Posted on 06/19/2010 3:45:15 PM PDT by Qbert
A coalition of environmental groups and scientists is calling on President Obama to fire Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his "failed policies" that it says led to the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in April that killed 11 workers and set off the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that BP and the government is struggling to contain.
The conservation group, WildEarth Guardians, has mobilized 100 other environmental groups and scientists to sign a letter to the president, saying Salazar, "like his predecessors in the George W. Bush administration, has failed to place science above politics and prioritize federal environmental protections above accommodations for ecologically harmful industries."
The letter noted that some of the groups opposed Salazar’s nomination last year because of his "flawed record on natural resource issues."
"The intervening 16 months, unfortunately, have confirmed that Mr. Salazar will not fulfill your administration's promises to safeguard the environment in this country or globally," the letter reads. "Rather, Mr. Salazar has either embraced or failed to reform many of the destructive policies of the previous administration."
The Interior Department responded with a statement that didn’t address the letter or its call for Salazar to step down.
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Perhaps one day Leftists will wake up to the fact that Obama doesn’t give a rip what they think either. When he said “we won” - he meant, “I won.”
Rolling Stone has a scathing article about Salazar and zer0. They’ve been taking him and his crew to the woodshed a lot lately. When a lefty rag like that has turned on him, it’s over.
All Zero cares about is himself, no one else or anything else matters.
he doesn’t care what they think
Ken... step right up... you’re the next under the bus
oil spill recovery management scapegoat alert
Actually, Kenny has placed politics above science: he absolutely hates offshore drilling, which is why he jumped at the chance to impose a six-month drilling moratorium, and kill tens of thousands of oil industry jobs on the gulf coast. When he was a Colorado Senator, and gasoline was $4 a gallon (2008), he stated on the radio in Denver (IIRC) that he didn't care if gas hit $6 or $8 a gallon, he would still oppose offshore drilling.
But I agree with the enviroNazis (for once) - fire his sorry @ss...
;>)
And exactly what do they think the lawyer Obama named to take over minerals management is going to do?
True, Obama has no more love for the marxists who drove him to power than he has for us filthy “teabaggers”.
Personally I think its kind of funny. He used them to get himself into the popular crowd and now he’s stepped over them to go to the prom with somebody else.
YOU wanted Obama, YOU worked to get him, YOU are as responsible for his incompetent ass being in the White House, stop trying to dodge YOUR part in this mess, envirowusses.
Perhaps they will let us open the Alaskan desert for drilling?
Pray for America
Fire Salazar and join him in exile.
Yes, that would “plug the damned hole” .. why didn’t they think of this before?
Well, this is a tough one. In baseball, if the opposing pitcher is struggling, and you are scoring runs, some of the fans of the winning side chant “Take him out,” while others chant “Leave him in.” If Salazar is pissing off the left, I say leave him in.
Unfortunately these idiots would want Trey Arrow to run the show or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Arrow
Sentenced to 78 months in 2008, out on the street today.
And here I thought he was the one they had been waiting for.
Salazar should be fired, we need a special prosecutor for
this whole administration.
My thought exactly. Obama the butt boy better do what he is told.
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