Obama Says System 'Failed Badly' in Oil Spill

[Chris_]

A clearly frustrated President Obama on Friday said that the system for preventing accidents like the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "failed badly," while calling the "blame game" among oil executives at Senate hearings this week "a ridiculous spectacle."

Obama vowed to halt the "cozy relationship" between oil companies and federal regulators, as he called for new permitting rules and procedures governing offshore oil drilling.

Obama said he has ordered Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to do a "top-to-bottom" reform of the Minerals and Management Service, the agency now under fire for allowing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico without requiring oil companies to provide necessary permits from a separate agency.

"For too long, a decade or more, there's been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agencies that permits them to drill," he said. "Seems as if permits were too often issued based on a little more than assurances of safety from the oil companies."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/14/obama-outline-new-rules-providing-permits-oil-drilling/

Hey dumbass... you ARE the system.  It was your EPA that gave them waivers to bypass whatever regulations were in place.  I know you can't wait to blame the other guy, but you don't get to do that this time.

What a clown.

[Doc]

Well.....the acoustic coupling on the blowout preventer failed.........shit happens........before blowout preventers were invented, when a rig blew, they used to burn for days and weeks.......when Saddam set his oilfields on fire, the world as we know did not end, although the media predicted it........

Eleven men died when that rig blew, and these assholes are more worried about the wildlife than the crews and their families.......I haven't heard one word in the media about the crew.........

This sorta reminds me of the fact that miraculously, when Democrats took over in DC, there are no more casualties in Afganistan or Iraq.......at least according to the media.....

doc

[Chris_]

A father of one of the men that died on that rig called into Rush Limabugh's show today.  It was heartbreaking.  A bunch of birds and fish are getting more attention that any one of those men. 

[cavegal]

Yes you did..... It is you that is failing this system.. I am so sick and tired of them..  No word on the 11 dead... Usually MSM would have the family's all over the TV. Why not now? They would cover the funerals not now. Maybe the family's do not want to, this hasn't stopped MSM before.. It is your government that let BP get wavers.. I only found the condolences page for the 11 dead by mistake.  If this is such a disaster I do not see the dead birds,fish ect on the coast line. How long till it hits the land???? This bunch is the worst thing to ever happen to this country..  Oh just my 2 cents worth.... well some of it.