Drudge is highlighting a report from Louisiana describing how the Coast Guard ordered state barges to stop vacuuming up the oil that was getting into the marshes there. The barges were put into action by the Governor Jindal when the federal government was unable to get into motion to clean up the oil and to prevent more from getting into the fragile marshes. According to the report, the reason for the stoppage was that the coast guard had to verify that the barges had life vests and fire extinguishers on them. Rather than just having an inspector look for the vests and extinguishers during the cleanup, the coast guard ordered the barges to stop work. Then no inspector showed up. When Governor Jindal hear of this he went ballistic and tried to contact the Coast Guard and the White House. No one at either location would take responsibility to get the barges up and running again. After two days of pushing by Jindal, he finally won approval for the barges to start up again.
This is clear evidence of the total incompetence of Obama and his people. How can there be no one who can respond to a governor about a critical item like this? How many more gallons of crude is now in the marshes than would have been had these barges been at work? How many more animals will die? How much longer will it take for the area to recover. Why does Obama not have someone in charge on location? And last, but not least, who got fired for stopping the clean up over life vests which could just have been brought to the barges even without an inspection if there was any doubt.
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