So I have to admit, I am pretty sick of people using the oil spill in the gulf for political grandstanding. While I agree that the government has some say in how the whole thing is handled, I think that using something that is a true disaster and, while not quite an accident, something unexpected, I disagree with the idea that they have some secret weapon or ability that they are not using to stop the flow of oil into our waters. These are my thoughts:
- Stop blaming Obama. Stop saying he should go down there and kick some ass. Stop saying that he should turn into an “Angry Black Man” – I’m looking at you, CNN. Stop saying that he should go put on a personal submarine with little arm-holes so that he can get down to the leak and stick his thumb in it and stop it with the power of that one little dutch boy in the land of wooden shoes, below-sea-level construction and lots and lots of windmills… What? People aren’t saying that? Well they should be, because that is the only way that he could personally have some active role in getting the leak stopped.
- Stop saying the Govt should get involved. Should the National Guard go down there and clean up beaches? Sure. Should the Government get involved in the daily operations of the cleanup? Are you crazy?
Anyone who thinks that the government could do a good job of this either has never heard of the US government, or has, ignores everything that they have seen and heard, and goes right on and gives them waaaaaaaaaay to much credit anyway. Remember Katrina? The hurricane that destroyed large swaths of Louisiana and Mississippi and whose mess the Government promised to clean up and make OK again but still hasn’t even tried to clean up 5 YEARS LATER? Yeah.
- Stop saying the Govt. should take over. The government can’t federalize a company that is not American or stuff – like underwater robots – that are the property of said foreign company. That is called stealing. Our government isn’t in the oil drilling business (Just in the business of dealing out lisences to do so near fragile ecosystems to companies with safety records that are somewhat shaky to say the best). We don’t have the expertise or equipment to deal with this effectively. BP Does. As much as that sucks, it is the way it is. Deal with it.
- Go little Robots. This has nothing to do with any of that, but when one of the little robots that BP has surrounding that well like aliens surrounding Ed Harris and his nuclear bomb had one of it’s arms explode, CNN was all over it like cocaine on Lindsay Lohan’s septum. (Metaphor’s are fun) Does this mean that people are actually cheering these little underwater mechanics on in their quest to stop the gusher? I hope so because they are certainly endearing themselves to me, especially when they help each other out by handing their neighbor a tool or holding some metal together so a friend can weld it. It’s just kind of creepy but very anthropomorphic.
Basically all I want to say, politely and in a very reserved manner, is this: STOP POLITICIZING EVERY GODDAMN THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE WORLD. Just because someone screws up and something bad happens, it doesn’t mean that every news channel, pundit and Joe-Blow from down the street has to start screaming bloody murder about how it was the Republicans or the Democrats or the Communists or the Aliens from Omicron Setii effing Five. A customer in my store today made it sound like Obama and Hitler held hands, dove on the well in a submersible filled with poison and blew it up with their fundamental malice and hatred for humanity in an effort to spread the obvious vitriol of a clean energy agenda across the gulf coast. I don’t understand how people can’t see that it was a huge, corrupt company whose only interest was profits that made bad decisions and killed eleven people, untold numbers of see and animal life, and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people.
Get over it and see what you can do to help, for Christ’s sake.
