Comments on: From the Kranium of Phil Krone: Tuesday on the Senate, The Primaries, Dock Walls, Oils Spills and More

By: Phil Krone

Phil Krone — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:42:45 +0000

Katrina and BP are not conmparable in many ways. Here we have a private company which had a permit and created a disaster. If you are saying that the government should take over completely and send BP a bill please let me know.

I do not think that I am qualified to be Secretary of the Navy though years ago I took sailing lessons with an Admiral of the Italian Navy. He had no sailboat experience. This was on the Adriatic off Venice’s Lido.

By: JMK

JMK — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:07:53 +0000

The failure of Obama during the oil spill is certainly as severe as the failure of Bush during Katrina. Will the media hold Obama to the same level of responsibility?

By: Paul McGrath

Paul McGrath — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:59:17 +0000

Are you going to be secretary of the Navy?

On the oil drilling, somewhere in all the blabbering I heard someone say that Canada requires that the emergency hole be drilled at the same time the actual hole is drilled, just in case. Sounds like we should do the same.

And all the finger-pointing at Obama is ridiculous. Have the oil companies and coal companies and cattle companies and lumber companies been in incestuous and corrupt relationships with the federal government for hundreds of years? Yes. Especially during the Bush years? Yes. Did BP cause the blowout by ignoring safety in the interest of being cheap? Yes. Does the federal government have the people and technical equipment to seal undersea oil leaks? No.

The media is chomping at the bit to show a picture of the president of BP carried out of his office by soldiers, like Sewell Avery in 1944, but that doesn’t mean it would be the right or smart thing to do.