But Ani, one of the NQ writers, is writing a book about the primaries.  It’s going to be GREAT, and I hope we all make it a best seller!

You say Obama has been on this from day 1.  Then why has he only made two meager visits to the region? 

The most important fact is until the relief wells are finished in August hundreds of millions gallons of fuel will be leaking into the ocean, water columns, marshes, and beaches. It isn’t just what we see on the surface but the contamination and killing of all wild life surrounding this mess.  

In addition, the government allowed BP to spray a toxic chemical to break up the oil.  Only later did the govt insist that they use a more environmentally friendly substance.

You don’t have to be Jacques Cousteau to figure out this is a war on our environment.  Yet, there is no sense of urgency coming from the Prez.  He comes across as a petty politician.  Jindal was begging for help and Obama treated him like a leper during Friday’s visit. 

This calamity highlighted one of the biggest problems about Obama and his maniac followers.  They enjoy playing the blame game.  He insisted that he was ready from Day 1 to handle any crisis.  Instead, we are getting a Hugo Chavez dictatorship. 

Remember in New Hamphsire when Hillary teared up and had difficulty talking — I remember she was trying to speak about what she knew was coming with an obama presidency.  I believe with all my heart that she fought on, knowing that the power elite had chosen him, but she still couldn’t give up on her country, no matter that the “choice” had been made.  

By staying in the race, she was able to warn us about obama and what to expect.  She stood in the arena and took the heat for us.  She told us the truth about obama and was vilified for it.   But she never gave up.

Now, we owe it to her to make certain that he does not get a second term and that we continue to build a movement of a united citizenry determined to give her the office that was already her’s. 

More importantly, we owe it to ourselves.

What can the White House do? For starters:
— Set up a daily command center in Washington where a presidentially appointed leader runs the show, calls the shots, coordinates the overall effort, briefs the president and briefs the country
— Have two deputies, one to direct the leak-stoppage and the other to direct the clean-up. Ex-CEOs and generals would be excellent candidates
— Summon all the major oil and drilling companies to the White House for emergency efforts to get the hole plugged
— Get BP out of the picture for clean-up; just send it the bill. If it is still needed for hole-plugging, okay, but ensure that it answers every day to directions from the government. If BP needs new internal leadership, figure out how to get that done
— Employ the U.S. military for organizational coordination and where needed, for anything else such as clean-up
— Make more aggressive efforts to tap the best minds in the world for help
— Provide the country with the kind of daily briefings that the military has mastered for wartime — bring in people who are smart, straight and tough
— Ensure that economic assistance is provided to families, small businesses and communities that need it with dispatch and generosity
— Call off the finger pointing until we get out of this mess
— And finally, very importantly, exercise the powers of leadership every day from the Oval Office

Oh, and I fully agree comments should be censored, but only if they stoop to cheap shots and name calling. =-X

Again I suggest you do some homework and find out exactly what the govt has been doing since the fire at the oil rig. This has been the largest govt  response for any natural disaster ever. Obama has been on this from day one. Prove to me otherwise. The govt is doing all the things that you suggest above in your post.