NOAA was estimating 64,000 - 110,000 bbls/day on April 22, 2010
Posted on 05/02/2010 12:16:54 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
By the “Horizon-Gate”!!!
Thanks.
Problem is,they diddled and their tush is now slippery from the oil they ignored. Their fault. Done.
Ping to the “Deepwater-Horizon-Gate”!!
Ping. This helps put things in perspective regarding Obama’s response to the oil spill.
Not surprising, the whole administration is CLUELESS!
You nailed it.
No, I disagree. I don't believe for 1 second that he (and his corrupt admin) weren't paying attention. What I hear from some people as this being an example of "incompetence" or somehow being "asleep at the switch," misses the real issue here. All of this delay and inaction was very deliberate. They didn't want to contain it or otherwise minimize the impact. It has been a deliberate approach to let it get to the point where maximal damage (across many fronts) is bound to occur, then count on a sleepy public to buy into all of their current "heroic" pronouncements of intent and action. And then of course, be able to take full advantage of the "crisis" as we have all come to expect...
NOAA was estimating 64,000 - 110,000 bbls/day on April 22, 2010
As Maria said when Clinton got elected to second term, "Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public". A certain close relative we know and love comes to mind....
bttt
Somehow I missed seeing your post #23 yesterday. Thanks for the link!
Powerline
Was the Federal Response to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Adequate?
May 2, 2010 Posted by John at 9:07 PM
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
“Never waste a good crisis, Clinton says on climate”
http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE5251VN20090306
Excellent correct commentary; the law is called Posse Comitatus, a quasi-Constitutional law that prohibits the feds from sending troops into the states and billeting them in private homes. Had Bush ignored this law and sent troops in, he would have likely faced impeachment.
As always, the Dems get to have it both ways.
That was the point. Guess I need to start placing a /s at each post.
bttt
And look here - ‘RAT propaganda mouth Media Matters weighs in on a “time line”:
Media Matters Research
http://mediamatters.org/research/201004300053
Memo to media: Timeline contradicts “Obama’s Katrina” claim
April 30, 2010 7:05 pm ET
A timeline of events following the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill belies the absurd media claim that the spill represents “Obama’s Katrina.”
[snip]
Sorry.
Maybe they will blame Bobby Jindal.
“Since there is no Republican politician to attack in this scenario, BP will catch all the heat.” ~ centurion316
It may be legitimate to blame BP acccording to Chris Horner on NRO. He plans to expand on that opinion later:
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/
Blame BP [Chris Horner]
I hope to elaborate later I’m wrapping up two weeks on the road promoting Power Grab but it seems to me the issue with the recent oil-platform explosion and subsequent leak issue is BP, not offshore drilling.
Offshore drilling has a very good track record in the past few decades and especially recently; BP has a terrible one. The Deepwater Horizon incident is consistent with only one of those track records.
Like Enron and indeed, in close cooperation with Enron on the “global warming” rent-seeking BP got distracted from its core businesses and spent its energies getting into solar ventures and carbon-trading schemes, and otherwise losing the plot of an energy company. The absurd re-branding to “Beyond Petroleum” (really? your balance sheet doesn’t quite agree) speaks volumes.
They thereby also lost focus on these operations and implicitly told their best people that the future did not lie there.
And for a decade we have seen BP facilities blowing up with human and environmental consequences all over the place.
The newsiness of this spill is testimony to its aberrant nature. The issue today isn’t offshore drilling so much as it is the company that, in violation of all laws of probability, continues to be involved in a preponderance of its various industries’ high-profile workplace tragedies.
05/02 11:00 AM
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I also posted the above in the live Rush thread today, too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505575/posts?page=58#58
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