First, the Obama administration refused to accept the offer of skimming ships from the Netherlands because they were not 100% efficient. Then, they left miles of oil skimming oil booms setting in a warehouse in Maine. Now, our government has shut down 16 oil sucking barges so they can check their life preservers or something. Could the Obama administration be anymore incompetent?
ABC News reported:
Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state’s oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor’s wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
“It’s the most frustrating thing,” the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. “Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges.”
Sixteen barges sat stationary today...
So why stop now?...
You would think that, instead of shutting down the barges for a lack of fire extinguishers and life jackets, the Coast Guard would be ordered to bring life jackets and fire extinguishers to the barges to keep them working. Apparently, "never waste a crisis" also means "never waste an opportunity to make a crisis worse."
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ReplyDelete"You would think that, instead of shutting down the barges for a lack of fire extinguishers and life jackets, the Coast Guard would be ordered to bring life jackets and fire extinguishers to the barges to keep them working. Apparently, "never waste a crisis" also means "never waste an opportunity to make a crisis worse.""
God forbid the Obama administration do something proactive.