Time for Thorns

Remember the spill-response bill meeting the White House had in late June?   Chris Horner  showed why it was nothing of the sort.

Or His Oneness telling Republicans at his White House health care meeting that bringing the actual bill was  “using a prop”?

Well,  his supposed trade meeting with South Korea has been a bust,  too,  because   Korea’s too green to allow His Oneness to sign a trade agreement the Bush Administration had ready in 2007!  But he has to protect the  labor unions,  you know.

As Charles Krauthammer so memorably said Thursday night on FOX,   Obama thinks he can reinvent the world.   Truth be told,  His Oneness believes he can alter reality itself,  which isn’t actually so difficult as long as you persist in magical thinking.

Here’s the link to the BP report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster,  if you feel like wading through its nearly 200 pages.    I don’t,  at the moment.

h/t Daniel Foster at The Corner

What interests me in  this report was that Thad Allen is sending letters to BP.    Why the hell is the National Incident Commander using snail mail?   To create a paper trail for the lawsuits?

h/t Daniel Foster at The Corner.

The current  test results on the new cap are  less than optimal.  Still, the news is better than it was in that the cap is thus  far holding.,  which is great,  but leaves  other problems unsolved.

An LSU professor has designed an elegantly  simple skimmer,  and tested it on a small scale.    Rest assured we won’t see it in action any time soon due to the glacial pace of the government.   In fact, by the time it gets a look,  the spilled oil will have emulsified,  making the oil much harder tor remove from the water.

This video  lays out the time-line of the bungling by His Oneness.

But this video is even  more important,  with ordinary people telling how locals are being destroyed by work rules and retaliated against.

The  new cap is in place  — check  this interview for real-time information on the Gulf spill from Rory Cooper,  director of strategic communications at the Heritage Foundation,  who just spent a week there.  Of course,  His Oneness has found an excuse to delay testing of the cap.

Meanwhile,  the Obama Administration has issued a second drilling moratorium,  which along with the de facto moratorium on shallow-water drilling,  is killing the Gulf Coast  economy.    Not that His Oneness gives a damn,  since only Florida voted for him.  I suspect Democrats will lose a lot of ground  in Louisiana over this.

Sky News has brought up an  interesting point on losing tax revenues which I hadn’t considered.

Read K-Lo’s  comments about this new site,  then go there.  It has by far the most cogent explanation of the Jones Act and its importance.  Yes,  it’s a RightChange site,  but the information is detailed and clear.

Lucianne.com has put up an  aggregated site for matters pertaining to the oil spill,  including videos and live feeds.

I watched the speech.   I thought it was awful.  Quinn Hilyer did a live blog  here,   and  here.   Nobody at The Corner was impressed, beginning with  K-Lo on Twitter,  and  Daniel Foster,  but Iain Murray  summed it up best.

MSNBC had  a trio of unhappy campers:   Chris Matthews,  Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman.  Who’d a thunk it?

And Greg Pollowitz at Planet Gore reports  that AP fact-checked His Oneness!   Gee,  they’re only two years late…

Russ Ferguson is  tired of talk,  while Peter Ferrara calls His Oneness a  green pied piper.    Erik Erickson was  overdone in cliches for me, but correctly mentioned Jimmy Carter,  while Jonah Goldberg saw it all as  presidential goo.   Do read Jonah’s post on what he left out of that New York Post piece,   here.

Jen Rubin  was bored with the performance,  which Victor Davis Hanson found  vague dreaming.    Stephen Green  “drunkblogged” the speech,  which means that if he really was imbibing,  he enjoyed it a lot more than I did.  The Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels  points out the staggering stupidity of His Oneness comparing this to the moon shot,  which we knew how to do,  and claiming we’re going to reduce the per capita carbon consumption of 400 million Americans to what it was immediately after the  War Between the States without a clue.

Watch Charles Krauthammer deliver his view,  here.

Chris Horner takes a whack at  the speech Politico says His Oneness will give Tuesday night.   I’m afraid I would have called the green nonsense pure lies.

ABC’s Jake Tapper has  some thoughts on it as well.

After getting the saw blade stuck,  BP has  managed to shear off the riser,  and can attempt to set a cap on the well.

The cap is now in place,  and oil is beginning to run up the pipe,  but the operation not yet completed,  and there is still a leak.

Gov. Jindal and Sen. Vitter are telling His Oneness not to do further economic damage to their state.   Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich wants Obama to  take over BP,  while Bill Weckesser wonders if there’s a  political reason behind the administration’s foot-dragging response.   Of course,  there is a  ready-made fall guy available to His Oneness.