BP oil spill may not be plugged until Christmas.

From Guardian.co.uk:

One of the world's leading authorities on oil well management has warned it could take until Christmas to cap the Gulf of Mexico spill that is devastating the southern coast of America – and BP's reputation.

Nansen Saleri, a Gulf drilling expert, said he hoped BP would meet its August timetable for capping the blown-out well, but made it clear success was not certain.

"I know it is a frightening assessment but everyone should be prepared for a worst-case scenario, and that could mean a Christmas timeframe," said Saleri, chief executive of the consultancy group Quantum Reservoir Impact. "The probable outcome is much better but the technological challenges … are enormous."

The futures of BP and of wildlife around the Gulf of Mexico are largely dependent on the rapid success of two "relief" wells that are being drilled in an attempt to halt anywhere between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels of oil a day that is flowing out of the stricken Macondo subsea hole.

Saleri, who dealt personally with four blowouts during a career with Saudi Aramco and Chevron, said the BP fire and spill was the worst he had seen. He believes it may cause more damage than the Ixtoc I blowout 30 years ago, which is regarded as the most damaging of its kind.

Just when you cannot believe that the news about this spill could get any worse.

I was trying to imagine HOW this tragedy might affect the elections in November if it is still unresolved, and to be honest I have no idea if this hurts the Democrats more than the Republicans, the other way around, or if EVERYBODY gets smeared by the spill.

It seems that the person who may suffer the biggest backlash will surely be the President, and we can all be thankful that HE is not up for re-election right now.  I absolutely do not believe that is fair, but he is the face of government, and government surely does not have control of this situation.

Obama is trying to get some things in place to help the people affected by the spill however.  For one thing he is getting ready to force BP to set aside 20 billion dollars for clean up and damages, as well as preparing for the long term effects this spill might have on our country.

“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11,” the president said in an Oval Office interview on Friday, "I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.”

But with all of this focus on President Obama, and his administration's response to this calamity, I think we need to be reminded as to just how we came to be in this predicament in the first place.

You may want to sit down for this one. Sarah Palin is actually lecturing Barack Obama on HOW to deal with BP! No I am NOT kidding!

(Hat tip to the Facebook page "Stop the oil spill by stuffing BP executives into the leaking pipe" for the picture)

Once again Sarah has written a well thought out and reasoned treatise in a major magazine examining all of the pros and cons of Obama's handling of the oil spill and coming up with an insightful response.

Just kidding!

In reality the crazy lady opened the Palin Compound dungeon and dragged her barely conscious Facebook writer out into the Alaska daylight, where she then shackled her arms and feet to a computer desk and screamed at her in unintelligible Glossolalia until she typed out the following post. (Okay maybe it did not happen EXACTLY that way, but that is how I envision it.)

In this latest mean girl post Palin gleefully jumps on our President for not talking to Tony Hayward CEO of BP in person, as if sharing tea and crumpets with the guy who once said "I just want my life back" would somehow magically plug up the oil spewing hole in the ocean and release little pixies to gently scrub all of the pelicans and little fishies clean of oil and return them to their habitat none the worse for wear. I think one of those rare Wasilla unicorns might have told her that.

The recently enhanced BOOB goes on to condemn Obama for giving BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation, 

What she purposefully fails to mention is that the Mineral's Management Service who provided that exemption is still packed to the gills with oil company whores from the Bush Administration.

And this is the same Mineral's Management Service by the way that did THREE environmental assessments in 2007 and downplayed the possibility of a "large spill" as well as saying that if there WERE a spill it would not be much of a problem to clean up.

Here read it for yourself:

While the MMS assessed the environmental impact of drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico on three occasions in 2007 -- including a specific evaluation of BP's Lease 206 at Deepwater Horizon -- in each case it played down the prospect of a major blowout.

In one assessment, the agency estimated that "a large oil spill" from a platform would not exceed a total of 1,500 barrels and that a "deepwater spill," occurring "offshore of the inner Continental shelf," would not reach the coast. In another assessment, it defined the most likely large spill as totaling 4,600 barrels and forecast that it would largely dissipate within 10 days and would be unlikely to make landfall.

"They never did an analysis that took into account what turns out to be the very real possibility of a serious spill," said Holly Doremus, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley who has reviewed the documents.

THAT is who was advising Obama on the issue of granting an exemption to BP.  And Sarah Palin damn well knows it!

Federal officials recruit James Cameron to help with oil spill. What the hell, dropping the Titanic on it might be as viable as anything else they have tried.

From the AP:

"Top kill" didn't stop the Gulf oil spill. How about something "titanic"?

Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The "Avatar" and "Titanic" director was among a group of scientists and other experts who met Tuesday with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil leak.

Did you see "Avatar"?  James Cameron can do anything!

All kidding aside I did not realize that things had got this desperate. 

However if Cameron can do it his next movie is going to be the blockbuster to beat all blockbusters!

James Carville: BP is "going to take you (Obama Administration) down"!

I have tried to give my President the benefit of the doubt but I am no longer able to figure out why in the hell he is not doing EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER to get a handle on this crisis in the Gulf of Mexico!

James Carville is a crazy Cajun lunatic sometimes, but he is absolutely correct about how badly our government is handling this.  The Obama administration is committing political suicide and they are using BP's illegally purchased handgun to do it.

WTF? Does the Coast Guard work for BP now?

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You know I think it is time for somebody in the Obama administration to get a handle on what is happening in the Gulf. I expected this kind of crap with Bush, but NOT in 2010!

After the devastating environmental damage BP caused in the Gulf of Mexico who could possible see fit to protect them from paying for their carelessness? By the way, have you met Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski? Update!

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Lisa Murkowski has sold her very soul to the oil companies long ago.

She even allowed energy company lobbyists to help craft an amendment which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

This pathetic excuse for a public servant does not even pretend to work for the people of Alaska anymore.  Her absolute servitude to the energy companies that finance her campaigns is well known in Alaska.

And the sad thing is that she will easily win reelection because the money that the oil companies will pay to keep her in place will easily outpace what any challenger could possibly come with to fight her.

Update: Just for fun guess whose husband was the manager for BP in charge of testing the blow out preventers before he left his job to follow her on the campaign trail?  Bingo!

Stay tuned kids, this story has legs!