For Forrest Gump, life's a box of chocolates. For David Vitter, the oil spill's like a plane crash.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

David Vitter Compares Gulf Oil Spill to Airplane Crash

By Heather Tuesday Jun 01, 2010 9:00am

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/37419

Looks like Louisiana's Sen. David Vitter is getting his talking points from former Shell Oil executive Ken Arnold who also likened the disaster in the Gulf to a plane crash last week. No one ever accused Vitter of being the brightest bulb in the Senate. Sorry Sen. Vitter but what's not rational is comparing an airplane crash to an accident so severe that it could destroy your state's economy.

CROWLEY: Watching this environmental mess come up and go into your marshes, come up on your shore, why doesn't that dissuade you from ever wanting deep sea or any kind of ocean oil drilling? It seems to me if it is so important, you should be now opposed to that?

VITTER: Well, I mean, by the same token, after every plane crash, you and I should both oppose plane travel. I don't think that is rational. I think we need to get our hands around this event, determine exactly what went wrong. We are going to need a lot of new technology and mandates and procedures to make sure it never happens again. And I will be a big part of that effort.

But to jump from there to say, no domestic offshore drilling, no domestic production of oil and gas, which is basically what you just suggested, I think is a crazy leap, quite frankly.

CROWLEY: I want to play you something the president said on Thursday at a news conference.

VITTER: Sure.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: Let me make one final point. More than anything else, this economic and environmental tragedy -- and it is a tragedy, underscores the urgent need for this nation to develop clean, renewable sources of energy.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CROWLEY: Agree or disagree?

VITTER: Sure, but we are not going to do it next week or next month. So we also need a plan to bridge where we are to that new future. I think the two biggest components of that bridge are natural gas and nuclear. They are here. we can deal with them. They are clean. But, you know, natural gas takes exploration and drilling.

CROWLEY: Senator, I need kind of a quick answer from you on this. We know that we have already -- that there has been the firing of one MMS official who had been overseeing the permit process. Should there be more firings in the federal government because of this?

VITTER: Probably. Certainly MMS. We knew two years ago -- from the scandals two years ago, that there were huge problems at MMS and they weren't cleaned up over these two years. So probably yes.

CROWLEY: Senator Vitter, we really thank you for your time...

VITTER: Thanks, Candy.

CROWLEY: ... out of Louisiana today. we appreciate it.

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1. If one plane crash

did the kind of damage this one oil spill did I think people would be singing a different tune about air travel. It's a really stupid analogy. But then David Vitter isn't the brightest bulb i the chandelier.

If one plane crash devastated millions of acres of the environment, caused an economic crisis that might take years to recover from and poisoned a massively large body of water, then,yes we would be talking about stopping it.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I thought his first name was 'Diaper', not 'David'. nt

[LynneSin]

3. I think someone needs to change Vitter's diaper - it's full of shit just like he is

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Did you see where he was interviewed by worldnutdaily?

It was around the beginning of April and he was bashing Obama as not really being for drilling. That he was pretending and it was all a cover up for more regulations in drilling. He explained by saying how his plan to open up drilling was like a diaper covering up the rank and disgusting reality within. I kid you not...and he should know, speaking from experience like he was and all! :rofl:

That's all paraphrased since I couldn't find the actual article anymore, but it was pretty close to that. :P

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. What do you expect from the man who just tried to cap BP's liability to $150 million?

He's made it perfectly clear whose side he's taking in this issue.