Patrik Jonsson is reporting in the Christian Science Monitor that the Coast Guard has called in oil skimming vessels from the Netherlands, Norway and elsewhere in an effort to get ahead of the oil spill in the Gulf. In the same article, the reports are that the Jones Act has not been waived -- which would make the use of these skimming ships illegal. Texas Senator Hutchinson has introduced a bill in Congress to temporarily rescind the Jones Act so that foreign ships can be used. Such legislation owuld not be necessary is Obama would just use his power to waive the act.
It is hard to imagine that nine weeks after the spill, it is still impossible to know if these additional skimmers are actually on their way to the Gulf. Couldn't someone from the White House make an announcement? We don't need a speech from the Oval Office. We don't even need a press briefing by Propagndist in chief Robert Gibbs. How about just a written press release. wouldn't that be nice! don't the boneheads in Washington think that the rest of the American people deserve to know how the spill is being handled?
This has to be the single most incompetent administration in modern times. Maybe James Buchanan was worse, but it is a close call.
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