The Inexperience of an Idealogue

As we enter the third month of the Gulf oil well disaster we see the ineptness of having an idealogue as the Commander-in-Chief. President Obama has NO leadership skills and NO ability to make the tough decisions. Even now, he is forming commissions to look into ways to clean-up the coast. He has turned down assistance from around the world - some that was offered within 3 days of the accident. When Louisiana's governor wanted to build sand berms to protect the coast, Obama sat on his hands for weeks, wanting to get environmental impact studies --- on the berms!!! WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE OIL ??? Then yesterday the ships that were allowed to begin the work were stopped for 24 hours - so the Coast Guard could inspect them.

We need every ship available from around the world to help with containment and recovery, but Obama will not wave the Jones Act, which limits us to using only american Union shipping - a political favor. This act is regularly waived during emergencies, including Katrina. We also need any and all type of filtering technology we can get. There are hundreds of people with ideas on how to separate and reclaim the water from the oil. Even actor Kevin Costner has invested 25 million of his own money into a company that has the technology to separate the crude. Still the administration sits.

Why not invite everyone who thinks their method will work down to the Gulf, let them set up shop, and prove themselves. If their method works, BP can pay them for their cost. Obama seems to want 1 method that would filter 1 million gallons a day. Why not 1,000 people that could filter 1,000 gallons each?

So what is their priority now? Not cleanup, not opening up land-based oil exploration or shallow-water drilling, but Cap And (TAX) Trade legislation. Raise taxes on everyone's utility bills and at the gas pump - that'll fix this !!!

He is so set on forcing "CHANGE" he will not react. As his chief-of-staff Rham Emanuel says " you don't want to waste a crisis". So the more oil spills, the more support he thinks he will get for alternative energy. He seems to think a crisis will suddenly make these alternatives appear out of thin air, and he will have saved the world. Even thouth we have only been working on them for over 40 years !

The Department of Energy was created by Jimmy Carter in order for the government to
spen millions - and now billions - of taxpayer dollars to develope alternative energy - will little to show for it. They seem to have had the same idea back then - restrict current energy production and the new alternatives will jump out of the woodwork. Instead we have gas at close to $3.00 a gallon ( which liberals think is too low since it is around $6 - $7 a gallon in Europe and we want to be fair ) and higher electric cost because the genuine alternative - Nuclear energy - was roundly resisted and other type of power plants restricted. California is so dependent on electricity from other states because they have not allowed a new power plant of any kind to be built in over 30 years. Why? It takes over 10 years just to get approval from the environmental agencies before construction can start. By then, the cost have escalated and the process has to start over. Meanwhile, Californians pay some of the highest energy rates in the US.

We must remove the politicians who can't see the reality in front of their noses, beginning in November and not stop until 2012.