Reply #172: Where in this thread did anyone say they preferred BP to be in charge? [View All]

What part of "the government doesn't have trained units of people equipped to handle something like this" is hard for you to accept?

What part of "BP actually does have the people and equipment to handle (albeit poorly) something like this" is hard for you to accept?

What part of "the government is not allowed to seize all of BPs stuff and then force their employees to do their bidding" do you not get?

I think we all agree that BP can't handle this. But in order to know that (consider NOTHING of this magnitude has happened before) we had to actually see that inability in action. Otherwise, I guess we could just try nuking the damn thing and dealing with whatever could go wrong there later, right? Is that what you are suggesting? Because aside from that, there is nothing else the military is equipped to do.

I don't prefer BP in charge and I'd love for the government to actually be able to swoop in, kick their asses aside and save the day. But thats also "la la land" thinking. And most of the people criticizing the administrations response, when faced with this question of "what else are they suppose to do?" either have to admit that they have no friggin' clue what else the Whitehouse could be doing to stop the gusher or they have to embrace that same kind of "la la land" thinking themselves, which in either case, still does nothing to stop an oil volcano 5,000 feet under the ocean floor.