"But make no mistake: we will fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused. And we will do whatever’s necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy."
That sounds just like Bush after Katrina. And just like back then, people on the front lines know there are things that can and should be done and aren't and we smell a money-grubbing rat. President Obama gives us the reassuring words that he has sent the smartest guys in the world to work out a solution. It was the smartest guys who made this mess in the first place, just like Vietnam, collateralized debt obligations, Enron, . . .
He also said: "From the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest environmental cleanup effort in our nation’s history – an effort led by Admiral Thad Allen, who has almost forty years of experience responding to disasters." And I cringe. He knows as well as anybody that from the very beginning BP has been in charge. The EPA ordered BP to stop using Corexit dispersant. BP said "no." Thad Allan is a fine human being, but he's essentially retired. What will be the consequence if he screws up? Admiral Allan has acknowledged that BP is making the decisions, on the theory that only they have the experience to deal with the situation. Only the fox understands how vulnerable the chickens are.
And don't tell me about our Nobel Prize winning Secretary of Energy. The President more than any of us should know that some people get that prize without earning it.
No comments:
Post a Comment