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Whose Blowout Is It, Anyway?

42Berserker Wrote: May 30, 2010 1:13 PM
Barry, you are right. The role of the community organizer is to mobilize the community to demand that someone ELSE solve your problem. The President did this in the campaign, but somehow forgot to think through the fact that a win for him would make him the person responsible for solving the problems. He has no experience in this,...and it shows. Note how he used the gulf disaster to gin up anger at BP in the beginning, but when it clearly dragged on as his own problem he became clueless. Note how any failure in security either becomes his success or someone else's fault. He and Truman would never understand each other...BHO would probably ask Truman just what "the buck stops here" means...he'd probably thing it meant he got to...

WASHINGTON -- Heres my question: Why are we drilling in 5,000 feet of water in the first place?

Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production from the shallower Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep (1,000 feet and more) and ultra deep (5,000 feet and more), in part because environmentalists have succeeded in rendering the Pacific and nearly all the Atlantic coast off-limits to oil production. (President Obama's tentative, selective opening of some Atlantic and offshore Alaska sites is now dead.) And of course, in the safest of all...