Oil spill

[regidog]

Well put LESTERUS, I concur totally. This is a national emergency and the President has not stepped up to address it. Bring in the Navy to escort BP tankers to the well site. BP's attorneys will stonewall this cleanup for 20 years, Obama needs to make this happen as he is the only one who can declare this a national emergency.

[Destroyer]

This gets sicker by the day... Now we come to find out that the Dutch offered us boats and containment booms right after it was found out the pipe was leaking... and the White House turned them down.. said we didn't need help... and there are booms, boats and skimmers in warehouses that are just sitting there.. and no one has even started to think about using them.

Obama is like a deer in a cars headlights...He doesn't have a clue what to do. God, I love this "change you can believe in"... Sooo..

1) I believe that we have the most incompetent leader in the White
House in our entire Country's history.
2) I believe this is the worst ecological disaster ever to hit the US
3) I believe that the pipe is gushing the equivilant of the ENTIRE Exxon
Valdise spill every 6 days.
4) I believe I'll have another Scotch.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

I dislike (hate is a good word) our present administration. Yet, I find myself being placed in a very strange spot. I'm being forced to actually defend these dirtbags. Much has and is being made of the fact that nothing was done by our government at the very beginning... Well.. guess what?... It was NOT the governments job to do anything. BP said there was an explosion, that people were killed and that they were in control of the situation. No one knew about the broken well and the leaking oil in the beginning.. FEMA had no reason to do anything. Now they do, so lets see what they do and how they handle the situation.

Actually I was watching the news the other night on HANNITY and there is actually a law that states that it is the federal governments responsibility to come in and contain the oil spill if the oil company has not done so within 48 hours. This administration sat on its hind end for 9 days, yes a full NINE days before it did the first thing to help. It's funny how only FOX news will put this info out there where as the lame stream news networks would rather sit back and go boo hoo about it rather than report the actual facts about it. And I still think something fishy is admidst here with this rig explosion. It just seems to coincedental that roughly a month after BO says we can begin to do oil exploration in the gulf a major rig problem happens. I know I'm a tin foil hat kinda guy, but it just seems to be way to many things surrounding this that don't add up. I do feel for the 11 peopel that were never found, and I know that this is a dangerous profession that isn't perfect. I would just like to hear some actual facts about what happened, and for it to be addressed and stopped before it kills the gulf for years to come.