Lookie lookie - who the heck just crawled out of the oil swill

[malaise]

http://www.newser.com/story/87718/bushs-brownie-obama-wanted-spill-to-spread.html
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Brown—whose handling of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath won praise from few apart from President Bush—says that Obama waited for the oil spill to worsen so he could shut down offshore drilling, the Huffington Post reports.

"This is exactly what they want, because now he can pander to the environmentalists and say, 'I'm gonna shut it down because it's too dangerous,'" Brown told Fox's Neil Cavuto. "This president has never supported Big Oil, he's never supported offshore drilling, and now he has an excuse to shut it back down."
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There are no words for these morons but the defenders of big oil are showing up like dead fish on the beaches.

[ixion]

1. Sounds like Brownie is interviewing for a job as Big Oil flack

with that brown ring around his nose, I'm sure he'll do well.

[malaise]

4. Who is this flack on defending this crap

and comparing it to deaths on the space shuttle.
This disaster has deaths and decades of environmental consequences.

[ixion]

5. I agree

It's a horrible disaster, and the usual gang of suspects are out there shilling for Big Oil and the status quo.

And as usual, the populace at large is being distracted from the magnitude of the disaster by flacks like Brownie.

[boston bean]

2. When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.

Obama said yes to more exploration, which would lead a reasonable person to believe there would in the future be more drilling.

Now if he flips, he looks weak and unprincipled. If he doesn't we got bad unprincipled bad policy.

Yippeeeee.. Yay for bi-partisan triangulation!

[zipplewrath]

18. May get lucky on this one

You've got Crist, and several other coastal govenors that aren't gonna be "full throated" advocates of drilling at this point. I can't see "drill baby drill" being a big winner on the fall campaign trail. He can probably back away from this one and no one will be in a particular position to make any hay over it. His bigger problem is that he was using the issue to try to bring the GOP on board. They don't have to say why, but if it isn't in there, they'll probably feel free to actively oppose it, as compared to just making alot of noise.

[annabanana]

3. Shut Up Brownie...

No one needs to hear from your sorry ass.

[lunatica]

6. And Brownie is some expert on what exactly?

There just aren't any words...

[babylonsister]

7. That's the new talking point of the r/w, compliments of rushbo, perino, et al.,...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=286311

[chillspike]

8. LOL Wrong!

Obama could have "shut it down" by just not including oil development in his bill.

Guess that shuts down Brown.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Doesn't He Have Some Horseshit To Shovel?

He's sooooooooo good at it. First, his inept handling during Katrina that led to 1,500 or more deaths. When he was scapegoated, this opportunist and bullshit artist became a corporate media darling in joining the chorus of critism of the booosh regime...always avoiding his own culpability in what happened. So in their lazy reporting on this issue they had to drag this loser back out and somehow he's trying, once again, to shirk any responsibility he had to the Katrina tragedy and try to get back in the good graces of his rushpublican puppetmasters.

Heck of a job, Brownie!

[midnight]

10. BP Oil Slick The Result Of Republican DOJ And Regulatory Policy

By: bmaz Monday May 3, 2010 7:23 pm
The economic and environmental damage resulting from the exploding fireball compromise of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform may be unprecedented, with the potential to emit the equivalent of up to four Exxon Valdez breakups per week with no good plan to stop it. There will be plenty of finger pointing among BP, Transocean and Halliburton, while it appears the bought and paid for corporatist Congress put the screws to the individual citizens and small businesses by drastically limiting their potential for economic recovery; all in the course of insuring big oil producers like BP have effectively no damage liability for such losses.

How did this happen? There are, of course, a lot of pertinent factors but, by far, the one constant theme underlying all is the mendacious corporate servitude of the Republican party, their leaders and policies. The arrogance and recklessness of BP and its oily partners gestated wildly under the Bush/Cheney administration.

Until the turn of the decade, BP had a relatively decent safety and environmental record compared to others similarly situated. Then BP merged with American oil giant Amoco and started plying the soft regulated underbelly of Republican rule in the US under oil men George Bush and Dick Cheney. Here from the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an excellent list of BP misconduct, almost all occurring and/or whitewashed under the Bush/Cheney Administration. If you open the door, foxes eat the chickens.

But it is not just regulatory policy behind the open and notorious recklessness of BP and its ilk, it is intentional policy at the Department of Justice as well. Here is how the former Special Agent In Charge for the EPA Criminal Investigative Division, Scott West, described the DOJ coddling of BP under the Bush/Cheney Administration:http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/

[Catshrink]

11. That's one heckuva theory there, Brownie.

But, as my Daddy would have said - really sung:

What's the color of horse shit? Brown, Brown, Brown.

[enough]

12. This sort of talk is exactly the same as calling Obama a traitor. (nt)

[tanyev]

13. Did he go buy a new shirt at Nordstrom's for the interview?

You can quit now, Brownie. You can go home.

[northernlights]

14. well heckofafuckup brownie has all the credibility of a gnat

no offense to gnats intended.

[Ganja Ninja]

15. "This is exactly what they want"

No this is exactly what "they" didn't want but warned would happen. It is however exactly what the right said would never happen.

Go back to judging horse's asses Brownie. That seems to be all you're good for.

[surrealAmerican]

16. Apparently he thinks the president's job is to ...

... "support Big Oil". I wonder where he got that idea. :sarcasm:

[eShirl]

17. "Obama waited for the oil spill to worsen" before doing what, exactly?

[ljm2002]

19. Idiot! Obama already pandered to the rabid right...

...when he put more offshore drilling into his energy plan.

Oops.

If this was all part of a big plan, somehow I don't see him doing that.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Of all the people that should never open their mouth about ANYTHING....... nt