Obvious Desperation In The Gulf

When our government calls in the Hollywood film director James Cameron to brainstorm with them on the Gulf oil spill, you know that this Administration is at the end of its idea chain. This is the best we can muster? And, from the people that Obama claims to have been in charge from day one! How sad it is that they can't do anything else but bring in an "underwater" film maker to help solve one of the most massive oil spill disasters in the history of the world.

This spill requires years of knowledge of both the oil industry, hydrology, and hydraulic engineering to even understand what is going on at that well head; especially with the intense undersea water pressures that are involved with working a mile below the sea. I'll give you the fact that Cameron is a trained electrical engineer and that he has used that background to do some remarkable film work. However, his real profession, film making, with some smattering of electrical engineering and tinkering around hardly gives him the creds to work on a problem of this magnitude. I suppose we could call in Beau and Jeff Bridges too, because their father Lloyd starred in that famous TV series, "Sea Hunt".

We need the very best in the "oil industry" (not Hollywood) working on this disaster. A call out should have been made early on to Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Chevron and others; and, additionally, to some of this country's best oil service companies like Bolt Technology and Dawson Geophysical to help fix the problem. And, yes, Halliburton too. But, no! Instead, it was nine days into the spill and a few more golf games and fund raisers before Obama even seemed to be engaged. So, now, more than 40 days into the mess, we're enlisting the help of someone who is an avowed left-winger with past donations to the Democrats and Obama? Does everything with the President have to come down to one form or another of political payback? This is unbelievably silly and stupid!