Obama's going to cancel leases and stop further drilling?
Such manly and decisive crisis leadership!
That's like forbidding someone from boarding more horses in a barn that has burned to the ground.
And, for Obama to criticize "the cozy relationship between MMS and the industries they're supposed to regulate", well, where has he been for the past umpteen years, as both parties lined their pockets with lobbyists' bux guaranteeing bipartisan support for the corporate plunder of America?
Obama is a product of the most corrupt machine in the US (Cook County, IL) and his own mother wouldn't buy that deux deux he's mouthing these days.
Are we supposed to take such rank political posturing seriously?
Suuuure, Barack, blame the low level bureaucrats and regulators even though every time they posed obstacles to corporate profit schemes they were removed/bypassed by congress, cabinet officers or the president himself.
"You wanna buy the Grand Canyon and stockpile nuclear and industrial waste/heavy water down there? Sure, we can make a deal!
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