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Paradise Lost: For The Gulf Coast And The United States
Personal Liberty ^ | 6/30/2010 | John Myers

Posted on 06/30/2010 5:22:50 AM PDT by IbJensen

“So many and so various laws are giv’n; So many laws argue so many sins.” –Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1667

In the epic poem Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve have taken the forbidden fruit and God is asking Adam why. As in Genesis, Adam is passing the buck, telling God that this woman whom He made gave him the fruit. Adam asks God how such evil could have ever been expected from one so lovely.

God tells Adam that the mistake is Adam’s not Eve’s; that Adam was to look out for Eve. God points out that just before Eve met the serpent Adam had told her that they should stick together because the Archangel Raphael had warned them of the serpent. Yet Adam let Eve stray away to meet her fate, the consequences of which changed the world.

And in the end God holds Adam accountable for the loss of paradise.

Obama’s Blame Game Just as Adam did with Eve, President Barack Obama is shifting as much blame as he can onto BP.

According to The Daily Telegraph, BP CEO Tony Hayward’s grilling looked like a kangaroo court. He had to listen to a litany of accusations from United States lawmakers before he was able to say a single word in his own defense: “As far as the members were concerned, he was there to take the blame, whether or not there were mitigating circumstances, or companies other than BP should be sharing culpability. It was as though, in a criminal trial, the victim’s statements were being read out before the verdict had been passed, although that was a foregone conclusion—a resounding ‘guilty.’ A kangaroo court would have offered a fairer hearing.”

What The Daily Telegraph doesn’t understand is that the Congressional inquisition of BP and Big Oil was never intended to be fair. The goal was to keep the elected elites in office and increase their influence.

Just as Adam thought Eve was a perfect foil, so too, does President Obama think that of BP. And he is right. Last week White House spokesman Bill Burton mocked BP’s CEO and all-around English twit Hayward for attending a luxury yacht race on crystal waters while the Gulf of Mexico is turning into the Black Sea.

Burton opined that Hayward should take part in the cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico with the $400,000 yacht he co-owns.

"You know, look, if Tony Hayward wants to put a skimmer on that yacht and bring it down to the Gulf, we’d be happy to have his help," Burton said to a chorus of yuck-yucks in the White House briefing room.

It is almost beyond my comprehension that BP could have such bad PR, from Hayward saying he “wants his life back,” to BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg calling the people of the Gulf Coast, “small people.” But it seems the people of the Gulf are small people, not just to BP but to Obama as well.

The same weekend that Hayward was skipping his yacht, Obama was walking the links. Even as tar balls washed up on Destin, Fort Walton and Panama City Beach, Obama was busy hitting golf balls.

Just as Adam was quick to condemn Eve, the Obama White House sees no hypocrisy in pointing out BP’s sins while denying their own.

Caught Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea One estimate reported by CNN says the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon platform spill could cost just the Florida Gulf Coast alone 200,000 jobs before it is all over. Yet the cost on all of us is only starting to climb. Seafood is becoming more expensive and oil prices have resumed their climb towards $80 per barrel.

It is important to note that before the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, the Gulf of Mexico was producing about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. That is almost a third of domestic production.

If the Obama administration follows through with an overall ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and further tightens the screws on exploration in Alaska, the consequences of this crisis will have a devastating affect on our oil needs.

Last week a New Orleans Federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by the President, saying: “The court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope of the moratorium.”

However Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar responded that he will issue a new order on deepwater offshore oil drilling.

“We see clear evidence every day, as oil spills from BP’s well, of the need for a pause on deepwater drilling,” Salazar said. “Based on this ever-growing evidence, I will issue a new order in the coming days that eliminates any doubt that a moratorium is needed, appropriate, and within our authorities.”

Expect the White House to throw its full weight behind suspension of deep water drilling. And that is bad news for the nation which desperately needs oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Without it we will be left begging OPEC.

Does BO Have A Backdoor Deal With BP? Meanwhile BP has kicked in $20 billion to pay for their mistake. That led Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas) to apologize to BP saying that the $20 billion escrow fund was a “shakedown” by the White House.

I think Barton was not only ignorant of the political winds but was dead wrong. I believe that BP and the White House made a deal for the Federal government to funnel that money back to BP in the back door. One of just a handful of ways for this to work would be to give BP sweet deals on future leases.

In the end it will cost the taxpayers more than it will cost BP. Still, Obama probably considers the price tag a bargain if it can turn the nation Green.

“The motivation for allowing the well to blow and prolonging the crisis isn’t merely financial, it’s political too,” writes Prison Planet. “The motto for the people who pull the strings inside the Obama administration, people like Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton is to ‘never let a good crisis go to waste’—and Obama himself has certainly taken that to heart over the course of the last two months.”

Prison Planet speculates that Obama and BP are joined at the hip: “The Obama administration has aggressively exploited the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to manufacture an artificial urgency in an effort to speed the passage of cap and trade in pursuit of a ‘green economy,’ an agenda firmly supported by the transnational oil corporations Obama is claiming to be reigning in. British Petroleum is one of the founding members of the cap and trade lobby, and has consistently lobbied for greenhouse gas restraints… and subsidies for oil pipelines, solar panels, natural gas and bio-fuels.”

Prison Planet concludes that BP stands to profit to the tune of billions.

Unfortunately what is good for BP is not good for the U.S. Some economic studies have indicated that going Green costs 2.2 jobs for every new job created.

In the Gulf, not only are shores being infected with a killer sludge, but now the Federal government is putting a moratorium on drilling. At stake are hundreds of thousands of jobs for people who have neither the time nor the money to go to yacht races or country clubs. It is their, and even our, paradise lost.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: evilregime; hatesamerica; obama; redstates; soros
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The gulf oil spill disaster was a debacle caused by a leftist Congress....and complicit presidents.

(Can't refer to the current 'occupant' of the White House as he is there illegally. Further, we can't look to him for a solution to this utter mess as he deliberately exacerbates in order to advance his scheme to destroy the nation!)

It is they who have curtailed land based drilling and production. It is they who blockaded construction of any new refineries and is they who have forced drilling far off our coasts. The edict: drill here where there is surely little to no oil!

The evil Congress and their equally numerous and complicit staffers must go!

Congress today has an issue important to the health of our sick nation and to the phony mystery man who illegally sits in the oval office: The Kagaonich Supreme Court nomination. I say filibuster this and send a torpedo into the WH that says 'hell no!'

1 posted on 06/30/2010 5:22:52 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen
“The motivation for allowing the well to blow and prolonging the crisis isn’t merely financial, it’s political too,” writes Prison Planet.

The idea that this was intentional is as crazy and evidence free as the notion that the government was behind 9/11.

Not that this will stop the nuts from opining.

Gotta agree that BP has set new records for making bad PR moves.

2 posted on 06/30/2010 5:28:02 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: IbJensen
To Obuttocks:


3 posted on 06/30/2010 5:30:22 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: IbJensen

Thank you! very good.


4 posted on 06/30/2010 5:32:10 AM PDT by gulfcoast6
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To: Sherman Logan

Maybe he did not schedule the blowout but 70 days to get the foreign skimmer down there? I think he enjoyed destroying the gulf coast.


5 posted on 06/30/2010 5:47:17 AM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: IbJensen

Excellent post !


6 posted on 06/30/2010 5:47:37 AM PDT by jimt
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To: IbJensen
Oil spill, health care fraud, secure the border, Afghanistan, it's all the same. Intentionally do nothing, let the crisis grow and pursue an agenda.
7 posted on 06/30/2010 5:54:30 AM PDT by ryan71 (Let's Roll!)
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To: Sherman Logan
How about sabotage?
8 posted on 06/30/2010 5:57:18 AM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: ryan71

“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”


9 posted on 06/30/2010 5:58:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: IbJensen

Possible, but I think such speculation is premature pending investigation. 11 guys lost their lives in the disaster, and I seriously doubt they were in on it.


10 posted on 06/30/2010 6:01:19 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

The type of investigations conducted be the central socialist government would be the usual deliberately obfuscatory type.


11 posted on 06/30/2010 6:10:01 AM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
I think he enjoyed destroying the gulf coast.

The Arrogant "0ne" may find out the old axiom - "What goes around, comes around".

12 posted on 06/30/2010 6:16:34 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The usurper 0bama regime is a "Clear and Present Danger" to AMERICA! - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: IbJensen

These are just backwards Red States, why should Zero care?


13 posted on 06/30/2010 6:23:29 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Sherman Logan

The explosion was an accident. The subsequent delays and political posturing and refusals of effective procedures have converted a major accident into a regional catastrophe for political benefits to the Kenyan and his anti American program. They are surely far more than typical bureaucratic niggling and inertia.


14 posted on 06/30/2010 6:32:04 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson" to have your econ arguments at hand.)
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To: Republic of Texas

Perhaps the government reactions to the accident are the ultimate Black Man’s revenge on the South for slavery? Soetoro is probably more Arab than black and he is half white and has not Southern antecedents but he consciously adopted the role early on.


15 posted on 06/30/2010 6:35:44 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson" to have your econ arguments at hand.)
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To: Oceander

Is that image available as a bumper sticker?

It sure reminds me of an old billboard for the Broadwater Beach Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi. When I was a child, that billboard sat alongside I-10 eastbound, just west of the Mississippi/Louisiana line. It must’ve been there for a decade or more, with the 1960s graphics captioned “Golf on the Gulf”. Wish I could find an old postcard image online, but no luck.


16 posted on 06/30/2010 7:02:19 AM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: arthurus

Agreed.


17 posted on 06/30/2010 7:28:02 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: arthurus
The explosion was an accident.

Having a tire go flat is an 'accident'. Not having enough air pressure in your spare tire (replacing mud with sea water) and not tightening down the lugnuts (only putting one cement seal in and not letting it set long enough) because you are in a hurry is irresponsible manslaughter.

18 posted on 06/30/2010 7:59:53 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Sherman Logan
The idea that this was intentional is as crazy and evidence free as the notion that the government was behind 9/11.

The 'accident' wasn't intentional.

The MMS allowing 'waivers' of necessary steps in the completion of the drilling of the DH well was intentional.

The Obama administration, the MMS, and BP took unnecessary risks by skimping on the cement job and replacing the mud with sea water too soon. Lives were lost because of it.

They might as well have sent the 11 workers up in an airplane without checking to see if the tanks had any fuel in them.

If you want to see how 'ridiculous' the government can be with enforcing or not enforcing 'safety' rules, remember that the BP workers on the rig were not allowed to have knives to cut themselves free from ropes as the rig sank.

19 posted on 06/30/2010 8:10:27 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Sherman Logan
Gotta agree that BP has set new records for making bad PR moves.

Gotta agree that BP has set new records for violating safety rules.

20 posted on 06/30/2010 8:11:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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