"Unlimited oil spill liability" is NOT the same thing as "No cap".
There's that weasel lawyer-talk again by Obama.
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Yesterday, Obama expressed repressed anger, sarcasm and snark, and it provided an insight into what's wrong with him -- He's angry at the wrong people, "the talking heads". Not BP.
Then, in the face of the rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, Obama said he's moving quickly to release new safety requirements that would allow the reopening of offshore oil and gas exploration in shallow waters.
This disaster didn't happen because there were no regulations and oversight controls. It happened because BP didn't abide by regulations and the government failed to oversee and enforce the regulations. This was colossal failure of government, lack of oversight and cozy cronyism, a government filled with lobbyists that switchback between the government and the corporations.
There is no way to safely drill offshore.
And the people of Louisiana who want offshore drilling to continue want it because they want & need JOBS -- They don't have to be in the oil industry.
This is an opportunity that a real environmental president, a real DEMOCRATIC president, would leap at. It holds the solution to just about every problem we've got. It's what Obama talked about during the campaign, but once in the White House he turned his back on, and has since continued all of the Bush-Cheney policies.
Obama's refusal to investigate and prosecute Bush says it all. When he's ready to do that, we may get something of a working government back.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Yesterday, Obama expressed repressed anger, sarcasm and snark, and it provided an insight into what's wrong with him -- He's angry at the wrong people, "the talking heads". Not BP.
Then, in the face of the rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, Obama said he's moving quickly to release new safety requirements that would allow the reopening of offshore oil and gas exploration in shallow waters.
This disaster didn't happen because there were no regulations and oversight controls. It happened because BP didn't abide by regulations and the government failed to oversee and enforce the regulations. This was colossal failure of government, lack of oversight and cozy cronyism, a government filled with lobbyists that switchback between the government and the corporations.
There is no way to safely drill offshore.
And the people of Louisiana who want offshore drilling to continue want it because they want & need JOBS -- They don't have to be in the oil industry.
This is an opportunity that a real environmental president, a real DEMOCRATIC president, would leap at. It holds the solution to just about every problem we've got. It's what Obama talked about during the campaign, but once in the White House he turned his back on, and has since continued all of the Bush-Cheney policies.
Obama's refusal to investigate and prosecute Bush says it all. When he's ready to do that, we may get something of a working government back.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
This began and persists as a strawman of sorts, a set-up by a member of the White House press corps, as a sort of challenge to Obama about his non-participation in a catastrophic event, an ongoing attack on the US.
In a different setting, the reporter might have asked Robert Gibbs if Obama suffered from constipation.
Nobody is suggesting that if Obama expresses anger, SHALAKAZAAM!, the oil will be back in the ground under the sea.
But anger as a laxative, to get Obama unstuck and moving. Because there is much that Obama can do and should be doing.
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As Secretary of the Interior under Obama, "Salazar put more acres up for lease than any year ever. All time high. Salazar has always been for drilling and he helped open up the Gulf for drilling, including the lease bloc that BP drilled, WHEN HE WAS A SENATOR so he's always been for this and he went full speed ahead as soon as they got in office and then they pushed for more offshore drilling".
Do you know that Ken Salazar was a US Senator prior to becoming Obama's Secretary of the Interior? Do you know what his record was as senator?
As a senator, Salazar voted to end protections that limit offshore oil drilling in Florida's Gulf Coast. http://www
He also voted against increasing fuel-efficiency standards (CAFE) for cars and trucks, a vote that the League of Conservation Voters notes is anti-environment. In the same year, Salazar voted against an amendment to repeal tax breaks for ExxonMobil and other major petroleum companies.
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He was one of only a handful of Democrats to vote against a bill that would require the United States Army Corps of Engineers to consider global warming when planning water projects. http://www
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Rolling Stone's executive editor Eric Bates reports that before the explosion on Deepwater Horizon, Obama knew well in advance that it had a major problem with the regulatory structure and did nothing to reform as he'd promised to. Ken Salazar put up more acres up for lease in the Gulf than anyone else in history.
Then after the explosion, Obama knew the spill could be very big from the first few hours, but dropped the ball.
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There is no way to drill safely.
On Dylan Ratigan's Show yesterday, oil expert Matt Simmons talks about the Deepwater Horizon blowout, and that BP is doing everything wrong -- "It's spewing 150,000 barrels of oil a day and BP is patching the wrong part", "a relief well isn't going to fix this", and "the N. Atlantic Ocean is at stake".
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