Obama kicks ass of the most responsible; breaks his own nose.

****While the President is hardly responsible for the leak, he is responsible for not taking, indeed thwarting, steps to clean the spill up before it did environmental and economic damage. Now he compounds his follies.****
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Crude Politics The drilling experts speak out on the Obama deepwater moratorium. Before the Obama Administration sweeps under the carpet the controversy over the drilling experts it falsely used to justify its moratorium, the incident bears another look. Not least because it underlines the purely political nature of a drilling ban that now threatens the Gulf Coast economy and drilling safety.
When President Obama last month announced his six-month deepwater moratorium, he pointed to an Interior Department report of new "safety" recommendations. That report prominently noted that the recommendations it contained—including the six-month drilling ban—had been "peer-reviewed" by "experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering." It also boasted that Interior "consulted with a wide range" of other experts. The clear implication was that the nation's drilling brain trust agreed a moratorium was necessary.
As these columns reported last week, the opposite is true. In a scathing document, eight of the "experts" the Administration listed in its report said their names had been "used" to "justify" a "political decision." ****One of the experts expostulated that, had they been asked to justify the moratorium as stated, they would have termed it "craziness." 1) To stop uncompleted deep-water wells midstream enhances the dangers. The BP well was in process of being sealed when it exploded. 2) If existing wells or permitted ones are halted, the rigs will move to more attractive places, far away and for a very long time. 3) The rigs that will move last and be the first to return are the least modern and advanced. 4) The moratorium will cause loss of experienced personnel and it already appears that the BP disaster was due to human error. "Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"****