Do any of us trust BP ?? What about Obama ?? The pumps are off as are the cameras. Anyone feel good about that ??

Here is a headline that may be more telling that we might suppose:

BP Pauses 'Top Kill' Attempt to Plug Well...
Halts video of leaking pipe, blames dirty lens...

So they turned off the cameras and the pumps. Maybe they turned those cameras back on. But until they do, we all wonder what is really happening. This observer has watched the news most of the day. In the afternoon hours, he thought he saw a darkening of the discharge on the right side of the camera view -- maybe darker mud or . . . . . . was it oil? posted 6:09 pm by jds

Update posted 11:03 pm by jds

Editor's notes: sounds like we had good reason to be suspicious of BP's earlier decision to stop their effort at plugging the well. Rather than writing a review, here is a late evening article that makes it clear that we had good reason to doubt what was or was not happening. Keep in mind that in Obama's press conference, this morning, he made a big deal of the "fact" that he was in charge and on top of what was happening in the case of BP and its effort to solve the problems related to the blown out well. We doubt, however, that he has the slightest idea what is going on before he sits down to read a newspaper or listen to a broadcast of some sort.

Here is the NY Times story: HOUSTON — BP on Thursday night restarted its most ambitious effort yet to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, trying to revive hopes that it might cap the well with a “top kill” technique that involved pumping heavy drilling liquids to counteract the pressure of the gushing oil.

BP officials, who along with government officials created the impression early in the day that the strategy was working, disclosed later that they had stopped pumping the night before when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid was escaping along with the oil.

It was the latest setback in the effort to shut off the leaking oil, which federal officials said was pouring into the gulf at a far higher rate than original estimates suggested.. . . . read the full article here.

Editor comments: understand that if this action does not work, Obama is going to pay a huge political price, especially in view of the fact that he is incapable of devising a plan of any kind other than those related to political turmoil and political action organizations. It is clear that he is not an administrator.
For the sake of the Gulf coast, Midknight Review hopes for the best. If this oil gets into the fresh water inlets of the coast marshlands, the entire region's wildlife preserves and fisheries will be damaged beyond repair.
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