http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/10/experts-say-obama-misrepresented-views-justify-offshore-drilling-ban/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Text+-+Politics%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Ken is a nice enough guy but come on, claiming something was “peer reviewed” after you added a couple paragraphs isn’t very smart. This whole peer reviewed process is getting a bad rap lately isn’t it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxIcg0adXU

Without reading the article and without defending any previous administration, the Obama administration has had two years and both houses to change anything that Bush did wrong.

shcb, before responding, do yourself a favour and read this artile thoroughly, concentrating on grasping the full spectrum of how deregulation generally in the early Bush years and neutering of the Minerals Management Service specifically, set up the circumstances where this disaster became a near certainty which was then mismanaged by Obama, rather than pulling out snippets for your petty partisan snarks.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=7

Enk – You were right, it’s going to take a long time to clean up Bush’s “legacy”. I do not think Obama is capable of fixing your problems, but sadly there is no-one more capable of doing so on the horizon. Maaybe it is time to e-think who owns and runs America? – because from here it is clear it is not the citizenry.

Did you guys see that video comparing “Baghdad Bob” (the old Iraqi Information Minister” to the BP execs? It was on Olberman last night and I’m trying to track it down but no luck yet. It’s hilarious.

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-mystery-crop-damage%2C0%2C187535.story?track=rss

Indeed, they have enough to worry about in trying to bring the cod stocks back and praying another disaster doesn’t happen while drilling deep sea wells in far more challenging waters than the Gulf of Mexico.

The flip side is that just because the oil is getting eaten by the Atlantic, that does not mean that everything is coming up roses. The oil is sickening the ecosystems wherever it goes, but by far the greater tragedy is the biological magnification of the industrial solvents (aka poisons) such as Corexit that were (still are?) being sprayed in vast quantities over the slick in the Gulf. This is one big science experiment except without any real observers and nothing to tie the health damages in people and animals 1, 2, 5, 10 or 25 years from now to this “experiment”. In other words it is stupid and insane. I’m not being arrogant, all the info is there, BP wants the oil to sink and mix in with lower levels of the ocean so it is out of sight and so they can save on clean-up costs. No-one is effectively sticking up for the subsurface biosphere and in the end the poisons and death will affect the surface as well. As they teach in grade 1, it’s all connected.

The trick is to do it properly, in this case it seems the one system they are missing is the predrilling of the hole they are now drilling. The rig would have failed, people would have died, oil would have spilled, but presumably it would have been able to be relieved in a matter of days, so yes we would still have a big oil spill, but not a huge spill of biblical proportions.

“…what they said…”

There is also the fact that this was manmade and therefore somewhat preventable, a hurricane isn’t. This disastor was also small and well contained at the start, look at the picture at the top of this page, flat seas. Katrina was huge, and the damage to NO largely preventable.

Now I don’t blame Obama any more than I blame Bush for Katrina, they are only the president, there is only so much they can do, they are not king nor God, but uninformed and pissed off voters don’t know that.