Senator Mary Landrieu is a wholly owned subsidiary of the oil industry. I heard her on NRP this morning complaining about the Commission that's investigating the BP oil spill. She doesn't want anything to impede drilling.
The Gulf of Mexico is being destroyed by the BP oil spill. We know that the oil industry had no plan to deal with massive spills -- and still doesn't. Landrieu and her allies have protected and coddled the industry. And, she wants more drilling:
But Landrieu, an ardent supporter of drilling, was clear Monday that the government's decision is not one she can endorse, regardless of how it has been tweaked.Maybe destroying the Gulf was the oil industry's plan all along. Maybe if they destroy all wildlife in the Gulf and wipe out the fishing industry, there would be no environmental impediments to their work. Then, they could just drill, drill, drill.
“Whether you call it a moratorium, a suspension, or a pause, the result will still be a substantial loss of jobs. Even the revised moratorium will force thousands of hard-working Louisianians and others along the Gulf Coast into the unemployment lines," Landrieu continued. “We know what these suspensions will do to Gulf Coast families and to our economy. Yet, it seems that the Administration has ignored this data and failed to conduct its own economic analysis."
That sounds diabolical, but it's probably something Landrieu would get behind. Because, a Senator who wasn't owned by the oil industry might say something like “We know what these spills will do to Gulf Coast families and to our economy." But, she ignores the data and the reality.
Makes it hard to have empathy for the losses in the gulf region when the region's leaders don't seem concerned about preventing future disasters -- and sure didn't do anything to prevent this one.
