Posted on 10/13/2010 6:28:35 PM PDT by Nachum
Sen. Mary Landrieu was either being diplomatic or disingenuous when she used "good start" to describe Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's lifting of the federal government's drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico. More to the point was her insistence that lifting the ban means nothing in the absence of "an action plan to get the entire industry in the Gulf of Mexico back to work. This means that the administration must continue to accelerate the granting of permits in shallow and deep water, and provide greater certainty about the rules and regulations industry must meet." The Louisiana Democrat also warned Salazar and his boss in the Oval Office that "when Congress reconvenes for the lame duck session next month, I will have had several weeks to evaluate if today's lifting of the moratorium is actually putting people back to work." Experts at Louisiana State University estimate the drilling ban has destroyed as many as 20,000 Gulf region jobs.
Landrieu knows that Interior's bureaucratic slow-walking of drilling applications remains in place and is far more debilitating than the deep-water drilling ban Salazar imposed in the wake of the April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Thus, she added, Interior has to "accelerate the granting of permits in shallow and deep water, and provide greater certainty about the rules and regulations industry must meet" before she will lift her hold on confirmation of President Obama's choice of Jack Lew as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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Ken Salazar is a useless a-hole.
I disagree. He’s very useful...for the enemy.
I’m with CL above, Salazar is a very good flunky for a president who hates the US.
Ken Salazar is a useless a-hole.>>>>>>>
More like evil job killing scum
Even though she’s not up for reelection this year, she’ll use her “opposition” to appeal to the same idiots who reelected her two years ago following her idiotic performance during and after Katrina.
These same idiots elected her brother to “School Bus Nagin’s” office.
I’m a Louisiana native and still don’t understand what those a$$holes are thinking!
Huey Long, Jimmy Davis, Earl Long, Eddie Edwards, etc. WTF?
Maybe there is hope. Bobby Jindal at least seems to have a brain cell or two. I hope the voters have finally awakened.
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