Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Quote Of The Day

I recently asked someone who still thinks that the Obama Administration is way better than the last one to explain why. The first thing she came up with was their response to emergencies is much better. I think Lambert of Correntwire would have a thing or two to say about that:

A month? And now they're putting together a "crack team"? To determine a flow rate we should have been able to figure out from Day One, if BP were sharing their data, instead of acting like a sovereign state?

Oil FAIL: Oil flow rate not 5,000 barrels a day, but -- sweet Jeebus -- 95,00 barrels a day

This thing should be capped and we should be moving on to the recriminations phase. Instead, these guys are still floundering around, trying to figure out how much of a problem we really have.

Jeebus Crispies.

Meanwhile, the dome idea failed twice, the blow out preventer (BOP) design was inadequate and it wasn't built correctly anyway, and now they're going to try to stuff old rubber into the BOP to stop the flow.

John F. Kennedy once said that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. I'd like to see what congressman, Senator, or Administration official (Obama or Bush) didn't contribute some DNA to this monstrosity.


5 comments:

lawguy said...

I've been wrestling with the question of whether or not Obama is as bad as Bush II. I suspect that the stimulus would not have happened under McCain, although who knows I was never much for contra-factual history.

But beyond that I really am not sure what Obama has done that is different than what McCain would have done. Except keep the "liberals" quiet I guess.

It does just come down to the frog in water metaphore, after all.

Cujo359 said...

There's the stimulus, or at least the part of it that wasn't useless tax cuts, the Supreme Court nominees that aren't quite as conservative as a Republican might have picked, and expanding Medicaid as part of the health care "reform" effort. That's my list, and it's a pathetic one given the huge majorities his party had in Congress.

Obama is clearly determined to not honk off any big contributors, which means that a lot of what's gone sideways in this country isn't going to be fixed. That includes the wars we're in.

Cujo359 said...

Oh, wait, I forgot more free medical clinics and Pell grants. Still a pretty pathetic list.

Expat said...

The symptoms of perfidy, born of corruption, fathered by deception, nurtured by propaganda, and sheltered by ignorance. Such is the monster at the door.

Cujo359 said...

Lovely world, isn't it?