The title is quite telling. Didn’t the wacko left accuse President Bush’s (he is still MY president) decision to invade Iraq and oust Saddam was “...a process rigged to force hurried decisions based on bad information?” (WMD in this case)
Of course, it’s okay this time because a liberal Democrat is behind it.
Yes, now, it's TOTALLY different. **grin**
However, the Bush Administration’s midnight action accelerated by two years the regular process for creating a new plan for the outer continental shelf. It opened up the possibility for oil and gas leasing along the entire eastern seaboard, portions of offshore California, and the far eastern Gulf of Mexico - with almost no consideration of state, industry, and community input and, in the case of the Atlantic coast, with very limited information about the nature of offshore resources.
Despite the enormous sweep of the proposal to open up as many as 300 million acres to new offshore oil and gas leasing, the Bush Administration’s notice called for the completion of scoping meetings and public hearings on the new OCS plan by March 23 – less than 45 days from today.
It was a headlong rush of the worst kind. It was a process rigged to force hurried decisions based on bad information. It was a process tilted toward the usual energy players while renewable energy companies and the interests of American consumers and taxpayers were overlooked.
But the time for reform has arrived.