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According to Greenwire:
The Obama administration today imposed new offshore drilling safety regulations, a move needed to end its moratorium on deepwater exploratory drilling, but it gave no indication of when that ban would be lifted.
Instead, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar promised the industry would face a “dynamic regulatory environment” in the weeks and months to come, as his department refines and further tightens its safety and environmental standards for offshore drilling.
In anticipation of this continuing assault, yesterday Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu was quoted saying the following about the Obama administration’s War on the Gulf Region, accompanying its War on the West (at the joint hearing on which I was pleased to offer testimony), as quoted by Politico:
“[T]he administration has not acted to lift its ill-conceived moratoria on offshore drilling that are having such a devastating impact on working people and small businesses throughout the Gulf Coast…
What is clear is that the administration, for whatever reason, has stood in defiance of our federal courts and disregarded economists, experts and its own economic data in proceeding down a path that is putting thousands of people out of work and hurting the bottom line of hundreds of small businesses,” Landrieu said. “The evidence is overwhelming that this moratorium is a poor economic policy and has achieved no safety improvements that could not have been achieved in its absence. Yet, the president and his key advisers have never acknowledged that fact.”
Fox News reported Landrieu calling the moratorium “a terrible error” and saying “This Administration has the entire exploration of oil and gas shut down in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Elsewhere she is quoted as saying:
“I find it stunning that the administration was aware that their actions might eliminate nearly 23,000 jobs in an already faltering economy, and proceeded anyway”.
And, finally, Landrieu says:
“The president’s policies right now are doing much more harm than the [BP] spill itself to the economy of the South coast. … It’s just gotten to a point where people in Louisiana ask, ‘Do they even understand what is going on down here?’ They have the entire offshore industry virtually shut down.”
Of course they understand what’s going on.
As Charles Krauthammer noted on FNC last night, it’s about the Obama White House’s mantra of never letting a good crisis go unexploited. This is their agenda — shut down domestic production of energy sources that work, force you onto those that do not work so well yet are spectacularly more expensive when they do — and place energy production and therefore, ever more of the economy’s fate in the state’s hands. It’s not complicated. All one need to do is listen to their admissions and vows.
Then the American people will with no doubt also understand what’s going on. And that can’t come too soon.
UPDATE: As posted this, the following came in in an email from Capitol Hill:
Senator Landrieu says: “We’ve got to get people back to work and it’s thousands of people, thousands of people that have been put out of work more from the moratorium than from the oil spill itself…. Let my people go. Let them go. Let them get back to work….”
The White House is calling Landrieu’s strong advocacy for Gulf Coast jobs and economy “sad and outrageous”.
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Oldefarte| 9.30.10 @ 3:46PM
Chris, GREAT post! As one who has lived in the Gulf area most of my adult life, I know that all of which you say is FACT and that his moratorium was/is politically motivated, just as is/was their legally suing Arizona over immigration. THIS is WHY American voters must WAKE UP and VOTE to begin the return of this country back to normalcy in November!!!!!!!!!!
Patriot| 9.30.10 @ 4:04PM
Obama's doing it on purpose. He's using the Cloward-Piven method of over-load and chaos to destroy our Capitalist system so he can replace it with a Marxist system.
Fundamental transformation, you know.
He's nearly there, too.
Patriot| 9.30.10 @ 4:06PM
Obama doesn't govern, he rules.
Oldefarte| 9.30.10 @ 4:37PM
No, he.........DICTATES!!!!!
Patriot| 9.30.10 @ 4:50PM
Call it what you like, all I know is I don't like it!
JanelleA| 9.30.10 @ 5:13PM
Now, Senator Landrieu............can you hear us? Can all of the 535 hear us?
Yosemeti Sam| 10.1.10 @ 2:15AM
He, he - Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu waxing indignant about her partys' Christian 'spiritual' leaders' failure to empathize/commiserate/communicate with Gulf state victimization of the enviro-benificence thrown their way by BHO and his flunky Salazar.
Mary, you must have been a beautiful baby, but look at you now - sleep walker!
Bought and sold for 300 million.
How does it FEEL?
Threading Gulf water.
Don L| 10.1.10 @ 6:10AM
This is apparently just another pre-election meaningless feint (until/if it begins)
Once the glow from the faux halo has been lifted, it's quite easy to see this little man's games.
Doc| 10.1.10 @ 6:43AM
I hate the Democrats and everything they stand for. Landrieu gives lip service to her disdain of Obama. If she had any balls, she'd call for his impeachment. He's the WORST president this country has ever had. Everyone knows it. Obama is simply stupid. Not even Putin would put people out of work to destroy Russia's economy.
Ohiolad| 10.1.10 @ 6:56AM
Even with the prospect of a Republican-controlled Congress in January, the Obama administration will still have two years to rule the country by dictate and executive order. I’m not sure if the country can withstand two more years of these creeps intentionally undermining of the economy and ruining the country. Surely there must be some way to get rid of them sooner.
EasTexan| 10.1.10 @ 7:51AM
This administration is the most egregious in the history of the nation, as it pursues, with chutzpah, its evil schemes against the clear will of the people, but, November 2 is coming...it's coming.
Ed in North Texas| 10.1.10 @ 7:53AM
"Then the American people will with no doubt also understand what's going on. And that can't come too soon."
We have raised a couple of generations of citizens who have been trained to pay little, or no, attention to what is going on politically. It seems people are finally paying attention, but look at the cost we have already paid in order to stir them up. And we don't know if they will remain "stirred up", or go back to the couch after November 2d.
TennesseeVolunteer| 10.1.10 @ 8:20AM
While our oil workers are denied work, the administration gives money to Mexico and a Soros owned oil company in Brazil to drill for oil in the very same Gulf that our companies can not. Proof that he cares little for America and wants to "spread the wealth around" to other countries who he thinks have been victimized by Big Bad America (his thoughts, not mine).
This should be brought up by every politician who is for Conservative principles.
scythe| 10.1.10 @ 8:23AM
When will the American People do what needs to be done? Civil Disobedience. DEFIANCE. If this thug defied a court order, HE NEEDS TO BE DEFIED. As long as we meekly submit, he will continue to do what he wants. Image the images of thousands of Americans defying him...just before an election. If Rosa Parks hadn't sucked it up and stuck a stick in the eye of the MAN, her descendants would still be shuffling to the back of the bus. Now we are being thrown under it.
LeChat| 10.1.10 @ 12:15PM
There are more of us than there are of them. They can issue all the rules they want. Getting people to obey them may be a different matter. Disobey, and be sure to vote in November. The Democrat Party must be crushed flat.