If anyone cares, here is the GOPs most liberal member of congress who voted for this crap legislation:
Now he wants Joe Biden's old senate seat in DE. How appropriate! By the way, there is a conservative alternative:
Posted on 06/05/2010 8:17:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I have been teaching my son Greek Mythology recently. An important message from these classics is that providence is no friend of hubris. As proof of this ancient wisdom, watch how our elitist theoretician President has been gob-smacked by Mother Nature recently.
Hubris has excessive pride and arrogance. This toxic trait was clearly demonstrated by President Obama’s words during the Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech in June 2008 when he said, “…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
During both the election cycle and his term in office, Obama has continuously demonized energy production companies. Meanwhile, the extremist environmentalist arm of the Democratic Party has tried force passage of “Cap and Trade” legislation.
On April 20, a “crisis situation” that usually excites the Obama administration occurred: A British Petroleum oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, killing 11 workers. For over one month, this drill site has been releasing over 100,000 gallons of oil daily. As an environmental health and safety professional, I have been watching the event closely and have even helped locate responders who could travel to the region to assist with clean-up efforts. While the cause of the incident is not known at this time, some interesting information on the Obama administration connections to this event has been revealed:
• During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to Politico.
• Last year, Obama administration’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) awarded the rig for its safety history, according to Beacon.
• A detailed review of the records conducted by The Associated Press indicates that the MMS, which was responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating, didn’t make the required checks on the unit.
• A Interior department report shows that MMS employees (including some inspect offshore oil rigs—accepted sporting-event tickets and other goodies from oil and natural-gas companies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
I thought federal oversight is suppose to solve all our problems. Now, this same group is in charge of overseeing a new health care bureaucracy. I am not comforted.
After focusing on Arizona SB 1070 (that actually enforced federal law), promoting a meaningless financial reform package (that fails to address Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), speaking at a Barbara Boxer fund-raiser, hosting an expensive state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (who had just insulted Arizona), and playing a few rounds of golf, Obama finally went down to the Gulf. Interestingly, this photo-op was timed to coincide with BP’s efforts to “plug the hole” with the “Top Kill” method. Using classic braggadocio, Obama announces, “This is what I wake up to in the morning, and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about. The spill.”
Two problems:
1) In the press conference that followed, Obama couldn’t say if his head of MMS had resigned or been fired.
2) “Top Kill” failed to work.
I recall how much representatives of my Democratic Party blamed President Bush for the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. I thought this was somewhat unfair, as local and state agencies are better poised to handle natural disasters at the local and regional level. Furthermore, there is no way we can regulate the formation of hurricanes. However, in the case of the BP spill, we clearly had a federal agency that did not do the job it was formed to do. And, while you can quibble about how effective this type of technical oversight of an industry is, the fact is that Obama’s team owned the oil spill “from day one.”
It is obvious Team Obama is clueless on where to go from here. As necessity is mother of invention, I would urge them to get out of the way of industry experts. I will point out that we have recovered from other significant oil releases before (e.g., Exxon Valdez, Ixtoc Oil spill in the Bay of Campeche, Kuwait oil fires during the Desert Storm) and that the “evil oil industry” has developed savvy innovations that have applications for many other situations (e.g., hair clippings utilized as part of the efforts). Also, permit the state agencies to implement regional response procedures without hindering their efforts with a lot of red tape.
I would also suggest that Obama and his staff avoid blaming the Bush administration or the “evil corporations.” Actually, if American companies had been allowed to drill off-shore in shallow regions, this deep-water disaster could have been avoided. Just because the environmental extremists want to make oil disappear, the fact is the global industry and economies depend on petroleum and that fact can’t be regulated away or rhetorically minimized.
In other environmental news, a large volcanic eruption has just occurred in the South Pacific (with a gas cloud that went eight miles high), Icelandic eruptions continue to impact air travel, and that Obama’s Memorial Day speech was cancelled due to a lightening storm. All the events underscore that Mother Nature now mocks Obama. His pompous statement “our planet began to heal” only applies if laughter is the best medicine.
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Leslie Eastman runs an environmental health and safety consulting firm, Eastman Enterprises, and is a founding member of the grassroots organization, Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition. She can be reached at mutnodjmetlpe@gmail.com
Too much Hubris breeds Nemesis!
It’s called criminal negligence.
Hey Obama!
RETURN THE BIG MONEY BP PAID YOU!
YOU WERE THE NUMBER ONE RECIPIENT OF BP CASH.
If anyone cares, here is the GOPs most liberal member of congress who voted for this crap legislation:
Now he wants Joe Biden's old senate seat in DE. How appropriate! By the way, there is a conservative alternative:
I thought I read somewhere that he got closer to a cool million....?
Zero is our environmental Stalin, he is going to let it flow like that. Not dispersants, but coagulants should have been used in this disaster. The fault is in the government’s interference and politicking for who and what would get the credit for solving this.
She sounds like a Democrat who has had ENOUGH of the “hope and change” thing. Encouraging......
I have heard almost "zero" on the cause of the rig explosion / fire. Has anyone addressed this?
Obama: “…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
Obama’s ACTUAL LEGACY:
The ocean resorts and wildlife refuges of the Gulf, Florida, and possibly the whole East Coast are being horribly polluted by Obama’s big, big cash contributor BP, after receiving no required safety inspections on the doomed rig and (yes) a safety award from the Obama Regime.
He and others did it on purpose.
Go to CBS website and watch the 60 Minutes interviews that pertain to this incident.
this sounds EXACTLY like what (I read) happened to the DWH.
That explains a lot, and is likely similar to what happened off LA coast. Thanks.
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