Imagine, if you will, (indulge me for a moment), imagine if the oil catastrophe had

[activa8tr]

happened while Bush was still President.

What would have happened by now? Would the Coast Guard have responded on the first night? Well, maybe, but then....

Would Bush be on vacation? Would he be eating birthday cake with John Boehner? Would he be saying we are "addicted to oil"?

Would he be sending his Attorney General down to investigate possible criminal actions? Would he have appointed a commission to look into this?

Or would he be still chopping brush and practicing his Golf putts on some phantom ranch in Texas?

Give us your ideas.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. He'd be encouraging people not to give up their vacation plans...

and telling them the water's fine as long as they keep their mouths closed.

[activa8tr]

2. Yup, just keep shopping!

Nothing to look at here, BP will deal with it!

[obxhead]

3. Halliburton would have taken over cleanup on BP's dime, which

would be refunded to BP through tax cuts and subsidies?

[Auggie]

5. +1

Something like that

[salguine]

9. No, Halliburton would have taken over cleanup on the public's dime, which

would somehow still manage to be refunded to BP through tax cuts and subsidies.

[Skink]

4. Which Bush?

cause it was HW there'd be some execs in hiding.

[activa8tr]

6. Or forgetting what they said, and when they said it! YUP!

For sure......(recalling how Bush "forgot" what he did under Reagan).

[depakid]

7. My guess is that things would be proceeding more or less as they are

BP would still be doing what they're doing, Admiral Allen would still be giving pressers, MMS would still be under scrutiny for their malfeasance and the Whitehouse would still be under fire for their pro-drilling policies.

[blue sky at night]

8. I know one thing he would be doing...

behaving like an ignorant piss ant that just couldn't care less about the whole damn thing. It would be all downhill from there...

[hlthe2b]

10. He'd be passing more tax breaks for the poor, beleagured oil

companies to help them through this "difficult" period, while Cheney would be convening his cronies to plan major speculative ventures--to expropriate all the poor folks' land for the purpose of emergency oil exploration (aka, get rid of the poor and minority likely Democratic voters, part deux)