Something Smells About This Whole Oil Spill Thing

In my previous blog I mentioned about a possible attack by North Korea on the Horizon Oil rig in the Gulf.. Whether that is true or a cleverly conceived hoax I think there is still something fishy about this whole thing. Follow me here:

1)Obama makes a speech saying he is favoring more drilling in the Gulf. I think he just said that to appease his critics because we know he hates the oil companies and hates capitalism and big business.

2) Following that speech a news commentator said "His supporters are not going to like that."

3) Two days later "BOOM" the rig blows up. This particular rig is one of the best in all the oil rigs in the Gulf and Obama just presented them with a safety award.

4) Obama waits nine days before reacting to the situation and acts very cavalier about it. He spends more time going to parties,playing basketball and playing golf than going to the site or trying to do anything.

There was plenty Obama could do if he was a competant leader, but he's not. As Commander in Chief he could have ordered the Coast Guard out or Navy with skimmers and vacums to cleanup the spill, but he didn't. He could have brought out the booms locked in the warehouse in Maine, but he didn't. He should have had his people roundup all the experts on oil spills and consult with them, but he didn't. The government has a special plan to deal with oil spills that was implemented in the 90's that would have them burn the oil off while it rises so it doesn't reach the shore, but he didn't use that. Instead he sends lawyers down there to find out in his words "who's ass to kick."

Louisianna Governor Bobby Jindal asks Obama to build berms and send vacums and skimmers and he denies him that. The Dutch offer to send their skimmer there that takes up 20,000 tons of sludge a day, but he declined their offer as he did 13 other countries who offered their services. When criticized about not doing anything about the spill, he pouts like a little child saying,"What do you think I am? Superman?" and " I can't suck it up with a straw" and "I can't dive down there."

Now 64 days later he gives a speech and touts the need for alternative fuels and more efficient cars and other energy sources. Almost in a "I told you so about oil drilling" attitude. He announces a moratorium on all drilling in the Gulf which will put tens of thousands of people out of work. He orders BP to put 28 billion in an escrow account to be paid to the victims families and pay for damages. BP was going to do that anyway and I could go along with this, but he also wants BP to pay for the time all these people are out of work. That's more of his redistribution of wealth that is continuing to destroy this country he hates so much.

Michelle Bachman said on John Batchelor's show that we have to be sure the money goes to the right people because Congress is out of money and looking for more money to pay out and extend unemployment benefits. Hmmmm. Obama is all a about power and not about serving the people.

Meanwhile Bobby Jindal decides to take matters in his own hands and order state barges out to cleanup the oil that is ruining his beaches and environment, but the Coast Guard comes in and shuts them down.
The Coast Guard came and shut them down," Jindal said. "You got men on the barges in the oil, and they have been told by the Coast Guard, 'Cease and desist. Stop sucking up that oil.'"
A Coast Guard representative told ABC News that it shares the same goal as the governor.
"We are all in this together. The enemy is the oil," said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Dan Lauer.

But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges. The Louisiana Governor Couldn't Overrule Coast Guard.

In today's London Daily Mail there is a huge article describing how Obama was brought up to hate the British since his grandfather was tortured brutally by them in Kenya when the British ruled there in 1949. His grandmother always told him that "the British are your enemy."
Now we have him "kicking the ass"of the CEO of a British owned oil rig and making them pay. We don't even know who or what caused the explosion and leak yet and it is still flowing. I say plug up the leak first and then hold hearings and decide who's to blame.

I think it's just funny that the most successful oil rig in the Gulf that is overzealous about safety and just received an award from the President who hates the British and now touts about using alternative fuels and shuts down all the rigs for six months suddenly explodes out of nowhere. Yes something smells about this whole oil spill mess.