1 Daddy, WTF?

2 Fucked with a Garden Weasel™.

3 take another whack at it....

4 Damn.  Just as the other thread was getting dirty.

5

Is not to worry, Kevin Costner is on the way with his patented "Smug Plug".

6

hey ace, prior thread #84. you'll need a shower after reading.

that will be all.

7 Ace if you are monitoring take a look at post #84 on the last thread. Kinda nasty.

8 It's Obama's fault. He tried to take credit Thursday, assuming it was going to work. Now that it didn't, he has ownership. Poor Malia. BTW, 2003-2008. When there was an round number of US fatalities in Iraq/Afghan the MSM would say "Grim Milestone". Last night on ABC Nightly News when they announced the 1,000th death in Afghan they called it a "Milestone of Sacrifice". I am not making this up.

9 LOL, we both hit it at the same time.

10 Uhh, maybe you hit that, Vic, not me

11 pumping odds and ends like plastic cubes, knotted rope and golf balls

Or, as they call it in the Castro District, "Friday night"

12

Last night on ABC Nightly News when they announced the 1,000th death in Afghan they called it a "Milestone of Sacrifice".

You shit me not?

13 So who lied -- the LA Times or the Coast Guard commander?

14 > 12 You shit me not? Posted by: Noticer of Things I would not shit you. You're my favorite...

15 Perhaps would could a spare a tactical nuke for this stupid gusher.

16 I would not shit you. You're my favorite...

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 29, 2010 03:33 PM (jf5rK)

Plus #84 on the other thread has something to say about it you might want to take into consideration.

17

I would not shit you. You're my favorite...

Damn, I'm starting to really hate these people. It's getting harder and harder to be tolerant of their emotional and childish logic. I fear for the future, and it isn't entirely because I used to teach high school chemistry.

18 There have been rumors that a kT-size nuke may be necessary to seal this thing off (by collapsing the entire strata of rock). Never mind the logistics of such a thing (how would it be delivered? do we even have such a device?). Would the Obama Administration permit it if all other strategies fail? BP has said that the only other way to stop the leak is to dig a relief well, but that will take two more months, during which time oil will continue to gout into the Gulf. If engineers tell Obama that a nuke has a good chance of sealing the leak, I wonder if he'd go ahead with it?

19 Also, Junk Shot sounds like a dirty, dirty porno movie.

20 odds and ends like plastic cubes, knotted rope and golf balls

The last of which was only used to get Obama's attention.

Seriously, this whole thing seems lame. BP is lame.  POTUS Obama is lame.

How is this not 100,000 times more absurd than drilling in ANWR?

21

BP engineers failed again to plug the gushing oil well on Saturday

No problem. I'm going to plug the damn thing while I'm in Chicago this weekend.

22 "Going comment #84" will come to mean 'crossing the line'?
As in, all this scat and piss talk has gone comment 84?

23

If engineers tell Obama that a nuke has a good chance of sealing the leak, I wonder if he'd go ahead with it?

Pres. Vote Present will have to commission a few public opinion polls before he makes such a tough decision.

Leading and Commanding is like hard and stuff.

24 thanks lacey, I delted that.

25

BP has said that the only other way to stop the leak is to dig a relief well.

Is Michelle's ass unavailable?

26
Last night on ABC Nightly News when they announced the 1,000th death in Afghan they called it a "Milestone of Sacrifice".

They also delayed reporting it until Memorial Day weekend. The 1,000th death actually happened at least a week ago.

And when Bush was president  Stephanopoulis would end his show with the names and pics of every soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not anymore.

27 Just before this Gulf thing happened, I saw a BP commercial that referred to "climate change."  Which proved to me that BP was an evil, stupid company.

28 If we hook two aircraft carriers together, we might be able to drag Worf's ass over the well. Getting it to sink will be harder.

29 How does digging one well/hole seal another?  That makes no sense.

30 29, It relieves the pressure.

31 Paris, maybe because they want to stuff the leak below the surface of the ocean floor? If they were doing that they'd have to dig first, to get down there.

32 If only one of the cob-loggers could have delted comment 84.

33 thanks lacey, I delted that.

Nope. I delted it, you smelted it.

34 Wait...so you're saying he *isn't* the Messiah?

*weeps, sobs, rails at the gods*

I'm okay now.

35 That will be unfair, because Obama is no more responsible for the damage caused by this than Bush was for the damage caused by Katrina.

That's fucking bullshit. Obama appointed the MMS slackers and allowed BP to skate on environmental regulations. Bush could never have prevented Katrina and responded quickly, especially in comparison to Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill.

36 I almost hope that they have to nuke it Monty. In a schadenfreude kind of way, you know? In the end, it might work and the only sound you will hear after the blast stops echoing will be the shrieking of enviornmentalists around the globe, in unison, with one voice. Almost like a disturbance in the force, if you know what I mean.

37

Yeah, comment 84 is spot on. As hard as it is to admit, porn has totally left me behind. I find it so hard to watch sometimes, and I increasingly find myself only being able to tolerate it in short spurts.

38 How does digging one well/hole seal another? The oil is spewing out, uncontrolled, at very high pressure. If we tap the line further up and draw off some of the flow, it will reduce the pressure at the wellhead and permit it to be capped. It's like those soaker-hoses you can buy for your garden: instead of one high-pressure outlet at the end of the line, you have several smaller holes along the line, each with a low-pressure flow.

39 I increasingly find myself only being able to tolerate it in short spurts. What you did there I saws it

40 Man this is bad news. How can there be so much incompetence concentrated in one area.

41

Reading ace's follow-up commentary, I'm reminded of this--

Pity for me but not for thee.

42 ParisParamus: A directional well is drilled to meet the existing wellbore at some depth below the surface. The technology exists that they can intersect another 8" hole miles below the surface. Once the existing wellbore is reached, you can either divert the flow to the new hole, which has wellhead equipment to control the flow, or you can pump cement down the new hole into the old hole and plug the well.

43 Is it impolite to point out that Barry is a jug-eared stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure?

44 Man this is bad news. How can there be so much incompetence concentrated in one area

Have you not been watching Congress since the last...60 years?

45 robtr, in other words this administration is a gusher of stupid, and it has to be siphoned off before we're all drenched in mediocrity.

In that case they should get Biden to tour the country to say the stuff that comes out his mouth, to relieve the pressure.

46 BP has said that the only other way to stop the leak is to dig a relief well, but that will take two more months, during which time oil will continue to gout into the Gulf.

They have other options to contain the flow, though. See here.

47 Have you not been watching Congress since the last...60 years?

Posted by: wherestherum at May 29, 2010 03:46 PM (gofDd)

Damnit rum, I'm old but I am not that old.

48 ...Or should we take a more adult and nuanced view, taking into consideration our own arguments through the Bush years that sometimes things just get bad and not everything is chargeable as a defect in presidential leadership? What are you, some kind of idiot? It's Obama's fault, dammit, and any other "nuanced" point of view is just seen as weakness at the polls. (Are Republicans EVER going to learn this?)

49

If America had an auto-pilot, the APA union would call OSHA and report it for unsafe working conditions.

We're being led by the pussiest of liberal men. Just....damn.

50 Nuke the damn thing.

51 No need to demagogue it...Obama reacted slowly and there is tons of evidence that back that up. This has hurt the cleanup effort and made it more difficult. The red tape is also not being dealt with quickly enough per Jindal. We should still maintain we need drilling. Do you all want 5-6 dollars plus at the gas pump? Had this been an onshore or shallow water spill, it would have been fixed in a matter of days. Of course we should also call for more strict safety standards for deep water drilling.

52 As a lifelong democrat, I have to admit being concerned about the way that Obama's leapt into bed with the oil companies.

53 Man this is bad news. How can there be so much incompetence concentrated in one area. There was some incompetence involved, obviously, but some engineering problems are just hard. Accidents like this -- in a place of extreme pressure, darkness, and cold -- stretch (and maybe exceed) our ability to deal with them. This is like trying to work in space. It's massively expensive, and mainly based on science that is so new and untried that there is no baseline to work from -- it's all theory and very little practice. The accident itself may have been preventable (I doubt it), but the response is probably as good as it gets. I don't think a government or company in the world could have done any better. I guarantee you that BP is paying some very large coin to every deep-sea engineering expert in the world right now to get this thing contained.

54 34 Wait...so you're saying he *isn't* the Messiah?

No.  I am.

55

Well said, Ace. The liberals own the board now. They won. So they make the rules. The only way to beat them is to beat them at their own game. We're smarter than they are so we know we can play their dirty game better than they can.

You know how I know we're smarter than them? The administration is running cover for Sestak-gate by using Bill Clinton. Allahpundit pointed out that Clinton was impeached for perjury. Pretty dumb, Obama. Drag out and accused perjurer and have him get the media to believe that "collaboration between the White House and Joe Sestak."

As for plugging the damn hole, shouldn't there be total focus on that now? Bush totally focused on the War on Terror even to the point where he took his eye off the economy. Yet, the biggest disaster was still handled first.

56 Too bad I'm dead. I'd seal the bitch.

57 If the only option is a nuke, Obama will probably let it leak until he is booted out of office before he admits Nukes have a serious purpose and are probably a good thing to have lying around in case you ever, you know, NEED one.

I'd bet a dollar on that, too.

58 #30 I guess this explains it: http://tinyurl.com/24wn2ur

But it's not so much pressure relief as a bypass.  The thing is, for that to work, doesn't the new well(s) have to be sufficiently large as to provide an outlet for all of the oil/gas pressure?  How on earth can that be achieved quickly?

59 It doesn't matter how we respond to the issue now.  We have Christ Matthews and James Carville doing the dirty work, now, so we can just sit back and watch.

60

42 ParisParamus:

A directional well is drilled to meet the existing wellbore at some depth below the surface. The technology exists that they can intersect another 8" hole miles below the surface. Once the existing wellbore is reached, you can either divert the flow to the new hole, which has wellhead equipment to control the flow, or you can pump cement down the new hole into the old hole and plug the well.

Monty Burns Slanted Drilling Corporation.

61

48  Er, sure, he's 100% culpable if you're a fruit loop who believe that he blew up the Horizon.

I think it's fair to point out his inaction and his inability to manage the situation. Paint it as part of a broader theme of incompetence with this Administration but don't go full retard on the situation.

62 Obama owns this free and clear. He's the One, after all. He was slow and disinterested. Only when the spill threatens his Monarchy does he pretend to care. Eff him. Plus, even when he is supposedly actively trying to get this solved, we get fake photo-op crap. Thanks, 52%!

63  I'm not sure we can draw parallels between a natural disaster, and a man made one.

If anything, we can blame the government for not forcing companies that deep water drill to have a highly effective system and procedures in place in case something like this happens. 

64 laceyunderalls #61, no point in punching down :^)

65 The accident itself may have been preventable (I doubt it), but the response is probably as good as it gets. I don't think a government or company in the world could have done any better. I guarantee you that BP is paying some very large coin to every deep-sea engineering expert in the world right now to get this thing contained.

Posted by: Monty at May 29, 2010 03:52 PM (O3eFQ)

I am not buying that. The accident itself is pretty easy to predict. Wells have been blowing out since we started drilling wells. In the north sea they have redundent backup systems incase one fails and they also check to make sure the batteries are charged. If what you are saying is true then we had no business drilling there in the first place and I think that is wrong as well.

66

-->Should we note that the President is not all-powerful, and that sometimes things are simply beyond his control, and that it's a childish view of the world to believe the President can fix serious problems simply by thinking real hard about them, being smart, and barking out orders in a clipped and authoritative voice?

No. We should note that The Precedent has done a shit job, once again, and his only actual moves on this have been to hamstring the efforts of state and local officials. This is in direct contrast to Katrina, which was a state/local problem that the federal governmetn had no business being involved with, unless the locals requested it (but the locals didn't). In this case, it's a federal responsibility (as the drilling is not in any state) and you have the federal government stopping the same state/locals (with deifferent leadership) from doing what they wanted to do.

-->I don't think I need to remind anyone that this was the standard of presidential expectations during the Bush years, as far as Iraq and Katrina and every other damn thing too.

We don't have to stoop to dem levels to argue this correctly. We should be forcing the idiot dems to admit that this situation is the opposite (in federalist terms) of Katrina and that the dems are nothing but despicable, lying scumbag traitors.

The arguments against this inept, America-hating, pathetic administration don't require anyone to stretch anything, since these assholes do everything incorrectly and are amazingly arrogant, anyway.

-->Or should we take a more adult and nuanced view, taking into consideration our own arguments through the Bush years that sometimes things just get bad and not everything is chargeable as a defect in presidential leadership?

No one is saying that the federal government could have stopped this spill.  The point is that we'll never know, because the federal government didn't do any of its actual job on this. 

We have a feral government that won't do its actual jobs but never stops lobbying (and passing legislation and executive orders) to gather more and more power over things they have no business in.  That is the point.

The feral government is not merely incompetent, stupid and inept, but it is at the same time power hungry and wanting to dictate my whole life.  Screw them.  They won't get what they truly deserve, which are brazen bulls at low roast.

There is no need to compare these asswipes to anyone.  They are inept, stupid, and traitorous in leagues all of their own.

67 > 29 How does digging one well/hole seal another? That makes no sense. Posted by: ParisParamus The relief well will drill sideways and inject stuff to plug the first well.

68 Just nuke the damn shaft closed and be done with it.

69 "Are Republicans EVER going to learn this?" Posted by: SuperMag at May 29, 2010 03:48 PM (etv3T) --------------------------- Most Republicans are not prone to hyperbole by nature. So I doubt it. If they were, they would be screaming the BP disaster is worse than the K-T extinction, and it's all OBama's fault, which is what Democrats do (i.e. Katrina).

70 Every thing bad that happened during 8 years of Bush was all his fault.  Absent bad things, liberals even made crap up.  Obama owns this oil leak.  This is the 'tone' liberals wanted just a short while ago, now it's time to shove it back down their throats, with interest.

71

62
Obama owns this free and clear. He's the One, after all.

He was slow and disinterested. Only when the spill threatens his Monarchy does he pretend to care.

Eff him.

Plus, even when he is supposedly actively trying to get this solved, we get fake photo-op crap.

Thanks, 52%!

As a part of this did he ever do anything about the Tenn. Floods?  Declared a federal disaster zone or anything?  I mean it was pretty well ignored and I don't recall any fanfare at all about him doing something.  And it always seems to me that he gets fanfare for EVERYTHING he ever does.  The MFM would photograph his bowel movements if they could.

72 Krauthammer's correct, except that Obama IS responsible for using the disaster to push a stop-all-drilling agenda, something that was most definitely not true of Bush with Katrina (no matter what the libs say).  I would imagine this fucker's primary interest is in the mess becoming as catastrophic as possible so as to maximize its political potency, regardless of the hit his approval takes.  Fuck it, Gulf Coasters aren't going to be voting for the asshole in '12 anyway, right?

_{I'm still wondering how in the hell three redundant fail-safes on Deepwater Horizon's blow-out preventer all failed.}

73 The Time's Joe Klein's found a way to blame Bush, of course. And Pelosi's convinced that if only they could root out Bush appointees "burrowed" (her words) all the evil in the world would be stopped in its tracks and leaking oil wells would spew skittles if they fail.

I've tried to be reasonable about this whole thing, mainly because I suspect going overboard blaming government for not being supermen will result in drilling being shutdown for all eternity, but the above kind of shit makes me think "Fuck it - own it, you fuckheads".

74 In the north sea they have redundent backup systems incase one fails and they also check to make sure the batteries are charged. Backups fail. Redundant systems fail. Some catastrophes are so large that they overwhelm the systems. When Bammer did his famous "Plug the damn hole!" shout, I wanted to ask: "What do you want them to do that they are not already doing? What method or technique should they try that they are not already trying? If some third party has a better way to deal with the blowout than BP does, why have they not come forward?" You're seeing that man's engineering prowess is not unlimited. Just because a problem exists does not imply that we have a solution to it -- or at least that the solution will be as quick, cheap, or easy as we'd like it to be. Nature is very big and we are very small.

75 I'm still wondering how in the hell three redundant fail-safes on Deepwater Horizon's blow-out preventer all failed.

BOP's are notorious for not working correctly.  I read somewhere that the odds are actually in favor of them not working when needed.

76 My take is -- I won't go about screaming about this, but I won't bother correcting anybody who does.  I'd rather people hate Obama for the reasons I hate Obama -- because he is a hard leftist, anti-American, socialist piece of shit  --- but at this stage I just want them to hate him. I'll take what I can get.

77 That filthy Krauthammer stole my way kewl anaolgy.

78

 

Krauthammer is wrong. Bush was not to blame for a hurricane, of course. However, Obama is to blame for his gross negligence after the oil spill.

Fact #1: a hurricane is an act of God, i.e., a natural disaster.

Fact #2: The only thing Bush could've done to prevent loss of life, which would've been logistically impossible and impractical, was to evacuate New Orleans before the hurricanse. Bush could have nothing to prevent the property damage.

Fact #3: This oil spill is 40 days old and Obama has done nothing except use the accident to beat Big Oil over the head.

Obama did nothing to prepare for the inevitable oil slick that everyone knew was about to wash on shore. Nothing. For 40 days. Nothing. Obama admin has impeded the effort to control the spill, actually.

79 Democrats do not accept Federalism except when New York wants to claim it is better than Mississippi. The Democrats hate the truth that Bush did not cause the Katrina aftermath; they did. That's why they had to go full retard on Bush. Now, they have to argue the Federal Government is not "The Government" just to protect their Infant Prince. Eff them, too.

80 Obama did nothing to prepare for the inevitable oil slick that everyone knew was about to wash on shore. Nothing. For 40 days. Nothing. Obama admin has impeded the effort to control the spill, actually.


Makes you wonder if this was done on purpose.
Crisis going to waste and all that.

81 The new wells will divert the flow and pressure, but unless these new wells can accommodate all of the flow and pressure, some oil and gas will still flow out of what's there now.  So I don't quite get the logic of what they're trying to do (because my guess is that the relief wells won't be that huge, and there will still be excess pressure).

82 8 years of George W. Bush's overeating has made me fat.  Also, George W. Bush stubbed my toe this morning.

83 because my guess is that the relief wells won't be that huge, and there will still be excess pressure

Your guess is wrong.

84

ummm re: 84 last

 

sickinmass at May 27, 2010 10:08 PM (tamie)

85 "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

86 I think there's at least a 50-50 chance that Obama is acting/not acting intentionally; this will make BIG OIL look bad.  And that is one of his core MOs...

87

 

Just ask yourself two questions:

#1 What could President Bush have done differently to prevent property damage and loss of life before, during and after Katrina?

#2 What could Obama have done afte the explosion to prevent or at least decrease the environmental and property damage?

Answer to #1 is 'not a whole heckuva lot.'

Answer to #2 is 'a lot.'

88 #83, hope you are correct.

89

Backups fail. Redundant systems fail. Some catastrophes are so large that they overwhelm the systems.

You're right that some problems are so large that they overwhelm systems. This isn't one of them though. If the BOP would have worked we wouldn't be having this discussion. If they had used the same systems that they use in the north sea and they all failed I wouldn't have brought it up.

Saying that the backups might have failed too so why use them got us here in the first place. More often than not backup systems do what they are supposed to do.

90 If anything, we can blame the government for not forcing companies that deep water drill to have a highly effective system and procedures in place in case something like this happens.   Posted by: Rickshaw Jack

Or, you know, allow the oil co's to drill inland.

But that makes too much sense for a leviathan like government to pull off.

91

Great point on consistency, Ace.  Nicely put, too -- consistency is not a suicide pact.

Krauthammer's point on this is especially important -- you may not
want to make the argument "The government should be able to fix this,
therefore Obama is incompetent" but you can definitely make the
argument "This Obama guy campaigned on being able to fix things with
the power of gov't, and as we've been telling you for decades, gov't
sucks at fixing things.  So don't vote for this idiot again."

92 I think that if the Obama Administration can be faulted for anything in particular, it was in the realm of coordination: getting the resources in place quickly. There was dithering, and delay, and confusion; just as there was during Katrina. To me this is not an indictment of Obama per se but an indictment of big government in general: our government is simply too ponderous and sclerotic to be able to respond to a huge disaster like this one in a timely fashion. There is also an unconscionable lack of engineering expertise in the governmental ranks -- this is the outcome of the relentless politization of science. You get bureacrats and ladder-climbers rather than scientists and engineers, and these sorts of people are hopelessly unable to deal with a crisis of this magnitude.

93 Oh, man.  This may cut into Wile E. Obama's basketball and golf practice time . . .


naaaahhhh........

94 Easy Bake could have issued an order rescinding all Federal regulations that would affect containment and clean-up. Instead he played golf and blew the Mexican President.

95

 

Rick/jack, I know Obama wants this disaster to be a catastrophe.

Just like how he wanted the Times Square bomber to be a white registered Republican.

96 There is no inconsistency.

George W. Bush engaged with the Katrina crisis before the hurricane made its second and fatal landfall in Louisiana.  He ensured that everything the Federal government could legally do was being done before and after Katrina hit.

Barack Canute Ethelred Obama did not engage with the oil spill until more than a week later -- and then spent more time and effort trying to convince the rest of us that he and the rest of his lackadaisical crew was engaged "from Day One."

It may be unfair to claim that Obama should be able to use his superpowers to plug the hole -- just as it was unfair for the Left to claim that Bush should have been able to use his superpowers to drain New Orleans and raise new buildings from the mud -- but it is not unfair in the least to demand that Obama live up to his own damn rhetoric about being in charge and deploying the full weight of the Federal government's resources in support of the disaster recovery effort.  It's not demagoguery to blast him for his abject failure on that score.

97

Also, poll question I want to see:

"How much more would you be willing to pay per gallon of gasoline to avoid another spill like the one in the Gulf?  $.50, $1, $2, $3"

I bet 90% come in under a buck.

98 Nuke it from orbit ... the only way to be sure.

99

sickinmass at May 27, 2010 10:08 PM (tamie)

Posted by: The Washinghis Penis at May 29, 2010 04:06 PM (/Oqxb)

I thought it was his hash.  Just didn't have the energy to go look.

Shit, SiM.

100 You know who this helps?  Because he has some managerial, adult experience.

101 Is SiM ok? His posts can be kind of out there.

102

 

Are you shitting me? Is Ace and/or Krauthammer saying we're in a dilemma if we cry for govt help to 'fix' this because it will make us look like hypocrites?

This is exactly one of the purposes of the govt. Kinda like going to war and enforcing laws. This is why we have government.

So being against govt banning salt is the same thing as being against govt intervention in a disaster?

103 More often than not backup systems do what they are supposed to do. You keep saying that but I think you're wrong. You have no baseline for saying it. You're saying the North Sea rigs are good; I think they've just been lucky. Just because North Sea rigs have not had this magnitude of an accident yet doesn't mean they can't, or that their problems would be any less or more severe than the one BP is facing in the Gulf. The history of deep-sea oil drilling is not long enough to draw any conclusions about the relative benefits and drawbacks of emergency procedures, or how people implement them. If the human beings on board the Gulf rig had followed the proper procedures, then the disaster may have been averted...but maybe not. Maybe the design of the various pieces of equipment could have been better, or maybe not. Ultimately, an accident was inevitable, because that's just the nature of things. You can't engineer out risk entirely. We've been lucky, not good. And our luck ran out.

104 Robtr, didn't mean to imply you were that old, lol. Just sayin' that Congress only has bouts of competency every so often, rather than the other way around.

105 MacGyver. Paper clip. Done.

106 Iranian rig on the border with Iraq just went up...

107

Obama did nothing to prepare for the inevitable oil slick that everyone knew was about to wash on shore. Nothing. For 40 days. Nothing. Obama admin has impeded the effort to control the spill, actually.

Posted by: Snagglepuss at May 29, 2010 04:03 PM (uFokq)

Jindal was very clear that the feral government was using its legitimate authority (in this case, as offshore drilling is under the purview of the feral government, not the states) to harm the actual, on-the-ground efforts that the states wanted to do to protect their territory from the obvious consequences of the spill (just as in Arizona, BTW, which the feral government is also trying to impede and stop), while in Katrina it was exactly the opposite, with the federal government not being responsible and wanting the states/localities to request help.  It's even more interesting that it is the same state at the center (with a different party in power) against a federal government, also with the other party in power.

This one event puts into clear relief the incredible ridiculousness of the Dems' bleeting about the federal government and Katrina, along with the absolutely inept and HARMFUL efforts of the feral government when run by retarded dem stooges.  The dems were the problems on the state/local side when the legitimate responsibility was in the state/local hands and they are the problems on the federal side when the legitimate responsibility is in federal hands.

Anyone who can't look at these two events and see how dangerous dems are is a totally lost cause.  It should just be obvious to everyone.  And the fake photo-op is the cherry on top.

108 We've been lucky, not good. And our luck ran out. Posted by: Monty Without data, just conjecture.

109

There's an interesting and useful debate among conservatives about whether to maintain their own intellectual consistency or demagogue the hell out of this, as liberals have done and will continue doing until the end of time.

Should we note that the President is not all-powerful, and that sometimes things are simply beyond his control, and that it's a childish view of the world to believe the President can fix serious problems simply by thinking real hard about them, being smart, and barking out orders in a clipped and authoritative voice?

All this nice analysis is worth a seperately headlined post. 

110
The two wise American farmers who presented their hay solution to dealing with the massive, burgeoning Gulf of Mexico oil slick are right on the money. It's doubtful they remember, but the same technique was used in the historic Santa Barbara Channel oil spill.
 
On January 28, 1969, there was a blowout at an offshore oil rig, Platform A, several miles off the coast of the city of Santa Barbara in the Santa Barbara Channel. The spill galvanized national and world attention to the potential nightmare and dangers of offshore drilling. Some of the efforts to contain small parts of the oil slick with booms kept it relatively confined. The loss of wildlife was considerable.

Some dispersants were used but the best technique turned out to be hay, endless of bales of it, were trucked into Santa Barbara and driven out onto the Stearns Wharf pier where it was loaded onto a small fleet of oil service boats, volunteer vessels and a few barges. The smaller boats cruised through the oil while men with pitchforks tossed hay from the decks of the boats down onto the oil-covered water. A couple of the larger oil boats had big blowers which were used to shoot streams of hay out over a much wider area of the water around the boat. However, because no one was prepared for the disaster, much of the work was done by hand.

The hay DID absorb and stick to the oil.. and as the gooey black masses floated ashore, volunteers of all ages scooped up the clumps from the surf and pulled and dragged them ashore. Scenes similar to these will likely be repeated in many areas of the Gulf Coast over the coming weeks and months...

On the beaches, the oil that had already washed ashore, and was coming in with each wave, was covered with hay by hundreds of workers. In the end, the oil-soaked hay was then scraped up by heavy equipment, piled up and finally hauled away in dump trucks.
So, I say 'Bravo!' to the two American farmers and let's get that hay moving to the Gulf NOW.

111 Robtr, didn't mean to imply you were that old, lol. Just sayin' that Congress only has bouts of competency every so often, rather than the other way around.

Posted by: wherestherum at May 29, 2010 04:15 PM (gofDd)

Kids these days, now Get Off My Lawn!

112

When they make the argument Obama couldn't have done anything to stop this, point out that Obam is blaming Bush. 

Obama couldn't have stopped it.  Bush could have stopped it.   Or something.

113 Anyone got a link on the Iranian rig explosion? Not finding it...

114

My first thoughts are that Obama was completely unable to move the clean-up by one minute.  It's embarrassing how he doesn't seem to know that himself, but he has neither the power nor the responsibility.  And what did Spiderman say ...

I'd like to hoist every BDS by his own petard, but I need consistancy within my own thoughts before I start playing political games.

115

 

If the Republicans were smart, which they're not, they'd be out there saying while the massive oil spill was getting closer and closer to our shores, Obama was throwing a huge taxpayer-funded party for Calderon and the Democrats were voting themselves another pay raise.

 

116 Iranian rig on the border with Iraq just went up...
Posted by: Ranba Ral

Link?

117 "Did the .gov do everything in its power to stop the flow from reaching shore" is the only question we should be asking.

118

Anyone can probably guess my own reaction: I am in favor of the sort of intellectual consistency that says if the Democrats and media forced a certain rule on Bush (even against our objections), then they won that debate, and they established a precedent, and that precedent applies equally (if vindictively) to President Present.

Supreme Court nominees as well?

119

Why doesn't the Obama dictatorship just order the well to stop?  I don't understand cause he's so much smarter than boooshitler who couldn't even call a hurricaine and give it an ambasadorship!

 

120

My first thoughts are that Obama was completely unable to move the clean-up by one minute.  It's embarrassing how he doesn't seem to know that himself, but he has neither the power nor the responsibility.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at May 29, 2010 04:22 PM (r60xu)

That's not true.  The federal government is the controlling authority for this offshore well and the clean up.  That's why Jindal was explaining that he had to request approval from Washington to implement what Louisianna wanted to do.  Washington didn't even answer them, let alone give them an okay.  The feral government has been an impediment to preventing the spilt oil from being kept away from land and cleaned up.

In the Exxon Valdez spill, Exxon was paying exhorbitants rental rates to get boats out to work on the clean-up.  The feral government could have hired all the shrimpers and others to do something.  BP would have to cover the costs, anyway.  I haven't heard of any such mobilization to initially contain the spill.  Again, the feral government's actual responsibility to oversee and direct.

Katrina - primarily state/local responsiibility.  States/localities for Louisianna/NOLA screwed up royally.

Offshore oil spill - primarily federal responsibility.  Feral government screws up, royally.

Both happened with Dems running them.  What a shocker!

121

The whole comparison of Bush and Katrina to this mess it ridiculous. The Governor of LA and the Mayor of New Orleans were responsible for taking charge of the immediate Katrina disaster. They were also in charge of putting an evacuation plan into effect and making sure it was carried out. They did neither.

If Bush was guilty of anything it was not firing both of them and sending in the full weight of the government with or without their approval. I am not even sure he could have done that legally though.

The press hung it all on Bush because they hated him.

The oil spill by federal law is the governments responsibility.

122
Is Obama on vacation or out playing golf?

Or is there another big party tonight at the White House?

123
The fact is, Alinsky said it best: "Hold your enemy to his own standards."

To believe the sycophants of the left, Obama is a god walking the earth. Parents tutor their children to sing songs in his praise. They call him a Lightbearer, a Jedi Knight, The One. They shout hosanna when he promises to do what rational people know is beyond the power of mortal man.

So yes, we should hammer the hell out of Obama. But the hammering must always be framed the show the gulf between the hype and the reality - the gulf between hype of the god-man that the jock-sniffing press presents, and reality of the thuggish, arrogant, thin-skinned, unaccomplished, not-terribly-bright Cook County ward heeler who now occupies the Oval Office.

We have to do is recite what he's said he is and what he's said he'll do. And challenge him to put up or shut up.

124

If the Republicans were smart, which they're not, they'd be out there saying while the massive oil spill was getting closer and closer to our shores,

If a GOPer were president, Hollywood would be washing ducks and organizing be-ins.  The competition for photo-ops would reach a dangerous level.

125

 

yeah, well, maybe that's what we should be doing --

washing ducks, and shit

126 We've been lucky, not good. And our luck ran out.

Posted by: Monty at May 29, 2010 04:15 PM (O3eFQ)

The blowout preventer at the Deepwater Horizon well was not in proper working order.  That's the first-order problem: the specific system meant to control a catastrophic failure was not kept fully ready for a catastrophic failure.

The BP drilling crew was instructed by BP higher-ups to use non-standard drilling fluid (apparently including seawater) during the final stages of preparing the well for capping.  That reduced their ability to control the bursts of pressure from the gas coming up with the oil.

The BP crew also had indications of aberrant pressure fluctuations in the drilling pipe, but decided that there wasn't sufficient danger to readjust their processes.

The problematic relationship between technology and luck was that BP became so blase about the technology that it decided it only really needed luck.  You find the same pattern in most major technology-related disasters: the operators of the technology are so used to it working safely that they decide to overlook or work around the specific procedures that ensure the technology's safe operation.

127 Wow BP sure hit on a huge oil well, too bad they won't exist as a company after this. Hey someone should ask the BP higher ups if they would cut all the corners to end up in this spot in overseas rigs like the NOrth Sea, Indo etc hah they know in those countries they would pay for every lost barrel of oil so every rig and pipeline is way up to par. Say you think the payoff to Obama allowed them to skirt the corners on this rig?

128 This lazy-ass isn't learning. After this vacation he can't meet with Gov. Brewer because he has to go to a Paul McCartney concert.

129 Let's not forget the Obama administration loaned billions of dollars to Brazil so they could deep drill new offshore fields and achieve real energy independence. Drill, baby, drill, and on land, too!

130
I was watching CNN with Anderson Cooper the other night.  He was reporting live
on the Louisiana coast.  The oi is there and no one is doing a thing about it.
Anderson made sure to point out that when cameras are not rolling, clean up crews vanish.
I was amazed that CNN pointed it out.

At one point later in the segment, Anderson had James Carville on - and he
was not happy.  The environmental damage is real, the oil is on shore, killing everything it touches. 

They showed the oil lapping  up against eh grassy marsh land.  Zero life.  All dead.

131 You people are just unreasonable.  I went to the beach, and put my healing finger on Mother Gaia in a gesture reminiscent of me and David in the Sistine Chapel (or maybe ET), and this is the thanks I get.  You'd best watch your step or there's going to be some smiting going on. 

132

You find the same pattern in most major technology-related disasters: the operators of the technology are so used to it working safely that they decide to overlook or work around the specific procedures that ensure the technology's safe operation.

And we've all seen that before.

Houston: Colombia, go with throttle up.

Colombia: Roger Houston, go with throttle up.

and the luck ran out...

133 Link to Iran oil rig fire (no big deal).

134 Wonder at what point we can start calling this whole thing Operation Moneyshot, seeing as Oblamo and the feds had us sitting around wasting so much time and money before even attempting to fix the leak.

135 and the rig explosion was on Fox News...will see if I can find an online article.

136

the “junk shot,” a procedure that involves pumping odds and ends like plastic cubes, knotted rope and golf balls

I get junk shots every weekend

137 The press hung it all on Bush because they hated him.

Not only did they tee off on Bush but they had a field day making shit up.  That delayed rescue efforts by groups like the Red Cross who were afraid to go in without escort.

To this day the assholes like Sheppard Smith have not owned up to their BS lies on Katrina. 

138 Hell, maybe they should be licensed and regulated like that idiot in MI wants.

139

and the luck ran out...

Posted by: HH at May 29, 2010 04:46 PM (6oDXl)

The luck ran out some hours before when the NASA staff in charge of the mission decided that there wasn't REALLY all that great a probability of the solid booster rocket O-rings malfunctioning in cold weather.  With a little luck, they thought, everything would be fine.

140 11 people died in this rig accident if Obama had a hand in allowing BP to skirt safety standards it should be an impeachable offense.

141

Damn, you people are stupid.

Don't you remember me saying that gas should be $8-10/gallon? 

How did you cracka-ass crackas think I was gonna pull that off? Cooking the books? Naw, we save that shit for the health care budget.

142 ah, someone beat me to the Iran link.

Instead I give you Maoist rebels suspected of sabotaging rail lines and derailing trains in India link

and British Ballerina plotted to overthrow Panamanian Government link

143 To this day the assholes like Sheppard Smith have not owned up to their BS lies on Katrina. 

Posted by: Vic at May 29, 2010 04:48 PM (6taRI)

Yeah Joe Scarborough was doing the same thing on MSNBC. I got into an email pissing match with him when he was bitching about Bush not sending in the National Guard. I reminded him that Bush had already authorized the Governors to use the NG and that it was up to them to do it now. 

The prick called me out on National TV and said "I've got someone from Seattle now telling me about hurricanes" which I wasn't, I was telling him who had authority to use the NG.

144

@124: "We have to do is recite what he's said he is and what he's said he'll do. And challenge him to put up or shut up."

Man, that's fuckin' racist, and you know it.

145
Last night I spoke long distance to a sea captain friend about what he saw of the Gulf oil spill. He had just completed a voyage from Fort Lauderdale, around the Keys, up the Gulf coastline to the shipyards in Gulfport, Mississippi.
 
When I asked him what he saw of the Gulf oil spill after covering all those sea miles, he said, "Nothing." He saw no dead birds and turtles. No big pools of oil. None of the catastrophic 'end of the world' photos we see on the news.
 
He said the only catastrophe sighted was all the empty beach resorts and how much money the tourist industry is losing because the media has frightened off tourists. He reported the Gulf beaches are clean and ready for use, but the hotels and casinos and all, empty, empty, empty.
 
The local Gulf coast radio talk show hosts are all talking about how politicians are using the oil spill to create an atmosphere of total panic in an election year and how politicians are all vying for MORE federal bail out dollars to clean up oil from their beaches..... oil that is not there.

Do you wonder why BP refuses to stop using the chemical dispersants the EPA ordered BP to stop using? I'll tell you why:
BECAUSE THOSE DISPERSANTS KEEP THE OIL UNDERWATER - AWAY FROM THE NAKED EYE AND SATELLITE VIEW.
 
Says who? Scientists studying the massive underwater oil plumes. Some of the oil plumes are over 30 feet deep and 26 miles long. One scientists said about using dispersants on oil: "You don't want to put soap into a fish tank".
 
This discovery seems to confirm the fears of some scientists that -- because of the depth of the leak and the heavy use of chemical "dispersants" -- this spill was behaving differently than others. Instead of floating on top of the water, it may be moving beneath it.
 
That would be troubling because it could mean the oil would slip past coastal defenses such as "containment booms" designed to stop it on the surface. Already, scientists and officials in Louisiana have reported finding thick oil washing ashore despite the presence of floating booms.
 
It would also be a problem for hidden ecosystems deep under the gulf. There,  the oil could be absorbed by tiny animals and enter a food chain that builds to large, beloved sport-fish like red snapper. It might also glom onto deep-water coral formations, and cover the small animals that make up each piece of coral.
It kills them because it prevents them from feeding. It could essentially starve them to death.
 
The University of South Florida vessel, the Weatherbird II, used sonar and other devices to sample the water below it. Other scientists have said they have little of the equipment necessary to find oil under the water -- leading to debates about whether the underwater plumes were even there.
 
Hence, the 'Sky is Falling' political scenario is going full tilt boogey for politicians once again draining Americans of tax dollars. Amen to the ongoing Global Warming cabal.

Libtards are to blame for forcing oil companies to drill in such deep waters. Their constant whining won't allow drilling in shallow water or on land... and King Libtard is occupying OUR White House. Fucked up.

146 147 

That's clearly impossible. I have it on the authority of none other than Grade A fuckknobs Anderson Cooper and James Carville, as well as hysterical shrieking ninny Shep Smith, that everything is dead, and what isn't dead is dying, and what isn't dying will die, because oil kills everything it touches, just like ebola.

147

You keep saying that but I think you're wrong. You have no baseline for saying it. You're saying the North Sea rigs are good; I think they've just been lucky.
Posted by: Monty at May 29, 2010 04:15 PM (O3eFQ)

Well you are sure free to think I am wrong all you want to. You are also free to start a national movement to remove all redundent systems from everything in the US from Airliners to a soldier carrying a pistol as backup.

I happen to believe there is a lot more evidence of backup systems working when they are supposed to work than there is eveidence of them not.

148 BABIES! DEAD BABIES! COVERED IN OIL! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!

149 That does it. I am hereby suspending all oil drilling and oil tanker use. Well, that plus and end to the use of coal.  I command the production of renewable energy, electric cars, and all solar powered homes.

150 C'mon, folks. Calm down.

151

A lot of the times, when conservatives, attempting something like rigor of intellectual consistency, say "But then we'd be hypocrites!," they are utterly failing to consider which rule actually prevailed in court

I think of Alan Keyes. He said in 2000 that Hillary Clinton should not have been allowed to run for a New York senate seat. But she was. So in 2004, he moved to Illinois to run for a senate. He was called a hypocrite.

But he wasn't. It was considered hunky-dory to move to another state and run for a senate seat. He didn't make up the rule. He was given that rule against his wishes. Recognizing the rule, he embraced it.

Should we note that the President is not all-powerful, and that sometimes things are simply beyond his control, and that it's a childish view of the world to believe the President can fix serious problems simply by thinking real hard about them, being smart, and barking out orders in a clipped and authoritative voice?

So noted. But for the record, Obama hasn't done his best on this. If he has, then his best isn't very good.

152 ...and to think--all of this could have been avoided if you sorry bastards had properly inflated your tires...

153
I guess all that footage of the oil lapping up against the marsh land was faked.  No oil to see here.  Move along.

154

Monty, #103: The history of deep-sea oil drilling is not long enough to draw any conclusions about the relative benefits and drawbacks of emergency procedures, or how people implement them.

But the history of doing difficult, dangerous things is plenty long to know that it's good at least to have an emergency procedure. My understanding was that BP did not.

(I may have misread that a month and a half ago, but it's ringing true with me.)

155

I think they've just been lucky.

Why is it that bad luck seems to repeatedly single out BP?

(Sorry, Monty. I get a lot out of what you post, and your words on this thread are true to your usual good form. But I don't buy it either.)

156
>>I guess all that footage of the oil lapping up against the marsh land was faked.  No oil to see here.  Move along.

Kitten,
No.. Not at all! I am surprised there is not more of it on the shores. My comment only raises the speculation of why there IS not more. Never let a crisis go to waste..

Were dealing with politicians. By far the worst criminals in history. Never forget that.

157 BP Fails Booming School 101 Gulf Oil Spill.wmv NSFW Language

158 BABIES!

DEAD BABIES! COVERED IN OIL!

THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!

Posted by: Shep "Integrity" Smith at May 29, 2010 05:31 PM (VXBR1)

What's black and on the beach?  A: A dead baby covered in oil.

Q: What's black and green and on the beach covered in sand crabs?  A: Same baby, four days later.

159 News conference starting on Fox now by BP.

160 -->If a Republican president is caught lying under oath about an affair that occurred during his tenure in the Oval Office, that is not an impeachable offense.* Yes, I know damn well I argued the opposite in 1998. But so what? I argued the opposite proposition, but I lost in that fight; the rule I had to live with, along with everyone else, was that the president was permitted to do this and retain his office.

Oy.  This is incorrect in its assumptions and formulation.  The impeachable offenses (and convictable) were perjury in court and suborning perjury.  If you think that perjury wasn't enough (I wholeheartedly disagree) then you must admit that suborning perjury certainly is.

I am having some real problems with conservatives who are drawing incorrect equivalences between Katrina and the oil spill and misrepresenting the impeachment bases.  This reminds me of the Honduran situation, when the administration and every media outlet (MFM and all others) were screaming about how the Honduran government (the supreme court and parliament) had pulled a coup.  All too many conservative commentors paroted this, even though it was dead wrong.  It was Zelaya who had attempted a coup and the rest of the government fended it off, legally and according to their Constitution.  But, in the end, only a very few conservatives ever got that story straight.

There is no inconsistency in how conservatives should be addressing this oil spill versus Katrina.  One was a state/local responisibility while the other is a federal responsibility.  There was nothing wrong with the impeachment - and a conviction should have followed, especially after Clinton made a total mockery of our legal procedures by delving into the "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is", which, for anyone who actually read the transcripts, was an incorrectly directed observation, anyway, as the 'to be' form used by Bennett had been incorrect, to start.

161 AMEN brother!  The stupid pathetic lefties created the conditions that have brought politics to the gutter and I am damn proud to get down there and KICK THEIR ASSES!  Obama will know by the end of his Presidency in 2012 that there are NO FREE PASSES.

162

The presidency is what happens while you're busy making other plans

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163 #153-to paraphrase a quote:  Obama is doing his best, and that is what is really frightening.

164 Because Smugly Obullshit had such outrageous claims about hind s god-like abilities to lower the seas and heal the Earth, I say pile on.  He's an incompetent, lying, asshole.  His hopey-changey nonsense is nothing more than a total failure of leadership.

Now can we impeach the bastard for Sestak-gate?

165 Oops - "hind s" = "his. (Note to self: - only one Margarita before posting.)

166 Ace, you're really correct about this. One of the Saul Alinsky "radical's rules" is to force your opposition to live up to his own rules -- and that's what is being foisted upon conservatives who lose key policy determinations and court rulings and so forth ... but then are demanded to revert to their lost-cause position as applied to their Leftist opponents. So, of course, require the winning Leftists to live by the precedents they fought hard to establish over our objections! But to adhere to "consistency" or non-hypocrisy is not the appropriate perspective on this -- otherwise, we're in the realm of heads, they win; tails, we lose -- and we have to demand that the rules are universally applied so that Leftists live by Leftist rules.

167 Should we note that the President is not all-powerful, and that sometimes things are simply beyond his control,

He deserves every ounce of bile he's going to get. 

The things that are in his control are the staged photo ops and vacations.  He fires someone without even owning up to it, but then claims he's on top of things.  Why was she fired? 

Principle, nothing.  Eff him and the horse he rode in on. 

Compared to Katrina, a natural disaster whose devastating consequences were largely due to a corrupt Democrat-controlled local government, this is much more the administration's fault. 

168 Pelosi says it's Bush's fault: ----- “Many of the people appointed in the Bush administration are still burrowed in the agencies that are supposed to oversee the [oil] industry,” Pelosi said when asked if Democrats could have prevented or mitigated the crisis by keeping a closer watch on the industry. Added the Speaker, “the cozy relationships between the Bush administration’s agency leadership and the industry is clear…I’ve heard no complaints from my members about the way the president has handled it,” Pelosi stated. ----- This woman is becoming a caricature of herself. Source: tiny.cc/trove

169 Integrity and honor always trump political expedience and victory. Always.

Just ask any of Ayn Rand's heroes, or Rorschach.

170 Demagogue the living shit out of it.  I didn't know there was a debate.

171

It isn't that difficult.

While in the shit, you throw everything including the kitchen sink.

But you don't forget your long-term principles.

And you reopen past, lost battles whenever the opportunity presents itself.

172 That is, if you have any long-term principles, save winning political control.

173

The BUCK STOPS HERE!

So is Obama still going on vacation or is "The BUCK" going with him?

174 I second the motion to demagogue the shit out of it.  FBO!

175

Malia : Daddy, did you plug that hole yet?

Obama: I told you..I just don't feel like sleeping with your mother tonight!

176

I'm all in on the demagoguery. This is the standard they set. They thought it was great at the time, but didn't realize, didn't care, or didn't think that we would use their own rules against them.

They were wrong. We're not nice anymore, and it's because they made us that way. 

There is too much on the line, now.

177 Ace didn't seem to cover the position where precedent can ackshully be changed, as in stuff like reversing the Judge Dredd Scott decision.

Also, you'se maroons are forgetting a couple things:

1) Bush allowed Karl Rove to steer that hurricane into New Orleans because he wanted oil prices to go up.

2) So clearly, by established precedent, Obama had Emmanuel conduct another Charlie Rose interview, but this time with feeling, right there on that oil rig.  Buh-whaam!

I swear, he IQ on this site keeps going downhill.






Is that bad?

178 Did I see a rumor or news item suggesting that there may be another or several oil plume associated with this well some distance away coming up out of the sea bed?

179 So here's what it looks like Ace is saying.

Is the rule fair? No. Presidents aren't God.

Is the application of the rule fair? Yes. You use it on our guy, we use it on yours. Good or bad, they're playing by the same rules.

You only want to apply the rules when they benefit your side? Well, then, you don't believe in rules, only power, so we'll be sure to spike you in the leg every chance we get and tear you up. Because there are going to be rules, and if you won't live by the written ones, the unwritten ones will get enforced. And those are a lot dirtier.

180

Sweet Jeebus! If I knew who you are Ace, I'd buy you a beer. Since I don't I'll drink it.

No quarter for these jerks.

181 Anyone miss Cheney now? See, Obama is a lawyer with no executive experience, so he won't know what to do, or even how to hire and manage the people who might know what to do. Its very difficult for non-technical people to manage technical teams without experience. Then, Obama choose all of those cabinet post and advisors from academia or politics. No business experience. No executive experience. You think Steven Chu, PhD researcher knows how to run an engineering team in a fast, high pressure environment? I doubt it. I bet he's good at applying for grant money though. If Sec of Energy was a retired oil executive with a ton of contacts and experience, we'd be in better hands. That said, without the oil spill, it does smack of the regulated controlling the regulator.

182 Another brilliant and original essay. What you say, Ace, applies to life in general, not just politics. The conundrum to those with a conscience is the innate corruption of life. There is no purity. We are "sinful," an inescapable fact. We have to be. Integrity in politics, as in life, is aspirational only. You do your best under the circumstances. One of the absurd positions taken by religious folk is the absolute condemnation of "relativism." Absurd, because every person is relativist. At some point, everyone is faced with the "all generalizations are false" paradox, and then they choose to hurts themselves or not. Ideally, folks who are not Leftists or jihadists do not want to engage in absurdities as a tactic in life. Leftists and jihadists are nihilists, apt for destruction on the path to the ever-receding Utopia, achieved only with complete obliteration of the purported obstacles. Absurdity is their blood. Non-leftists and non-jihadis just want to deal with life the way it actually is. Evil God made it so no one escapes without compromise of principle. No one can have unalloyed integrity (lol, now there is an absurdity ... alloyed integrity). Life is not a courtroom, and we are not governed (or bound) by the rules of evidence. The sometimes seemingly unbearable reality of life, our absolute loneliness, the provisionality, is what makes precedent a wonderful but imperfect analogy here. We all make up our own rules necessarily, and we make them up as we go along. That is otherwise known as growing up. Yes, in a fight, the man of aspirational integrity says, we play by your rules. That, or jump off a bridge. But by playing "their" game, by subjecting ourselves to the mess of absurdity, we are contributing to the store of evil, and measuring that against a greater evil. Still, it is "their" game, and it is still spinach.

183 I guess all that footage of the oil lapping up against the marsh land was faked.  No oil to see here.

It's certainly not killing everything it touches, as you and your shithead friends Carville and Cooper claim.

184 Question from this moron: Why can't they just push a huge rock over it?

Or more technically: Why can they not fabricate a large and very heavy, hollow concrete structure, float it over the leak and sink straight down? They do it for laying seabed foundations all the time.

185

Bush was not condemned merely because the disaster of Hurricane Katrina happened while he was president.  He was condemned for how he handled it.  He had appointed a FEMA director who was completely incompetent, because that guy was his buddy.  When he proved his incompetence days into the crisis, Bush gave him a public vote of confidence.  He wasn't fired until days later.  Bush couldn't have prevented the hurricane or the flood.  But he could have handled the disaster competently.  He did not. 

Obama is handling this crisis competently.  Whilet's the federal government could go into New Orleans and deal with the aftermath of Katrina, it cannot cap that spewing well.  BP is supposed to be expert in this (as well as responsible), so that is on them.  The cleanup is on them as well. 

See the difference here?  Or do you just want to make political points?  Clearly the latter carries the day.  You pretend to make principled arguments.  That's a joke.  You have no principles.  You just want to tear down Obama however you can.  Good luck.  You people haven't won a single battle against Obama.  Don't expect that to change anytime soon.

186 @ Sally Ann Cavenaugh

The 1990 Oil Pollution Act was drafted in response to the Exxon-Valdez spill. It created new procedures for offshore cleanups, specifically putting the federal government in charge of such operations. The President should have used the authority granted by the OPA – immediately – to take control of the situation. That is a big part of what the OPA is for – to designate who is in charge so finger-pointing wonÂ’t disrupt efforts to just “plug the d#*! hole.” But instead of immediately engaging with this crisis, our President chose to spend precious time on political pet causes like haranguing the state of Arizona for doing what he himself was supposed to do – secure the nationÂ’s border. He also spent much time fundraising and politicking for liberal candidates and causes while we waited for him to grasp the enormity of the Gulf spill.

Obama appointed MMS director Elizabeth Birnbaum, who gave BP a B+ in the recent inspection of the oil rig that took place a mere 10 days before the explosion. The incompetence of the Obama administration, from Birnbaum and Ken Salazar to Energy Commissioner Steven Chu who only set up an expert advisory panel three weeks after the disaster, has made this disaster worse than it should have been, if it couldn't have prevented it altogether. It was the Obama administration that allowed BP to bypass regulations, lying about safety standards and not having an emergency response in place. It was the Obama administration who was supposed to have their own plan, but instead failed and quite spectacularly choked.

187 "You people haven't won a single battle against Obama."

Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia. All Obama, like any politician, cares about is getting reelected. November will be a bloodbath.

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