Several days into the oil spill the president of the United States should have called all private companies and all foreign companies, with no prejudice to relations or oil skimming methods.  The Gulf Of Mexico should have quickly looked like a naval war zone, with so many oil skimming ships that it would appear the U.S. was under attack.  By brute force a significant amount of oil would have been cleaned up every single day, while the oil still leaked into the water.  Instead of this solution, the president refused to waive the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 which prohibits foreign owned and built ships from operating in U.S. ports.  I do not portend to know why the president refused to budge on this issue.  Most likely his only interest is in assuring that as many U.S. citizens, particularly union workers, will have work in the cleanup efforts.  Whatever his reason, the president has single-handedly assured that the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, ongoing since April 20th 2010, is at this point fifty times worse than it should have been.  While this leak has technical challenges, there are many companies and countries that have experience in capping wells.  Yes I said it:  The Gulf Of Mexico is being destroyed, with what might as well be a nuclear bomb going off daily, because of the actions, or inaction as it were, of president Barrack Obama.

Next I ask why the president spent time shaking down BP for cleanup funds?  Why is he distracting the CEO of BP whose sole job now is to protect the Gulf of Mexico with any action he can possibly take?  The mayors and governors of the southeastern U.S., through the court system, will eventually get the funds they need.  Right now this disaster needs to be stopped, and it requires the non-existent actions of the president, as well as the army core of engineers, foreign countries and foreign companies.

With a daily disaster occurring in the Gulf Of Mexico, why is the president spending any time or effort on developing a lawsuits to fight Arizona’s new immigration policy.  From The Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Considers Arizona Lawsuit

This disaster may ruin the coast of a large area of the southeastern United States.  Every single day is an emergency day for us Americans.  Yet the president sits around and counts solely on British Petroleum’s solution which might be complete by December 2010.  America,

I am irate.  A significant ecosystem is being destroyed, yet the president of the U.S. is sitting around talking about how bad B.P. is, and how nasty Arizona is.  Was not there a campaign promise about “getting things done.”  With one of the worst disasters in human history, Obama has already proved he cannot get squat done.  How awful.

Can someone smarter than I please calculate the oil leak rate? Take the diameter of the pipe, the reserve pressure, the back-pressure the water exerts, and calculate the flow rate. I have always thought that a simple calculation could be determined and that we can ignore all of these federal government “estimates.”