Not rational to give up on offshore drilling, Vitter says

[nmbluesky]

Washington (CNN) -- A Republican senator from the state so far the hardest hit by the Gulf oil spill said Sunday that the environmental catastrophe was not a reason to put a stop to all domestic offshore oil drilling.

"By the same token, after every plane crash, you and I should both oppose plane travel," Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley on CNN's State of the Union. "I don't think that is rational."

Vitter added that it was necessary to determine what went wrong in the sequence of events that led up to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20 which caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

"We've going to need a lot of new technology and mandates and procedures," Vitter told Crowley, "And I will be a big part of that effort.

"But to jump from there to say: No domestic offshore drilling, no domestic production of oil and gas ... I think is a crazy leap quite frankly."

Read More: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/30/pol.vitter.drilling.sotu/index.html?hpt=T1

[MannyGoldstein]

1. So what's your point?

Our president and his energy secretary say the same thing.

[nmbluesky]

3. yeah but he said

"By the same token, after every plane crash, you and I should both oppose plane travel,"

He is wrack!!!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Grand Oil Party (GOP)

[Bryn]

4. What an idiot!

A plane crash cannot be compared to that oil spill disaster. It's like orange and apple. Not a good analogy.

[Skink]

5. They usually do routine maintenance on planes and sometimes even build more.

half these rigs in the gulf are probably potential disasters.

[LiberalFighter]

13. And they have enough experience and testing of the aircrafts including safety procedures.

They are also much tighter on regulations that they must follow.

[Lil Missy]

6. Since when does policy have to be "rational"? Bush/Cheney never used that standard.

[Canuckistanian]

7. It's not rational for a grown man to wear a diaper... quite frankly.

Why is this man still in the Senate?

[cutlassmama]

11. Perhaps his diapers could be used to sop up the oil?

:spray:

[catgirl]

17. He won't be for long!

He's gonna lose this time.

[Ned Bro]

8. Eureka!

Let's plug the hole with diapers!

[Jamastiene]

9. Why don't they just diaper his ass and use it to stop the leak? n/t

[WeDidIt]

10. Vitter probably thinks the entire thing can be cleaned up easily just with diapers. n/t

[era veteran]

12. Not rational committing adultery on a wife who said she would cut your balls

off if you fucked around on her. Too bad she didn't do it.

[LiberalFighter]

14. I suggest that Vitter should spend about 3 months out on one of those rigs.

[Arkana]

15. Doesn't Vitter have some diapers to soil?

[awoke_in_2003]

16. I am still waiting

to hear Larry Craig's take on this :rofl:

[catgirl]

18. He sounds like the chicken lady

chickens for check ups... oil for diapers...

[brentspeak]

19. I don't recall an airplane crash destroying an entire section of the world's ocean

Vitter, you idiot.

[jdp349]

20. He's right if you agree with the numbers being crunched by actuaries

I mean this is a position justified in terms of numbers only. But yeah if this disaster was included a possible outcome of offshore drilling and we proceeded regardless of the outcome it would always remain rational to make the exact same decision, it changes nothing.

[Zoeisright]

21. Hey Dave, why not use your diapers to plug the leak?

Fucking asshole.

[polichick]

22. Somehow I can't imagine anyone looking to Diaper Boy for rational thought. nt

[TwilightGardener]

23. Comparing it to stopping plane travel after a crash--that would only work

if the real problem with plane crashes was the pileup of aircraft debris and leaking jet fuel, killing an entire ecosystem. Go change your diaper, asshole.

[Raineyb]

24. He's a diaper wearing freak. Am I supposed to take him seriously? n/t

[paparush]

25. A single plane crash, while tragic, does not generally have the potential to

destroy an entire ecosystem and spell economic doom for thousands of families.