Underwater Gusher
May
8
Written by:
5/8/2010 9:51 AM
Thanks to McClatchy News via Stand Up Seattle some details on cleanup and coverup efforts have finally emerged. Extreme depth and bad weather combine with EPA authorization of the wrong dispersant and Government irresponsibility to predict a bleak future. That last agent, the Government, is the most telling for it has been handing out environmental waivers as it hands out debt. We stand naked and unprepared in the coming confrontation with a Mexico in revolt and with police in riot gear herding us into detention. Grandstanding there, but here's the point: The Obama administration by its handling of the blowout has cast away what little faith we had in it. Who is in charge? Nobody.