Take Charge Now Mr. President! Scientists are discovering giant oil plumes under the Gulf's Surface.
President Obama needs to declare a national emergency and take control of the Gulf Oil Crisis now! He and his administration need to show some POLITICAL COURAGE and stop worrying about what is going to be said about them and whether they are going to be blamed for this catastrophe. If there is one problem our president has, he doesn’t seem to realize that he is going to be BLAMED for everything that goes wrong in this country for the next 35 years!
He and his administration are writing the wire copy and news scripts for the next several election cycles. His opponents can’t wait for the "creature from the Gulf" to rear its ugly head and wreak havoc on this nation’s environment, economy, and National Security.
This incident is well within the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone and its effects could be devastating. So President Obama it is time for us to DEFEND ourselves. I realize that the administration dispatched some of the world’s most capable scientists to Houston to assist BP in studying this problem and finding a solution, ( http://preview.bloomberg.com/... ) ..... However, when you have a corporation insisting that no one can study the incident area, they need to be shown immediately who the HEAD MUTHA......... IN CHARGE is!
It boils down to the fact that we authorized and encouraged deep sea drilling. We even marketed it as one of the safest things in the world (thanks GOP). We all bought into this horse hockey so BP and the other drillers never had to worry about RISK and never had to have a RISK MITIGATION PLAN for any potential mishap.
We the American people seem to be on track to eat all of this RISK minus the $75 million dollars that BP is liable for by LAW; (thanks again GOP for blocking a liability increase to $10 billion: ( http://articles.latimes.com/... ). Eating RISK isn't new to us; we ate the risk associated with Katrina, the housing industry, and the financial markets. In all of these cases, for whatever reasons, we allowed someone to convince us that the worst would never happen and we are paying dearly in each case. What will be the cost of our latest experiment in BLIND GOVERNANCE?
The only reason Dick Cheney isn’t out ranting about Obama DITHERING in this matter is that he probably fears the trail might lead back to him. What has happened to our government? Have we lost our sense of urgency to govern?