Gulf Oil Spill: Wildlife Death Toll Only Tells Part Of The Story

Obama appointed Ken Salazar, a longtime proponent of offshore drilling, as his Secretary of the Interior. Salazar helped open up the Gulf for drilling, including the lease bloc that BP drilled. As soon as Obama got in office, he & Salazar went full speed ahead, pushing for more offshore drilling. Last year Salazar put more acres up for lease in the Gulf than any year ever. 2009, all time high.



As president, you don't put a person like this into your cabinet unless you're exactly like Bush & Cheney.



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.lcv.org/images/client/pdfs/LCV_2006_Scorecard_final.pdf



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.

http://www.lcv.org/images/client/pdfs/LCV_Scorecard_05_FINAL_lores.pdf



Salazar 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.lcv.org/scorecard/2007.pdf
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Gulf Oil Spill: Wildlife Death Toll Only Tells Part Of The Story

You're quite the apologist for this administration.



The fact is that there are only two choices: Obama is either corrupt or he's inept. I've determined he's corrupt, but you're free to believe whatever you want.



Obama has kept Bush appointees in his administration & in government, continued Bush's policies, while excluding liberals & handicapping them and their positions.



Obama's reneged on just about all of his campaign promises, done 180-degree turns on policies, most notably to this conversation is his support for offshore drilling. The "culture" inside the MMS was no secret. Anybody with a pulse knew that Bush&Cheney had planted cronies throughout the government to prevent oversight and regulatory compliance.



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Obama's Oil Spill Emotions: The Mediagasm (VIDEO)

I absolutely do agree with you that we could stand to learn the lesson of the Tea Party.



But I want more than just making "political beltway corporatists sit up and take notice".
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Sestak, with his full-throated support for the war, is no prize. Obama&Emanuel will work with Sestak just fine. Sestak (like Scott Brown) will distance himself from those that brung 'im once he's in the Senate.



And neither is Howard Dean any prize. Dean wants to play with the Big Boys so badly, he has repeatedly snatched defeat from the jaws of history every time the left begins to get any traction on an issue (the public option in healthcare reform was just the latest example). As soon as they get what they want, they cast him aside and leave him to the scrap heap of obscurity (again).



They've all got to go.
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We just have to keep working, identifying targets like Lincoln and Sphincter so Pelosi, Reid and Obama get the message.

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They got the message; they don't give a chit.



We need to stop thinking that the DLC/DSCC/DCCC is open to reason and negotiation with the left. They're not.



They've succeeded by deceiving Democratic voters about who they are and what they're about. Most registered Democrats have no idea what the DLC is. Most registered Democrats think the Clintons are liberals, and Obama is to the left of them.



Since its creation in 1985, the DLC has been working to purge the Democratic Party of its base, move the party to the right, and make it more hospitable to Republicans. In order to govern "for 100 years". Obama's & Emanuel's first act in office was to go after Limbaugh & Palin, make them, two extremists, the face of the Republican Party. Obama&Emanuel still have not gone after the actual leaders (or politicians) of the Republican Party. Because O&E want to make the Republican Party inhospitable to any Republican to the left of Limbaugh & Palin. It's about bringing Republican politicians & their supporters into the Democratic Party.



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Yes.



And, we'll know more about that, the real source(s) of the breaches, when the Thomas Jefferson arrives there at the end of the week.



So then it becomes a question of the lesser of two ev!ls -- Letting the oil continue to gush, which means the death of the oceans (and humans on the planet, as 80% of our oxygen comes from the oceans) or exploding a nuclear device on the rupture to seal it.



The White House has responded already that it has no intention of doing the latter ("it's madness"). According to the Rolling Stone, US submarines were at the site shortly after the explosion surveying the damage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b307dNN1zBQ



It's hard to fathom that if Simmons and others are correct and there is another rupture, that the submarines wouldn't have discovered it and that Obama wouldn't have detonated a nuclear device to seal it by now.



But I can't dismiss Simmons' and others' expertise and opinions. Particularly in light of Obama's failure to clean house of Bush-Cheney-Oil-Industry plants, enforce regulations, perform stringent oversight, & his hands-off approach in the aftermath.



So we wait to hear from the Thomas Jefferson.
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Which is why I also wrote:



"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."



If Obama handled this as a real environmental president, as a real DEMOCRATIC president, it would address everything else you've mentioned. They really do all link.



Change one thing and you change everything.
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