http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico

Audio: Goldman Sachs Dumps 44% of it’s BP Stock Weeks before Oil Rig Disaster! (all time record on a dump)   http://countusout.wordpress.com/?s=goldman+sachs
and the CEO of BP just weeks ago dumped 1/3 of his BP shares.Cannot find my source for that, but I just read it today. 
Then Hot Air had this countdown

Just to remind people of the unofficial count:
Two days of media events (White House Correspondents Dinner and a tête a tête with Bono)Three days of fundraisingFour commemorations (graduations, Cinco de Mayo, etc)Six days of vacationSix days of campaigningSix sports eventsSeven days of golf

In comparison, how many days did Obama spend at the Gulf?  Three, during this span of time, and he’s back again today.

Obama: Government
fully mobilized on oil spill

Reuters, by Staff   

Original Article

6/5/2010

U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday vigorously defended his administration against criticism it has been too slow to act on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, insisting it had “mobilized on every front.” In his weekly radio and Internet address to Americans, Obama said his administration had set in motion the largest response to an environmental disaster in U.S. history. (Snip) But opinion polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans are unhappy with Obama’s handling of the 47-day crisis, which has caused environmental devastation and threatens a multi-billion fishing industry and tourism.

He sits on his ass until there is enough of a fuss made and then he charges in. Not my idea of leadership. A leader acts.

It also seems to me that our elected officials wouldn’t even make good Boy Scouts because they are never prepared.

EPA seems more concerned, most of the time, with protecting the business that pollute the environment than with the environment itself. Had they done their job for the past decades the businesses would have been forced to “clean up” their acts and much of the problems, aside from massive oil leaks caused by exploding oil rigs, would now be a thing of the past. Or at the very least be better than they are.

Much of the problem we have is not only a “big” government that doesn’t do the things it should do and sticks it’s nose into things it shouldn’t but we have a government whose parts are all politicized.

Should we have a “conservative’ Justice Department or a “liberal’ Justice Department? Shouldn’t we perhaps just have an efficient and able Justice Department more interested in enforcing the law? Does anyone believe that Holder is capable of heading Justice Department that does that anymore than Alberto Gonzales was?

No damn more liberal or conservative EPA. No more damn rules and regulations that are ignored because they aren’t “convenient” or “politically correct” at some point in time.

We could/can do so much better than what we are doing. We just need enough people who are involved and informed. INFORMED not indoctrinated or partisan. First thing to go when the House, also Senate and White House, are dirty is to clean house. A little vinegar and baking soda cleans very well. Apply to pols as needed and often. Also wash toxic kool aid off the exterior of Obamacrats and Obots while flushing inside with water. JMO

Sorry, climbing down now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_jelly

BP is not British is was bought out years ago!

Vince Cable has hit out at the ‘extreme and unhelpful’ anti-British rhetoric from the U.S. over BP’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The Business Secretary stopped short of criticising President Barack Obama personally, and declared that Britain should not use ‘ gunboat diplomacy’.
Some MPs, however, have said Mr Obama was wrong to blame Britain for the problem.
The comments, which came yesterday as BP announced that a plan to funnel the oil away had partially worked, risked provoking a trans-Atlantic rift.
American politicians and broadcasters have laid the blame for the accident on the Deepwater Horizon rig at the feet of the UK – despite BP being a multinational company.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284125/Stop-blaming-UK-BP-oil-spill-disaster-Cable-hits-America.html
 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284125/Stop-blaming-UK-BP-oil-spill-disaster-Cable-hits-America.html#ixzz0pyBbHRvE
Vince Cable has hit out at the ‘extreme and unhelpful’ anti-British rhetoric from the U.S. over BP’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The Business Secretary stopped short of criticising President Barack Obama personally, and declared that Britain should not use ‘ gunboat diplomacy’.
Some MPs, however, have said Mr Obama was wrong to blame Britain for the problem.
The comments, which came yesterday as BP announced that a plan to funnel the oil away had partially worked, risked provoking a trans-Atlantic rift.
American politicians and broadcasters have laid the blame for the accident on the Deepwater Horizon rig at the feet of the UK – despite BP being a multinational company.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284125/Stop-blaming-UK-BP-oil-spill-disaster-Cable-hits-America.html#ixzz0pyBbHRvE

That is what makes it a Political Issue. That and the fact that Federal Law has the procedures in place to mobilize a massive response. But it’s not happening. It’s all BP with the federal agencies along for the ride.

The Fed agencis needed a massive responce from hour one. Only the CG responded, and as I’ve said before they did not do much.

Those small spills, less than a quart, are supposed to be reported, but never are.

I read at the Confluence how some birds are going to be extinct because of this spill. 

And still president do nothing does nothing.  No coordinated clean up crews, no barrier islands, no tangers sucking up the oil, no accepting help from other countries, no hay, no kevin costner machine, only his athletic team meets and singing with McCartney.  This is what the bots gave us – and we could have had someone who actually knew what they were doing.