Barack Hussein! Why hasn't you stuck your finger in the hole yet?

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

Nearly two weeks after the oil rig exploded, Obama appears at the site of a disaster not yet under control. Heckuva job, Mr. President.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=532122

Rush Limbaugh, conservative pundits call Gulf Coast oil spill, 'Obama's Katrina'
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/05/03/2010-05-03_rush_limbaugh_conservative_pundits_call_gulf_oil_spill_obamas_katrina.html

Is Oil Spill President Obama's Katrina?
In the past few days, some of the focus has shifted to the White House and whether it sprang to action soon enough to make a difference. Some critics are calling this "Obama's Hurricane Katrina."
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/03/is-oil-spill-president-obamas-katrina/

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The three articles above are just a sampling of the current "Obama ain't sprung to action fast enuff" bullshit. This is a wonderful opportunity for the right-wing media, left-wing media, environmentalists, and a host of others to milk a story and bend it to their advantage.

Unfortunately, most of what I've heard in ALL the media - other than comments by people actually IN the oil business - is pure BS. BP is the only non-BS so far. They've accepted responsibility (but not blame) for this god-awful mess, and are doing everything they can to fix it.

This is the fault of a blow-out preventer not working. It was either faulty equipment, wasn't installed properly, or was trashed by tons of platform landing on it. Making the disaster political is asinine.

Comments

[green-man-2010.livejournal.com]

From my understanding, they actively fought safety regulations:


I am not suprised...
"British Petroleum is not an ethical oil company - just the least UNethical one", to quote one activist I met recently. Seems to me like they were right.

One of the things I have against libertarianism is that it says that regulation isn't needed so much - incidents like these tell me that iis isn't used enough.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Yep, this and Gold Man Sacks. Libertarianism, like communism, finds reality very inconvenient to pushing their ideological utopianism.

[dukexmachismo.livejournal.com]

Any ideology works until the bars close.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

This incident is going to make BP review its current safety measure far more than any government regulation could or would.

And the ginormous price tag that will come with the clean up will make every other oil producer take note, too.

Anything the government does in the wake of this will be so much closing the barn door and blaming "big oil".