Or what?

Apparently, the Administration has written a letter to BP telling it to come up with a faster fix to the leaking oil rig by today. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/plans_sets_bp_hour_deadline_to_produce_pABJ5jmI9nfAV9ZaZ09RDM My question is - what is the unspoken "or else"? Or else what, Mr. President? Is the federal bureaucracy going to take over capping the leak? Wouldn't that take time away from their surfing the Internet for p orn (word mispelled to avoid inappropriate ads) on tax-payer dollars? http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/05/porn_sec_style_denver_law_firm_files_federal_suit_for_ids_of_website_peepers.php (and I am sure that it is not just the SEC employees doing this, but probably federal employees in all agencies).

Now, let's be realistic: BP has the most vested interest in getting this well capped and getting the cleanup done. President Obama has shown he has very little vested interest in it. Examples: After the April 20 explosion he didn't get his rump (I won't be so crude as to use his language) down to the Gulf - he "minimized" the situation and went on vacation. http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/x1602635512/Mazzaglia-Government-just-cant-fix-it Then, there was the federal government's delay in responding to Louisiana's request to build barrier island berms to protect delicate marshes from the oil that was rapidly approaching. Almost seven weeks later, there finally seems to be some movement on the issue, but too late to protect those marshes, which now only adds millions, if not billions to the clean-up costs - yup, government efficiency in action for you!). http://www.theind.com/news/6342-state-to-build-sand-berms-along-barrier-islands And, really, do we want to trust the federal government to have anything to do with this capping and cleanup when it is unable to run Social Security, monitor the Stock Exchange, run Medicare, Medicaid, and the Postal Service correctly? Ha! I have more faith in BP in solving this never-before-seen crisis and doing it quicker and more efficiently than government. And, again, we should be loathe to cut back on federal employees' Internet surfing time by making them actually work for the taxpayer dollars they take form us as salaries and benefits.

On a related note, the Democratic Party sent Congresswoman Debbi Wasserman Schultz to Meet the Press today to shill (or rather shrill) the Party's position on a multitude of issues. First of all, the woman is completely and utterly rude in my opinion. Not only did she interrupt Carly Fiorina several times, she even had the chutzpah to interrupt the host, David Gregory! The ironic thing is that if anyone dared to interrupt her, she took it as a cardinal offense and one for which the interrupter should have to pay and pay dearly - if looks could kill, her looks would have struck the interrupters dead.

Moving on to Wasserman Shultz's commentary, she failed to see the irony in requiring that BP cap a never-before-seen oil leak about 1 mile below the surface of the ocean and under incredible pressure in less than 7-8 weeks, but then claimed that the MMS agency couldn't possibly have been "cleaned-up" as she put it, by the Obama Administration's appointee in the 1.5 years since Obama has been in office. Instead, blaming Bush again, she thinks that the Administration can move as slowly as it likes to actually perform its job functions, but it should be "off with Tony Hayward's head" for not capping this leak far more expeditiously than Obama has responded to any national crisis or his agencies have responded to revamping themselves and actually fulfilling their own duties.

Until Ms. Waaserman Schultz and her cohort Florida Rep. Alan Grayson (he of the utterly despicable so-called "Republican health care plan - Don't get sick, if you do get sick, die quickly" about which I blogged last year here http://anindependentconnecticutyankee.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html ) are voted out of office, I will not be spending my hard-earned money vacationing in Florida. Once Floridians finally vote these, in my eyes, fools, out of office, I might consider returning. But right now, Not even Walt Disney World can entice me to visit Florida with this un-dynamic and obnoxious partisan duo running around.