Posted on 05/23/2010 2:01:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Right-wing darling Sarah Palin accused US President Barack Obama on Sunday of leading a lax response to the Gulf of Mexico spill because he is too close to the big oil companies.
The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, who champions off-shore drilling, criticized the media for not drawing the link between Obama and big oil and said if this spill had happened under former Republican president George W. Bush the scrutiny would have been far tougher.
"I don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media and by others if there's any connection with the contributions made to president Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration," she told Fox News Sunday.
More than 3.5 million dollars has been given to candidates by BP over the last 20 years, with the largest single donation, 77,051 dollars, going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Palin suggested this close relationship explained why Obama was, "taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico."
The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers, and sank two days later. Ever since, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil, perhaps millions, have been spewing each day into the sea.
The resulting slick, now the size of a small country, threatens to leave Louisiana's fishing and coastal tourism industries in tatters, ruin pristine nature reserves, and cause decades of harm to the ecology of fragile marshes ..
The Obama administration has been forced to defend its response to the disaster as some Republicans have sought to portray it as their Katrina, ..
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Hehe. Paybacks.
“Right-wing darling Sarah Palin” in the press, but “RINO Sarah” to some here.
Hilarious.
NO NO. The Democrats are all selfless advocates for the people against corporate interests.
I’d like Sarah to be the first to say
“Gee, that’s a HELL of an oil deposit! Let’s get to it!”
I don’t see posters calling here a RINO. I see posters criticizing her for endorsing some RINOs over conservative candidates in GOP primaries.
“BP will pay for every bit of this,” he (Gibbs) said. “We have to figure out and make sure that the relationship that is had with government and oil companies is not a cozy relationship as the president said.
So Sarah is right.
Why isn’t it socialist’s darling Barack Hussein Obama? Isn’t that profiling?
LOL. She’s been called worse than RINO here, but I think you know that also.
But Gibbs was not talking about Obama having a cozy relationship with oil companies...he was talking about some federal bureaucrat who was supposed to be regulating offshore drilling not doing his or her job because of closeness to big oil.
Sarah is saying the problem is Obama himself.
Big difference.
I don’t agree with her that this why he was so slow to act.
I think he wants Americans to hate oil companies so much that they will gladly let HIM take over their management like GM and Chrysler.
Therefore, let the oil destroy what it may. In addition, it’s a way to punish Louisiana for electing Bobby Jindal.
If you kowtow to Obama, you get all kinds of goodies. But if you don’t, you will get hurt, he will see to it.
I think that Sarah is just trying to score political points and not every well I might add. Obama is many things but being too cozy with oil companies certainly isn’t one of them.
I think Obama has not come down harder on BP just yet because he wants to watch this play out and actually wants it to be the mother of all spills. He will use this crisis to jumpstart some massive alternate energy program. I think Obama may try to literally shut down oil production in the Gulf - not just new rigs - but shut it all down. I bet he has an army of political hacks now trying to figure out how to get these oil companies to pay for his new program so he can permanently change the shape of the US. Whatever it is he will not let this crisis go to waste.
Obamah’s hanging onto his BP Stash, it’s almost time for a summer vacation with the kids.
The reason he is slow to act is incompetence!
I'll post part of the WaPo article below if anyone is too lazy to follow your important link:
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely. ...... "The agency's oversight role has devolved to little more than rubber-stamping British Petroleum's self-serving drilling plans," Suckling said. BP has lobbied the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- which provides NEPA guidance for all federal agencies-- to provide categorical exemptions more often. In an April 9 letter, BP America's senior federal affairs director, Margaret D. Laney, wrote to the council that such exemptions should be used in situations where environmental damage is likely to be "minimal or non-existent." An expansion in these waivers would help "avoid unnecessary paperwork and time delays," she added. ..........
Not quite up to the standard of the Palin Alaskan administration, it looks like.
Well he did allow them to by pass safetly standards....I’m sure that big contribution had nothing to do with that? *eyeroll*
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