Political Lipskip

Obama is No Leader – Gulf Oil Leak is Truly an Ecological, Environmental and Economic Disaster

My mom and dad used to take me and my siblings to Destin Florida each summer. It was a week that I always looked forward to and times I have remembered all my life. As I got older I returned to the Panhandle  to enjoy the beautiful beaches, seafood and sun. I cannot believe my eyes at what I see happening from the oil leak. The people are losing their livelihoods. Tourism will dwindle to nothing. The photos of the animals stuck in the oily goo is heartbreaking. Even worse is those that have died. It is an ecological and environmental disaster and is going to be an economic disaster. I hold BP responsible for the industrial accident. And honestly, despite their vast riches, I do not see how they make it out of this situation. I can appreciate how difficult it is to contain a leak a mile down in the Gulf. It shows just how limited our technology is when something like this beyond our resources to fully contain. You can bet that if deep water drilling is ever allowed again in the Gulf that simultaneous relief wells will be drilled, at huge expenses. With the huge insurance costs and regulations I just do not see how deep water drilling will return. That can be unfortunate as the amount of oil we will import will necessarily increase from our enemies. The number of jobs lost will number in the tens of thousands. And eventually we will be seeing it at the pump as the price of gasoline will creep back toward $4-5 a gallon. Oh happy days.

At this point I have turned my anger toward our inept presidential administration. I cannot believe the incompetence of leadership that is on display. Explain why Obama has not initiated some sort of national emergency and activated Guard units to at least be on the scene. At least rescue animals. How can they not be skimming the shit out of the Gulf and collecting oil. There should be a D-Day size flotilla of vessiles out there surroundin ghte leak and skimming the oil 24/7. Maybe there is but I doubt it.

17 countries from around the world have offered help and BP and/or the Administration turned down all but the booms from Norway and Mexico. Hell, bring the whole world in to help. Have every person East of the Mississippi River go down with their boat and use tampons to skim up what they can. Just do something. The government needs to have somebody, a lot of somebodies do something. James Carville was right. They ARE dying down there.

People on the TV are bloviating over Obama’s lack of ability to emote. We don’t need a Crier in Chief. What we need is a Commander in Chief. Someone like Jindal who on the ground taking charge and trying to make things happen every day while Obama plays golf and listens to shitty Beatles music. The problem that I have had from day one is the guy has never had a single day of executive decision making experience. The voters wanted someone that could make great speeches and apparently little else. Well, good for us, because now we have incompetence supposedly running the show.

I am a limited government guy. But what I do want the feds to do is protect the borders. Protect the country. That is what they should be doing. If that means growing the government as in a time of war to defend the country then so be it. This  is a war. We are being invaded by an environmental and ecological disaster, soon to an economic one. Why the hell can our socialist leaders not see this? They were damn sure laser focused on ramming through some shitty health care bill. Gosh maybe all that stimulus money the statists insisted on having could have been used on something like this national emergency rather than all their stupid pet projects like turtle tunnels.

BP has a lot to pay for and make right. They may not be a company when this is settled. As they start getting having to sell off pieces of itself to pay for the litigation and cleanup they may well become China Petroleum before it’s done. Our government may in fact bleed them dry. So be it. But history is going to show that it was Obama, despite the media trying to give him cover, who didn’t have a clue in dealing with this. Running around threatening to sue on behalf of everybody is not leadership. This is a crisis of leadership. Remember after 9/11 and Bush went down to the rubble and basically said “I got this”. Obama can barely make himself go to the beach and read from a teleprompter. It hardly gives me confidence that he “has this”.