We Must Demand That Dick Cheney Testify About His Anti-Reglatory Reign & The BP Ecological Disaster

[kpete]

Unmanaged
Posted by Joe Klein Friday, May 14, 2010 at 11:05 am


Here's convincing evidence http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14agency.html?hp of the problem I mentioned in my column last week: After 30 years of Reaganist disdain for governance--with the 8-year Clinton streamlining effort noted--our regulatory agencies are in lousy shape and need careful attention. Today's NY Times story about the agency that "manages" offshore oil drilling permits is outrageous...and adds strongly to the case for summoning Dick Cheney to testify about his anti-regulatory inventions in the process and the effects they may have had on this ecological disaster. It also adds to the case I made last week: after the crucial Fiancial Reform bill is passed, better management of the government's many regulatory agencies should take priority over new legislation for the moment.

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/05/14/unmanaged/#ixzz0nxYlRv4E

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/13/94141/congress-wa...

The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, which regulates oilrigs, came under more scrutiny as congressional investigators scheduled hearings to find out why the federal agency never completed rules that would have required additional controls on blowout preventers — the safety equipment that failed to stop the spill.

Staffers from the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, who traveled to Louisiana this week to sit in on the U.S. Coast Guard-led inquiry into the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig, said they learned from the testimony of Mike Saucier, an MMS regional supervisor for field operations, that new rules had been proposed.

Saucier said the agency prepared but never completed regulations in 2001, the first year of George W. Bush's presidency, that would have required secondary control systems for blowout preventers.

"As far as I know, they're still at headquarters," Saucier said.

[LakeSamish706]

1. Cheney would just lie anyway and unless there is some way to get him up on perjury

charges, it would be a waste of time and money.

[Lagomorph]

4. That, or...

...when he's done, we'd be drilling on kindergarten playgrounds in urban centers.

[katandmoon]

2. We can demand until we're blue in the face but in the extreme unlikelihood that a summons was issued

Cheney would never obey it and Obama would never permit it to be carried out.

[marmar]

3. No doubt...

[Demeter]

5. Like That Will Ever Happen

[Duppers]

6. yep, really!

Mr. Obama talked the talk but isn't walking the walk.


An aside: wonder why, with all our DU spelling police, that someone hasn't yet pointed out Mr. Klein's spelling errors. Troubling for a well-known journalist/author to have made such mistakes?
I mean if we can discount intent and meaning on DU based on spelling, why not take Mr. Klein to task?