{"id":19481,"date":"2010-06-17T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19481"},"modified":"2010-06-17T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:51:09","slug":"carrying-obamas-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19481","title":{"rendered":"Carrying Obama’s water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and part owner of The Nation writes the most partisan piece in the Washington post in recent days, in the WaPo’s “Post partisan” section entitled “Where’s Dick Cheney on the BP oil spill?<\/a>” Um, who cares, Katrina? He’s not the Vice president anymore. You can’t tie it to him. you can’t blame him for the eruption, you can’t blame him for this administration’s inability to react in a timely manner to spill, or their ineptness in beginning the clean up. So what’s your stupid point? <\/p>\n

For eight years, of course, Cheney played dual roles as vice president of the United States and as unofficial at-large congressman for the petroleum industry. The former vice president\u2019s murky ties to Halliburton, the Houston oil services company he once ran, are well documented, and he continues to face ridicule for having allowed executives from oil companies to dictate American energy policy during the George W. Bush presidency.<\/p>\n

At Mother Jones, Kate Sheppard looks extensively into the potential cause-and-effect relationship between Cheney\u2019s infamous 2001 energy task force and the gulf catastrophe. \u201cThe task force’s final report,\u201d Sheppard writes, \u201c\u2026presented a rosy picture of the offshore drilling industry. Newer oil and gas drilling methods, it said, \u2018practically eliminate spills from offshore platforms\u2019 and \u2018enhance worker safety, lower risk of blowouts, and provide better protection of groundwater resources.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, all of that stuff happened before 2009 and even if it was at all related to anything Cheney did, why wasn’t it fixed in the first quarter of the Obama Administration? “Murky ties to Halliburton”? Really? What’s murky about being retired from a company? And “practically eliminates spills from offshore platforms” doesn’t mean “completely eliminate spills” does it? One in how many years? Despite the horrible consequences of this one, it’s still a pretty good record, given the potential of hundreds, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

But i guess since the President decided to blame a decade of mismanagement at MMS for the eruption (who was president a decade ago, by the way?), vanden Heuvel thought she ought to carry some of the President’s water for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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