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2010-06-16 Home Front: Politix
No Experience Necessary! New Head of MMS
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Posted by Steve White 2010-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 FREEREPUBLIC/TOPIX > THE GULF DISASTER: YOU AINT SEEN NOTHING YET; + THE GULF OIL SPILL: A DISASTER OF UNFATHOMABLE CONSEQUENCES.

* Also on FREEP > LEAKED REPORT: GOVT. BELIEVES DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL WELL COULD BECOME AN UNCONTROLLED GUSHER. Forever + ever + ever.

By and for the sake of OWG-NWO, GLOBAL SOCIALISM-GOVTISM, + PERMANENTLY-POOR-BUT-OPTIMISTIC UNIVERSAL SOC REGRESSIONISM???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-16 03:13||   2010-06-16 03:13|| Front Page Top

#2 cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency

All I can say is those 'cozy' relationships must be someplace else, because I sure don't experience them.
Posted by Glenmore 2010-06-16 09:00||   2010-06-16 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 For a decade or more, the cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency was allowed to go unchecked," Obama said

A DECADE? He was there before George???? Damn it, can't blame BUSH for this.........who the heck was before him again?????
Posted by Everyday a Wildcat(KSU) 2010-06-16 09:08||   2010-06-16 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 By putting a lawyer in charge he is indicating the purpose of the MMS will be legal, not technical oversight. It will be focussed on extracting money (lawsuits) after an incident rather than preventing an incident. Or maybe about minimizing lawsuit losses against the MMS.
Posted by Glenmore 2010-06-16 09:17||   2010-06-16 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 If there was an oil dividend like in Georgist Alaska then maximising the payout seems like a good idea. If the oil money was bureaucrat directed then it will just be used for the benefit of bureaucrats at the expense of the people.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-06-16 09:31||   2010-06-16 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Karl Denninger had this interesting observation about the Administration's role in permitting the oil well blowout in the first place:
Congress and President Obama have a political Kobyashi Maru here.

MMS is 100% responsible for approving the well casing changes made on the rig - changes that, were they not approved, would have likely prevented the blowout in the first place.

But MMS is the Obama Administration and those changes were approved just days before the blast. And while BP selected the design and implementation they used, they didn't do it in a vacuum - they did so with the full permission of the government's so-called "regulators."

Oops.

President Obama doesn't want to discuss this, of course. Did you notice the lack of an MMS representative at the hearings today? Guess why? Yep. Start asking about those permits and the rubber stamp at the MMS office, and you're going to get a lot of stuttering in response.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-16 10:49||   2010-06-16 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect his sole purpose is to legally cover the administration's butt from potential litigation. Probably by shifting liability to the oil companies.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-06-16 11:30||   2010-06-16 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8 No Experience Necessary!

Hey, it worked for Obama.

Besides, it always comes down to lawyers in the end, why not skip the technical productive unproductive part and cut to the chase?
Posted by KBK 2010-06-16 13:14||   2010-06-16 13:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Obama should have picked one of the admirals who ran Naval Reactors. They could square that organization away.
Posted by Penguin 2010-06-16 14:31||   2010-06-16 14:31|| Front Page Top

#10 $4600.00, according to Open Secrets

Obama, Barack Bromwich, Michael
Washington,DC 20015 Fried Frank 7/31/08 $1,500
Obama, Barack BROMWICH, MICHAEL
WASHINGTON,DC 20015 FRIED FRANK/LAWYER 2/29/08 $1,000
Obama, Barack BROMWICH, MICHAEL
WASHINGTON,DC 20015 FRIED FRANK/LAWYER 5/7/08 $1,000
Obama, Barack Bromwich, Michael
Washington,DC 20015 Fried Frank 9/19/08 $800
Obama, Barack BROMWICH, MICHAEL
WASHINGTON,DC 20015 FRIED FRANK ET AL/LAWYER 6/30/08 $300
Posted by mojo  2010-06-16 14:59||   2010-06-16 14:59|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm concerned about this Fried Frank.
Posted by Frank G 2010-06-16 15:08||   2010-06-16 15:08|| Front Page Top

#12 "They could square that organization away."

What on earth makes you think that's what Bambi wants, Penguin?

He just wants to take over and bend everyone and everything to Soro's his will.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2010-06-16 15:15||   2010-06-16 15:15|| Front Page Top

#13 You're probably right Barb.
Posted by Penguin 2010-06-16 15:25||   2010-06-16 15:25|| Front Page Top

#14 I have been wondering from very the beginning if this would end up with the U.S Government sueing BP or the other way around. I didn't sale any of my BP stock if you want to know who I've got my money on.
Posted by junkirony 2010-06-16 18:55||   2010-06-16 18:55|| Front Page Top

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