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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: tejek who wrote (81861)6/26/2010 2:38:30 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
And why I get so upset with your blindness. They are just sitting there waiting for a disaster. I figured it was something like that. Those are not valid reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you not understand this is a FUCKING NATIONAL EMERGENCY LIKE WWII. NO risk anywhere is nearly as great as the gulf. So we just have to risk taking them away.

That is the risk Tad Allen and I guess Obama would not take.

And do you not understand, Obama just had to command it and they would have moved them. He could have done it by executive action as a national emergency. He should do it now.

Look at what FDR demanded at the beginning of WWII! And he got it done.

Gheesh. State regulations indeed! They are like nothing.

>>Why would you not find out the facts instead of assuming the worst? That's what I find most disingenuous about your rants.

Those skimmers are placed in ports all over the country in case of oil spills in those ports or their surrounding areas. Federal and state regulations require that those skimmers remain in those ports. Now, like any regulations, they can be overridden but as I reminded you in another post, Obama is president of 50 states, not just ones in the Gulf area. And while the need for those skimmers is low, Murphy's Law dictates that as soon as he moved those skimmers to the Gulf, some oil tanker would crack a hull in Long Beach harbor or some oil rig sould start leaking in the Santa Barbara Channel. So wisely the Obama administration found other sources for those skimmers.
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