While reflecting on Obama’s handling of the Ebola situation, it occurred to me that he doesn’t really need to DO anything, other than stay out of the way of people who know what they’re doing and try not to say anything exceptionally stupid on camera in the meantime.
Which reminded me of a similar situation from 2010: the BP oil spill.
Seems to me the predictions were quite dire about how that would end all life on earth as we know it. Or something.
So I did some light Googling and came across two interesting things.
From 2012:
This Friday, April 20, will mark two years since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused vast quantities of crude oil to flow into the Gulf of Mexico. But despite the size of the spill, “the natural recovery is far greater than what anybody hoped when it happened,” said a professor of biology. “The fears of most people — that there would be a catastrophic collapse of the ecosystem in the Gulf — never materialized.”
And this – from October 2014. Apparently that billion dollars the government stole from BP in the name of “justice”… they’re STILL trying to come up with enough boondoggles and sweetheart deals to squander it on. Few, if any, of which are actually directly related to oil spill recovery. And none of the projects have even started. It’s all STILL in the planning stages.
My conclusion: keep Obama away from TV cameras and other people’s money, and we should be just fine.
And if memory serves – – – at the time, didn’t he explain months of inaction by saying he was (a) appointing someone to look into it and then (b) waiting to find out ” whose butt to kick”?
Well whose butt got kicked, other than BP shareholders? What individual was actually ever held responsible? A BP executive resigning with full retirement package doesn’t count.
And didn’t the president who doesn’t do photo ops take a well-photographed stroll along the oil-stained beach? What legitimate purpose was he serving, there?
(Wait — that’s a word not usually applied to him.)
@1: Pay no attention to the
man behind the oil spillPresident!they’re STILL trying to come up with enough boondoggles and sweetheart deals to squander it on.
$1 billion doesn’t buy many boondoggles and sweetheart deals these days, that’s not even enough to build a high speed rail line to nowhere. You might be able to build a website that doesn’t work, but without another billion to fix it, what’s the point?
From the USA Today story:
environmentalists are fuming
Sounds like global warming to me!
I just had a little weekend getaway with my wife to a small beach town just south of Galveston that was “devastated”. Seems to have recovered pretty nicely.