Cue the music of Gilbert and Sullivan--one could almost write a patter-song from this dolt's use of English.
From Friday's briefing by the one and only Admiral Allen:
OPERATOR: Your next question is from Carol Rosenberg with the Miami Herald.
Q: Admiral, thanks for taking my call. Whatever came of the idea to have the Navy provide skimmers to this effort? And have you guys waived the Jones Act? And if so, where are the foreign vessels?
ADMIRAL ALLEN: Carol, at the outset of this event, we went to the Navy supervisor of salvage and asked for any oil skimming capability they had that they could give to us. The supervisor of salvage is the one that contains most of the Navy's skimming and booming response capability, and they worked with us on many of these large spill responses. And they, in effect, at that point, released all their strategic stockpiles of boom and skimming equipment to us.
The discussions we are having with the Navy and other folks right now is the availability of skimmers that are on standby because they might be needed for a spill someplace else and how we might go about assessing the availability of those resources. So I would separate out the resources that the Navy had that they've already given to us and the discussions we're having across the entire country where we have equipment that's out there as a requirement—legal requirement to cover spill response of those areas and how we might free those up, and that's a work in progress inside the administration right now.
OS again airs his suspicion that the White House desires a truly major catastrophe, for whatever perverse reasons it may have. What else could explain this sort of behavior? Read the transcript, and note the good admiral's complete lack of urgency.
Meanwhile, the situation is truly deteriorating along the Gulf Coast.
If this situation were in Lake Michigan, and the oil were coming ashore along the Chicago waterfront, what would the response of the Obama White House be?
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