (maybe even a likely probability), we are looking at December to stop the flow of oil. The best minds inside and outside the oil industry are working on this, and they can’t find a silver bullet. But somehow, this is all President Obama’s fault.
Drill baby, drill. Drill Here, Drill Now. Simple slogans from simple minds. And simply wrong.
Originally posted on the JollyRanter.com