Rhetoric and Lawsuits Will Not Solve the Oil Spill Crisis

President Obama apparently believes that he can talk the oil in the Gulf to stop flowing. He must also believe that taking BP to court will plug the hole quicker, otherwise why would you distract BP further from their task?

Both notions are off the mark in an administration populated by people who have never created jobs, answered to shareholders, or solved a crisis. This administration is full of Academics, Civil Servants and Non-Profit administrators who know how to lecture and cajole and seek consensus, but are painfully short on knowing how to take action.

While it is easy to blame BP for the foul-up causing the oil to leak, don't forget to ask yourself...

... Why do oil companies have to go through over a mile of water to drill miles below the surface? US Government environmental regulations prevented off-shore shallow-water drilling where capping a leak is much easier.

... Who, in the early 90's set the penalty for spilling oil at 75 million dollars, making it affordable for companies today to risk an oil spill? Congress.

... Who was to be the Obama Administration's recipient of an award this year for its record of safety and innovation? BP.

None of this is an excuse for the inaction by the Obama Administration. The military should be put in charge of solving this threat to our country, for this spill is a threat. Obama should have an Oil Spill War Room, instead of playing golf, throwing parties or attending a Paul McCartney event, as he will do tonight.

When BP is bankrupt over this and has no more money, who will be paying to clean the oil from the beaches up and down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts? Who will be paying for the unemployment resulting from the oil damaging the fishing and tourist industries?

You, me, our offspring and generations yet to come -- that's who will pay, Dear Reader, for this Administration's inaction. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar's "boot on the neck" is an apt analogy, but not for the administration choking BP into solving the problem, as he used it; rather it should the US citizenry's "boot on the neck" of the Obama Administration to take action that protects our shores from the oil coming our way! Now.

NOW!!!