WOW I agree w Boehner-It Is 'Clear' Gulf Oil Spill Was 'Failure Of Government'

It Is 'Clear' Gulf Oil Spill Was 'Failure Of Government'
Eric Lach | May 25, 2010, 9:54AM

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said this morning that the Obama administration should share responsibility with BP for the Gulf Coast oil spill and its cleanup.

"Well clearly I think British Petroleum is responsible for this -- they and their subcontractors," Boehner told Fox News. "But it is also clear that this was a failure of government."

Boehner slammed the Minerals Management Service, the agency tasked with inspecting oil rigs, and accused the administration of withholding information. "We've been asking for their inspection report, that apparently occurred just ten days before this explosion happened," Boehner said. "But yet the administration won't share that data with us. I think they're a dual responsibility here. And at this point in time I don't think either party looks very good."

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YES, MR BOEHNER IT WAS A FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT BUT INSTEAD OF PLACING BLAME ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUT IT WHERE IT IS DUE-THE BUSH/CHENEY WH AND THEIR CAST OF INCOMPETENT, GREEDY, INSIDER CRONIES:

FLASHBACK: The Sex And Oil Scandals Of The Minerals Management Service
Justin Elliott | May 6, 2010, 2:12PM


Of the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) said it best on Tuesday: "In the Bush administration, these were the guys that were having sex orgies and pot parties and weren't showing up for work."

As the government agency that regulates offshore drilling, MMS is already under scrutiny for its handling of the rig that exploded and caused the oil spill. It's not yet clear whether there were missteps by the agency, though the Washington Post reported earlier this week that MMS' environmental impact assessments of the Deepwater Horizon rig had not considered the possibility of a major spill.

But longtime TPMmuckraker readers will be familiar with the agency's past woes. Let's take a spin through the archives:

Sex-for-Oil Scandal Rocks Interior Department (January 2007):

This investigation into possible favors-for-favors (monetary or otherwise) is just part of a much larger scandal that's emerging from MMS. Through bad contracting, lax auditing and nonexistent -- possibly criminal -- oversight, a picture is emerging of Interior officials either colluding with big oil companies to defraud the country on a massive scale, or dispatching their responsibilities in an abysmally negligent fashion.-snip

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Whose administration? Whose deregulating political philosophy?

As well he should. He campaigned on "change" and hasn't provided any.

BushCo's malfeasance. It's now obvious that Salazar did not have the chops to push these people into other positions in order to clean up the Inspection section of MMS.

Part of the blame must rest with this Administration for NOT cleaning up the MMS.

to go through the federal bureaucracy and find instances of regulatory lapses and recommend ways to eliminate them.

Bush messed a lot of things up and Obama has to be the one to clean it up while W plays golf.

I know that Obama has a lot on his plate this year (solving economic collapse, health care reform, reviving employment, etc.) but we have to wipe the slate clean from the Bush era.

he not realize the extent or did he simply not care? Or, perhaps, he approves of that mismanagement.

We should all call or write him to see if he is willing to take part in that blame game. He was in office when the government reduced regulations.

I am glad he has admitted his part in the gusher, that is big of him.

the finger will come back to point right to Bush/Cheney 2000-2008. That would be cool!!!!!

So what is he crying about?

and was told by his staff that he feels no responsibility in the failure of mms.

It is his position that it is Obama's fault that this has gone on as long as it has, but offers no ideas on how he would have done it differently.