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So where are all the "Save the Gulf" concerts?
Where are the TV benefits with celebrities and musicians giving heart felt speeches on the poor fishermen, wildlife, beaches, loss of income and sabotaged gulf economy? I find it rather strange how these people (including our own ...government) are so quick to help Haiti and
other countries, yet sit on their A$$e$$ for this one!
, there's a lot more finger pointing going on than problem solving (looking at you, Obama h34r .
Exactly how could be be Obama's fault???
And before blaming Obama, who's been in office nary half a year,
And yes, you could put some blame on him. Like how he was in California campaigning for Blanche Lincoln's senate primary instead of trying to do better with adressing the oil spill.
I agree with all those points.Blame:
- Bush Administration for allowing the drilling in the first place, without verifying the claims of "proven" stop gaps.
- Louisiana administration for allowing the drilling off their coast.
- BP for mishandling the fire and causing the rig to collapse due to all the water, making it top-heavy and collapsing, which resulted in the pipe itself collapsing and leaking from three different places.
- BP for not ensuring the stop gaps actually worked.
- BP for cutting back on staff and reducing safety measures, resulting in this incident.
- BP for lieing to the Coast Guard and the U.S. government about the severity of the problem once it began.
- BP for continuing to downplaying the severity of the problem.
- BP for failing to make a larger effort to resolve the problem, and skimping on clean up efforts.
- Obama administration for not sending half or more of the U.S. Navy to assist in the clean up efforts, which of course BP would be responsible for paying, but won't, so we'll end up paying for it.
It is not reasonable to assume the government can do a better job of resolving the leak, simply because they don't have the ability to do so. But they have provided plenty of experts to advise BP in resolving this, for which BP has been largely unsuccessful. The clean up part is where I feel the Obama administration needs to work harder at, sending more hands to manage the issue. However, the scale of this problem is being hardshiped by the lack of supplies, not the lack of manpower. They just don't have enough prepared equipment to soak up this amount of oil, and thus there is a dependency on production. That's where the bottleneck is, not the Obama administration.
Pointing at what Obama is doing elsewhere is a crap tactic of trying to act like he's not doing anything, when he has. Do you actually think he's supposed to go there, park a tent, and soak up the oil himself? If you knew anything about leadership, it's about giving orders and getting others to do the work, not doing it yourself. Exactly how do you think Obama is supposed to do this? Exactly what do you think he hasn't done that he should do? And more, what do you think he should do about all the other things he's responsible for while this is happening? Put the world on hold as he pulls out a shovel and digs up tar balls from the beaches?
It is typical mudslinging and blame gaming to try and point at Obama as the one at fault here, or for making this problem so big. He had nothing to do with any of it, but Republicans are sure quick to blame him, aren't they? Exactly what has the Louisiana, Texas, and Florida Republican Governors done about their beaches? Exactly, nothing. Why? Because they don't believe BP will pay them back.
And that's the real problem here, BP. They created the problem, their so-called "proven" techniques to fix the problem have been "proven" to have been a lie, and their efforts to resolve this issue have been substandard at best. But there's the thing. The U.S. government can't do much more than they already have been doing. BP is likely not going to pay the U.S. Government back for all the expenses the U.S. has put forth to resolve this, so it's coming out of our pockets. And you can be sure that BP will raise their gas prices to cover the expense of all this, bringing the whole cost, every bit of it, to us, the consumers.
This is definitely a horrible scene, but if you care to look at some of my other posts in this forum, you'll see I was raging against all these "drill, baby, drill" idiotic arguments posed here by anti-Obama advocates, precisely about the potential catastrophic effects of drilling offshore. And now that it's demonstrated just how foolish such ventures are, you guys think to blame Obama?!?!
Talk about crap pan, tar ball tactics. The only mistake he made was to actually reconsider his initial stance against offshore drilling. Now, of course, he'll return to his original stance, the logical one, which is to ban it outright. Stupid GOP and their greed factor. That's what is destroying this country, not the present administration. From the GOP's efforts to allow drilling in government protected forests, to allowing drilling offshore, to removing safety measures, regulations, and inspections, you're coming around and trying to blame Obama because BP has turned out to have taken advantage of the GOP's hospitality.
This is a problem that needs to be, and is being, addressed, but it's not a simple fix and anyone who thinks Obama could do a better job of fixing this issue is grossly misinformed.
Because previous administrations (particularly the Bush Administration) believed the lies presented by companies like BP that they already had "proven" technology in place.Then why didn't the government spend our tax dollars on the technology to build up better equipment in the first place?
Here's just one reason why Bush IS to blame for Katrina --- http://www.factcheck.org/article344.htmlLiberals were quick to blame Bush after Katrina didn't they? I see no differance here from Liberals and Republicans here, Obama didn't cause the oil spill and Bush didn't cause the hurricane, yet both get blamed and slandered.
Lets face it, even if we tapped all the oil in United States, in all available locations, it would last only 6 more years. United States is already full-up on extricating oil and no matter how you want to cut it, the situation requires us to rely on Mexico or Canada as our next best options for obtaining oil (now you know one of the main reasons why the U.S. government is making so many deals with these two countries, who have far greater oil reserves than the U.S.). Endangering all other economic resources (fishing, tourism, etc) to pull in one more year of oil is just not reasonable, and thus the need for us to make a hurried transition away from our dependency on oil.So are we supposed to stop drilling and rely more on foriegn oil to run our cars? I think that we need the oil thats being drilled offshore badly, but first we need to upgrade the safety and technology on these drills to the best of our abilites so that something like this never happens again. Better safe than sorry.
Umm, yes. The GOP's track record on all these issues is self-evident.So now the GOP are a bunch of forest burning, enviorment killing, oil lovers?
Gee, I wonder why:Although I do think that Obama has been doing better lately, like directing that no new offshore oil drilling leases be issued unless rigs have new safeguards to prevent a repeat of this mess, but he does have a problem with following things through. Lets see if he proves me wrong.
So now the GOP are a bunch of forest burning, enviorment killing, oil lovers? That sounds much more like big oil companies and their owners, not republicans, not democrats, not liberals, and not conservatives, but the big oil companies that are more greedier than most all of those groups.
Well, I'll be danged - I lost a year somewhere. Musta been playing this stupid game too much.Thats funny, I thought that he was sworn into office in 2009?
And yes, you could put some blame on him. Like how he was in California campaigning for Blanche Lincoln's senate primary instead of trying to do better with adressing the oil spill.
You can blame Bush and oil companies all you want, but this is his responsability now as president. He seems to be doing very little other than blaming BP.
What always gets me is that the news says it will be months before it will be cleaned up
Well the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska happened in 89. I checked and the fact of the matter is they are still turning over rocks and finding oil on the shores. and it has been 2 decades now since that disaster and they are still cleaning up.
You ask where are the Save the Gulf concerts.. why wasnt there one for Alaska oh so many years ago. Alaska oil spill has been the bench mark for many years... and now it will be forgotten due to the Gulf Oil spill of Deep horizon.
(looking at you, Obama h34r