Posted on 05/22/2010 4:11:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AFP) – President Barack Obama unveiled a commission Saturday to probe the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the growing environmental catastrophe blackened Louisiana's fragile wetlands and beaches.
With the federal government facing accusations of lax supervision of lucrative offshore oil drilling, Obama vowed to hold Washington accountable and warned that the future of the industry hinges on assurances such a disaster "never happens again."
As frustration grew that the huge spill gushing from a ruptured well nearly a mile (1,500 meters) below the surface was still not capped more than a month into the disaster, Obama also hinted for the first time that a criminal investigation could be launched.
The president noted concerns about the "cozy relationship between oil and gas companies and agencies that regulate them" and said the "disaster was a breakdown of responsibility on the part of BP and perhaps others, including Transocean and Halliburton."
Obama gave the bipartisan presidential commission six months to report its findings on the "root causes" of the disaster and provide recommendations on how the oil industry can prevent and mitigate the impact of any future spills.
"If the laws on our books are inadequate to prevent such an oil spill, or if we didn't enforce those laws -- I want to know it," Obama said in his weekly radio address.
"I want to know what worked and what didn't work in our response to the disaster, and where oversight of the oil and gas industry broke down."
In an election year rife with anti-incumbent anger rattling lawmakers' hopes of hanging on to their seats, some have narrowed their sights on the spill and who is to blame. They have already held 10 congressional hearings over the past two weeks ..
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Let no crisis go to waste.
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The FEDS are coming The FEDs are coming...
WE're safe now!
Wow, that took what, a month?
Meanwhile the barrier islands that could have been dredged a week or two ago are still being debated by wacko libs who don’t really want the disaster to end or any immediate solution.
Nuthin’s gonna be bigger than his admin fail to act immediately in the worlds worst environmental disaster...from the folks who brought you GREEN!!!
Is there going to be a beer summit?
What a joke. Doesn’t he even speak to the governors in the affected areas? Or the Coast Guard?
He does absolutely nothing to facilitate a solution, but a month later gathers a bunch of bureaucrats to talk the problem to death.
U.S.President Barack Obama attends a signing ceremony for a Presidential Memorandum outlining the next steps in his vision for cleaner, more efficient vehicles in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, May 21, 2010. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
oood job, Zippy.
“findings on the “root causes” “
I would like to find out the real root causes also — was it truly an accident, sabotage, terrorism (eco- or Islamic)...
How come they haven’t started to investigate the “root causes” from day 1? You need investigators who understand how offshore oil rigs operate to investigate — I don’t see how a presidential commission is competent to really find out the root causes, vs just affixing blame after weeks of useless “hearings”.
Something else the a$$hole "inherited." Obama is Washington. He blames Washington and makes it sound like he is an outsider not responsible for running the government. He is still campaigning against Washington.
So...if there’s a giant forest fire in Montana...we’ll create a fire commission?
If there’s a rat infestation in Georgia....we create a rat commission?
If there’s a wild dogs running around Arkansas and tormenting folks...we create a wild dog commission?
At some point...people will start laughing because they can predict every single time about a new commission starting up.
Blames oil spill on Bush
Hey- we`ve got all the tar-balls we need on the Gulf shore-
All we need are the feathers!
He’s above all others and doesn’t need to speak to anyone with any experience.
He gets his guidance from his smokes.... then sits down and talks about it.....you know, like a community organizer.
If you get enough brillant minds thinking and talking, everything else goes away.....
That’s Obummer’s way of handling a disaster.
He’s the only thing standing between BP and the pitchforks.
Spill commission...
Security commission...
Birther commission...
Obama is a Muslim Plant commission...
Obama is just a low-life dick commision...
Obama f—ks Israel commission...
Obama fronts for Iran commission...
Obama screws NASA in the southern hemisphere commission...
Obama takes F-22 and pulls it’s wings off commission...
Obama...
Get in line fellow zombies... (...and I use that term with warm thoughts)
Obama is a basket case. Our basket case!
If there’s a rat infestation in Georgia....we create a rat commission?
What about in the Rose Garden?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2519137/posts
( Editorial: An entourage more royal than the Queen's) This is more than one country can afford....does Obama think he is a king? Yep!
A commission? Man, that oil spill ought to be shaking in its boots now.
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