President Obama needs to purge all regulatory agencies

[spanone]

bu$h* filled every nook & cranny of government with cronies and industry insiders....

there is no one watching out for us....no one.

[pscot]

1. Unrecced already?

Tsk Tsk

[pscot]

2. Purging the agencies was President Cheney's

first action. Hiring in a bunch of industry shills was the second. We can only wonder why they've been left on the job.

[izquierdista]

8. Cheney's Chiggers

They've burrowed in deeper than a chigger with a drill rig. Like clams in swamp mud. And for 8 years, those in appointed positions bussed in their idealogs and put them in every vacant career position that opened up. Patronage being the only qualification to hire someone, the rot has pervaded all throughout the government. Now they have swelled up like a toad stuck in a log and no amount of shaking is going to dislodge them. And since they do anything that corporations tell them is good for the bottom line, they have the rich and powerful lobbying to keep them right where they are.

When you have only one talent, saying "yes" to power, you are never, ever going to leave a job of your own accord. Their own incompetence won't shame them into leaving, but maybe their high-minded false morality will. The only way to get these hacks to abdicate from their fiefdoms is to give them a free subscription to rentboy.com and keep the camera rolling.

[global1]

12. I Can't Imagine What An Insurmountable Job It Would Be To Uncover And Fire Every.....

BushCo shill in government. I hope that each agency is going through their employees and culling out the bad ones. Most of Obama's employees have only been on the job for about a year - maybe some even less than that. I would think that they would have to understand their respective agencies and the tasks that they have to manage before they can go systematically through the employee rolls and cull out the bad apples and then I'm sure their are all sorts of government firing and hiring policies that they have to deal with as well. BushCo had 8 years to destroy all these agencies - we need to cut the Obama Administration some slack to get the right people in the right places.

I would like to hear - however - that somebody in the MMS and other agencies that manage the regs for the oil industry - got the axe based on this incident in the Gulf. In fact - we need to be assured that the (IR)responsible people in government positions that didn't do their job are made an example of and are fired.

It would be nice to see some story that these regulatory agencies were purged of those that were held responsible for not enforcing the regulations. That would make me more satisfied that Obama's administration is doing its job.

[pscot]

15. Agreed. It would be nice

to hear that heads are rolling, but it's been almost a year-and-a-half and it hasn't happened. Look at Justice, where the US Attorney responsible for the Siegelman railroading is still in office down in Alabama. And still persecuting Democrats on behalf of her good friend Republican governor Bob Reilly. I'm no longer expecting much from the Obama administration.

[Scuba]

3. Good call.

[spanone]

4. where were the regulators in the mines? the gulf? wall street? banks? etc. etc. etc.

[Scuba]

5. In bed with Corporate whores.....

...after snorting meth off of a toaster oven. Well documented abuse, but still issuing permits.

[uponit7771]

6. Yeap, if he doesn't see that now he never will...

[Echo In Light]

7. K/R

[ThomWV]

9. It goes deeper than the regulatory sides of the Agencies as well

I worked for the Department of Energy for years and I can tell you that the plants are a lot deeper than just the regulatory side - they right wing advocates abound in the research and administrative sides too.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. But it is the (non)regulators who give the rest cover.

If the regulators were doing what they are supposed to be doing, the other moles would not be able to get away with their crap. Regulators exist because we expect incompetents and frauds to be cronied in during corrupt administrations, but when the regulators themselves are cronied in there are no controls left on the system. It's not a matter of 'kick the bums out', but of 'keep the bums honest'.

[ashling]

13. He should issue an executive order halting all permits to

oil, coal, etc. until a thorough review is made.

[rudy23]

10. He's on the industry insiders' side, though, right? Why would he purge those people?

They're exactly where Obama wants them. Obama wants corporate shills to infest government because that's in line with his ideology.

[indepat]

14. Such an ideology, if true, would hasten the demise of this Republic as a viable

international entity. :P

[spanone]

16. i don't buy that.

[rudy23]

17. Who's Sec. of Treasury? Interior? Monsanto and BP are well represented, too

I wish I was wrong.