No apologies for Obama. Or that MMS was lacksidaisical in the past. Or whatever it is that GWB did NOT do.
For the past 30 days, the administration has allowed BP to get away with so much bull it is UNBELIEVABLE. And THAT is what counts. It's happening on HIS watch.
"The Feds Don't Give A Rats Shit" - Billy Nungesser, republican, Plaquemines Parish President.
"The Feds Don't Give A Rats Shit" - Billy Nungesser, republican, Plaquemines Parish President.
Today is over ONE month since the explosion.
The oil is now in the Barataria Bay. WE ARE FUCKED.
I just finished watching the local news there are 3 - THREE - little municipal fire boats from Grand Isle or Venice (can't remember) that are out doing work right now. The local news captured tens of skimmers sitting around unmanned because BP hasn't approved them going out and the Feds haven't approved a plan.
WTF?! Since when does a British corporation have first right of refusal about Americans protecting their own property?!
Today, Sunday, May 23 - Nobody in Louisiana gives a CRAP about investigations, setting blue ribbon panels, holding hearings or any of the other Bullshit that Obama is racing to set up to identify the blame.
What we care about is CAPPING the spill and protectng the marshes. Right NOW.
For the past 30 days there has been NO mobilization from the feds to takeover the situation. Compare our situation to how quickly they got out the US military firemen to the Iraq oil fields in the first gulf war?
Obama has mobilized nothing. They are sitting around in offices debating plans and giving BP first right of refusal on ideas. More energy has been expended on appointing more politicians to head investigations. BP was allowed to lie about the volume for weeks.
In the first week of the tragedy, I personally called our represenatives on Capital Hill (Landrieu, Cao, Vitter) and all of their offices said that the position was they were expecting BP to handle the problem and that was why the response has been slow.
I'm watching this thing first hand every day. New Orleans restaurants have less than 1 week of oysters. My photographer and videographer friends are out down in Hopedale and Venice taking pictures and capturing footage. The only Fed presence are military manning road blocks and the ones arresting CBS camera crews for trying to get footage.
So NEDSPARKS, if you actually KNEW what the heck you were talking about you might be excused. But Obama has been deferential to BP and THAT is on HIS watch.
UPDATE: Jefferson Parish has commandeered BP's boats and skimmers out in Grand Isle to start doing this for ourselves. Plaquemines Parish is taking a loan to start dredging sand barriers. So while Obama worries about liability, lawyering and blame; While BP drags their feet, the oil continues to gush unfettered, little municipalities are out fending America's shoreline.