What are your thoughts on Obama refusing to waive the Jones Act for oil spill cleanup?

The administration's critics exaggerate the Jones Act's impact on the cleanup. It applies within only a three-mile band of coastal water. Even if President Obama had immediately waived the law, it wouldn't have affected the skimming and scooping of most of the oil, which is floating dozens of miles offshore.

The inapplicability of the Jones Act to the spill area helps explain why 15 foreign-flagged vessels have indeed been cleared to operate in the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

For your information, Mister Smarty pants, just last night someone was on here saying President Obama has clearly stated that letting foreign ships in would only slow down the response efforts, which he is doing as fast as possible. He is certainly responding better than anybody from the "Drill baby drill" crowd. You obviously just don't know the reality of such an immense effort.

Your view is just too simplistic. Why are you conservatards always oversimplifying things? If Obama says it didn't slow down the response, I believe him.

Obama knows the detailed information far better than we could ever possibly know. We have no choice but to trust his judgement and have faith that he is making the wisest decisions in the best interests of the nation as a whole. I, for one, feel we are much better off today than if we had the previous president in charge of this response.

We don't need another Katrina.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.