Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Pelosi blames Bush for MMS failures: 95% Obama appointees

As usual, she's blaming Bush and his "culture" for all the trouble with MMS in which BP was allowed to relax rules, contracts were faked, inappropriate behavior and relationships were order of the day. Only thing is, only one guy was promoted under Bush. The rest were Obama appointees. Examiner:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., recently blamed Bush appointees who “burrowed in” at the Minerals Management Service for the regulatory failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But as it turns out, not one of the officials responsible for overseeing the exploded rig was a Bush political appointee. [SNIP]  Most of these federal employees started with the agency decades ago. Not one was a presidential appointment of George W. Bush, although one longtime MMS employee in question was promoted to his current position during the Bush Administration.
Drew Hammill, Speaker Pelosi’s press secretary, told the Examiner that Pelosi had been referring more generally to a “whole culture” at MMS of lax oversight.”The Speaker had in mind that there was a culture at the Bush Administration of regulators having a cozy relationship with the Big Oil they were regulating,” said Hammill.
Notice the hemming and hawing to make it for the lack of truth and facts.
Has there ever been such a partisan group of people who only care about maintaining power rather than than doing what's right for the people?

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