BP Oil Spill traces straight to Bush/Cheney

Posted by on Jun 7, 2010 in Oil Spill | 0 comments

There is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to the Gulf Oil Spill, but I’m seeing a lot of people getting on the DEATH TO BP bandwagon without giving the forefathers of the disaster any due credit. As explained in this article, although President Obama has plenty of his own errors to answer to, this isn’t “Obama’s Katrina.” This is Bush’s Katrina #2:

Vice President Dick Cheney, fresh from his days at Halliburton, had presided over the weakening of drilling regulations, including the exclusion of remote-shut-off switches (commonly used in the North Sea oil fields), which might have prevented the disaster. The Bush Administration’s petro-bias and antigovernment sensibility soiled the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency charged with regulating offshore drilling.

An outstanding (if uncomfortable) analysis by Joe Klein at TIME.COM:

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