There is a Time and a Place for Everything

Dear Obama-san:

Now is not the time to:

-Play Mr. Union Activist--and keep the Jones Act in play (1920's Port Union Protectionist bill) which prevents specialized foreign oil-cleaning ships from 13 countries to assist in clean up operations .  It's time to protect U.S. citizens in the Gulf not your Union comrades.

-Play Mr. Lawyer--and evaluate legal precedents and arcane maritime laws to maximize punitive liabilities against BP, which will only ultimately be paid for by consumers in higher gas prices, higher insurance premiums, higher product prices and losses to portfolio investments.

-Play Mr. Environmental Wako--and use the oil spill crisis as an opportunity to pass ridiculous Cap & Trade legislation, which will cause energy costs to skyrocket.

-Play Mr. Professor--and set up 4 different Blue-Ribbon panels of scientists with little or now oil-spill expertise to study how evil oil companies could let this happen.

-Play Mr. Bureaucrat-- and set up 17 different competing government agencies and departments with conflicting goals and directives to totally mismanage operations.

-Play Mr. Liberal--and use the crisis to spend $billions ($trillions?) on expensive, inefficient, uncompetitive, job killing alternative energy sources like solar and wind.

-Play Mr. Politician--and blame others for your own failures.

No sir. 

Now is the time to BE Mr. President and LEAD our great country out of this disaster.