tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post1785128746855741973..comments2024-03-17T08:07:12.695-05:00Comments on Between The Lines: Jindal proactive approach adds to his political capitalJeff Sadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03972004592729833310noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post-7806251227401048772010-05-05T00:32:16.389-05:002010-05-05T00:32:16.389-05:00Jeff Sadow you are professionally dishonest. Lets ...Jeff Sadow you are professionally dishonest. Lets start with the biggest lie of the article: the crisis "began almost two weeks ago". Only a deeply delusional neocon such as yourself could block reality to believe that. This disaster was YEARS in the making. Read it and weep: "As the Wall Street Journal (hardly a liberal rag) reports, after a spill in 2000, the [fed Minerals Management Service] issued a safety notice saying that such a back-up device is 'an essential component of a deepwater drilling system.' The industry pushed back in 2001, citing alleged doubts about the capacity of this type of system to provide a reliable emergency backup. By 2003, government regulators decided that the matter needed more study after commissioning a report that offered another, more honest reason: 'acoustic systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly.' I guess that depends on what they're compared to. The system costs about $500,000 per rig." That is, under Clinton the feds were maneuvering to ensure that all rigs has acoustic shut-off switches of the sort that could save your state, but when the anti-regulation, free-market militants such as yourself got into power under Bush, then even the smallest of inconveniences was reason to remove critical safeguards.<br /><br />To be more clear, what happened during those years when we switched from infrequent, reasonable and prudent regulation to a pro-corruption, anti-regulation Bush administration? (from Wash Monthly: "What happened in those three years? Well, for one thing, the MMS in the Bush/Cheney era became one of the most corrupt government agencies in American history. The Minerals Management Service proudly embraced an anything-goes atmosphere that led to literally Caligula-like corruption and debauchery -- federal officials traded cocaine and sex for lucrative oil contracts, for example. For another, Dick Cheney's secretive energy task force concluded that $500,000 for remote shutoff was simply too great a burden, and the former V.P. and his team didn't want to force BP and other oil companies to spend the money."<br /><br />Tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists such as yourself will simply argue against all logic that BP's negligence is somehow Obama's deliberate indifference. News Flash, Jeff: Obama was not operating that oil rig, it was BP (Duh!). Your suggestion that it is somehow the conservatives (not liberals) who are prudent with the environment makes for rich humor. Most normal people would be ashamed if they shrieked "drill baby drill" just before a major drilling disaster like this. But shameless charlatans such as your self bleat it proudly from rooftops like it's the gospel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com