Compounding all of this is a U.S. law “that requires all goods be carried in U.S. waters by U.S.-flagged ships, … prevent[ing[ Dutch ships with spill-fighting equipment from entering U.S. coastal areas.”

Not questioning Erick, but, are we to believe that every container ship bringing goods into all of our ports (and, obviously our coastal waters) are US flagged ships?

That’s kind of ringing in my ears………

Then no one can tell you anything.

if he follows the slogan of his union bosses “workers of the world unite ” having the neatherlands experience would advance the One World Order, and would of been seen a little bit more decisive in his response to the oil crisis… but nooooo . just an inept ideolog.

that he’d let them help only if they hired SEIU people to run the equipment.

Are you saying that there was an out to fix this mess earlier and the O deliberately turned down the offer of help?

Seriously, if this is true the O should be impeached for dereliction of duty…

So mister “all for the environment and not business as usual” deliberately allowed this ecological disaster to go on so he could shut down the entire coastal drilling industry? Shocking… just shocking…

did anyone else react to Obama’s “whose ass to kick” comment by thinking of Mike Myers & Dr Evil? “I demand that BP pay a fine in the amount of the princely sum of…((dramatic pause))…One Million Dollars!”

And on O’Reilly tonight, there was an actual discussion on the possible political ramifacations of the (black) Barack displaying anger on TV. Methinks Obama wasn’t an angry President in his interview with Matt Lauer but he did play one on TV.

Obama believes that he and he academics have all the answers and need no one else to tell him how to fix any problem, In Obama’s eyes he himself is perfect. In his arrogance he will let a problem mushroom out of control and point the finger at others and when and if the problem is solved he will take all the credit for the fix. We have all worked with people who when a problem arises will say “They don’t know what happened it’s not my fault” When they created the problem themself, never willing to say honestly that they made a mistake but are more than willing to take the credit for the fix even when it’s not their idea. Understand this, Obama knows he’s the weakest president in American history and will never admit to making a mistake because he justifies mistakes in his own head as the right thing to do even if he knows deep inside that it was a mistake. His arrogance is a flaw he will never understand, but the poll numbers prove that more people are seeing Obama as he really is. Obama’s main flaw is he believes his own hype, He believes he was chosen by a higher power that he is a superman. Only kryptonite could hurt Superman and Obama’s kryptonite is himself and his arrogance.

Or, how an engineer and a politician approaches a problem…

“Let’s work the problem people.”
(~NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz, during the Apollo 13 crisis – 1970)

“I want to know whose ass to kick!”
(~President Barack Hussein Obama, during the gulf oil spill – 2010)
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They also ran afoul of EPA regulations. The way the things work is that they skim a layer of oil and water. Then, aboard the ship, there is a mechanism for separating the two. The oil is pumpped to storage tanks and the water is pumped back overboard. There is still some petroleum in the water, but so what when the goal is to capture an oil spill?

EPA regulations prohibit dumping any petroleum products into the Gulf, so the Dutch skimmers were barred. The EPA finally worked out a waver, but only if they dumped the water back in front of the skimmers. Idiots.

There’s another issue. These skimmer collect a lot of oil. With a concentrated oil slick, a feet of four ships can collect up to 100,000 barrels of oil per day. They work in rough seas and have been very successful with recent major tanker leaks off the coast of Europe and in the Gulf after the Iraq war. You don’t want to use dispersant. You want the oil to concentrate on the surface, the thicker the better. BP is facing a $4000 per barrel fine and would prefer that nobody ever be able to measure the oil.

You have to be kidding. Right? Funny thing, Sarah Palin offered the best team from the US to go down and help. They are in her home state of Alaska, but you know where that went. Two offers, two rejections. We have a saying in our family that there are talkers and there are doers, Obama considers himself a great orator. I guess you can fill in the rest. A talker never gets anything done.

Just like he received the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, he thinks he can fix the oil spill by doing nothing. He has been given his position by a higher power. His power is now limitless. Whoops, in his own mind he is the higher power, there is no God, at least not a Christian God to be accountable too. One that is in complete control., It is him and him alone. Boy, does he have a problem. And his problems become ours.

If so many americans, companies, individuals, even other countries have an answer, why don’t they just “do it”. Do you think this administration would actually turn on them and STOP some one from fixing the problem?

He is so caught up in Obamaland that he does not see anything else. He is like the old horse with blinders on. No peripheral vision, no insight but just one way. And in his case, he has constantly shown us the wrong way. I wonder if he has ever read the poem, “No Man is an Island”, obviously not. Does he know how to choose good people, obviously not. Van Jones resigned from one job do to pressure from the press but who does he hire in the White House–Van Jones.

You can’t foment a crisis if you solve the problem too soon…

“Never let a good crisis go to waste” is the progressive mantra. If you can’t find one, make one up.

While the explosion on the oil rig was most likely an accident, the destruction of the southern CONUS coast line is not. The enviroquislings will sacrifice the entire region to prove their point in order to crush any further attempts to drill off-shore. The DC quislings won’t issue the permits to allow the dredging of barrier sand bars and diverters, and with all their rhetoric, no significant action toward actually mitigating the spill and capping it off has been allowed. Much of the Army Corps of Engineers heavy equipment has been standing by for orders, and a lot of help both local and international has been turned away. Why? Because this is being done on purpose. That’s right, on purpose.

The complete destruction of the southern coastal economy to create more government dependent subjects is just an added bonus.

It is the anti-American enviroquislings own absurd policies that forced drilling in the much more dangerous deep waters, instead of shallower water where this would be much easier capped and contained. Culpability is plentiful to go around, but think about this: “what-if” the progressive infested federal agency that is supposed to be enforcing rules and regulations to prevent such a disaster is actually giving the oil companies “enough rope to hang themselves” so that the enviroquislings agenda can be proven? Statistically, it would just be a matter of time until a disaster occurred, and in this case the timing could not have been more perfect for them to prove their point.

Mark my words folks; even though the obama regime response has the appearance of incompetence, this is ALL by design. Ask yourself how sending a team of lawyers to contain an oil spill makes much more sense than taking a bowling ball to a fox hunt? Hear what they say, but watch what they do. You will be amazed at the difference.

I agree with astrojohn8.

I don’t think Obama ran away from the crisis, rather I believe it was a strategic pause. I think they wanted the oil to reach the shoreline to incite public outrage against the oil companies. This crisis is folds perfectly into his agenda to pass Cap & Trade legislation.

Already we see the drill here drill now poll numbers severely reversed from only 8 weeks ago when 66% were in favor of increased drilling to today when only 25% want increased drilling.

I blogged about this days after the explosion and so far everything I expected is coming to pass.

Excellent post! anamericanidiot.net

comeon someone let fox in on this so the rest of America can see and or read this. Any confirmation on this, is this realy true, and if it is wouldn’t that be enough to send the CLOWN packing.

of getting Obama out. Obama used the oil spill as his oyster, never letting smart people in to take care of this would have been counter productive to his agenda, cap and trade. As we can all see he let it go on far to long for now the damage is so bad it will never be ok. And take this idea alittel further does he even really care about what has happened to the Gulf or the people it has and will affect for a hundred years. NO he has proven that to US over and over. Obama will blame everyone else for this but the end game is his and his alone for letting it go on so long.

From the Telegraph UK: “BP’s position at the top of the London Stock Exchange and its previous reliability have made it a bedrock of almost every pension fund in the country, meaning its value is crucial to millions of workers.”

If Comrade Obama continues with his incendiary smears and reckless criminal investigation, and he ends up bankrupting BP and destroys the pensions of millions of people in Great Britain (throw that on top of 13 trillion in debt and smearing the law & order immigration coaltion as racists), he will prove to the whole world what we conservatives already know — that he is a reckless and dangerous man.

The Obama Administration needed a crisis with pollution to push their agenda. Having someone mitigate the problem was not in their playbook.

and, Pride goes before Destruction.. that is the actual scripture; and, i think is more apt in describing Obama.

Haughty = scornfully arrogant
Pride = a high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.

basically, pride as spoken of in this scripture speaks to placing yourself above God… I think that aptly describes Obama and his administration… I expect that Obama has moved from haughty to pride right about now…..

Gleefully, waiting for destruction at the polls in 2010 and 2012….

6 weeks late.

Angle needs money in NV. IF you’ve got any, send her some.

“There are almost no US flagged ships any longer due to the high taxes and fees for registry.”

Actually it is government regulations and excessive labor costs. The crew size by law to man a US Flag is much larger than that required to man a similar sized vessel fagging most other flags. This is known as “feather bedding” like when US Diesel Locomotives use to require a “fireman” whose job it was to stoke the coal in the steam boiler. Additionally, US Flagged Vessels must use US Merchant Seamen at higher wages than seamen in other countries. I guess the US Maritime Union is more powerful than the Railway Workers Union as most Railroad “featherbedding” has ended.

I seem to remember one of those email re-forwarded things that told us that BP was one of the few companies who refused to buy their crude from terrorist countries. It told us that we should buy our gas from them. So if that is true, and if BP is one of the good guys, shouldn’t we do everything we can do to help them stop their losses? Actually, shouldn’t that be the case anyway? Obama and his administration are not trying to fix the problem. They are taking a law professor’s approach. That would be OK if the goal is to teach some 20-year-olds how to do something, but that is not the case here. To use legal terms, “Obama makes no claim as to suitability of purpose.”

What do you expect from a kenyon born , moslem , communist ? Baseball and apple pie ? He has taken over Chevorlet , health care , housing , wallstreet , banking and at a total of sixty percent of the economy of the United States . Now on his agenda is to impose CAP AND TAX , GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER of OIL COMPANYS and of all ENERGY . His only alliegance is to the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT eliets . NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE , NOTHING HAPPENS THAT HAS’NT BEEN PLANNED , WE DONT CARE WHO MAKES THE LAWS AS LONG AS WE MAKE THE MONEY is thier mottos . Our shore line , wildlife , fishing , tourism , and economy is going to be destroyed because thier agenda is to bring the United States to its knees , but we have news for them , theres more of us , than there is of them . REMEMBER NOVEMBER

Why are we debating maritime law? Exceptions can always be made.
Debate why, instead, would an inept individual with no leadership, business or military experience, turn away help from a friend of Our Country to help clean up an oil spill? That’s called the help the people of Louisiana really need right now. They offered!
Is he smarter? I don’t think so.
Arrogant? Elitist? Or just plain stupid.
What would you have done?
I Want My Country Back!

Tim Adams, World Net Daily and The Political Cesspool Radio …
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