You can’t make this stuff up…
So the EPA and Coast Guard – under pressure from Washington to ‘plug the damned hole’ – approved the use of a chemical dispersant by BP on the Gulf oil spill. TV feeds trying to create panic and destroy the oil drilling industry showed oil puking incessantly into the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana for three months while President Obama was matching the gusher in volume pumping out BS about being on top of the situation. Dispersant that has the same chemical composition as the dispersant used in laundry detergent was put on the Gulf to break up the oil slick in an attempt to prevent as much damage as possible.
At the time the decision was made to use the dispersant all the networks were screaming that the oil would be around for forty or fifty years destroying the environment, despite what cooler heads were saying about it being a light crude that would mostly break down or evaporate in the warm Gulf waters. Intentionally, the media and Washington were creating massive chaos and confusion while putting up roadblocks that helped prolong the capping and clean up in the Gulf while destroying thousands of jobs and revenue. Washington and the media NEEDED the disaster to continue indefinitely to fit their template and create an eco-disaster they could hide behind going into the fall elections. Let’s face it, without SOMETHING to hide behind the electoral chances of Democrats in the fall are slim.
Then BP found a method that worked and screwed it all up for the media and politicians. They put a cap on the leak that worked and was just as effective on the media story.
The news moved on to cover ethics violations by two prominent Democrats – Congress people Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters – who were trying to side-slip the charges leveled against them by DEMOCRAT leadership. Suddenly the focus was off an eco-disaster and onto the ‘culture of corruption’ in the Democrat controlled Congress heading into election season. No longer could the Democrats point the finger at “evil oil” once THEY were the focus of anger in the country again.
Panic ran through Washington.
How do you take the attention off the SLEAZINESS and backroom deals of the Pelosi Congress? It’s pretty difficult since Congress has been ‘in your face’ aggressive for over a year, but they tried. They started by attacking people trying to defend themselves against an onslaught of illegal immigrants. The White House, even though forty-four other states are supporting Arizona, threw out the first distraction. The Obama announced the pullout of the troops from Iraq trying to ‘snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.’ Rep. Anthony Weiner (Dem-NY) even threw a temper tantrum when even his fellow Democrats found the addendums he was trying to slime past Congress in his First Responder Bill too devastating to pass. That tantrum hit the Internet with a splash when Weiner went off on the floor of the House when he was called on his underhandedness.
Then along came the ‘over-dispersant’ non-scandal. It turns out the hoopla is about a relatively small amount of dispersant BP was authorized to use by the EPA and the Coast Guard to break up the oil slick. At the time the dispersant was used it was considered the least offensive choice between the oil washing up on the shore for “fifty years” according to “experts” or a chemical like laundry detergent. The same kind of “experts” that caused BP and other oil companies to have to drill for their oil in mile deep water were running around screaming “the sky is falling” about the oil destroying the Gulf, so the Coast Guard and BP did their best to take out the spill.
The “dispersant non-scandal” is starting to look like another attempt by Democrats to turn attention away from THEIR sleaziness, by using the old magicians’ trick of ‘watch the right hand while we do what we want with the left.’
Americans deserve better.
