Zandar's Thought Of The Day

When it comes to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, the only things at this point stopping a massive march on Washington by the Teabaggers (with thousands of rabid El Rushbo and Glennsanity fans screaming for Obama's blood, literally) are:

• The complete incompetence of the response of the companies involved in the spill, BP, Transocean, and Halliburton.

and

• BP being able to get away with lowballing the oil geyser numbers for three weeks.

That's it.  If BP's public relations guys weren't horrible, and BP hadn't tried to buy off thousands of Gulf residents in the first days of the spill, if they had actually come clean and said "Yeah we think it's three million gallons of oil a day, easy" you'd have Teabagger primary candidates being asked if they would support impeaching Obama over this oil spill.

You still may.  After all, factor two there is no longer in play, so the only thing saving Obama's ass right now is because BP is a bunch of complete tools and publicly demonstrates the fact they have no clue what they are doing on a daily basis.

So as long as BP continues to screw up, Obama's in the clear.  Of course, the longer it takes to cap, the worse off it's going to be for all of us, so maybe Obama should tell BP to get the hell out of the way and get the military down there.  If Obama can prove that the government can resolve this and not the "free markets" then it'll go a long way to restore confidence in the government.

If he can't however, he's in real, real trouble.  We all will.