BP Ready to Test Cap on Runaway Well

As BP prepares to test the cap on the most infamous oil well in history, I have just four words for them:

Righty tighty.
Leftie loosey.

Getting Close to Day 90 of the Gulf Oil Spill, Obama to Vacation in Maine

by the Left Coast Rebel

This video that I sniped from Gateway Pundit sums it up:



The War Planner offers a theory on the vacationing 'plug the damn hole' Obamanation, hint - it has something to do with the abbreviation of the northern state.

No Sheeples Here offers up some lovely, snarky commentary and provides the icing on the cake with a fitting graphic:



The messiah has no clothes.

That's a shame, because it gets cold in Maine.

Even in the summer of oil spills.

Cross posted to LCR.

Liar! Liar! Officials on the Gulf Cleanup

Not Obama himself...this time! Just his minions.

CNSNews.com – Billy Nungesser, president of New Orleans’ Plaquemines Parish, sensed that a chart showing 140 oil skimmers at work -- a chart given to him by BP and the Coast Guard -- was “somewhat inaccurate.” So, Nungesser asked to fly over the spill to verify the number.

The flyover was canceled three times before those officials admitted that just 31 of the 140 skimmers were actually deployed.

Could that be the reason for the prohibition of low level flights imposed not long ago? To cover up the extent of the Obama administration's incompetence, and to use James Carville's word, lackadaisical approach to the clean up?

More at Gateway Pundit
Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel

Timeline of Obama's Oil Spill

Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.

And there's no doubt he's owned it for a long time!

Makes you yearn for the misery index days of Jimmy Carter!

More at Wizbang

Bold Presidential Fashion

"I was going to get one of those shirts with an alligator,
but this one bites much more!"

Obama Answers Questions About BP Contributions

Heh.

Judge Andrew Napolitano on the BP Government Shakedown

This is good stuff!

"I am the resident Constitutionalist here, and I am profoundly offended when the government exceeds the bounds imposed on it by the Constitution"

-Judge Andrew Napolitano

As a bonus, there's a catchy little tune at 5:25!

More at the blog prof
Cross posted at Lady Cincinnatus, Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything

Fear and Loathing for BP Should not Negate Their Rights, Too

by Conservative Generation, Left Coast Rebel

The left always seems to miss the forest for the trees. Case in point, today's scapegoat, British Petroleum. And it's not that I am a 'fan' of BP but it is a case of point that no matter how despised and loathed a corporation (or individual) is, we are still a nation of laws and not of men.

Like it or not, liberals - your philosopher-king cannot properly shakedown even the most hated company in the world.

Behold the far left which has become so single-minded and transfixed on that old Marxist dogma that “employers are evil” that infects them today with irrational fear of an impartial law. For in the minds of the absurd, they have compromised this sacred American ideal as a ransom to ascribe some Philosopher-King immeasurable authority to assert blame and judgment. They salivate at the thought of destroying BP and for what have they gained; a better America or a more powerful Philosopher-King?

It’s the law that protects serial killers from a mob hanging, it is the law that gives you the right to remain silent and it is the law that demands that you are innocent until proven guilty. The executive office is supposed to mirror that blind impartiality that we aspire to in law, not transform it, not own it, and certainly not wield it to go find “who’s ass to kick” whenever it is politically expedient.


An irreconcilable chasm divides advocates of liberty and collectivist-progressives. I agree with nearly everything that these 'pundits' say in this 'incendiary' Think Progress video, (especially Napolitano):



More from Napolitano via Humble Libertarian:


Napolitano:

Last night (Obama) demanded billions from BP so his team could decide who gets it. Today a terrified BP gave him all the cash he could ask for. So the government, the government that foolishly limited BP's liability, the government that claimed it new best where to drill, the government that actually stopped locals from protecting their own shoreline - that would be the same government that has bankrupted Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Post Office and basically everything that it has managed. The last time the government had this much cash to give away, during the GM/Chrysler bankruptcies it disregarded well settled laws and gave it it's friends in the labor unions.

Exactly right!

Discussion here, here, here at Memeorandum.

UPDATED: Last Tradition gets it right too (mild language alert). Move over, GOP leadership - if you can't stand up for the rule of law then make way for those that will!

Big Government in Action: Oil-Sucking Barges Shut Down by Coast Guard

by the Left Coast Rebel

I've been watching the Obama public relations disaster over the BP oil spill. I've been surprised that the leftwing seems to be as dismayed, if not even more so than conservatives do.

More than anything though, I've been shocked (even for me, which is saying something) just how mind-blowingly ineffective and ridiculously incompetent big-government is. Whether that is the lackadaisical-professorial, 'BP can handle this' initial Obama response, or the inability of the Feds to coordinate between branches. To crippling environmental red-tape that is actually aiding the environmental disaster by disallowing viable solutions, to ignoring/refusing the aid of local and international businesses.

And that's only just a smidgeon of the tip of the (oil) iceberg on how the Gulf oil spill disaster spells out the philosophy of big-government, disaster.

Leftists - why do you have so much faith in an all-encompassing Federal government?

Liberals - what do you have to say about this ABC News story today?

(ABC News)- 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, although they were sucking up thousands of gallons of BP’s oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.

“These barges work. You’ve seen them work. You’ve seen them suck oil out of the water,” said Jindal.

So why stop now?

“The Coast Guard came and shut them down,”Jindal said. “You got men on the barges in the oil, and they have been told by the Coast Guard, ‘Cease and desist. Stop sucking up that oil.’”

But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges.

LA Governor Bobby Jindal today: