Meatheads on Parade

If you needed more evidence of the Peter Principle graduates we've got at the helm in Washington, you simply needed to watch the braying on display in Louisiana yesterday.

The Bamster is packing for his second vacation since the well blowout and loss of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Remember when he asserted how his every effort would be to take care of this issue? I guess the basic rule of Bamster-talk still applies. Whatever he says, he means just the opposite.

What seems to escape people is that if you have a serious, complex and highly technical problem to deal with, there will be a limited number of qualified entities to work on it. If you have a brain tumor, you are going to become dependent upon a small cadre of neurosurgeons. All of the posturing, screaming, threatening and finger-pointing Senate investigating committees in the world won't do you a bit of good.

EPA Boss Notices Crude Oil is Thick

Isn't that amazing? If you really wanted to pick a government bureaucracy that might have a top end responsibility for regulation, management and response to deepwater oil exploration, I'm willing to bet you might choose EPA. From her we get this pithy quote:

"Oh my God -- it's so thick!" exclaimed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson who toured delicate coastal wetlands that have been invaded by the black and orange crude

What has Ms Jackson contributed to the effort? She's the head of the agency that is seeking to force BP to abandon the dispersant they've been using because it is "too toxic." Is it possible that the stuff being dispersed is more toxic than the dispersant? It it possible that there is no more effective dispersant available? Is it possible that the dispersant being employed is the only one available in sufficient quantities? Might the EPA have explored this prior to the need? Did she miss Exxon Valdez and noticing that crude is thick?

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar hasn't gotten the last ten revisions to administration talking points. He's stil talking about keeping his carefully polished Lucchese boot on the neck (metaphorically) of BP. That was the Messiah's line three weeks ago after pondering the problem on his last vacation. It got more laughs than results so it has been abandoned. Ken is still using it.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar suggested over the weekend that the government could intervene aggressively if BP wasn't delivering. "If we find that they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately," he said.

One must ask if Secretary Salazar knows what he would be looking for with regard to capping a well blowout a mile beneath the surface. One wonders if he is competent to judge if they are "not doing what they are supposed to be..." And most certainly one can ask what his plan is after we "push them out of the way".

We also had Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano on the scene. I'm not sure why. Is she expecting that the oil spill will make the Rio Grande approaches too slippery for the illegal aliens to walk across the border? Is she thinking maybe we need more TSA magnetometers and shoe-removal forces deployed along the coast? Possibly an update to our spy network and intel gathering regarding petroleum exploration?

In the mix as well there was Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. He will be investigating the response and he certainly inspired confidence as he exclaimed that if BP couldn't figure out what to do, he would take over and tell them. Where do you suppose he gained his oil well expertise?

This is a display that defies belief. It is a Monty Python skit writ very large and amazingly, we don't have more people laughing out loud at it.