Bwaaaaah hahahahahahha Issa is bawling about the

lack of regulations by MMS -
Time for the Obama administration to publicly announce every appointment that these morons have delayed up to now.

Where have you been these past ten years ReTHUG? Has your friend Gail Norton been charged yet?

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/04/04greenwire-warnings-on-backup-systems-for-oil-rigs-sounde-30452.html
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Ten years ago, the pipe from an offshore drilling rig came loose and the valve that is supposed to shut off the flow of oil did not work. The drilling rig above could not control the valve, called a blow-out preventer.

That alarmed Minerals Management Service officials enough to to send out a "safety alert (pdf)" ordering companies drilling in deep water in the outer continental shelf to have good backup systems.

"The MMS considers a backup BOP actuation system to be an essential component of a deepwater drilling system," the March 2000 notice said, "and therefore expects OCS operators to have reliable back-up systems for actuating the BOP."

But MMS left it up to the companies to decide what kind of backup system to have. And Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) wants to know why. Nelson has warned others about the possibility of spills for years as he fought growing pressure to allow drilling off the Florida coast. Now, he has gone from warning to pointing.

Nelson has asked the Interior Department's acting inspector general, Mary Kendall, to investigate why the service did not require drillers to use a specific type of backup system used in other major offshore drilling countries, a remote-control shutoff called an acoustic switch. He has raised the prospect that lobbying by the oil and gas industry kept regulators at bay on the issue.

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Let your darling Dick answer your questions Issa!!

These guys who call for de-regulating every fucking thing and then whine when it blows up in their faces just PISS ME OFF!

Men who have been silent for a decade are crawling out of the woodwork to attack what they promoted when they had power.

lol

I mean.....he didn't.

of course he didn't

Damn M$M.

Until they expose Cheney's dealing with big oil they have no credibility.

Yet oil companies are licensed to drill in water that deep.