Figures. Obama's Oil Spill Commission Picked For Radical Background Not Technical Expertise
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, June 20, 2010, 3:24 PM
What a complete shock… The members picked for Obama’s Oil Spill Commission are radical environmentalists and have no technical expertise or experience in the oil industry.
The AP reported:
The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about “America’s addiction to oil.” One member has blogged about it regularly.
Only one of the seven commissioners, the dean of Harvard’s engineering and applied sciences school, has a prominent engineering background — but it’s in optics and physics. Another is an environmental scientist with expertise in coastal areas and the after-effects of oil spills. Both are praised by other scientists.
The five other commissioners are experts in policy and management.
The White House said the commission will focus on the government’s “too cozy” relationship with the oil industry. A presidential spokesman said panel members will “consult the best minds and subject matter experts” as they do their work.
The commission has yet to meet, yet some panel members had made their views known.
The Boston Globe took a closer look at these radicals on the commission today.
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Just_Saying commented:
Yeah, but doesn’t one of the guys have a Nobel prize? (You know how esteemed that guy must be…)
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Paul_______ commented:
The rest of the story:
“Environmental activist Frances Beinecke on May 27 blogged: “We can blame BP for the disaster and we should. We can blame lack of adequate government oversight for the disaster and we should. But in the end, we also must place the blame where it originated: America’s addiction to oil.” And on June 3, May 27, May 22, May 18, May 4, she called for bans on drilling offshore and the Arctic.
“Even as questions persist, there is one thing I know for certain: the Gulf oil spill isn’t just an accident. It’s the result of a failed energy policy,” Beinecke wrote on May 20.
Two other commissioners also have gone public to urge bans on drilling.
Co-chairman Bob Graham, a Democrat who was Florida governor and later a senator, led efforts to prevent drilling off his state’s coast. Commissioner Donald Boesch of the University of Maryland wrote in a Washington Post blog that the federal government had planned to allow oil drilling off the Virginia coast and “that probably will and should be delayed.”
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I have a question that I can’t seem to have an answer for it:
What really happened in the Gulf of Mexico?
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nano commented:
Seems SD above must be trolling.
This is going to have all the credibility of the ACORN investigation and report.
AuntieMadder commented:
CLEAN UP ON AISLE 5! Obscene flying monkey droppings on aisle 5.
vikingTX commented:
I really hate the “addiction to oil” meme. It is like saying you are addicted to food and you should stop eating. Oil is the most practical portable energy source we have and that won’t change through wishful thinking and ignoring physics.
Science stopped being science when the AGW crowd and radical environmental activists turned legitimate research into a money game with anti-capitalist overtones.
AuntieMadder commented:
When the econuts blog their crap about American’s addiction to oil, do they key it in while peddling their Gilligan’s Island- style stationary bicycle to power their computers?
Songtan1 commented:
Presidents should surround themselves with the brightest minds our country has to offer, as did Reagan and a few others. But not with this POTUS. I seriously think if the “One’s” I.Q. were about two points lower he would be a plant…of the lowest quality.
AuntieMadder commented:
Right, Songtan1, because he’s not even smart enough to surround himself with smart people.
Simsalabim commented:
Hey, it figures. The POTUS was picked because he’s black, or half black. This goes to prove that affirmative action gives half dumbasses jobs that they are incapable of doing.
MBE (minority business enterprises) are companies full of dumbasses that are exactly like the private industry version of your state license office.
garnette commented:
Songtan1, I agree, to me it isn’t about how smart or how much experience a president has but how smart he is when it comes to surrounding himself with people with experience to solve the problems. Obviously, it is an epic fail for Obama.
materialist commented:
There is an old saying in engineering: “If you have the right to appoint the committee you have the opportunity to write its report.” But most of us are less transparent in this activity than Obama has chosen to be.
MathMom commented:
Our president is dumb as a bag of hammers.
SeniorD commented:
According to the Boston article, one (1) member is supposed to be a Physicist. Another specializes in environmental law. Great! One member can explain the numbers while the other starts counting the dollar signs.
In the meantime, the environment goes down the tank, fisheries and fisherpersons loose all that income.
Oh, and Zero goes golfing.
Again.
AuntieMadder commented:
CLEANUP ON AISLE 12. Racist troll droppings on aisle 12.
Man oh man, the trolls are out in force today.
Jim commented:
Are they going to the Gulf with a lot of Bounty paper towels?
brooklyn commented:
How pathetic can it be?
How predictable are these ugly Democrats?
The Politicize everything, providing the worst dogma which is only designed to further grow their own power. Just like how they stacked the 9-11 Commission with former Clintonite Political Hacks – like Gorelick.
We all need to get the Republicans empowered this November.
DNC TITANIC sinking us all.
jainphx commented:
Why would you appoint someone that was qualified? That would make too much sense. No appoint someone that will push your agenda over getting results. I hate this guy and all he stands for, from his rules of engagement in Afghanistan, to his failure to seal off the boarder, to his stand back and watch in the gulf.
We need more strong people like Sarah, and Bachmann to stand up and start yelling at the top of their lungs until this scum is removed from the peoples house.
vikingTX commented:
The people who are qualified are part of “big oil,” and thereby are disqualified by this administration.
Energy is the life blood of a successful, developing economy. This group of anti-energy, anti-growth, anti-capitalists intend to suck the blood out of America. Woe be to us if we let it happen.
militant conservative commented:
he knows how to castrate America and is going to do it. Told you to prepare, but no, you think this cannot happen here. It is and will due to the current leadership. another depression brought to you by Obama. those of use that have prepared will not welcome the beggers of tomorrow. It is us or you. powder is dry. NVG is a good thing chumps.
Bogdan from Australia commented:
It is simple.
When the airplane crashes, it is a terrible tragedy. And yet no one talks about stopping fying.
Even more people die from road accidents but no one suggests to stop driving the cars.
It is possible to have a BIG ONE in California but no one talks about relocating the cities from there.
People live under the volcanoes for millenia. Everybody accepts the risk and the life goes on.
Sometimes tsunamis strike and yet no one forces coastal folks to move inland.
Fishermen perish at sea and no one suggests to stop fishing.
There isn’t even a shred of rationale behind the ban on drilling.
Almost every country appart from those belonging to the Western world is developing their own sources of energy without taking any consideration for anviroment.
In Russia or China an enviromentalist faces a lenghty prison for speaking out about the real degradation of an enviroment in their contries.
So it is OK for the rest of the world to dig, extract, spill, pollute but it is not OK for the US, Europe, Australia to develop their own sources og energy under the strictest possible conditions.
An obvious conclusion: The entire anti-drilling fury, anti-nuclear mantra, anti-coal campaign has nothing to do with a concern for an enviroment but it is an element of the US enemies’ strategy to weaken the US and the whole free world.
The US and European or Australian “enviromentalists” are nothing else but traitors that must be held accountable for the damage done for their countries as soon as the conservative sectors regain the power.
The tragedy is that the WORD no longer matters.
The time of the GUN has come.
With the gun in your hands you still have a Pinochet option to save your country.
Tomorrow (a very close tomorrow) it will be only the FRANCO otion left.
God Save America!
OxyCon commented:
URL says it all:
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-i-am-not-an-ideologue/
Moral Clarity commented:
Fiction becomes reality. Welcome to Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand was a prophet.
befuddled commented:
hmmm. it would almost seem as if this obama chap had an ulterior motive, an agenda if you will, outside of the scope of actually fixing problem A. A being equal to healthcare, the economy,the growing deficit, the ecological disaster of an oil spill,foreign wars,and on and on. well played old chap, well played. I give him a B+.
befuddled commented:
as for our “addiction to oil”. it’s a damn shame that obama has wrecked the economy so much that we poor bastards have to migrate further away from the epicenter of liberal destruction. unfortunately, this means we have to drive further and longer just to find sustainable jobs. it would be nice if i could open a window and be able to piss on my dream job, it would save me so much on gas. maybe if i can get my family to pray most sincerely to obama then perhaps some of those good paying green jobs might come my way. maybe, just maybe.mmmm obama.
oh screw it all to hell. i’m just going to become a community organizer and shake down all those evil corporations that won’t employ me.
Valerie commented:
Yeah, and according to this, the last person in the White House that can count is leaving.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/7837686/Rahm-Emanuel-expected-to-quit-White-House.html
They can’t read, or write, or count.
bg commented:
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Valerie @ 10:05 pm #29
re: [They can’t read, or write, or count.]
well, not so much English anyways..
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AuntieMadder commented:
He doesn’t know anyone who’s qualified to actually do anything because he’s surrounded himself with socialists, Marxists, communists, Muslims, libturds – in a word: leftists. Leftists aren’t trained to do anything. They’re trained to be leftists. Many leftists are so educated in lefturdism as to have letters after their names. Those libturds have years of formal education in talking (debating, discussing, arguing, shouting, audibly disrupting).
Opus #6 commented:
They were probably bundlers.
S. Wolf commented:
Since Day 1 it was entirely the job of the U.S. government to stop the oil spill using whatever means necessary.. it occurred in U.S. waters and by law that is the responsibility of the federal government. We do not expect someone who starts a forest fire in a national forest to put it out nor does the president appoint a panel of left wing academics to study the fire, but that is what Zero is doing with the oil spill.
Simsalabim commented:
Auntie Madder can kiss my conservative azz. How dare your call me a racist. Truth is truth whether you think it’s racist or not. I post on here all the time and I’m not about to let some low I.Q. moron like you label my remarks racist. Wanna meet and I can show you my conservative non-racist fist? F*** you! You really pi**ed me off.