Why did Team Obama refuse Dutch offer to help clean up oil spill?

Jill has some pretty damning stuff and be sure to read it all.

I can’t wait to hear Gibbs explain this. Perhaps the Dutch should have gone through Jake Tapper instead of the Obama administration and BP.

Houston Chronicle:

Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.

It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.

The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.

Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered.

U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge.

Well, I am glad Obama’s lack of experience at anything but community organizing has not hurt anything yet. Aren’t y’all?

 

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