Perry blames God for oil leak by Charles Kuffner <http://www.offthekuff.com/> . May 3rd, 2010 That sure is what this <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36691.html> sounds like to me.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry Monday offered a stern warning against halting oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of a massive oil leak, and he raised the question of whether the explosion was an "act of God." The Republican governor, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, warned against a "a knee-jerk reaction" to the spill and said the government doesn't know what caused the leak, which took 11 lives and threatens the Gulf coast's vast fishing industry. "We don't know what the event that has allowed for this massive oil to be released," Perry said alongside several other governors on a panel Monday. "And until we know that, I hope we don't see a knee-jerk reaction across this country that says we're going to shut down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, because the cost to this country will be staggering." Perry questioned whether the spill was "just an act of God that occurred" and said that any "politically driven" decisions could put the U.S. in further economic peril. "From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented," Perry said. I'm sure I know as much about this sort of thing as our Governor, but I don't think it would ever occur to me to call a mechanical failure an act of God. I mean, as Juanita <http://juanitajean.com/2010/05/03/gods-gonna-get-even/> asks, does that mean that the explosion at the BP refinery in Texas City back in 2005 was an act of God, too? Honestly, I have no idea what he's getting at here. The radical cleric Pat Robertson has claimed that Hurricane Katrina <http://mediamatters.org/research/200509130004> and the earthquake in Haiti <http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.pat.robertson/index.html> were acts of God; specifically, acts of God's wrath against us for our sins. Would Perry care to venture a guess as to what God was punishing us for with this? http://offthekuff.com/wp/?p=27958
