The only person who has been fired in the midst of the oil spill fiasco has been the former head of the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior.
According to a June 17 editorial in The Wall Street Journal, it is now clear that both the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, and the White House energy “czar”, Carol Browner, both lied to the nation regarding the recommendations by drilling experts, alleging that they had agreed to a moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf.
Browner, citing the falsified recommendation to impose a moratorium, inserted after the memorandum had been received, said, “No one’s been deceived or misrepresented.” She lied.
From the beginning of the oil spill, the administration has failed to respond in a timely fashion.
In an article in Human Events the following lack of action by the administration was cited:
- It failed to accept help offered by the Netherlands to help with skimming booms and plans to create barriers.
- It failed to suspend the Jones Act in order to allow foreign vessels into American waters.
- It failed to suspend the Davis-Bacon wage laws to allow rapid deployment of new workers to help the containment efforts.
- It failed to suspend FEMA contracting and bidding rules.
- It failed to allow coastal governors to immediately begin dredging to create barrier islands.
Failure on this scale requires that those involved should lose their jobs
Failure on this scale requires that those involved should lose their jobs. We cannot “fire” the President, but his administration is shot through with people from the highest level to those below that exacerbated the Gulf oil spill.
The Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu, has barely been heard from. The Secretary of the Interior has been silenced since his comment that he would keep his “boot on the neck of BP.”
It took nearly two months before the President met with officials from BP.
The President has been soundly criticized for his lack of competence in office while he devoted himself to passing the hated Obamacare legislation and drove the national debt to levels unseen in the history of the nation.
What the President has offered is a “commission” to study the event. He continues to advocate “a clean energy future” filled with solar and wind farms. Neither can even begin to meet the needs of a small city, let along the nation. All must be backed up by coal-fired, natural gas, and nuclear plants.
Waiting in the Senate for a vote is the infamous “Cap-and-Trade Act”, renamed several times now to mask the fact that it would impose a massive tax on all energy use by Americans and cede to the Environmental Protection Agency powers based on the entirely false assertion that carbon dioxide is responsible for “global warming.” There is no global warming. It is a lie.
A recent vote by the Democrat-controlled Senate opened the door to this eventuality even if the Cap-and-Trade Act is not enacted.
The Secretary of the Interior should be fired. Carol Browner, the President’s energy advisor should be fired. The Secretary of Energy should be fired. They won’t be.
In November the midterm elections will permit Americans to replace every member of the Senate and House up for re-election whose votes have been responsible for the nation’s unsustainable debt level, for the failed “stimulus” bill, for their failure to address the nation’s immigration crisis, for their vote to pass Obamacare and for their failure to extend the Bush administration tax cuts.
In 2012, we can cast out Barack Obama, his endless “czars”, and an administration that has consistently worked to destroy America.
© Alan Caruba, 2010
