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Juanita has come to depend on her friend El Jefe Bob for news on the BP Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, giving her a two day head start over CNN.  El Jefe even has his own blog on Huffington Post now.

It does not look good.  It appears that the folks at BP need about a ton smart juice to get this mess cleaned up.

“They’ve been so slow that you’d think we were saving them to go fetch the doctor when the devil gets sicks,” Juanita observes.  “And now their bright idea is … well, they don’t have a bright idea.”

“They have horribly underestimated the likelihood of a spill and therefore horribly underestimated the consequences of something going wrong,” said Robert G. Bea, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies offshore drilling. “So what we have now is some equivalent of a fire drill with paper towels and buckets for cleanup.”

“It’s hurricane season.  The Gulf is about half an inch from becoming a giant Fry Daddy with a Mix Master in it.  And, they want to hold Congressional hearings on why the oil drilling industry wasn’t regulated better?” Juanita teeters on 4 inch heels between disgusted and incredulous.

“You don’t need no damn hearing.  I can tell you why – money.  The drilling industry spent their money buying politicians instead of clean-up materials.  This may be rocket fuel but it’s not rocket science.”

Note to BP – You broke it.  You buy it.

Note to Congress – You are broke.  Fix it.