He knew the day after it happened that there was a big, huge, gigantic, monster of an environmental disaster with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. He took eight days to respond, and he did that by sending lawyers. Say what?
April 20: Explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig kills 11 workers.
April 24: First time oil leak is acknowledged by the Barry and the boys.
April 28: Interior Secretary Salazar travels to BP Command Center in Houston.
April 29: Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano announces a "Spill of National Significance" and Barry finally says something to the citizens.
April 30: Barry sends senior (I experience cognitive dissonance here, calling those boys 'senior' anything) administration officials to Gulf. Louisiana National Guard activated.
May 2: Barry finally goes down to the Gulf.
May 4: Cabinet officials finally brief Congress.
May 11: Louisiana Gov Bobby Jindall requests emergency permission from the federal government to dredge barriers and construct berms. Sorry Bobby, you've got to get a permit first; it'll take a couple weeks to get back to you.
May 27: Federal government grants Louisiana partial permission to dredge. Here ya go Bobby, you can protect your coastline a little bit; we need more meetings and golf outings.
May 28: Barry makes his second visit to the Gulf and states, "I am the president and the buck stops with me." It's the buck he folds into an arrow to point blame at everyone else for nothing getting done.
May 29: BP announces that its "top kill" plan to fill the well failed.
June 2: Barry finally approves of Louisiana's plan to dredge and tells BP to pay $360 million for five new berms. The Justice Department announces a criminal investigation into the explosion and spill. Of course the berms are not built because the EPA needs another study, decides that the berms can't be built where they'll be most effective because of possible negative impact on the environment. They have to be built farther out in the ocean, costing another week's time for yet more oil to reach shore. AHHHH!!!! I'M SCREAMING!!!!
June 14: Senate Democrats write to BP calling on the company to set up a $20 billion, independently administered escrow fund to compensate victims of the spill. Illegal shakedown of a private company by Barry's thugocracy.
June 15: Barry makes Oval Office speech on oil spill and uses this crisis to push climate change legislation and have the government take over all of the US energy sector. This speech was so lame it would make a paraplegic look like a world class athlete. He did not once say what he is going to do. Other than sue, spend more tax payer money, raise taxes and fees, and gather more political power.
June 16: Barry meets with BP executives at the White House.
Barry Sotero doesn't meet with BP execs until nearly two months after the event? Thirteen countries immediately offer help with skimming and capping the well. Those companies estimated that the whole thing could be wrapped up in about four months. Cleaned and capped. So far 35 countries have offered to help. We have 400 skimmers when there could be thousands. Here we are in month three and not a blanking #$$#@#@$$# thing has been done by Barry and his boys, and I mean boys, because real men that know how to do stuff would be doing stuff. Barry's gone golfing several times (more rounds in 18 months that GW Bush did in eight years), went to a Democrat fundraiser instead of memorial services for the men that lost their lives in the explosion, took a vacation to Chicago (instead of fulfilling Memorial Day presidential tradition of laying the wreath at the tomb of the unknowns at Arlington), has created several commissions to "study" the problem, executed an illegal shakedown of BP for bucks, executed an illegal moratorium on drilling in more than 500 feet of water, 500 FEET! off the coast, refused the help of 35 countries...Holy crap dude! Do something! This is a monumental disaster!
Millions of barrels of oil being dumped (1 barrel=42gal), and Barry has meetings, makes speeches, makes threats, makes blame, and millions of people are affected, thousands of miles of coastline are getting contaminated. As of Monday, June 14, somewhere between 40 million and 115 million gallons of oil have been spilled. And another week has gone by!
The Coast Guard stops skimmers from skimming because they don't have enough life jackets. Say what? Hey, how about swinging by and toss some on the barges? Bobby Jindal finally gets authorization from the federal government to build berms, and another branch of the federal government says they can't be built there because of "environmental concerns"! You've got to be #$%$#%@# kidding me! Hey! The house is on fire, but lets make sure the water to put it out has been filtered of pollutants! Hello! Barry? Are you and your knucklehead oligarchy even beginning to get a clue of the magnitude of this disaster?
Barry, using the 'let no crises go to waste' model, is using this to argue his case for cap and trade and total government control of all the US energy sector. HEY BARRY! We have a disaster if epic proportions, quit thinking lawsuits and politics, and do your $%^$#%#$% job!
In case Barry, as he always does, tries to lay blame and responsibility elsewhere, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), Section 4201, tells whoever is president exactly what he's responsible for. He's responsible for removing oil from navigable waters and adjoining shorelines, and direct and monitor what all federal, state, and private people and organizations are doing. Doesn't say anything about playing golf, having Wednesday night White House Parties, political fundraisers, vacations and the rest of that stuff. HEY BARRY. Hello! Emergency! Get every skimmer on the planet out there, get every oil engineer out there, cut the freakin' red tape, build the berms, get the booms out (Jindal had ask for millions of feet of boom and a few weeks later got a few thousand feet).
I'm SCREAMING! #$%#@$% DO SOMETHING! It's Barry's responsibilty to at least martial the resources to contain the problem, and get the people together that know what to do. Jeeze, and we have to wait two plus years to get a man back in the White House. aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
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