What? Objectivity? Did she really talk about objectivity? You mean calling 100% of the shots for creating the lousy system that currently exists wasn't enough? Landrieu somehow forgot that the system today is a wish list for Big Oil who assured everyone that self-regulation would be fine and that they knew how to properly address safety. Maybe someone would like to help her catch up on some recent history and explain how we ended up in this failure in the first place. But to be fair to the Senator from Louisiana, she's about the best lobbyist BP and Big Oil could ever have and you always have to remember who you work for.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted Wednesday to create a congressional bipartisan commission to investigate the spill, with Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and others saying a separate panel is needed because the White House commission has four environmental advocates -- three members and the executive staff director -- but no oil industry representation.
"Maybe the commission that the Congress sets up, in a more balanced fashion, with both very strong environmental views and very strong industry views, could actually come up with something that really might work for the dilemma and the challenge that this nation faces, which briefly is this: We use 20 million barrels of oil a day," Landrieu said. "That was true the day before the Deepwater Horizon blew up. It is true today. And we need to get that oil from somewhere."
