Posted on 06/19/2010 10:46:51 AM PDT by Qbert
HONOLULU — U.S. Rep. Charles Djou is calling on President Barack Obama to waive a 90-year-old law so foreign ships can help respond to the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The statute, known as the Jones Act, requires vessels transporting goods between states to have been built in the United States, be crewed and owned by U.S. citizens, and fly the U.S. flag.
Djou says it has blocked vessels from Mexico, Canada and Belgium from assisting in the cleanup.
A Republican, Djou opposes the statute because he contends it results in higher prices for Hawaii consumers.
Most of Hawaii's political leaders support it, as do the two companies that control shipping between Hawaii and the mainland, Matson Navigation Company and Horizon Lines Inc.
Two months minus three days overdue.
Quick, where’s our Captain Obvious?
Now the rubber hits the road. If Obama fails to waive the act, he will be seen as obstructionist (by Americans as a whole...we’ve seen him that way from the git go).
after the tractor trailer rams into the parade of schoolchildren, order the driver to apply the brakes.
Our captain is rejoicing that LA is getting it with both barrels. This oil spill will torpedo the country faster than his thugs can do it.
0bama won’t do it now b/c it was called for by a repub.
What an assclown.
I seem to recall a lot of these regulations being waived by Bush for Katrina. Particularly, the penny-ante environmental stuff. When you have a massive oil spill, you do whatever’s possible to stop it and clean it up.
The only one he listens to is John Stewart
keep calling for it...but not SEIU approved...bozo bama can’t even take a poop without first asking them for the OK.
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