Posted on 06/18/2010 6:53:29 AM PDT by maggief
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's point man charting a new future for the oil-poisoned Gulf Coast will do the job part-time. Some environmentalists said the job demands someone's full attention.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who oversees 900,000 Navy and Marine personnel, is inheriting an amorphous second job as the Obama administration's leader of long-term environmental and economic planning. His task is no less than rebuilding a region still suffering after Hurricane Katrina and beset by decades of environmental problems.
Mabus won't resign from his Navy job. When President George W. Bush picked Donald Powell to lead the recovery after Hurricane Katrina, Powell resigned as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
"The president talked to the governor about this, and they both agreed that he had the ability to do both," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday after Mabus met with Obama at the White House.
That prompted quick criticism from the Defenders of Wildlife, which is working to save animals from the oil that has gushed from an offshore BP oil well for nearly two months.
"The idea that he is only going to work on this part-time is disturbing," said Robert Irvin, the group's vice president for conservation programs. "If this is the equivalent of war, as the president has been saying, it needs a full-time general."
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Part time pResident, part time staff.
Mabus? Like maybe Nostradamus Mabus? Okay, I really don’t believe that stuff, but that’s just kinda weird....
God forbid he should actually appoint somebody with experience in recovering spilled oil.
“they both agreed that he had the ability to do both”
This would seem to be a tacit admission that Mabus is/was massively underemployed in his current position. Any full-time workers out there who believe they could credibly do justice to this massive new assignment while also responsibly carrying out their current job duties?
Of course, if The One has surrounded himself with people of his intelligence, talent and skill (i.e., an administration full of water-walkers), then it is easy to understand how Mabus could effortlessly add this new responsibility to his portfolio without dropping a single ball he now is juggling.
But I'm not holding my breath. The lame stream media can't seem to investigate little details like this........ being able only to devote time to fact-finding regarding Sarah Palin's alleged boob enhancements.
Leni
Too weird.
Campaign fundraising and adviser payback.
‘tis.
The moral equivalent of Let’s Pretend.
“The president talked to the (SIC)governor about this, and they both agreed that he had the ability to do both,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday
President to General: Can you handle all of this?
General to President: Yes, Sir!
Mark my words - Bart Stupak will have this job by the first of next year.
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