Re: Obama one of Greatest Teleprompter Readers of all time!

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

"JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 11/8/2010 1:36 PM, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>> The BP fiasco was no mistake - nobody is THAT incompetent.  He had to be
>>> purposefully trying to make it worse.
>>
>> The reality is that after the event there was precious little that the
>> government could do.  The US government should have had forced oil
>> companies
>> to have contingency plans in place to handle such a catastrophic failure
>> and
>> they should have verified the feasibility of these plans, not just take
>> the
>> oil companies word that they can contain any likely spill. The MMS and
>> the
>> industry it was supposed to regulate were just too close to each other.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>
> The government could have allowed in the foreign help that was offered.
>
> The government could have done what has been done before and waived the
> the EPA rules that prevented almost all skimmers from removing ninety
> percent of the oil being released.
>
> Just for two.
>
> I'm not saying BP shouldn't have paid for it all - but the way it was
> handled was akin to some schmuck starting a forest fire and the government
> not doing anything about it, or letting anyone else do anything about it
> 'cause that guy should be cleaning up his own mess.
>

The US government has no agency or branch of the military that could have
capped the well any sooner than BP.

Doug