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You’re not disagreeing with my view of Republican governance; you’re disagreeing with the Republican view of governance. Time and again, it has been the position of the Republican Party that government should not be apart of solving problems and that government is the problem.
In answer to your ‘question’, yes I do understand how illogical that position is. Which is why I reject it.
Your counter-argument against jurisdiction is flawed. If the Coast Guard was able to assist, all federal agencies (like the active Army) should have been sent in. Additionally, you seem to be unaware of the charter of the Coast Guard. Its jurisdiction includes all water ways that have access to the ocean, an international boundary, and bodies of water that include at least two states.
My comment about the response of the local and state officials was not to state if there were any flaws in those responses. It was to demonstrate that your comment “the mayor and the governor, both Democrats, did NOTHING to assist the people” was incorrect. The calls for federal help could have been answered without local approval; as was the case with the Coast Guard. Additionally, I don’t recall the Mayor ever refusing federal assistance.
My response to you did in fact detail how President Obama responded to the BP oil spill. The Coast Guard, NOAA, and many other agencies were tasked with containing the oil spill immediately after it was discovered. Other than outlawing offshore drilling what else do you think he should have done?
Finally, as command-in-chief of the U.S. military, President Obama is in charge of the Coast Guard.
