Posted on 05/03/2010 3:32:38 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
A week and a half after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank beneath the Gulf of Mexico, triggering a massive oil spill that was just beginning to reach the Gulf coastline, President Barack Obama visited the town of Venice, La., on Sunday afternoon to check out the damage
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No shrimp on the barby this summer.
I’m not sure about that. The Navy and Coast Guard are not really in the drilling business, but may have vessils, supplies and equipment that could have helped, if they were only ordered to do so.
The obozo admin did nothing, but I don’t think it was deliberate. It would be too risky politically.
More likely it’s their inability to make a sensible decision on anything.
Obama and his ilk have wet dreams when they think about the nationalization of the oil business....we will start hearing that kind of rheotoric in 3, 2, .............
This f-ing marxist takes over oil and a gallow of gas will be 10 dollars a gallon if ya can find one.
He and Michelle were on vacation in North Carolina on the 25th....5 days after the explosion.
The oil industry makes a lot of money, but less than 10% profit. If the gov’t takes it over, the price of oil will skyrocket. Our gov’t can’t do anything economically.
They do take a lot of vacations, don’t they?
Fun in the Carolinas while the Gulf Coast becomes an oil slick.
Bush would have been crucified.
Fun in the Carolinas never let a golf game go to waste.
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