GOP Solutions for the Gulf

In light of all the nay saying about Obama’s failure to pull a solution out of thin air to stop the GOP gusher, let’s consider the GOP solutions.  The first, as always, is Drill Baby Drill.

A U.S. judge promised to rule by Wednesday on an oil industry challenge to the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman heard opening statements in New Orleans on Monday in a case in which more than a dozen companies involved in offshore drilling operations called the ban "arbitrary and capricious."

The lawsuit is the first case seeking to reverse Obama’s May 28 moratorium, which the companies say will force job cuts in the labor force needed to service offshore oil platforms. The ban has caused the shutdown of 33 deepwater drilling rigs.

Obama imposed the six-month ban after an explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20 killed 11 workers and ruptured a well owned by energy giant BP, unleashing millions of gallons of crude into the ocean.

The Obama administration argues that the moratorium is necessary to prevent further accidents while a presidential commission investigates the cause of the BP spill.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a Republican critic of the Obama administration’s handling of the spill, has sided with the companies in the case. Jindal argued that the ban could cripple the offshore industry… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Common Dreams>

The danger of a recurrence aside, the GOP is ignoring the $100 million fund Obama negotiated with BP solely for unemployed oil workers.

Rachel Maddow presented Rep. Phil Gingrey’s plan and others.

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Glen Beck is still a fool.

And speaking of fools, Keith Olbermann has the latest from Mooseolini, aka Drill Baby Dingbat.

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Like Keith, I have nothing against prayer.  I have prayed regularly for the gulf victims, but depending a miracle in this case is the epitome of stupidity.  I would think that when asking God to undo the consequences of unrepentant greed, she is likely to say no.

Then there’s this absurd notion that liberals hate Palin, because she’s beautiful.  When I first saw her, I admit, I thought that the GOP was using the eye-candy approach that seems to work for Faux Noise.  But as I became familiar with her, and the spiritual side of her nature began to show through, the ugliness within her outshone whatever physical attributes she has.