GOP: Obama's panel is biased: spill inquiry panel has no oil experts, only drilling foes

[jpak]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/7079479.html

The presidential commission investigating offshore drilling safety and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill came under fresh fire Thursday with Republicans accusing President Barack Obama of stacking it with environmental activists.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., charged the Obama administration with keeping oil and gas drilling experts off its seven-member commission in favor of people who philosophically oppose offshore exploration.

And Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, said there was a huge conflict of interest in putting environmental advocates on a panel responsible for investigating the spill and recommending new safety mandates for offshore drilling.

Obama launched the commission last month and tasked it with conducting a six-month probe of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and a rigorous review of drilling safety. Its findings could dictate the future of offshore drilling and lead to major changes in the way the government polices oil and gas production along the nation's coasts.

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crybabies

[jaxx]

1. BP ought to be oily enough for them.

Let them whine.

[Jade Fox]

2. Does the GOP really think defending huge Corporations....

is going to win them points with voters? This is one area where a lot of varied political types agree: Big Corps do not have the people's interests at heart.

With a huge Corporate-caused disaster still out of control, the GOP is busy defending the perps?

[spartan61]

3. I am so freakin sick of the repukes with

their constant bitching and moaning about EVERYTHING the Obama administration is doing or trying to do. If Obama announced that the sky is blue, the repukes would go on record attacking that, too, and try to tell everyone the sky is really purple with yellow polka dots. Of course fox news would give that lots of airtime and the fox loving idiots would believe that lie too.

[Jade Fox]

4. It's the defense of those with....

no ideas of their own: attack, attack, attack.

They are disgusting and pathetic.

[metapunditedgy]

5. "Oil expert:" someone who receives at least $200K/year from BP, Exxon, etc. n/t