Plug That Hole!

Today's Plug

Wesley Pruden today: Trying to plug a hole with rant and rage. “ Spike Lee, the moviemaker, says it's time for the president to "go off," to start jumping up and down and show some entertaining fury and frenzy. ” Which is what the Administration has been doing a grand job of.   The only real leadership, it seems,  is coming from unlikely places. “ A child prodigy in New York, still working on her Ph.D in engineering, says she got to cogitating about the problem and told the New York Post that she figured out what to do in less time than it takes most people to work a crossword puzzle. She would sink flat tires into the well, then inflate them to squeeze a seal. "I figured experts would know more about it than I did but their ideas didn't work," says Alia Sabur, 21. "So I started thinking about it." Miss Sabur read novels at 2 and played the clarinet in a symphony orchestra at 11, so plugging the hole would be child's work. ” David from Athens, NY called Rushbo on Wednesday (2nd hour).  “ ...  have a degree in environmental science ... the  seepage could have been stopped weeks ago ...   by drilling another hole into the bedrock below the sea floor, not that far;  ... or a low yield nuclear weapon would have closed that off within an instant. (Audio) ” David went on to surprise us all by citing that the Soviet Union did exactly that back in the '60's.  A quick Googling verified that assertion, and yielded another surprise -  Russian advice: Nuke the oil spill, that’ll fix it!  Yes, I understand the hysteria the media would manufacture with this idea; but its an idea that should be part of the public debate. If these pecker-hads won't use a baby nuke in this instance, forget any self defense usage. Sheesh. Finally, Limbo reflected  about why it is that the Obamacy's been foot-dragging, suggesting that, maybe, Obama has secret polling data showing this is helping him.  I agree, in the abstract.  The Boy Kenyan has already cynically used  to stop 100% of our drilling, or even exploring for oil.  Obama is dead-set on getting the  climate bill  passed. and as noted yesterday, that appears to be what's happening.