On a hot summer evening in mid-June, Barack Obama downed seven cups of coffee, watched Armageddon and Independence Day back-to-back, and then held a press conference where he declared that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.”

Then a couple weeks later, it became clear to everyone that the politicians and the media were just stroking their boners over the whole thing. The call to action is just so damned exciting for the class of leaches that facts tend to become secondary.

Ah well, at least the oil has stopped gushing into the Gulf and the media can get back to whatever inane story they decide is worthy of our attention.

Actually, before that, it seems that CNN still has a bit of a chubby…

BP Oil Spill

CNN.com Quick Vote

Notice the possible options they give. It reminds me of choosing between Democrats and Republicans. Bomb Iraq or bomb Afghanistan.

For the sane among us, the lowest number of years we can select for the Gulf of Mexico recovering is somewhere under ten. I don’t like that range at all. Ten seems outrageous to me. How about two? Two years? How about one? That’s what I choose, one year. In fact, I’ve read in quite a few places that wildlife has already fully recovered from the spill. And that shouldn’t be a surprise since apparently there is hardly any remnants of oil left.

What amazes me even more is that 50% of respondents think that it will take generations for the gulf to recover–the entire gulf! FIFTY FREAKING PERCENT!

C’mon fifty percent, I realize you were likely educated in American public schools, but please knock some sense into yourself and get some perspective.

Fifteen percent of respondents claimed that the Gulf would never recover. Never. Not in a hundred years, or a hundred lifetimes. In 4 billion years when the sun becomes a red giant and grows so big that it consumes earth, the Gulf of Mexico will have the sweet release of definitive destruction to thank for finally ending its 4 billion years of utter misery and decay.