Obama Administration: We Don’t Care What the Courts Say.

by Little Miss Attila on July 11, 2010

The first rig has left the Gulf; others will follow. The Obama Administration doesn’t care about jobs, or the law.

Amazing.

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ponce July 11, 2010 at 1:13 pm

Because BP’s spill hasn’t cost the Gulf States any jobs, right?

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Darrell July 11, 2010 at 2:33 pm

I thought BP’s spill was part of Obama’s stimulus plan. And the cornerstone of his “new energy” plan–replacing cheap, efficient, 24/7/365 energy with expensive, inefficient, 4-hour/day power.

Now I’m confused.

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ponce July 11, 2010 at 2:37 pm

Did Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck that declare Obama caused BP’s spill and I missed it?

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Darrell July 11, 2010 at 3:12 pm

You are confused again, ponce. You guys get all your talking point from the central committee. Our guys just say some things we agree with at times. I’d explain the difference but you couldn’t grasp it, because that will never be covered in your daily seminars.

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Darrell July 11, 2010 at 3:25 pm

I think that Obama should look in to offering Paul, the world-cup- predicting-octopus one of those czar positions—perhaps economics.
I could live with energy policy, too–as long as they don’t rig the predictions with crab bits.

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Texan99 July 11, 2010 at 7:38 pm

I guess since the spill cost some jobs, now’s a good time to destroy a bunch more with an executive order so poorly reasoned a federal judge could overturn it on the “arbitrary and capricious” standard and actually be upheld by the Fifth Circuit. That ain’t easy.

The Obama administration has been saying for weeks it would just issue another order, better reasoned this time, they don’t seem to be able to come up with one. No one questions their authority to issue a moratorium in the abstract. They just have to issue one that doesn’t contradict their own experts and sound like it was made up by ignorant five-year-olds.

It doesn’t matter any more. The rigs will move on. Some will still work in the Gulf, just under different jurisdictions. The oil will still arrive in the Gulf, just by tanker. The jobs will be lost without even addressing the environmental risk — because it’s about perception and politics, not protecting the environment. If it were about protecting the environment, the EPA wouldn’t be sabotaging the cleanup with its absurd wasterwater discharge rules that hamstrung the skimmer fleet.

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