Some leftists can wonder how I could possibly think of other issues when an oil disaster is going to hurt the coast. I must be so insensitive.
Barack Obama went to the White House Correspondents Dinner. People have a right to live their lives. What should we do, curl up in a fetal position?
(Sounds like the Democratic Party platform to me, but that is for another day.)
(I will not be covering the WHCD. Barack Obama is great at making fun of others. As thin-skinned as ever, he did not make fun of himself.)
While a bunch of leftist screwups were busy admiring each other and breathing in their own noxious scents in medialand, the gulf was about to get belted with oil.
An explosion involving British Petroleum has led to oil spilling everywhere. State of emergencies have been issued in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. The fishing industry is expected to be decimated. An ecological disaster is in the making. Comparisons to the Exxon Valdez crash are already being offered.
As for liberals, they have only one reaction…sheer and utter delight.
The left loves this. The Obama administration can barely contain their glee.
Rahm Emanuel once said that “a good crisis should never go to waste.”
This is how an economic recession can be compared to the Great Depression, allowing for a health care plan that has nothing to do with the economy to be passed. Obama sure learned from FDR.
With liberalism, success requires failure. Misery allows blame, which leads to government power grabs.
An oil explosion allows Mr. Obama to get even more pious, pompous, and insufferable than usual.
Liberals hate big oil. The left was on the defensive when gasoline prices skyrocketed. We were so close to oil drilling. After this, drilling might be dead. The Democrats can even see their poll numbers rising in their eyes.
The British Petroleum incident will be blamed on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, because after all, they are “big oil.”
Sarah Palin will be blamed because she is from Alaska, and so was Joseph Hazelwood.
Just you watch.
When somebody suggested that Mr. Obama was slow to react, he immediately distinguished why he was fantastic and his predecessor was awful.
I have no interest in beating him like a rented mule. He does that to his predecessor. Never let partisanship get in the way of decorum.
Congress will huff and puff and demand predetermined answers of malfeasance.
This may not have been like Valdez.
Valdez involved a crime. Joseph Hazelwood was drunk. He went to jail.
There is no evidence at this time that the BP explosion was anything more than a tragic accident.
This does not mean we accept that explanation. Yet we don’t invent a crime either. We let the process sort itself out.
(I seem to be a broken record the way I continue to tell people not to rush to judgment. How unreasonably reasonable of me.)
Barack Obama has been going out of his way to blame BP. The problem is that they immediately admitted fault, and acted swiftly and properly to correct the problem. What more does Obama want? Perfection?
Well, yes. He is perfect, so everybody else must be as well.
Does anybody think BP wanted this? Does anybody think they woke up and decided to sabotage their own reputation, destroy their own inventory, collapse their own profits, open themselves up to decades of lawsuits (some of which will be frivolous), and put themselves possibly out of business?
(Mr. Obama most likely wants BP out of business and will use the same tactics Vladimir Putin used against Yukos Oil. Robert Gibbs promised that Mr. Obama will have his “boot on the throat” of the company. That sounds pretty ominous to any lover of freedom.)
BP did not want this.
I understand the left’s need to blame everybody to deflect from their own lifelong failures, but the greeniacs need to put down the champagne.
America is held hostage by Arab Muslim oil. Yes, we should develop alternative sources of energy. Those are long-term solutions. In the short term, oil runs the world.
Since the left refuses to support America going in, b*tchslapping Iran, and taking their oil, then we had better develop our own.
What happened regarding BP is a disaster. Yet until we know the truth, to hurl accusations is senseless.
Those who truly hate big oil should turn off their electricity, and move to a commune somewhere. They can churn their own butter, and live off the land eating tree bark and berries.
(I should stop. Liberals are getting excited).
The maddening desire of those on the left to crucify every corporation is sickening.
BP is not an evil entity. It is a collection of human beings. The guys on the rig that exploded are not fat cats. Roughnecks do not make 8 figure salaries. They do not have private jets. They do the dirty work so we can have gasoline, heating oil, and the like.
Nobody wants to destroy the environment.
(Those attacking Republicans may wish to look at Bill Clinton and Tyson Chicken in Arkansas.)
The left did not cause this problem. British Petroleum did. It is a disaster of epic proportions, and they will pay financially, and reputation wise.
The left should simply stop trying to turn every crisis into a chance to enact miserable anti-business policies.
Republicans will most likely be too gutless to stand on principle.
I am here to remind them.
Drilling is the right thing to do.
One tragedy, no matter how awful, should not overrule sound policy.
The Space Shuttle Challenger was a tragedy in 1986. In 2010, space exploration still continues because it is the right thing to do.
Conservatives must stick to their oil guns on this one.
This is especially vital because the other side cares more about trees and animals than human beings, and has no alternative beyond crippling business and taking us back to the dark ages economically.
After all, there is no need to work on constructive solutions when one can demonize Republicans and business.
Common sense on this issue needs to be drilled into the forehead of every liberal who lets emotions cloud the bigger picture and the greater good.
We must drill for domestic oil.
eric
(Editor’s note: Former EPA head Christie Todd Whitman, a moderate as they come, agrees with me. Perhaps she read my column, because 24 hours later she echoed my sentiments.)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aieWpwm1LX3Y
eric
Good post, Eric.
But I would have added that we should (thinking like leftists and liberals)
boycott Times Square. You read it right, Times Square is off limits.
Now, why did I say this. Well, the RIGHT mongers in the USA who
want US to take out Ahmad, the mad mullahs and the Rev Guards that
control the country, AND who liked the idea of getting rid of Saddam
and the Afghan Taliban, CAUSED the near explosion in New Yorks main attraction..the center of the city’s Broadway plays, the heart of the
city’s tourist attractions.
I say almost, caus it didn’t go as planned. Sheer luck or
G-ds will? That’s up to the observer.
The device was surrounded by a metal box, which, if blown apart
would have blown people apart. Shades of Fatah, the PLO, Islamic
Jihad, the Taliban and Al Qaeda., it’s spreading.
Today NYTimes Square, tomorrow, what, the B of A Building,
Staples, the kodak Center? I mean how many alert citizens
can we depend upon?
Soooooo, let’s boycott Times Square. That will take away the incentive
to blow it up again. Lighting doesn’t strike twice you know.
It’s all the fault of the Right, the Tea Party, the Republicans, John McCain
and Sarah Palin..not to forget Dick Cheney and G. Bush.
Had they bombed Tel Aviv, instead of Afghanistan and Iraq, and vetoed
the 3 UNSC resolutions telling Iran to stop enriching…this would never have happened. They would love us, and not hate us. ( Even though
we will always buy their oil ).
Hey guys, hear about Mr. Ahmad at the UN. He is blaming Israel and the Big Stan for the areas nuke concerns. (The US/Britain walked out).
It’s little Israel’s big nukes that has destabilized the M.E., not
some fantasy about Iran’s intentions.
Mr. Ahmad, it’s Israel’s deterrent that has stopped any thought of
the Final Jihad, the Mother of All Battles (read all your buddies websites).
Now, Hamas and Hezbollah are playing it close to the vest. They say they want war with Israel, but understand the consequences of same.
They saw Israel’s Merkavas, helicopters and F15Is..in action and
reeled. Their leaders have been in hiding for 4 years, cowering in
basements. They have been told that if Hez sends Scuds into Israel,
Damacus will burn. and perhaps Beirut. They are scared, but
not defeated.
Can we all imagine if Israel did not have 400 high fusion nuclear warheads on their Jerichos, Dolphine Cruise Missiles, land mines, artillery and
F15Is? Shades of Sobibor, Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald, repeating itself..but not in 6 years.
Oh Ahmad will make the bomb, and scare US all into pressuring Israel
to go back to the 67 borders and destroy it’s nukes.
Anyone want to bet I’m wrong on this? How much?
The Taliban are happy. Al Qaeda is happy. Ahmad, Abbas and
Assad are happy. Only the tourists are uneasy in the Big Apple.
My advice, stay away. Boycott it. And boycott Arizona to allow
it’s 1m illegals to stay, to work, to enjoy, to profit, without
worry over showing drivers’ licenses or profiling.
Funny, but If I were stopped for a traffic ticket. and asked for
my ID, I would hand it over gladly to law enforcement.
You see, I was born right here in the US of A. Cry guys.
I don’t hear anyone on the left sounding delighted about this catastrophe. They’re not surprised. They’re saying, “I told you so.” They’re happy that one good thing that will come of this disaster is that we may knock it off with the retarded “drill, baby, drill” nonsense. But they’re not happy that this comes at such a terrible cost. I mean, by your logic, the righties would have been absolutely thrilled about 9/11. I don’t think that was the case, at least not for most of them.
I will never understand how anyone with any background in the financial sector would think domestic drilling is some important and pressing issue. If you know anything about the oil biz, you know that we can drill all we like, it won’t make much of a difference. As long as we have the demnd we have, we can drill ’til the cows come home, our dependence on foreign oil, the prices, the money in the pockets of the crooked and terrorist-funding regimes, the risk of spills, will remain the same.
JMJ
Thats all fine and dandy Jersey. Not to mention predictable nd generic as hell.
The fact of the matter is that any oil not retrieved from our own assets commits us to buying more middle eastern oil.
Until the greeniacs can actully give us aviable energy alternative they all should just sit down and shut up for their own sakes of looking anymore ideolistically idiotic than they already do.
The threat of oil spills has been prevalent in any adminstration. Knowing this Obama was open to exploring off the east coast only to kiss the a$$es of a few dems.
Any decisions to curtail drilling on his part will be of political expedience more than any concerns for the environment. I’ll bet he has no problem feeding the accounts of Arabs who are walking a fine line between wanting us dead and taking our money. Hes already kissed every Arab a$$ possible.
11 men are dead, millions of animals will die. This is what bothers me more than anything. The political and corporate and industrial spectrums will adjust to this in no time. The shrimpers and fishermen will be compensated long before this mess gets cleaned up.
It should still be no reason for us to stop every means of acheiving energy independence until alternatives are up and actually applicable to our entire nations grid. That by all estimations hovers between 15 to 20 years. Until then, everything should be on the table, including drill baby drill
“I don’t hear anyone on the left sounding delighted about this catastrophe. ‘
Trust me, their legs are tingling at the aspect of imposing and applying more regulations on oil companies for points at the polls.
I’ll guarantee it