The Gulf’s Uncontrolled Money Spill

November 8, 2010

The failed Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico has stopped gushing oil, but the flow of money resulting from the disaster is still uncontrolled. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, had it right when he apologized to BP’s former CEO Tony Hayward for the government’s response. Barton called the White House’s decision to demand $20 billion from the company “a shakedown.” Barton later retracted his comments after party leaders pointed out …

Mess In The Gulf? Blame Cheney

May 6, 2010

Well, at least we now know who was responsible for the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. An opinion piece in The New Republic tells us we can blame former Vice President Dick Cheney for pushing the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) to let those oil companies drill, baby, drill. Or maybe the guilty party was the MMS itself, which could have imposed stricter rules …

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