Super Bam Single Handedly Plugs Gulf Oil Spill

Thinking of all the statements Obama has made leading up to the plugging of the underwater gusher, you'll notice he always said "they" did this, and "they" did that, and it was all bad, and he sent down a raft of lawyers, didn't help the Gulf states with boats or booms, threatened Gov Jindall, and protected the unions by not lifting the Jones Act.

Now listen to him, once it's plugged. From his press conference July 16.

"..."as we complete the relief wells that are necessary to stop the leak."

"What they're working to determine is whether we can safely shut in the well using the new cap without creating new problems..."

"...which should allow us to capture nearly all the oil until the well is killed. It’s important to remember that prior to installation of this new cap, we were collecting on average about 25,000 barrels a day."

"But it is our responsibility to make sure that we’re taking a prudent course of action and not simply looking for a short-term solution."

"Either we will be able to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done."

"Even if it turns out that we can’t maintain this cap and completely shut off the flow of oil, what the new cap allows us to do is to essentially attach many more containment mechanisms so that we’re able to take more oil up to the surface, put it on ships -- it won’t be spilling into the Gulf." Of course now he's a master driller and is directing the action.

"...there’s no doubt that we have made progress as a consequence of this new cap fitting on, and that even if it turns out that we can’t keep the containment cap on to completely stop the oil, it’s going to allow us to capture much more oil and we’ll see less oil flowing into the Gulf."

He concluded "The key here right now is for us to make decisions based on science, based on what’s best for the people of the Gulf -- not based on PR, not based on politics." This guy has done nothing all these months but make political decisions based on political calculations to oppress national oil production, extort money, run shakedowns, use this as a platform to ram though his 'cap 'n tax scheme, and start a lot of law suits to help his lawyer buddies get even richer.

"We" are certainly happy he finally got the time between vacations, fund raisers and golf rounds to finally don his wet suit, swim down and plug the damn hole.

Article and Press Conference Transcript here.