Day 100 BP Oil Spill - Still No Mention of Jindal's Sponsorship of Deep Ocean Oil Resources Act!

[TomCADem]

On the 100th day of the spill, just noting the continuing corporate media cover up of Bobby Jindals' role in passing legislation that set the stage for the spill. Maybe CNN will celebrate by pumping up Jindal as a potential 2012 presidential candidate for his leadership in fighting the spill?

http://www.netnoir.com/2010/06/bobby-jindal-avoiding-job/

Bobby Jindal is grandstanding in front of television cameras — taking interviews, and walking along shores in hard hats day after day. Oh yeah — he’s busy criticizing everyone else instead of taking his own huge share of the blame.

1.) It turns out Jindal has only bothered to deploy 1,100 out of 6,000 National Guard members to handle LA coastline.

It also was revealed that the state has called up only 1,100 of the 6,000 National Guard members authorized for the spill clean-up efforts, Peterson said.

2.) Also Jindal hasn’t yet dispersed the 25 Million in funds BP provided as a grant to assist LA immediately.

Peterson said that at a meeting Thursday with BP officials, coastal Louisiana legislators and representatives of the Jindal administration, it was disclosed that the state has spent only about $3 million of a $25 million BP grant for spill-related expenses, and that it has not yet issued a contract for BP’s $15 million grant to promote tourism attractions threatened by the spill.

NOLA’s article on what Jindal is really doing

All this time Southern Republicans have been pounding a drumbeat about both “states rights” and “drill baby drill” ; yet, when a direct outcome of those policies causes a massive accident, rather than having a state-level response, there are nothing but complaints.

Jindal himself is uniquely responsible for this current calamity — In 2006, Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling over the U.S. outer continental shelf.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Smirk." - Bobby J. (R - OilCo Crony)

[TomCADem]

2. LOL - Nice Pic

Sadly, the current media narrative is to portray Bobby Jindal as presidential contender, so god forbid that the corporate media discuss a fact that is hiding in plain sight.