Former Bush administration officials: No one anticipated large oil spill

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/former_bush_administration_off.html


Holy shit! What an excuse!
Nobody asked and we didn't anticipate one. I wish that statement was a joke but it's not.
Now I'm scared, because I now have an understanding of the level of ignorance that is making decisions for this country.


Two former Interior secretaries told Congress today they did not anticipate an accident as large as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


But Gale Norton and Dirk Kempthorne say no one else did either -- including members of Congress who are now blaming the Bush administration for failing to prevent the tragedy.

Kempthorne, who served as Interior secretary from 2006 to January 2009, while George W. Bush was president, said he did not recall being asked at his confirmation hearing or in later congressional testimony about major oil spills.

Pilot flies over BP oil slick against US orders, a Godawful, Horrible MESS - vid

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=178443


This is gut wrenching.
The first 6.5 minutes are hard enough to take but the last 4 contain the truth of what's really been done to the Gulf.
There's a reason they don't want you to see this.
Pass it on

Judge denies Obama admin stay on drill ban ruling

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Judge-denies-Obama-admin-stay-rb-3471663315.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=

Well it seems there is no power in the White House, unless it has to do with taking away more of your rights as a citizen, or pledging your tax payments to clean up more corporate3 catastrophes


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge refused on Thursday to put on hold his decision that blocked the Obama administration from enforcing its six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Judge who nixed drilling ban has oil investments

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Judge-who-nixed-drilling-ban-apf-1298553772.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode=

Oh now I understand the lack of common sense in regards to his decision, it hurts his bottom line to have the ban on drilling.
Obviously he could give a crap less that NONE of the drilling companies has an emergency plan that works.
This is how our lives are run, decisions made by who owns what, and how it affects their stock portfolio.

The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He's also a new member of a secret national security court.

U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, a 1983 appointee of President Ronald Reagan, reported owning less than $15,000 in stock in 2008 in Transocean Ltd., the company that owned the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

Feldman overturned the ban Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too.

Feldman's 2008 financial disclosure report -- the most recent available -- also showed investments in Ocean Energy, a Houston-based company, as well as Quicksilver Resources, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Halliburton, Pengrowth Energy Trust, Atlas Energy Resources, Parker Drilling and others. Halliburton was also involved in the doomed Deepwater Horizon project.

Feldman did not respond to requests for comment and to clarify whether he still holds some or all of these investments.

He's one of many federal judges across the Gulf Coast region with money in oil and gas. Several have disqualified themselves from hearing spill-related lawsuits and others have sold their holdings so they can preside over some of the 200-plus cases.