Republicans are outraged, outraged I tell you!
The Army Corps of Engineers has denied the use of rocks to prevent oil from reaching our coast.
The reason given by the Corps is given here and includes their suggestion that by placing the rock walls that they would drive water into new channels and increase coastal erosion.
Kyle Plotkin, Bobby Jindal’s spokesperson stated:
Only a government bureaucrat would say rocks are more harmful to our water and marshes than oil. The Corps took weeks to review the plan only to reject it today - and this denial is another unfortunate example of the federal government’s lack of urgency in this war to protect our coast
Right, because the best way to make sure that the coast doesn’t get damaged with oil is to make the coast erode so it is no longer there.
Perhaps if Bobby Jindal and his administration had taken time to actually study ways to protect our coast without destroying it instead of whining and complaining about how ineffective the federal response is, we could have a solution instead of constant clashes between the state and the feds.
This almost makes me think that Jindal would rather have our coastline damaged so the GOP could have something big to attack Obama on in 2012 instead of working with him to solve his problem so they lose an opportunity to attack Democrats.