There are consequences to having a president with no executive experience. Here is a roundup of items roughly listed by chronology.
1. The Dutch offer to help 3 days after the explosion rebuffed:
2. President Obama knew how bad the leak was before the rest of us.
3. A manufacturer in Maine saw the disaster and responded by making Oil Boom. As of 11 Jun, the US Coast guard still doesn’t even know about Maine’s oil boom manufacturing. More here.
3a. It turns out, BP has already been there.
3b. A couple of times. The original story.
The Money Line:
4. President Obama wanted to know whose “ass to kick” on June 7th
The Money quote here:
5. He claimed to know whose ass to kick then. But to kick an ass, you have to meet with them, it is now Jun 12 and Obama still hasn’t spoken with BP’s CEO. Here are some links of Obama’s pronouncements in the absence of dialogue:
On Firing the CEO of BP:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/09/barack-obama-bp-tony-hayward
Nice round up:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/06/09/why-wont-obama-meet-with-the-ceo-of-bp/
1. The Dutch offer to help 3 days after the explosion rebuffed:
2. President Obama knew how bad the leak was before the rest of us.
3. A manufacturer in Maine saw the disaster and responded by making Oil Boom. As of 11 Jun, the US Coast guard still doesn’t even know about Maine’s oil boom manufacturing. More here.
3a. It turns out, BP has already been there.
3b. A couple of times. The original story.
The Money Line:
Two weeks ago BP sent a quality control person to Maine, looked at the factory and was impressed by what he saw. Packgen was feeling confident.By the way, the story was reported on Jun 3rd, meaning two weeks prior was May 20th. By 11 Jun, no one has yet told the US Coast Guard about the oil boom sitting in a warehouse in Maine.
That confidence has now turned to frustration. Packgen says BP controls who the boom suppliers are going to be--and they have yet to approve Packgen's design.
John: "We're going to allow BP who caused the problem to monitor and determine who gets the money and how that money is spent and how the land is going to be protected?"
4. President Obama wanted to know whose “ass to kick” on June 7th
The Money quote here:
“I was down there a month ago, before most of these talkin’ heads were even paying attention to the gulf. A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standin’ in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. and I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”A month ago? Like early May?
5. He claimed to know whose ass to kick then. But to kick an ass, you have to meet with them, it is now Jun 12 and Obama still hasn’t spoken with BP’s CEO. Here are some links of Obama’s pronouncements in the absence of dialogue:
On Firing the CEO of BP:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/09/barack-obama-bp-tony-hayward
Nice round up:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/06/09/why-wont-obama-meet-with-the-ceo-of-bp/
