He was appointed by Ronald Regan, by golly ! A good man ! 'Bout time somebody shoved some judical direction up Obammy's keester for a change, rather than the other way 'round.
White House already said they are going to appeal it, so it will be stuck in court for months...
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For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do
not understand, no explanation is possible.
A golf course is a willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.
So, right now, I wonder which takes precedence: the President's 'order by decree' for a moratorium on deep water drilling in the Gulf, or the Court's decision to allow it ?
Fox is reporting that Salazar is preparing another executive order for again, a 6-month moratorium on deep water oil exploration in the Gulf. This one will be 'more explicit', to satisfy the legal aspects of specificity which, lacking in the original order, caused the order to be stricken by the court.
IMO, the end game here is to ensure the disaster's economic consequences hit every American, in the form of higher gasolene prices at the pump. Those economic consequences will be manufactured and false. They will be the consequence of having boobs in control of the government. It's been no secret of this administration that they consider $4 and $5 per gallon gas prices very attractive.
I can only hope there is continued legal reason to strike down the 2nd order as well....
You're right bergall. This is all about raising the price at the pump and making green energy more attractive. This has nothing to do with getting to the truth. Let me turn that up. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GETTING TO THE TRUTH. Obama hasn't appointed any drilling experts and/or engineers to his panel of investigators. He has stacked the deck with anti oil folks. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB4000...241446242.html
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'Under my Administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. . . To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. . . I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, and not the other way around." —U.S. President Barack Obama, April 27, 2009
The President has appointed a seven-person commission to take what he says will be an objective look at what caused the Gulf spill and the steps to make offshore drilling safe. But judging from the pedigree of his commissioners, we're beginning to wonder if his real goal is to turn drilling into a partisan election issue.
Mr. Obama filled out his commission last week, and the news is that there's neither an oil nor drilling expert in the bunch. Instead, he's loaded up on politicians and environmental activists.
One co-chair is former Democratic Senator Bob Graham, who fought drilling off Florida throughout his career. The other is William Reilly, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush but is best known as a former president and former chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, one of the big environmental lobbies. The others:
• Donald Boesch, a University of Maryland "biological oceanographer," who has opposed drilling off the Virginia coast and who argued that "the impacts of the oil and gas extraction industry . . . on Gulf Coast wetlands represent an environmental catastrophe of massive and underappreciated proportions."
• Terry Garcia, an executive vice president at the National Geographic Society, who directed coastal programs in the Clinton Administration, in particular "recovery of endangered species, habitat conservation planning," and "Clean Water Act implementation," according to the White House press release.
• Fran Ulmer, Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, who is a member of the Aspen Institute's Commission on Arctic Climate Change. She's also on the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, which opposes nuclear power and more offshore drilling and wants government policies "that reduce vehicle miles traveled" (i.e., driving in cars).
• Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who prior to her appointment blogged about the spill this way: "We can blame BP for the disaster and we should. We can blame lack of adequate government oversight for the disaster and we should. But in the end, we also must place blame where it originated: America's addiction to oil."
On at least five occasions since the accident, Ms. Beinecke has called for bans on offshore and Arctic drilling.
• Rounding out the panel is its lone member with an engineering background, Harvard's Cherry A. Murray, though her specialties are physics and optics.
The choice of men and women who are long opposed to more drilling suggests not a fair technical inquiry but an anti-drilling political agenda for Democrats.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel took this theme for a test drive on Sunday when he said that Republicans think "the aggrieved party here is BP, not the fisherman." He added that this ought to remind Americans "what Republican governance is like." The antidrilling commission could feed into this campaign narrative with a mid-September, pre-election report that blames the disaster on the industry and Bush-era regulators and recommends a ban on most offshore exploration.
Even as this commission moves forward, engineering experts across the country have agreed that there is no scientific reason for a blanket drilling ban. The Interior Department invited experts to consult on drilling practices, but as we wrote last week eight of them have since said their advice was distorted to justify the Administration's six-month drilling moratorium.
Judging from that decision and now from Mr. Obama's drilling commission, the days of "science taking a back seat to ideology" are very much with us.
Printed in The Wall Street Journal Europe, page 13
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