Re: OT - The Spill, The Scandal, and the President
- From: Mark <bogusmailmark@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
Holy crap, does RS realize that its site has been hacked by a
journalist?
On Jun 11, 11:14 am, Conscience <nobama@g v.com> wrote:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0
Selected quotes below for those not wanting to read all eight pages. I
apologize for not finding something similar on FoxNews.com, so the
loons on the left will have to be satisfied with Rolling Stone magazine.
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"Like the attacks by Al Qaeda, the disaster in the Gulf was preceded by
ample warnings – yet the administration had ignored them. Instead of
cracking down on MMS, as he had vowed to do even before taking office,
Obama left in place many of the top officials who oversaw the agency's
culture of corruption. He permitted it to rubber-stamp dangerous
drilling operations by BP – a firm with the worst safety record of any
oil company – with virtually no environmental safeguards, using
industry-friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years. He
calibrated his response to the Gulf spill based on flawed and
misleading estimates from BP – and then deployed his top aides to
lowball the flow rate at a laughable 5,000 barrels a day, long after
the best science made clear this catastrophe would eclipse the Exxon
Valdez."
"Even after the president's press conference, Rolling Stone has
learned, the administration knew the spill could be far worse than its
'best estimate' acknowledged."
"Even worse, the "moratorium" on drilling announced by the president
does little to prevent future disasters. The ban halts exploratory
drilling at only 33 deepwater operations, shutting down less than one
percent of the total wells in the Gulf..."
"It's tempting to believe that the Gulf spill, like so many disasters
inherited by Obama, was the fault of the Texas oilman who preceded him
in office. But, though George W. Bush paved the way for the
catastrophe, it was Obama who gave BP the green light to drill."
"Scientists like Steiner had urgently tried to alert Obama to the depth
of the rot at MMS. 'I talked to the transition team,' Steiner says. 'I
told them that MMS was a disaster and needed to be seriously reformed.'"
"As BP was cutting corners aboard the rig, the Obama administration was
plotting the greatest expansion of offshore drilling in half a century."
"When you say the company is responsible and the government has
oversight," a reporter asked Gibbs on May 3rd, "does that mean that the
government is ultimately in charge of the cleanup?" Gibbs was blunt:
"No," he insisted, "the responsible party is BP....The government is in
a situation where it's required to be in charge," says William Funk, a
professor of environmental and administrative law at Lewis and Clark
College who previously worked as a staff attorney in the Justice
Department."
"Scientists were stunned that NOAA, an agency widely respected for its
scientific integrity, appeared to have been co-opted by the White House
spin machine....They should have been right on top of that. Only six
weeks into the disaster did the agency finally deploy its own research
vessel to investigate the plumes."
"The failure of the obama administration to crack down on BP – and to
tackle the crisis with the full force of the federal government – is
likely to haunt the Gulf Coast for decades to come."
"President Obama pushed to expand offshore drilling, in part, to win
votes for climate legislation, which remains blocked in the Senate."
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