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| 26701 | 330 | OIL ON THE BEACH | 20 | Guest | Jun 5, 2010 | 2010-06-05T16:42:54-0400 | O.K., I'll add him to the pile. This all can be unequivocally placed squarely on the heads of the petro-whores in Washington, and that appears to include our current Predident. Obama's been exactly what you described. An ineffectual, hand-wringing triangulator. If, instead, he were like Bush, he'd run fucking roughshod over laws and people to do whatever the fuck he wanted to do. I just wish Obama would do something "bold" with our much-vaunted military besides continuing Bush's game of petro-keep away with the Chinese. In citing Clinton and the rest of those who compromised rigorous environmental policies in favor of corporate donations, I purposely tried to keep frank partisanship out of my last post, and to spread the blame. It was a false equivalency. More specifically, the Halliburton robber barons ran this country into an oil slick, and even launched a war of oilquest to enrich their cronies in Houston. We had eight years of bald-faced profiteering, petro-murder, and environmental rape under the right wing. Bush and his slick band of thieves loaded every single government agency with political hacks who did their damndest to gut every regulation and environmental protection in the Federal Register, particularly those involving the oil industry. Who do you think was trading blowjobs, meth, and gambling chits for fake oil rig inspections? Democrats? Obama? Who let the oil companies literally write their own inspection in pencil, then trced over it in pen? Damned right, Bush-Cheney people. And then the they offered up Bible Spice and her drill rig pole dance act. Fucking deny that my friend. I'm an environmental activist, and I don't feel the need to justify my actions or my outrage to you or anyone else. I've spent a lifetime doing environmental and scientific education, including years of research and teaching in the Gulf of Mexico, fundraising, and wasting far too much of my time trying to stop what are mostly Republican assclowns from destroying the earth. My plan is to keep up the fight. |