[lbo-talk] Obama appoints climate denialist and proud homophobe to 'fix' Gulf oil spill disaster

Max Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Tue May 18 13:13:05 PDT 2010


Y'all are behind the curve. They bounced this guy practically before anyone knew he'd been appointed.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM, James Heartfield <
> Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 'Obama appoints climate denialist and proud homophobe to 'fix' Gulf oil
>> spill disaster'
>> And do either of these beliefs interfere with his ability to deal with the
>> Gulf oil spill disaster?
>>
>
> No, they don't.  But it's still a really stupid political move given the O
> admin's purported concern for its gay and environmental constituencies.
>
>>
>> (BP, it should be said, was the oil firm that made great play of its
>> commitment to determination to go 'Beyond Petroleum', and promote
>> alternative energy sources - which did not seem to prevent them doing the
>> dirty deed.)
>>
>
> Like you, and Doug, I'm sure I never believed the hype from BP (any more
> than I believe Chevron cares oh-so-very-much about prairie dogs, etc.)
>
>>
>> But, of course, the real story - as others here have pointed out - is that
> all of this comes from Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush policies - largely continued
> by Obama - to collaborate with and trust rather than regulate and discipline
> (to whatever limited extent emerged under Nixon-Ford-Carter) the petroleum,
> mining, forest products and grazing industries.
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