NOLA: "Jindal says Obama still doesn't get moratorium's economic impact"

[TomCADem]

The leak has not been stopped. There is no evidence that anyone has the technology to stop the leak. The moratorium does not even stop pumping from existing wells. Yet, Jindal is demanding that the moratorium end in the wake of the BP oil disaster?

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/jindal_says_obama_still_doesnt.html

With three shuttered oil rigs preparing to leave the Gulf of Mexico for foreign waters, Gov. Bobby Jindal ratcheted up the rhetoric Thursday against the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, saying the White House still doesn't understand the economic pain the forced stoppage is causing Louisiana workers.

Jindal said he had a conference call with President Barack Obama's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, and appealed to her to shorten the six-month moratorium, arguing that a half-year pause would force oil companies to move drilling operations overseas for years and that the federal government could easily impose new safety standards and monitoring in a shorter time frame.

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Jindal, who addressed hundreds of angry shipyard workers at a slip in Port Fourchon, said Obama needs to listen to the majority of a panel of experts, who advised the Interior Department on drilling safety and recently said they were not in favor of a six-month "blanket moratorium."

Obama's response has been to say that safety and preventing another spill must come first. The administration said it's aware of the moratorium's impact on the local economy and will press BP to pay for wages lost due to the moratorium, but Jindal said, "Our people don't want a claims check or an unemployment check; they want to get back to work."

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Shameless fucktard.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What I'd do:

1. Moratorium continues
2. The "lost" oil is considered abandoned property, belonging to nobody while on/in the water.
3. Tell the oil companies "Finders, Keepers" and that would spark activity to collect the oil and give compensation for lost revenue.

The down side would be no motivation to cap the gaping hole in the bottom of the Gulf.

[polichick]

3. Funny how oil jobs matter more than fishing, restaurant and tourist jobs. nt

[marylanddem]

4. Understand that big offshore oil is the big local employer

But Jindal & the outraged oil workers need to realize that this bullshit is untenable & bad for the planet
I hope to hell Obama stands his ground on this.

[fascisthunter]

5. Jindal doesn't get that we know he's a dishonest sociopath

a nutter in need of a straight-jacket

[blondeatlast]

8. That's the problem with so many RW guvs with further political ambitions.

Substitute "Jan Brewer" and it rings just as accurately.

[UTUSN]

6. Psst, President O., jot down JINDAL & BARBOUR as asses to kick!1 n/t

[Skidmore]

7. Well, Bobby, that's what happens when you put all your state's economic eggs

in one basket. Stooopid is as stooopid does. I have little sympathy for some of these states right now who have a history of going for easy money while holding their citizens back from their potential. These people pursued petrochemical revenues and played bullyboy tactics to get them. In all of the resources available to them, this is what they chose. Consequenced be damned. Well consequences mean something.

[marylanddem]

12. Exactly.

[iamjoy]

9. Jindal Doesn't Get All the Disaster's Impact

I don't think Governor Jindal gets the economic, ecological and human impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Perhaps we should get that under control and address the causes before risking another.

[Bozita]

10. So, ... the 'smaller govt' guy wants a big govt response?

Jindal should go back to his area of expertise, ... volcanoes!

[gateley]

11. They probaly could conduct an extensive investigation more

quickly (although not sure if the government knows how to do anything 'quickly'). They should try to compromise. Who knows -- even after the investigation they may decide it's too risky -- what then?

[spanone]

13. hey bobby, you don't get the gushers economic impact