Miles of Oil Containment Boom Sit in Warehouse, Waiting for BP or U.S. to Use

Every time we think this Obama Government cannot be more inept on this Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, we are proved wrong.

This quote was sent to us along with the link to this news story about oil containment booms sitting in a warehouse waiting for the US or BP to use them all the while the oil gushing into the Gulf was happening with little to nothing being done to stop the flow.

"Smart Government leaving containment booms sitting in a warehouse while the Gulf bleeds oil -- guess it doesn't pay to live in red state under the current government."

This Obama Government has allowed the BP oil to continue flow into the Gulf and now it is washing up on the Gulf Coast in an ecological disaster all the while the necessary booms were waiting in a warehouse in Maine. WHY? What was to be gained by allowing the booms to just sit there? Those of us in Red State America are starting to ask if the Obama Government is treating us like second or third class citizens. Beginning to look like illegal aliens are treated better by Obama and his Administration than those of us in Red State America.

Miles of Oil Containment Boom Sit in Warehouse, Waiting for BP or U.S. to Use

An enterprising businessman put his factory in overdrive, figuring the country needed his product and his workers needed overtime. He's making enough to stem the shortage. Why is everyone ignoring him?

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 - by Gregory Sullivan

John Lapoint of Packgen in Auburn, Maine, says he’s got plenty of floating oil containment boom and can make lots more on short notice. There’s just one problem: no one will buy it from him.

He’s already had a representative from BP visit his factory and inspect his product. The governor of Maine, John Baldacci, visited the facility and made a video plea to no one in particular to close the deal. Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins wrote a letter on May 21 to the secretary of the Interior, the administrator of NOAA, and the commandant of the Coast Guard to alert them to the existence of Packgen, their supply of boom, and their demonstrated capacity to make more. I have no idea if those are the correct persons and agencies to notify about the manufacturing capacity and the availability of boom. One wonders if the senators know.

Excerpt: Read More at Pajamas Media

Obama Defends (Lies about) Response to Oil Spill Disaster in Gulf

We thought Bill Clinton when he was President lied and spun on almost every subject which culminated in Monicagate and his impeachment for lying even though he wasn't removed. However, Clinton cannot compare to this President. It doesn't take much researching to find the opposite of what Obama said today in his press conference. Does he not think that the American people remember?

5/27/10: "I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure this thing is shut down," Obama declared

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"The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort," Obama said. He was reacting to criticism that his administration had been slow to act and had left BP in charge of plugging the leak.

Compare to what he said on Apr 29, 2010

President Obama says BP 'ultimately responsible' for spill clean-up
President Barack Obama said BP was "ultimately responsible" for the cost and clean-up of an growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico which threatens to develop into an environmental catastrophe.

The US President is to dispatch two senior members of his cabinet to the site of the spill today to ensure that the British oil giant is "doing everything possible not just to respond to this incident but also to determine its cause".

The explosion happened on April 20, 2010 and yet Obama waited until April 29 to even announce he was sending two senior members of his cabinet to the site. Yet he wants us to believe they were hands on from Day One. Sorry but the facts say they were not and sending two inexperienced cabinet people to oversee this effort has to be some kind of a joke. Never have we seen people so unqualified to hold cabinet positions as the Obama appointees, and it is beginning to show.

Another of Obama's contributions to this disaster was to snap "just plug the damn hole." That is really not something you would expect the President to say in answer to the catastrophe and more proof he has not been on top of this from Day One.

James Carville, the Democrat strategist, who can never be called conservative took after Obama in a Huffington Post article for his lack of action on the BP catastrophe:

Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration's response to the spill has been "lackadaisical" and that Obama was "naive" to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.

"I think they actually believe that BP has some kind of a good motivation here," he said. "They're naive! BP is trying to save money, save everything they can... They won't tell us anything, and oddly enough, the government seems to be going along with it! Somebody has got to, like shake them and say, 'These people don't wish you well! They're going to take you down!'"

Carville also accused the White House of going along with what he called the "let BP handle it" strategy.

"I'm as good a Democrat as most people, and I think this administration has done some good things. They are risking everything by this 'go along with BP' strategy they have that seems like, lackadaisical on this, and Doug is right, they seem like they're inconvenienced by this, this is some giant thing getting in their way and somehow or another, if you let BP handle it, it'll all go away. It's not going away. It's growing out there. It is a disaster of the first magnitude, and they've got to go to Plan B."

Several others from Louisiana like Cokie Roberts and Donna Brazile have had similar statements.

Then we had this from Chris Matthews of MSNBC from the Huffington Post article about James Carville linked above which shocked us to the core:

Likewise, Chris Matthews argued during a "Tonight Show" appearance that the President was "acting a little like a Vatican Observer."

"The President scares me," he said. "When is he actually going to do something? And I worry; I know he doesn't want to take ownership of it. I know politics. He said the minute he says, 'I'm in charge,' he takes the blame, but somebody has to. It's in our interest."

We are talking about Matthews who during the campaign said Obama sent a tingle up his leg and now is criticizing him for lack of action.

Yet, today Obama said the Administration has been in charge from Day One! This is one big fat lie on top of so many we have lost count. The lies today are outrageous and just glad we are not as dumb as he thinks we are. We don't believe he would have held a press conference this morning except he is catching flack from the Democrats now as much as Republicans.

Obama is showing himself to be inept and is lying to cover up the facts he and his Administration have done little on this disaster.

Governor Jindal of Louisiana to Obama: "We’re tired of waiting for the feds to help with the spill" has been asking for help to build up the barrier islands along the Louisiana coast for weeks and received no answer from the Obama Administration so he is going ahead without help of the Feds. Yet this President wants everyone to think he is on top of everything.

Would Obama have held this news conference today if he had not had lunch with Republican Senators this week when David Vitter (R-LA) took him to task about his lack of interest in this Gulf oil crises. We believe the answer would be NO! Obama also never mentioned sending any troops to the border or more money for Border Security until he had the meeting and was challenged by McCain and Kyl. Thirty minutes after the meeting broke up he announced sending 1200 troops to the border which are turning out to be desk jobs not boots on the ground which they need a lot worse. Circumstantial evidence is mounting that Obama has to be challenged by Republican Senators before he will act.

Obama Defends (Lies about) Response to Oil Spill Disaster in Gulf
Jennifer Loven and Tom Raum

AP WASHINGTON (May 27) - President Barack Obama defensively and sometimes testily insisted on Thursday that his administration, not oil giant BP, was calling the shots in responding to the worst oil spill in the nation's history.

"I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure this thing is shut down," Obama declared at a news conference in the East Room of the White House. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill dominated the hour-long session.

He called the spill, now in its sixth week, an "unprecedented disaster" and blasted a "scandalously close relationship" between Big Oil and government regulators.

Obama announced new steps to deal with the aftermath of the spill, including continuing a moratorium on drilling permits for six months. He also said he was suspending planned exploration drilling off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and on 33 wells under way in the Gulf of Mexico.

The president's direct language on being in charge of the spill, which he repeated several times, marked a change in emphasis from earlier administration assertions that, while the government was overseeing the operation, BP had the expertise and equipment to make the decisions on how to stop the flow.

Taking control carried its own political risks for Obama, because any failure to stop the gusher would then belong to the president. But Obama could suffer politically if his administration was seen as falling short of staying on top of the problem or not working hard to find a solution.

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Obama said many critics failed to realize "this has been our highest priority."

"My job right now is just to make sure everybody in the Gulf understands: This is what I wake up to in the morning, and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about. The spill."

Excerpt: Read More at AOL News

BREAKING NEWS NY Times: BP Begins New Attempt to Seal Gushing Oil Well in Gulf

We sincerely hope this works. Since this top kill has never been tried under water, we will be anxious to see the results. Every thing has been in place for several days to start the procedure. This afternoon BP is going ahead with pumping the heavy fluids into the stack. It works on land, but now they will be able to determine if the procedure will also work under water which could be a something that if it works could be used in the future for any under water oil leaks.

BP has been at odds with the Administration for weeks on how much oil is coming out each day which is not surprising. Soon enough we will learn who was telling the truth about this whole disaster. Lessons Learned is going to be huge.

Breaking News Alert

The New York Times
Wed, May 26, 2010, 2:27 PM ET

BP Begins New Attempt to Seal Gushing Oil Well in Gulf
BP went ahead on Wednesday afternoon with its most ambitious-- and potentially most consequential -- effort to plug the mile-deep gusher of oil that has been streaming into the Gulfof Mexico for more than a month.

The procedure, known as a top kill, was begun at 1 p.m. Central time, the company said.

The procedure involves pumping thousands of pounds of heavy fluids into a five-story stack of pipes in an effort to clog the well and stop the torrent of oil. BP officials said the method of containing spills had never been tried so far underwater, and that it could take days to determine whether it had succeeded. They cautioned there was no guarantee that the gambit would work.

Tony Hayward, chief executive office of BP said, it would be"a day or two before we can have certainty that it's worked."

On the other hand, failure could become apparent withinminutes or hours, a technician involved in the proceduresaid.

Read More: New York Times

Jindal tired of waiting for approval, to build sand booms

This is the second Governor who has asked this Administration for Federal help recently and nothing happens. The first was Governor Brewer of Arizona who is still waiting for the National Guard. Kind of reminds you of the pictures of NERO fiddling while Rome was burning. Obama throws a lavish party at the White House for the Mexican President while continuing to ignore the Gulf except to appoint a Commission. Lot of good that is going to do right now.

Did the President even acknowledge the floods in TN? Becoming perfectly clear if you are a Red State don't expect any help. Maybe Crist wouldn't have gotten in trouble with the Obama visit if Florida had been red instead of blue as Obama most likely would have stayed away.

Glad to see that Governor Jindal has finally had it, and is taking action. Obama and his slow to act Administration have cost Louisiana and other states time that they could have used to protect their shores from the oil. Where is the media in going after Obama like they did Bush on Katrina? A lot of Katrina was caused by their Democrat Governor's refusal to ask for help not to mention the tactics of several media outlets in reporting conditions worse then they were for people on the bridge. We thought Carter was a horrible President but this man posing as President is much worse sad to say.



NECN: Barataria Bay, La. - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said the state will not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Oil has pushed at least 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes, with two major pelican rookeries awash in crude.

Gov. Jindal was critical of the amount of boom his state received to ward off the oil seeping toward the coastline. But his major gripe comes at the expense of the Army Corps of Engineers, who have yet to give the go-ahead for the building of sand booms to protect the Louisiana wetlands. He used photographic evidence of oil breaking through hard booms, soft booms and another layer of protection, before being finally being corralled by a sand boom built by the National Guard.

"It is so much better for us. We don't want oil on one inch of Louisiana's coastline, but we'd much rather fight this oil off of a hard coast, off of an island, off of an island, off of a sandy beach on our coastal islands, rather than having to fight it inside in these wetlands," Gov. Jindal said, making the case for sand booms.

The governor said he has been forced to protect Louisiana without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is weighing the ecological impact of the construction of more sand booms.

"We are not waiting for them. We are going to build it," Jindal said.

"We can either fight battle -- we can fight this oil -- on the Barrier Islands 15 to 20 miles off of our coast, or we can face it in thousands of miles of fragmented wetlands," Gov. Jindal said, clearing favoring the first option. "Every day we're not given approval on this emergency permit to create more of these sand booms is another day when that choice is made for us, as more and more miles of our shore are hit by oil."

The oil spill, which has lasted 33 days since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, has yet to be stopped by British Petroleum at the source. The situation is dire for Gulf coast states.

"It is clear the resources needed to protect our coast are still not here," Gov. Jindal said. "Oil sits and waits for cleanup, and every day that it waits for cleanup more of our marsh dies."

Material from The Associated Press used in this report.

Source: NECN,Barataria Bay, LA)