Those permits are supposed to facilitate regulatory processes ~ and when you tell folks up the line that's not what's happening, they usually give you the fish-eye and suggest you are not intelligent enough to comprehend the issues here.
You'll see various Obamistas over the next few months explaining why they dragged their feet and saying "but it was good for you".
It's moments like these that PROVE why not having qualified people on the job at the top of the agencies involved in the disaster is a really bad idea. Maybe James Carville can figure it out, but it seems like the Democrat party is satisfied to let one of its many "special interests" provide a guy/gal with a passing interest in the topic and then give him/her the job. They then stand around ignoring that person's performance no matter what happens. In the meantime small-business people, workers, farmers, mothers, widows, infants and children can suffer while their President takes yet another vacation somewhere.
“...and when you tell folks up the line that’s not what’s happening, they usually give you the fish-eye and suggest you are not intelligent enough to comprehend the issues here.”
Obama basically said in his presser today that anyone that questions his handling of this crisis is just stupid. THE MAN TRULY IS A THIN SKINNED LITTLE SOCIOPATH!
Regarding permits. People in Louisiana want to dredge up sand berms to block the entrances to marshlands. This is still being reviewed, and requires approval by the Army Corp of Engineers. Aren’t these the folks who brought us the dikes and barriers that failed in Katrina? On the other hand there may be legitimate issues regarding cutting of access behind barrier islands for a long time. It may lead to stagnent water and death of creatures, as well as preventing them from going in and out of the bays according to their life cycles. I’ll be interested to see how this plays out.