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EPA head to fundraise for DSCC while oil spreads.

Eating breakfast.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 25th, 2010 at 06:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Priorities, folks: priorities.  Apparently Lisa Jackson figures that if Interior Dept CoS Tom Strickland could go white-water rafting while the oil spread, she can go raise money for the Democrats:

As the Obama administration struggles to contain the massive oil spill threatening the Louisiana coast, one of its top environmental officials will be the featured attraction at a fundraiser for Senate Democrats next week in Manhattan, at which donors are promised they can speak to her about their “issues of concern.”

I have an ‘issue of concern:’ the Governor of Louisiana is shouting at the federal government to sign off on emergency sand berms to keep the oil away from wetlands; and the administration is dithering. So, several questions, here:

  • When was the EPA planning to help with that?
  • Was the EPA planning to help with that at all?
  • If it’s not… why?  I mean, I can guess, but the nicest answer implies rank partisanship on Jackson’s part, and rapidly degenerates from there.  And I mean really rapidly degenerates.

Lisa Jackson can answer these at her leisure: after all, it’s not like there’s an acute ecological crisis going on right now…

Moe Lane

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  • E Pluribus Unum

    Nice unbiased truth-telling by Politico. If there is a single shred of evidence that the Bambi administration has lifted a finger to help, I’d be interested.

    And the EPA telling BP what it can and can’t do regarding chemicals used to minimize the damage does not count as ‘helping’. The administration waiting 35 days (and counting) to allow Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal to act also does not count.

    Lisa Jackson should be in jail eventually, after congressional inquiries begin next January as to her acting to enact cap-and-enslave contra statutory authority.

    She might as well get her vacation time in now.

  • ironbutterfly

    Did anyone notice Congress is working on passing a tax on oil this week? They want to triple it to 32 cents a gallon.

    Now, as I read this article about the delay in request to use sandbags by Gov Jindal, I can’t but wonder if this delay is on purpose in order to get the tax passed. The longer the Oil issue is out there on the Gulf, the more people will get upset, the easier it will be to pass the tax. The tax is for wait hold on….for government to help in crisis situations,epecially affecting the environment, jobs due to that crisis, lost businesses etc.

    Never let a good crisis go to waste is the mantra from this Obama admin….

  • ciscoguy

    Fighting smog and water contamination is one thing. Trying to control the air we exhale in the name of some eco-fantasy while ignoring an environmental disaster in order to pander to the DSCC is another. Let someone else figure out new car MPG’s.

  • utahrepublican

    there is no need to worry about our southern border because it’s the most secure it’s ever been. Apparently Lisa Jackson feels [since the partial diversion of oil from the well] that the same rule covers blown out oil wells. Well, at least as to Democratic responsibility.

  • BA Cyclone

    Throwing numbers around, I am convinced you could retain all value-added federal agency authority with about 10% of the current workforce. The balance can be cancelled or delegated to local control: park services, DNRs, related state agencies, etc. Let the feds educate and guide if they want, enforcement not so much.

    The value of the feds would begin and end with as much regulation-leveling as is necessary to promote interstate commerce – so businesses in the U.S. do not need to actively track 50 different state’s regs on environmental constraints. Sure there is still some local exception and control, but for the most part there would be generally accepted standards for the vast majority of business interests. Water management, waste management, etc. should generally be able to be made universal.

    When satisfying EPA bureaucrats becomes longer and more tedious than actually building and creating things, that is when serious fat needs cut.

    And don’t get me started on CAFE standards. Good grief.

    And raising fuel taxes to “help combat oil spills” is the ultimate statement of absurdity. That comment Erick posted the other day perfectly comes to mind: let us remind ourselves that when we actually want the government to work, the result is nearly always labored, inefficient, and stumbling.

  • BA Cyclone

    Throwing numbers around, I am convinced you could retain all value-added federal agency authority with about 10% of the current workforce. The balance can be cancelled or delegated to local control: park services, DNRs, related state agencies, etc. Let the feds educate and guide if they want, enforcement not so much.

    The value of the feds would begin and end with as much regulation-leveling as is necessary to promote interstate commerce – so businesses in the U.S. do not need to actively track 50 different state’s regs on environmental constraints. Sure there is still some local exception and control, but for the most part there would be generally accepted standards for the vast majority of business interests. Water management, waste management, etc. should generally be able to be made universal.

    When satisfying EPA bureaucrats becomes longer and more tedious than actually building and creating things, that is when serious fat needs cut.

    And don’t get me started on CAFE standards. Good grief.

    And raising fuel taxes to “help combat oil spills” is the ultimate statement of absurdity. That comment Erick posted the other day perfectly comes to mind: let us remind ourselves that when we actually want the government to work, the result is nearly always labored, inefficient, and stumbling.