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‘Good Public Servant’ Canned
The Obama administration is obviously feeling intense heat over the BP oil leak, so ahead of his press conference this afternoon, it unveiled its first in-house scapegoat.
The Obama administration is obviously feeling intense heat over its incompetent response to the BP oil leak, so ahead of his press conference this afternoon, it unveiled its first in-house scapegoat:
The head of the beleaguered federal agency that regulates offshore drilling resigned today, shortly before the Interior Department released new estimates that rank the spill as the nation’s largest ever.
Elizabeth Birnbaum, appointed last year to direct the Minerals Management Service, noted that her agency will be reorganized into three new federal offices in a letter of resignation to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar….
Salazar called Birnbaum a strong and effective leader who had helped take important steps to fix the agency she headed.
“She is a good public servant. She resigned today on her own terms and on her own volition,” he said.
Multiple reports this morning, citing Democratic sources, said Birnbaum had been fired.
Is this top-kill because she couldn’t hit the junk shot?
Update 1:35 p.m.: David Axelrod confirmed yesterday that a “top-kill” was needed at MMS.
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David | 5.27.10 @ 1:40PM
Birnbaum had no business at all being in charge of MMS. She was as horribly unqualified for that job as Barack Obama is for the job he has.
http://www.ibleedcrimsonred.co.....r-bus.html
Becky| 5.27.10 @ 7:53PM
If you noticed, she was praised for her work in the agency meaning working within the bureaucracy, not working for the public. An example of the importance of the bureaucracy being supported taking precedence over the mission of the bureaucracy.