Obama Fail: Hundreds of Oil Skimmers NOT Being Used in Gulf

Hundreds of oil skimmers across the country and the federal government has refused to allow them to be transferred to the Gulf to help in the cleanup

, --June 27, 2010

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Ken Marrero alerted me to this video of Florida Senator George LeMieux alerting the world that there are hundreds of oil skimmers across the country and the federal government has refused to allow them to be transferred to the Gulf to help in the cleanup because -- get this -- there may be an oil spill somewhere else and they might be needed there.
As LeMieux says, that this "logic" is like not sending a firetruck to a house fire because some other house might catch fire and the truck might be needed for that possible fire. The folks at The Shark Tank conducted this interesting interview.

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