Louisiana Gov. Jindal on Obama delaying sand berns: We don't need any more professors. CNN video

Due to endless oil gushing with no end in sight, Jindal has long tried to install sand berns to protect Louisana wetlands. Obama of course refuses to go along with this. Permanent catastrophe is heaven for him. He forced busy Governor Jindal to sit through another wasted meeting with professors and others on Tuesday, June 1. Jindal's comments to the press,

• CNN video introduced by Wolf Blitzer. Jindal's comments about the 'professors' is toward the end of the video, about 3/4 in. He notes we don't need any professors now, we already know what to do. The sand berns have even been given provisional approval by the Coast Guard (which had previously been withheld). Obama still won't sign off on it.

A 6/2 Wall Street Journal piece has notes from the day which provide some background. (The substantive information in the article was incidental. The author, Corey Dade, was mainly interested petty political gotcha type issues, is pre-occupied with the fact that Jindal is a Republican. Too bad. Most of us realize our country is lost at sea, pirates have boarded the ship, and no one cares. ed.)

• 6/2: "Local officials said Mr. Jindal and his administration have done well filling gaps in the federal response to the spill. "He's stepping outside the box and doing what we need done since we can't get any help out of the Coast Guard and BP.

It's an embarrassment," Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, a Republican, said last week.

• Mr. Jindal wants the federal government to approve construction of offshore sand berms to protect Louisiana's coastline. Approval by the Coast Guard would enable the project to be folded into the federal government's response to the spill, triggering BP's legal obligation to pay for it.

BP hasn't said how it might respond if ordered by the Coast Guard to pay for the entire project. Company officials, like federal authorities, have expressed doubts about the berms, from their effectiveness to the construction time to the risk of legal

• liability if the barriers cause problems.

The Coast Guard last Thursday approved a berm two miles long to be built off Plaquemines Parish as a "prototype" for officials to evaluate.

• Senior White House officials said Mr. Jindal's proposed sand berms
  
• would take too long to construct, the proper sand quantity wasn't readily available and the barriers
  
• could erode before stopping the oil flow.

Yet on Tuesday in New Orleans, the Coast Guard, at the president's direction, met with Mr. Jindal and local officials and discussed the governor's plan. Mr. Nungesser left early, fuming at the federal government,

• and later called the talks a farce." article titled, "In criticizing cleanup, Jindal finds his voice" He doesn't seem to be doing that as no one is listening. ed.

5/23, Pelican nesting areas already awash with crude, Jindal's request to Army Corps of Engineers is met with dead silence. AP, "La, won't wait for federal OK to erect sand berns"

• The "environmental" president has no clothes. ed.

Above rotting carcass of dolphin on Gulf Coast from NY Daily News.
Oil soaked bird.