Oil in the Gulf

Why did it take 8 days for Obama to react to the oil platform issue in the Gulf of Mexico? Where are all the people who bitched about Bush reacting to the Katrina disaster? Bush is still blamed for every frigging problem in the Gulf region. The justice department is sending lawyers. Yay. So BP will get sued. Yay.

I bet the plan is not to put people to work cleaning up the mess. I be the plan is to sue BP for lost time for fishing crews, and whomever else has skin in the game. Then sue them again for cleaning up the mess. That is how Obama thinks. Don't fix the problem, sue people and get them to fix the problem for you. Then, when they do an unsatisfactory job, sue them again.

This is called a bullshit fix. You can bullshit your way out of a financial system failing when the financial system ends up fixing itself. It is more difficult to bullshit your way out of oil washing up on a beach and killing sea life.

Is the U. S. government sending any one to the gulf who will roll their sleeves up and help clean up the mess? I just haven't heard of this happening yet. Am I just missing the announcement? do they expect BP to take care of the details like, Oh, wiping up rocks and clearing off dead creatures?

Exxon fought lawsuits from the Valdez accident for 20 plus years. The law suites cost far more than the clean up. Same is going to happen here.