February 18th 2010 -- Posted to News Flash
It was just something I'd been hearing about from a variety of sources. Was it true? I didn't know , but I decided to pop the question.

During the taping of my Comcast Network Voice of Reason show, which airs Sunday night at 9:30, I asked Congressman Joe Sestak: "Is it true that you were offered a high ranking job in the administration in a bid to get you to drop out of the primary against Arlen Specter?"

Sestak looked a little surprised by the question. He said, "Yes."

I asked him if the job was Navy Secretary. He said, "I can't comment on that." In the next few seconds, he admitted that it was a "high up' job, that it came from the White House, and that he didn't accept the offering. He proceeded to say that nothing will stop him from completing the race against Specter for the Democratic nomination.

Was I surprised?  A little. After all, I was just probing.

Two hours later, I called the White House press office. I played the tape, and asked for a reaction. They never called back. That didn't surprise me. If it did happen, and if they did try to get Sestak out of the race, how could they deny it?

During the taping of my Comcast Network Voice of Reason show, which airs Sunday night at 9:30, I asked Congressman Joe Sestak: "Is it true that you were offered a high ranking job in the administration in a bid to get you to drop out of the primary against Arlen Specter?"

Sestak looked a little surprised by the question. He said, "Yes."

I really still think BP should stop using dispersants altogether. Read an interesting post at FDL . I highly recommend this. Its a bit involved for those of us (like me) who have not studied chemistry, but its still very informative.

Evidently the EPA is not happy with Corexit or the vast quantities of dispersant chemicals being dumped onto the GOM.

Ms. Jackson said that in theory, BP's deployment of dispersant directly onto the l well head, a novel use of the chemicals, would reduce the amount of oil on the surface and the need for application of dispersant there. She said the company could reduce its use by 50 percent to 75 percent, regardless of which dispersant was used.

Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry of the Coast Guard said that while the government had approved the use of dispersant beforehand, "no one anticipated that it would ever be used at this scale and this scope."

Admiral Landry said the preferred method of responding to oil on the ocean was to burn it or to soak it up with devices like absorbent booms. Dispersant applications should be a second line of defense, for when the weather is too severe to rely on other techniques, she said.

It was not clear how the environmental agency would enforce the demand that BP reduce its use of the dispersant.

"We are continuing to use Corexit while we're still working with E.P.A. on alternatives," Mark Salt, a spokesman for the oil company, said by telephone from Texas on Monday morning. Asked Monday evening about the request that the company at least reduce its use of the Corexit dispersant, he said he had not heard about the proposal and added, "Again, We're still working closely with EPA."

Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, a leading critic of BP since the spill, and chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, welcomed the E.P.A.'s latest actions. "We know almost nothing about the potential harm from the long-term use of any of these chemicals on the marine environment in the Gulf of Mexico," he said, "and even less about their potential to enter the food chain and ultimately harm humans." link

So he would come up with all these crazy ways to align the two ideas.

Such as the idea that angels might have been aliens coming down from the "heavens".

Also, his opinion about Judaism was that they had things right but they were behind the times and forgot to evolve and add Jesus.  When I pointed out Muslims might feel the same way about Christians and Mohammed, he conceded the point and I think I made him a little nervous...