Increased anger in the Gulf states is mounting even more, as residents
are looking answer Obama isn't willing to give, and he maintains his stubborn insistence of keeping it in place, even though thousands in the area remain out of work.
Even the idea thrown out last week he may rescind the moratorium earlier than proposed is an illusion, as he's just going to have regulations put in place which will keep people out of work, as well as extend the original moratorium period of time through into 2011.
Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat from Louisiana, said in an interview, “This BP (NYSE:BP) oil spill and the moratorium has had the effect of pushing us closer to the recession than we were before. Now people are really getting antsy and anxious and angry, not only angry at BP for the spill but very, very angry at the federal government for imposing what we think is a very poor solution.”
Obama is catering to his environmental extremist base, as inspectors cleared the wells in the area as being fit to be used. If he can't trust his own inspectors, there's another agenda in the wings, and that is the environmentalists' pressuring him to maintain the moratorium, at least until regulations are put in place so Obama can announce he's lifting the moratorium, although the same restrictions will remain in place.
He's of course going to do this right before the elections in order to make it appear he and the Democrats are doing something right.
That won't hold this time, as everyone sees clearly what's going on, and they'll pay for allowing it to become a political issue rather than a people issue.
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