Obtaining natural resources and transporting it is risky business

Let's posit three questions:

When a tractor trailer that's transporting dangerous chemicals and jackknifes on a highway, does the government shut down future transportation of dangerous chemicals?

When a passenger airliner crashes, does the government shut down all flights and airports?

When a freight train carrying deadly gas derails and spills the contents, causing a nearby town to be evacuated, does the government cease all further transportation of deadly gas and the railroads?

You get my point and you already know the answer.

Yet, with the Deepwater Horizon explosion resulting in millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, the president claims this is the reason why we need to stop using oil and use "renewable" energy sources; in other words, in his ideological view, cap and trade needs to be made into law. Well, Rahm Emmanuel did say never let a crisis go to waste.

In his 18 minute, gibberish laden speech he asserted that oil companies are compelled to drill miles off shore in deep waters because "oil is a finite" source. Not quite. The reason why they have to drill that far off the coast, is due to environmentalist whackjobs that strong armed politicians into forcing them there.

He then made the statement, "I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required." Not only is that unconstitutional, he doesn't have that kind of authority. Being a Constitutional professor, he should know this, but, seeing how he thinks it has a negative Bill of Rights, it's obvious why he wouldn't know it.

And he caps off his feigned outrage by proclaiming that measures will be taken to make sure nothing like this happens again. I realize that his sycophants thinks he's the messiah, but I doubt he can prevent something like this happening again. After all, he did say his powers weren't unlimited.

The fact is that blame can be spread everywhere, including the government. Particularly when the government turned down assistance from the Dutch on the third day of this disaster, citing the Jones Act that was created by Woodrow Wilson to protect labor unions. President Bush tossed this maritime law into the dust bin after Katrina, why Obama won't do it is most likely due to protecting his labor union support base.

The bottom line is cap the hole, clean the mess and then assign blame later.