\nthe damn hole” <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
Presidents don’t do impotence—usually. But while In his Washington They got nothin’<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n The speculation in Washington is that if BP can’t The feds do have the authority<\/a>. But what would they do if they took charge of Got Andrew Revkin, in his Dot Earth blog in the New York Times, <\/em>wants a swat team, of Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) wants to send in the troops. Screw There is one other option out there, a dark option that Of course, resorting to nukes could be a tough call … using nuclear weapons, even for peaceful purposes, would be Oh, and by the way your poll numbers suck <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Surprise, surprise. More than half the Mr. President, plug that damn hole.\n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n The 7 dumbest things in BP’s spill response plan<\/a><\/p>\n The gulf oil spill in video<\/a><\/p>\n BP gears up for ‘top kill’ to plug oil leak, despite doubts<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBP pipes spew non-stop on webcams, President Obama reduced to sending Cabinet
\nmembers to the scene where they hold daily press briefings to explain what BP
\nis (or is not) doing. Should we be surprised then at Obama’s “Plug the damn
\nhole” outburst at a recent White House meeting<\/a>? \n<\/p>\n
\nPost <\/em>blog<\/a> Joel Achenbach calls BP the ballerina and the federal government the Stage
\nMom. But here’s an alt analogy: BP is the teen learning to drive and the
\ngovernment is the parent in the front seat. Only he doesn’t know how to drive
\neither.\n<\/p>\n
\npull off its “top kill” gambit<\/a> tomorrow, the White House will need to do something dramatic, like take over<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n
\nthe unstoppable spill? The government’s
\ntop man in the field, Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, flat out concedes that
\nthe feds are out of their league-technically-when it comes to plugging the
\ndamn hole<\/a>. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\nany ideas? <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\ngung-ho geologists and engineers<\/a>. David Gergen, writing for CNN, wants to rally
\nthe country’s best and brightest to brainstorm a solution<\/a>. \n<\/p>\n
\nLet the U.S. military take over the cleanup operation<\/a>. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\nthe army, we want Bruce Willis!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\nBP wants nothing to do with<\/a>. Nuclear weapons. Hey, we’re serious here,
\npeople! The Soviet Union has used nukes four times in the past to cap leaking
\noil and gas wells. Sure it sounds crazy, but according to Russian writer
\nVladimir Lagovsky<\/a>, the explosion “compresses the
\nrock and squeezes the channel shut.” \n<\/p>\n
\nfor a Nobel Peace Prize winner, notes Christopher Brownfield, writing in The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\nproblematic for a president who stood in Prague and declared that the world
\nshould rid itself of such devices. If President Obama were to use a nuke to
\nclose this well, he would give other states an excuse to seek nuclear weapons
\nof their own.\n<\/p>\n
\npeople surveyed in the latest CNN poll<\/a> are unhappy with the way Obama is handling the Gulf disaster.\n<\/p>\n
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