When will Obama use the bully pulpit to call for just treatment of the BP execs

[metapunditedgy]

who caused the massive environmental disaster through their greed and negligence?

When will he use this golden opportunity to set America firmly and permanently on the path to energy independence? (The drilling moratorium is a nice, small, temporary start, IMO.)

[Pirate Smile]

1. When the friggin hole is plugged. But he will never do it with the rage and fire

some people want because that isn't him - even though some people are always desperately trying to change him.

I mainly think he will let the Justice Dept. go after them. That is who should. It is their job. POTUS throwing a fit about them really doesn't do all that much.

[EFerrari]

7. I don't want to change the man. I voted for him, I didn't adopt him.

If he wants to pitch a fit, I hope he does it off camera.

And there is no "just letting the Justice Department" go after Big Oil. That's necessarily a political calculation, not all in a day's work.

[Donnachaidh]

2. other -- when hell freezes over

too many campaign contributions to hang on to for 2012.... :eyes: :puke:

[moondust]

3. Unwise to make threats before the leak is stopped.

Too much at stake to risk retaliation.

[gateley]

6. Agree. PLUS our focus should be on the Gulf right now, we can always prosecute

when people can walk out of their homes and not have to smell oil again.

[Swamp Rat]

4. "just treatment of the BP execs"

[metapunditedgy]

5. I suppose that *might* get their attention. :-)

[HopeHoops]

8. Right after he prosecutes Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rummy, etc. for war crimes and treason.

I'm not holding my breath on that one.

[NNN0LHI]

9. I don't think you understand the majority of people who live in the Gulf states love BP

Thats why they keep electing the Republican assclowns they have as governors who are in bed with the Big oil companies like BP. They don't want to hear President Obama saying anything bad about BP. Thats the last thing they want to hear. Wonder who has been paying more at the pump to pay those billions of dollars in royalties to the four Gulf states?


Look:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16140704

WASHINGTON - Hours before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Congress on Saturday sent President George W. Bush legislation that would open 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling and redistribute billions of dollars in royalties to four Gulf states.

The drilling measure was wrapped into a broad tax and trade package that the U.S. Senate approved by a 79-9 vote, hours after the House of Representatives approved it.

Rep. Bobby Jindal, a Louisiana Republican and one of the drilling measure's main supporters, said Bush will sign the bill into law.

The offshore legislation ends a 25-year ban on drilling in deep waters about 125 miles south of Florida's Panhandle, but extends a moratorium on drilling in other Florida waters until 2022.