Frank Rich On Oil Spill: Obama Must Come Clean And Clean House

This must mean that Interior boss Salazar gets the ax-

Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock. By Frank Rick. New York  Times.

The President asked us to pray.  So I ask God that the President fire Ken Salazar.

The President says he would have “fired Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive” (currently yachting in the Irish Sea). We all would fire Hayward, but we can’t. The President can fire the man who did not clean up MMS after calling it his number one priority.
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Related. A yachting trip? The 10 worst BP gaffes in Gulf oil spill. Christian Science Monitor. By Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer.
Related. BP oil disaster: How much oil is left?. Christian Science Monitor.
Unfortunately, it is well over 90%. Associated Press

13 thoughts on “Frank Rich On Oil Spill: Obama Must Come Clean And Clean House

    1. NO kidding! Everybody I know in the conservation community was horrified at the Salazar appointment.

    2. I was amazed to read that too, but I do think a few “major” national groups did say that at first, hoping for better nominations at lower levels (which never came).

    3. When my wife and I read that comment, we both looked and up and said “WHAT?”. I know several career folks who would have been great picks for Solicitor, FWS, etc. that were dissed–preliminary inquiries, but no followup. This is exactly what you get when you appoint people whose first reaction in a crisis is to sit on a fence and put their finger in the air to see which way the political winds of keeping their job are blowing.

  1. There is a current country western song entitled (I think “I Will Pray For You”) that particularly fits Ralph’s feelings here….

    1. Ralph, try all the deities you can think of…Buddha, Visnu, Odin, Raven, Gaia..someone must be listening…

  2. Any time you see a white man with a cowboy hat appointed to watch over natural resources, it should ring alarm bells.

    I was impressed by Lubchenco’s appointment, but that went out the window when she parroted BP and said there was no evidence for oil plumes beneath the surface of the ocean.

  3. ++Any time you see a white man with a cowboy hat appointed to watch over natural resources, it should ring alarm bells. ++

    lol

  4. Salazar appears to be what we used to call a “drugstore cowboy” – all hat and no horse. And, you know, the white hats signify the “good guys,” black hats for the “bad guys.” Symbolism.

  5. Does anyone know if Raul Grijalva is still interested in the DOI Sec. post, or even if his name is being floated again ?

    1. He should be ~ but he’s pretty busy championing resistence with the border issues.

      He’s been right on with Big Oil though – leaning into the environmental atrocities in the Gulf well before this disaster given hid leadership position in the house subcommittee— it’s called foresight and competency, and it’s about time the public got someone who posesses it into a position of leadership.

      This whole mess is a consequence of renegade corporate fascism and the corporate, K-street capture of the mainstream environmental movement.

      Time for someone with a robust, healthy & genuine distrust of Industry to be charged with its oversight.

  6. I have a good source on this. Salazar’s job is not especially secure, and he’s clashing with other people on the “green dream team.” Do not be surprised to hear about clashes with Bromwich, the new head of the MMesS.

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