Per the WSJ, if the Obama Administation had not vigorously appealed a federal appeals court in D.C. decision to quash the permits for deep water drilling, including specifically that of the DeepWater, this disaster would NOT have happened. In hindsight, the Court nailed it by ruling that
the government was unprepared for a major spill at sea, relying on an "irrational" environmental analysis of the risks of offshore drilling.
But instead of accepting this decision, the administration appealed to the Court to reverse it based largely on loss of royalty revenues! I'm sorry, but if this is not Bushian at it's core, what is?
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continued at Daily Kos....
