It's all bassackwards!

[boston bean]

If, BP is the only entity on this earth that can cap this gusher, then so be it. I am not one that subscribes to this line of thought, but others are. However, I will, for the sake of argument, concede that point (even though, it kills me to do that, but there are a bunch of hard heads out there who hang their hat on that one argument, which is pure bullpuckey, to side track conversation about what the Federal Government should be doing).

So answer me this:

WHY is BP telling the EPA, the Coast Guard and the Federal Government what to do. They are in total control of our Governments response. Shouldn't it be the other way around? BP is telling the Federal Government how the clean up is going to be done. BP is ordering our Coast Guard and agencies as to where to lay boom, which dispersants it will they use, and allow only BP contractors to clean up the catastrophe, at their behest.

Is there anyone here who thinks BP is the only entity on this entire earth that knows how to clean up oil from our ocean and beaches?

There is only one reason this is allowed to happen. The government in all its infinite wisdom thinks it's best to let BP handle every aspect of this catastrophe. Even if one is only concerned about the political implications and that Obama shouldn't waste his political capital, how will Obama fare politically when the country realizes the full scope of this and learns that Obama allowed BP to tell the Federal Government what to do. His administration will be on the hook. And it will be a political beating worse than if he were to take the clean up responsibility from BP now.

Still, is this how decisions are made. Is leadership based on what the political outcome could be?

Hell NO, the Gulf is turning into a TAR PIT and our government allows BP to yank its chain and bark out the orders.

Leadership my ass. Who gives the hell about a Presidential Commission at this point? Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

How about some accountability for this spill, right here and now. I refuse to look so far forward that I miss the present.

I plead for Obama and his admin to get off the fence and make the hard decisions. BP should not be in control of the clean-up. The only thing they should be responsible for in that arena is the bill.

[Lerkfish]

1. stop making sense

[boston bean]

2. I can't help it. The Gulf is dying and people are making political calculations.

[Lerkfish]

5. priorities, priorities.

sigh.

[donco6]

3. I think it's a tar baby response.

No one wants to touch this - especially Obama. Even if it means letting the Gulf die. He'll let BP flounder out there, in obvious disarray, rather than grabbing the reins and then get splattered himself. It's a lose-lose for the practical politicians on the board, so they have to declare how "experienced" BP is, and how the feds "can't legally do anything." They don't want their hand forced into touching the tar baby.

[LiberalArkie]

4. I am wondering if the phrase "Give them enough rope to hang themselves" might apply

[Lerkfish]

6. meanwhile, thousands if not millions of species become extinct

so, its a good political tradeoff. The environment, not so much.

[boston bean]

7. I read an article where they felt the dispersants being used will actually kill off the organisms

that eat the oil.

[boston bean]

8. To both BP and it's lackeys in the Obama admin??

[mstinamotorcity]

9. What gets me is

that Shooter and Halliburton are just as much responsible and everyone is saying BP. This catastrophe was started in the last administration with their small government and less oversight.Now they want this President to come and clean up this god awful mess. I agree that there needs to be something done quickly,but what? And what about Trans ocean's culpability in this mess.They literally own all the oil platforms in the world. Talk about the corporate powers that be.All I know is if the Federal Government gets involved in this,it means bigger Government and more oversight,with the taxpayers on the hook for the loot. This is all the things that repugs say they are against. And I feel that before any of this is settled it may be twenty years from now. I think it will take that long before the gulf coast will ever be productive in fishing,environment,and beach usage.Tourism will be hit hard for those states.Think they will need some of those unemployment checks,and subsides that big government gives out.

[ShamelessHussy]

10. "They are in total control of our Governments..." - Precisely. Corporations own these institutions

so they get to call the shots.

when viewed from that perspective, it all adds up... to a terrible truth no one is allowed to discussion in polite company, and especially on corporate media.

sad ain't it