The real point is why did Napalitano not Know the Department of Homeland security to could have helped early on ( and didn’t), and that Obama wasn’t concerned at all...but he did have the Muslim Entreprenerueal Summit on his mind and had to attend to...
Heckuva Job, Barry
Napolitano Did Not Even Know Defense Dept. Had Oil Slick Equipment
it is still the government, in this case the Coast Guard, that has the final say. A law passed a year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster makes the owner of a rig or vessel responsible for cleaning up a spill. But oversight of the cleanup is designated to the Coast Guard, with advice from other federal agencies.
Obama and Napalitano, asleep at the wheel, AGAIN.
Ms. Napolitano acknowledging even as late as Thursday afternoon that she did not know if the Defense Department even had equipment that might be helpful.
Can you imagine that? The secretary of the DHS “did not know if the Defense Department even had equipment that might be helpful.”
... we’re talking STAGGERING incompetence here:
By Friday afternoon, she said, the Defense Department had agreed to send two large military transport planes to spray chemicals that can disperse the oil while it is still in the Gulf.
Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning for a couple of days and actually pay attention to his own, personal Katrina. Even The New York Times has noticed, decrying the President’s lackadaisical response.
Picky, picky, picky. It would be one Hell of a shot to launch a torpedo from a Cuban port and hit a drill stem one mile under water and a hundred or so miles away.
Are you sure you want to endorse that theory?
And, as an afterthought, it would not be hard to keep submarines out of Cuban ports if that is what we decided to do. In 1961 we had them remove missiles from their island and went head to head with the USSR to do it. It is all a matter of political will and courage on the part of leadership. With today's group the courage is lacking.