Monday, May 31, 2010

BP Oil Solution

Here is a deep and dark story hidden by the Main Stream Media. British Petroleum has a solution for the massive oil leak that has now lost millions of barrels of crude oil and killed eleven workers on the rig. If the government just let BP fix the problem, it would have been stopped long ago. But the EPA isn't allowing BP use it's solution because the chemical is said to be a potential threat to the environment.

So while Obama and the Democrats in Congress appear to be frustrated with BP not being able to fix the problem, they are the ones preventing the problem from being fixed! Senate Majority WHIP Richard Durbin from Illinois said, "BP, in my mind, no longer stands for British Petroleum, it stands for Beyond Patience. People have been waiting 34 days for British Petroleum to cap this well and stop the damage that's happening across the Gulf of Mexico." If your party let the free market work, this would have been stopped long ago! You won't even allow Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal build a wall of sand.
Posted by Jacob Lawrence

5 comments:

  1. They are more afraid of the cure than the disease. That's not completely rational.

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  2. The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

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  3. The fact that the answer to this question seems as murky as the water around the exploded oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that this is an excellent moment to recognize that our arguments pitting capitalism against socialism and the government against the private sector muddle far more than they clarify.

    Many tragic ironies are bubbling to the surface along with the oil. Consider the situation of Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a Republican conservative who devoutly opposes the exertions of big government.

    "The strength of America is not found in our government," Jindal declared in his response to President Obama's February 2009 address to Congress. "It is found in the compassionate hearts and the enterprising spirit of our citizens."

    But with his state facing an environmental disaster of unknown proportions, Jindal is looking for a little strength from Washington. His beef is that the federal government isn't doing enough to help. "It is clear we don't have the resources we need to protect our coast," he said this week, expressing his frustrations with "the disjointed effort to date that has too often meant too little, too late."

    You can't blame Jindal for being mad. But will he ever acknowledge that "compassionate hearts" were not sufficient for coping with this catastrophe? Did he ever ask BP how prepared it was for something like this? Or was he just counting on the company's "enterprising spirit"?

    For its part, the Obama administration has not sent a consistent message. On Sunday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proclaimed outside of BP's headquarters in Houston: "If we find they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately."

    Not according to Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander. Speaking the next day at the White House, Allen observed: "To push BP out of the way, it would raise a question: Replace them with what?"

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  4. "The strength of America is not found in our government. It is found in the compassionate hearts and enterprising spirit of our citizens," said Jindal, telling a story about a Louisiana bureaucrat thwarting citizens' rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina.

    Republicans want to "create jobs by lowering income tax rates for working families, cutting taxes for small businesses, [and] strengthening incentives for businesses to invest in new equipment and hire new workers," Jindal said, lamenting that "Democratic leaders in Congress rejected this approach," opting instead to spend more than $1 trillion with interest mainly on infrastructure projects.

    As Jindal criticized Democratic plans that he said would "grow the government, increase our taxes down the line, and saddle future generations with debt," it wasn't difficult to feel that the Republican Party had suddenly found religion on fiscal restraint after what many see as the profligacy of the Bush years.

    Apparently, this was not lost on Jindal, and though he did not mention President Bush, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or any of the policy initiatives of the last eight years, he did offer a kind of apology:
    Our party got away from its principles. You elected Republicans to champion limited government, fiscal discipline, and personal responsibility. Instead, Republicans went along with earmarks and big government spending in Washington. Republicans lost your trust - and rightly so.

    Tonight, on behalf of our leaders in Congress and my fellow Republican governors, I say: Our party is determined to regain your trust.
    With GOP approval flagging, Jindal seemed to harkening back to the vital, small-governm

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  5. JUST A LITTLE REALITY CHECK GUYS.. QUID NUNC?


    “There has never been a challenge that the American people, with as little interference as possible by the federal government, cannot handle.”
    - Bobby Jindal, March 24, 2009

    That was then.

    This is now: 11 people dead in an oil rig explosion, fragile marshlands damaged, perhaps irreparably, uncalculated millions (billions?) in lost revenue for the tourism and fishing industries and a short-attention-span nation transfixed by a compelling image from a deep sea camera, brown gunk billowing out from a hole in the ocean floor, Things Getting Worse in real time.

    And Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, off whose coast this tragedy is centered, is singing a new song, starkly at odds with what he said last year in a speech before the Republican faithful.

    Now he's begging for federal “interference.” He wants federal money, federal supplies, wants the feds to help create barrier islands to protect Louisiana wetlands from oil.

    Not to pick on Jindal. He is but one prominent voice in a chorus of gulf state officials who once preached the virtues of tiny government but have discovered, in the wake of this spreading disaster, the virtues of government that is robust enough, at a minimum, to help them out of a jam.

    One hears pointed questions about President Barack Obama's engagement, or lack thereof, in the unfolding crisis. One hears accusations that the government was lax in its oversight duties and too cozy with the oil industry it was supposed to be regulating. One hears nothing about deregulation, about leaving the free market alone to do its magic.

    You know what they say: It's all fun and games till somebody gets hurt. Well, the Gulf Coast is hurt, hurt in ways that may take years to fully assess, much less repair. And the sudden silence from the apostles of small government and free markets is telling.

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