The third reason it might be very soon.

Grumpy Elder is an accomplished Blogger who uses due diligence with every investigation he pursues.  While a bit lengthy, take the time to read and digest the information provided.

This blog managed to get a little longer than I intended, every time I glance at the news, something else disturbing about the way Obama’s Administration is solving our countries problems comes to light.  Nowhere is that as clear as it is in the Gulf of Mexico.

On April 20, 2010 the Deep Water Horizon, an oil rig leased to British Petroleum, operating in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, burned and sank.   Uncontrolled crude oil has flowed from the blown-out well into the Gulf ever since, creating the one of, if not the worst man made environmental catastrophe in US History.    From Texas to Florida tar balls are washing up on beaches.   The unique cultural heritage of the Louisiana and Mississippi marshes may be lost forever.  The marshes themselves will  take generations to repair themselves.   The breeding grounds and habitat for countless animal species are at best endangered, at worst they may never recover.  Some species will become extinct.  The Gulf provided a critical and abundant food source for the United States and other countries.  Huge parts of the Gulf are now closed to fishing.  We’re told the seafood samples taken so far are safe to eat.  Well maybe,  I don’t know about you, I like my shrimp fried in cooking oil, not raised in crude.

For three months, over and over, initiatives and offers of help to minimize damage and slow the quantities of escaping crude have only been allowed after the administration has no choice.  Here’s one of the more recent examples..

 Sat Jul 10, 11:25 am ET

Atlanta – The Gulf oil spill drama is heating up this weekend.

Call it Top Kill 2.

 Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen gave the thumbs-up Saturday to a proposal by BP to temporarily stop the runaway Macondo well now in its 80th day spewing up to 60,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico. The maneuver requires the company’s robot proxies at the bottom of the Gulf to remove the current containment cap, which was placed on the well last month and is siphoning up to 25,000 barrels of oil a day to ships on the surface. That means the geyser will gush unabated before the new cap is slipped over the top of the faulty blow-out preventer on the seafloor a mile beneath the Gulf.

The Gulf oil spill’s impact on nature The tighter fitting cap will be attached to a newly-arrived vessel, the Helix Producer, which, along with two ships currently storing and burning oil, could increase the total oil-capture capacity to 53,000 barrels of oil a day, possibly containing all of the oil spewing from the well. If successful, the cap will also give scientists the most accurate measure yet of the geyser’s exact flow rate, which will be critical in determining final damages that BP and potentially some of its subcontractors will have to pay as a result of the spill.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100710/ts_csm/313455_1

Sounds like great news, 53,000 barrels approaches the top end of current   estimates of the uncontrolled… But it could have been sooner, much sooner, according to the owner of the Helix Producer

 BP waited six weeks to accept Helix Energy Solutions Inc.’s offer to help gather oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, opting to rely on vessels with less than half the capacity to capture crude from its leaking well.

Helix, the Houston-based owner of floating oil platforms and subsea wells, offered its Helix Producer I vessel in late April to help BP collect oil that has been gushing from the Macondo well since an April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 workers, Chief Executive Officer Owen Kratz said today in an interview. BP initially declined the offer, he said.

BP notified Helix June 10 that it wanted to lease the Helix Producer I platform to augment two other vessels that are receiving oil from the Macondo well, Kratz said. The delay meant Helix had to construct a collection tube from spare parts that will be plugged into a pipe just one-sixth the diameter of the main opening atop the the well, he said.

Bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-06/BP-squandered-chance-to-capture-more-oil-from-well-helix-CEO-kratz-says.htm http://www

So the Administration (Remember, they’re in charge) “allowed” BP to decline an offer, that had the potential to capture almost 90% of the escaping oil, while they dithered with a system that was collecting less than half the total amount.  So much for Presidential Ass Kicking.  That one decision, may have allowed over a million barrels of crude to unnecessarily pollute the Gulf..

Remember when Governor Jindal had to defy the president in order to get protective dunes built?

 BP Oil Spill: Gov. Jindal Asks for Permission to Build Barrier Islands

As thick oil flows into the sensitive marshes of the Louisiana coast, Gov. Bobby Jindal called on the White House and BP today to either stop the oil spill or get out of his way.

 Jindal is still waiting for the federal government to provide millions of feet in boom and to approve an emergency permit for a state plan to dredge and build new barrier islands to keep the oil from reaching the marshes and wetlands.

Jindal is so desperate for the islands, he’s said he’ll build them even if it sends him to jail.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-asks/story?id=10731680

Or wondering why it to took weeks of public pressure to get the Government to ease up on Jones act restrictions? 

The governments answer was,   “it’s not affecting anything”, but to shut people up, on June 15^th    the Coast Guard announced they were expediting Jones Act requests.  In the announcement they touted spun the 15 foreign flagged vessels working the scene as proof nothing had been held up because of the law.  That’s what the Coast Guard let’s take a look at the reality.  

Jones Act: Maritime politics strain Gulf oil spill cleanup

The Coast Guard Friday “redoubled” efforts to keep the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from impacting Gulf states by calling in more skimming boats and equipment from the Netherlands, Norway, France, and Spain after previously telling one Dutch official “Thanks, but no thanks,” to an offer of help.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0619/Jones-Act-Maritime-politics-strain-Gulf-oil-spill-cleanup

Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup  By TOM BREEN, Associated Press Writer Tom Breen, Associated Press Writer – Fri Jul 2, 4:44 pm ET

NEW ORLEANS – BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Coast Guard said there have been 107 offers of help from 44 nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted. The vast majority are still under review, according to a list kept by the State Department.

And in recent days and weeks, for reasons BP has never explained, many fishing boats hired for the cleanup have done a lot of waiting around.

A report prepared by investigators with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., detailed one case in which the Dutch government offered April 30 to provide four oil skimmers that collectively could process more than 6 million gallons of oily water a day. It took seven weeks for the U.S. to approve the offer.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Thursday scorned the idea that “somehow it took the command 70 days to accept international help.”

“That is a myth,” he declared, “that has been debunked literally hundreds of times.”

He said 24 foreign vessels were operating in the Gulf before this week. He did not specifically address the Dutch vessels.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill

BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal’s Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard

By DAVID MUIR and BRADLEY BLACKBURN

June 18, 2010

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state’s oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor’s wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore

“It’s the most frustrating thing,” the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. “Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges.”

Watch “World News” for David Muir’s report from Louisiana tonight.

Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP’s oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of

What a great emergency response, day eighty… The Administration boasts about the two dozen foreign vessels working the scene, but didn’t bother to mention the hundred plus offers from forty four counties that haven’t been even been reviewed.  I’ve heard better spin from crack addicts. 

Speaking of drug addicts, there’s a simple rule of thumb; if their lips are moving, there’s a lie involved.  I wonder if the same can be said about Nobel Prize winners.  Al Gore, Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar

 ADVISERS CITED BY SALAZAR SAY DRILLING BAN IS BAD IDEA

Consultants sign letter disavowing six-month ban

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

By David Hammer

Staff writer

Members of a panel of experts brought in to advise the Obama administration on how to address offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon disaster now say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar falsely implied they supported a six-month drilling moratorium they actually oppose.

Salazar’s May 27 report to President Barack Obama said a panel of seven experts “peer reviewed” his recommendations, which included a six-month moratorium on all ongoing drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet. That prohibition took effect a few days later, but the angry panel members and some others who contributed to the Salazar report said they had reviewed only an earlier version of the secretary’s report that suggested a six-month moratorium only on new drilling, and then only in waters deeper than 1,000 feet.

“We broadly agree with the detailed recommendations in the report and compliment the Department of Interior for its efforts,” a joint letter from the panelists to various politicians says. “However, we do not agree with the six month blanket moratorium on floating drilling. A moratorium was added after the final review and was never agreed to by the contributors.”

The article concludes with;

The National Academy of Engineering provided seven reviewers for Salazar’s safety report, and the academy’s Ken Arnold, an oil and gas industry consultant, wrote a scathing cover letter Tuesday that concludes: “The Secretary should be free to recommend whatever he thinks is correct, but he should not be free to use our names to justify his political decisions.”

Newspaper and individual accounts of the President’s Mis- Handling of the Gulf situation could already fill a small library.  Is it stupid blundering and incompetence?  Is it indifference or lack of concern?  Is it deliberate obstructionism?

The hint may be in the Administration’s policy of never letting a good crisis go to waste.  For almost three months the Administration has been hindering implementation and deployment equipment and procedures designed to slow the flow of oil and minimize damage.  For three months,  he hasn’t missed any opportunities use the situation in speech after speech to push his personal agenda….

Risking or endangering the security of the United States, for personal gain; political or otherwise, is a clear violation of the Presidents oath of office.  That seems to apply to the situation along the Mexican Border and in the Gulf of Mexico. .

If the President has knowingly permitted the United States Attorney General to commit a felony, the selective prosecution of crimes base solely on race, the President has violated his oath of office and possibly committed a felony himself.

Since no foreign country,( more specifically; a country we at war with)  is benefiting by the President’s behavior, it does not meet the standard required  for Treason.

 His actions however, more than meet the requirements for the United States House of Representatives initiate a full scale investigation with an eye towards impeachment. 

When is it time?  As soon as the Congress Convenes in January.