Let me tell you a few of the things the Fed. GOVT should have been doing:
1. WAIVE ALL “environmental regulations” and “reviews” immediately about things that governors were asking to do. Release Army Corps of Engineers and Reserves with their equipment to go help out under control of their local commands, instead of having anybody in Fed gov’t micromanage things and delay them.
2. Get out of BPs WAY!
3. FORGET hearings and other litigious BS - Why the heck are sapping the time of BP, Schlumberger, Halliburton, etc. in the middle of this immediate problem. THere is time for hearings and such MONTHS from now!
4. REVIEW regulations and laws and waive those that are hurting IMMEDIATELY, and work with Congress, BP and other companies to encourage and facilitate brainpower worldwide that is knowledgeable about this environment and this type of operation ... the goal to be enabling the best experts in the world to all be working on this unprecedented occurrence. Sign executive orders saying that anything done by BP in good faith from now on will be free of legal and fiscal responsibility if it fails! This should have been done a full month ago. The NEED for this was obvious a full month ago. Instead, BP has had to very carefully choose the limited number of outside experts due to concerns about litigation, “intellectual property” rights, patent infringements, etc. CLEARLY the defensive way that BP has had to act may have serve to delay or possibly even destroy the best ways to deal with this. Not only did they fail to do that, the STUPID FEDs even went so far as to REMOVE one of their OWN initially chosen experts from a panel because he happens to have written things that homosexuals don’t like! This makes sense? Do you think it makes sense that BP has been forced to be coy about information and associations cause of legal considerations? “Regulatory considerations? This was the time for LEADERS in DC to come together... instead we have lots of environuts and ambulance chasers and political opportunists running around doing things to delay and deter.
5. CONGRATULATE and ACKNOWLEDGE all the effort that BP has been making tirelessly ... advertise that they have been working hard and that they are one of the BEST in the world to be working on this. I know lots of people want to point out “safety violations”, etc... but this is the time to acknowledge and advertise their EXPERTS are among the BEST. It also wouldn’t have hurt if the Feds would let people know in strong and loud terms that this discovery BP is working on exploiting is a MAJOR find, that could ITSELF reduce by 5% the US’ daily oil imports! BP can’t do that now because it would sound too whiney, but the Feds should be saying that! The spill is huge and terrible, but the news here is not all bad!
6. GET OUT OF BP’s WAY - and facilitate their operations instead of doing stupid things like BANNING BP from using APPROVED DISPERSANTS! THen when BP says to the EPA, what do you want us to use ? what is less toxic and more effective ? watching the EPA say sheepishly “dunno”... After all, ALL of those chemicals on the list were “approved” ... they ALL have been deemed able to be used. But when BP actually USES them to HELP SAVE THE COASTS, the DUMB FEDS get in the way! Grandstanding by Politicians, Bureaucrats, Environuts, Ambulance Chasers, etc... yet again!
7. LOCATE THE FIRE BOOMS that the US purchased since 1994 and get them in action! Well - that should have been done over a month ago. I suspect strongly that “someone” in Obama’s adminstration knows very well where they are ... that Soros got them for Brazil and other of his oil interests abroad. (Brazil was not sold booms, yet they have them. US WAS sold booms, but the Coast Guard couldn’t find them - thus the “Delay” of the “burning test” that was in the news a month ago. I wonder where our booms are? I guess that Brazil is loaning us some. I bet that Chavez has not.)
I don’t want to take the time to go on but you get the drift there are clearly things you must admit that the FEDS have not done what they could and should have done. MOST of that is “executive branch” stuff - therefore OBAMAs responsibility.
Much of the above is simply politician crapola. Much is a result of Obama’s absolutely incompetent choices for cabinet and other appointments. “Science Adviser” and “Energy adviser” etc... LOOK AT THE LACK OF REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/obama-green-team-stephen-chu-secretary-of-energy.php
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/obama-science-dream-team.php
http://www.whrc.org/pressroom/press_releases/PR-2008-12-19-Holdren-Obama.htm
The Obama Administration has FAR LESS real world expertise than almost EVERY other adminstration in the history of this country! It is no wonder that they are so incompetent when it comes to REAL WORLD PROBLEMS. The BLAME for this lies SOLELY at the top of the executive branch - Obama.
If you don’t see what Obama should have done differently, go back to sucking your thumb and voting yes for fools.
“7. LOCATE THE FIRE BOOMS that the US purchased since 1994 and get them in action! Well - that should have been done over a month ago. I suspect strongly that “someone” in Obama’s adminstration knows very well where they are ... that Soros got them for Brazil and other of his oil interests abroad. (Brazil was not sold booms, yet they have them. US WAS sold booms, but the Coast Guard couldn’t find them - thus the “Delay” of the “burning test” that was in the news a month ago. I wonder where our booms are? I guess that Brazil is loaning us some. I bet that Chavez has not.)
I don’t want to take the time to go on but you get the drift there are clearly things you must admit that the FEDS have not done what they could and should have done. MOST of that is “executive branch” stuff - therefore OBAMAs responsibility.
Much of the above is simply politician crapola. Much is a result of Obama’s absolutely incompetent choices for cabinet and other appointments. “Science Adviser” and “Energy adviser” etc... LOOK AT THE LACK OF REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/obama-green-team-stephen-chu-secretary-of-energy.php
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/obama-science-dream-team.php
http://www.whrc.org/pressroom/press_releases/PR-2008-12-19-Holdren-Obama.htm
The Obama Administration has FAR LESS real world expertise than almost EVERY other adminstration in the history of this country! It is no wonder that they are so incompetent when it comes to REAL WORLD PROBLEMS. The BLAME for this lies SOLELY at the top of the executive branch - Obama.”
DITTOS on this part for sure!!
The part about our booms possibly being in Brazil should be investigated immediately as well.
100% on the mark in 259!
You NAILED it on every level....including the damage done by Obama’s drooling leftist environmentalist wacko cabinet.
B U M P!!