Alabama governor doesn't like OSHA trying to protect the health of oil cleanup workers

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/13/sotu.01.html

CROWLEY: Governor, it sounds like you are as frustrated with the Obama administration and the lack of coordination and commonality of purpose as you might be with BP?

RILEY: Well, absolutely. Because you can't have a committee making the decisions that are going to impact this entire coastal area. You can't have someone come in and say, well, if it gets onto the beach, we'll clean it up and we'll clean it up rapidly, and then OSHA come in and say, well, the people can't work but 20 minutes out of an hour or two hours a day, and get it cleaned up. Someone is going to have to be in charge of each one of these operations. They're going to have to make a determination about what we're going to do, and they're going to have to set priorities.

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1. fuck Bob Riley

That being said, he's not really that bad for an Alabama Republican. When he was first elected, he tried to push through a more progressive tax system. Then it was defeated, and he gave up and he never tried again. At least he's not an embarrassing boob like the rest of the governors the Republicans have given us.

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3. It's really sad that in these days

one can seriously classify Riley as NOT an "embarrassing boob" in comparison to other Republicans.

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5. true

But compared to boobs like Fob James and Guy Hunt, Bob Riley is an intellectual superstar. Plus, he actually tried to reform our hugely regressive tax base. Only he didn't try that hard.

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2. Gov

Put on a "Class A" haz mat suit and work in the hot, sunny Gulf Coast- not shuffling papers but shoveling oil soaked sand.

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.

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4. K & R

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