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After months of listening to Obama pontificate about the worst environmental disaster in the history of mankind, it turns out the oil just may be gone.\u00a0 \u00a0When you think about it, the damage did seem to be limited to a relatively small area of Louisiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ynews_excl\/ynews_excl_sc3270<\/a><\/p>\n

My own antenna was a little late on this one.\u00a0 Anderson Cooper had a real expert on his show shortly after the leak began.\u00a0 This guy calmly explained that this was no big deal, that the dispersants were working well and that the bacteria would gear up and eat it all with no major problems.\u00a0 He said the Gulf of Mexico is a really big place and it could absorb a lot of oil without much impact.\u00a0 Of course Anderson Cooper was hoping for doom and gloom, so this guy was quickly shoved aside and ignored.\u00a0 It turns out he was one of the few people who understood the problem from the start. \u00a0\u00a0I wish I had paid more attention.<\/p>\n

I should have noticed that the media coverage was following the same pattern.\u00a0 A couple of nice gory pictures of pelicans slimed from head to toe creating the impression that the world was coming to an end.\u00a0 In hindsight, it seems pretty obvious that we were seeing the same pictures over and over and over again and listening to the same malcontents exploit the opportunity to bitch on national TV. \u00a0\u00a0I should have known better.\u00a0 \u00a0After all, this is the same group of clowns who portrayed Katrina as the worst emergency response effort in history, while ignoring what just may have been the best mass rescue effort in history.\u00a0 But it was so much fund watch Obama step on his gonads that I failed to notice that there appeared to be no there, there.<\/p>\n

Everyone, and I mean everyone, was hoping for a real disaster.\u00a0 Republicans wanted this to be bad so that it would prove that Obama wasn\u2019t up to the job.\u00a0 They got their wish.\u00a0 Obama botched this from day one.\u00a0 Now, after he has declared this to be the worst environmental disaster in the history of mankind, it turns out we just get lightly oiled fish for supper.\u00a0 Democrats wanted this to be a real disaster so they could ban all oil drilling and force us to buy those handy dandy Chevy Volts for a cool $41k.\u00a0 Just because the car only has a range of about 40 miles doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not a great deal!\u00a0 The media wanted a disaster because their ratings were in the tank.\u00a0 Even the people in Louisiana wanted a big disaster, because big disasters often result in big payouts.\u00a0 The most pissed people in America are all those attorneys who were licking their chops at all those big claims.<\/p>\n

In the end, it appears that BP got it pretty right from the start.\u00a0 If the Obama administration hadn\u2019t intervened and stopped BP from using those nasty dispersants, there might have been very little environmental damage at all:<\/p>\n

\u00a0http:\/\/www.maineville.com\/detail\/144655.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I should have known better.\u00a0 I mean seriously, when has Obama gotten anything right?\u00a0\u00a0 Exactly.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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