re: #135 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Save me toots! They’re making fun of me!

As well they should!
Sorry, FBV, I love ya, but you’re on your own, here!

I did read upthread, and saw your comment #19:

re: #19 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

“The President scares me. He’s been acting like, you know, a Vatican observer here. When is he going to actually do something? And I worry– I know that he doesn’t want to take ownership of it, I know the politics, because the minute he says ‘I’m in charge’ then he’s blamed. But somebody is going to have to take charge.”
-Chris Matthews

“I’m as good a Democrat as most people, and I think this administration has done some good things. They are risking everything by this ‘go along with BP’ strategy they have that seems like, lackadaisical on this, and Doug is right, they seem like they’re inconvenienced by this, this is some giant thing getting in their way and somehow or another, if you let BP handle it, it’ll all go away. It’s not going away. It’s growing out there. It is a disaster of the first magnitude, and they’ve got to go to Plan B.”
-James Carville

I’m sorry if I seem to harp excessively on this oil spill, I’m trying to restrain myself, but according to what the Roi said, Carville here is spot on about the administration “going along with BP”, though honestly, I don’t know that they have a choice, the administration has no drilling experience and must, like the rest of us, rely on what BP is telling us.

It’s the Roi’s opinion (not a proven fact, but his opinion) that BP knew full well this top kill procedure wasn’t going to work, because as long as mud is flowing out through the leaking areas, there is no way they can get enough pressure in there to push the oil into place. In other words, he thinks (his OPINION again) that BP is lying to everybody, trying to put their best face forward.

On this “moratorium” - he said the rig he’s on has been unable for 3 days to contact MMS, and so they are simply proceeding forward with this job. Nobody’s in the office to answer questions, and you’d think, with an order like this moratorium, somebody would be there to give people direction. I guess the rig at this point figures it’s better to ask forgiveness later, and all that. What will happen to us after this job is done is anybody’s guess, but for now, they’re moving along.

What I’m getting from this is that the gov’t agencies dealing with this are in a state of mass confusion right now, and that may be the reason why Carville and Matthews perceive that no one’s in charge.