Obama Admin. Says "Up Yours" to The Block On Their Moratorium. Will Just Issue A New One.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Is this administration stupid? Maybe they're just smart in knowing no one has the fortitude to retaliate against them. This is the type of ####### that happens when a Government does not FEAR its people. A judge makes an order and instead of appealing it, they say "Up yours, we're going to order a new one just to spite you." - Way to spit on our court system. Jerks.

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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/23/4551162-in-lieu-of-appeal-obama-admin-to-issue-new-oil-drill-ban

After yesterday vowing to seek an appeal quickly, administration officials now say the Justice Department will refrain from any legal action in response to yesterday's court order that temporarily blocks the Interior Department's moratorium on offshore drilling.

The plan now is for the government to seek a new moratorium, doing so in a way that avoids some of the legal problems identified by the judge who issued yesterday's injunction. For example, the judge chided the Interior Department for claiming that a panel of outside experts had endorsed the moratorium issued in late May, when, in fact, they favored something less sweeping.

Once the Interior Department issues its new moratorium, the government fully expects another legal challenge and very likely another court order blocking it. But on the second round, with a modified moratorium, the Justice Department believes it would be on firmer ground to seek an appeal.

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Yesterday, the federal judge who temporarily blocked the government's moratorium on deepwater drilling was harshly critical of the Obama administration in his 22-page legal opinion, both on how the halt to drilling was conceived and on what effect it would have in Gulf states. The flavor of Judge Martin Feldman's order is captured in a single footnote. It quotes from an Interior Department report, which said the BP oil disaster was "commanding the Department of Interior's resources." He adds, "A disturbing admission by this Administration."

The judge notes that the moratorium was first proposed in a report by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, issued in late May. It called for a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs. Such a conclusion, the report said, was peer-reviewed by a panel of outside experts. But that statement, Judge Feldman wrote, was a misrepresentation, because the experts "envisioned a more limited kind of moratorium."

The judge chided the administration for glossing over the difference between the dangers of drilling in up to 500 feet of water compared to drilling in depths of 1,000 feet or more.

"The court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope of the moratorium," he said. "What seems clear is that the federal government has been pressed by what happened on the Deepwater Horizon into an otherwise sweeping confirmation that all Gulf deepwater drilling activities put us all in a universal threat of irreparable harm."

He added, "Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines? That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing," he adds. Judge Feldman concludes by accusing the government of underestimating the effect of even a six-month drilling moratorium on the Gulf economy. "It is only a matter of time before more business and jobs and livelihoods will be lost," made worse, he says, by "the movement of the rigs to other sites around the world.

An Obama administration official had said the government would appeal the judge's order.

"We will take the legal and administrative steps necessary to ensure that deepwater drilling does not continue until more aggressive safety regulations, containment and clean-up plans are in place," the official said yesterday.

[slim 1,533]

"We'll just avoid that whole checks and balances thing. 'Scuse me, I've got some #### to kick."

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Its starting to sound like FDR in his later terms...

[mawilson 2,133]

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

How typical of this regime.

[Nikita2Charles 33]

Drill BABY DRILLL

NO NEED TO CHECK OUT WHAT HAPPENED? Is there another potential threat of this happening again?

Nah, we are addicted to Oil and the $$$$$$$$$

DRILL BABY DRILL WHO CARES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT!!

[Ban Hammer 14,299]

palin sez: spill baby spill - it's obama's fault!

[mawilson 2,133]

It's Israel's fault.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Drill BABY DRILLL

NO NEED TO CHECK OUT WHAT HAPPENED? Is there another potential threat of this happening again?

Nah, we are addicted to Oil and the $$$$$$$$$

DRILL BABY DRILL WHO CARES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT!!

ignorant much?

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

Paul, the scarey thing is, they are NOT stupid. They know exactly what they are doing and it is a planned dismantleing of our economy and way of life. If they were JUST stupid, one could say "OK we were stupid and voted for a stupid President" but he is not stupid. This is a plan. This crisis fits right into it, he has no political beneift to stopping this leak and the damage it will cause. He does not care about that. This will put hundreds of thousands more people on the government dependency list. Shrimpers, fishermen, oil rig workers...they are all welcome in the big government dependency tent. The more the merrier.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Paul, the scarey thing is, they are NOT stupid. They know exactly what they are doing and it is a planned dismantleing of our economy and way of life. If they were JUST stupid, one could say "OK we were stupid and voted for a stupid President" but he is not stupid. This is a plan. This crisis fits right into it, he has no political beneift to stopping this leak and the damage it will cause. He does not care about that. This will put hundreds of thousands more people on the government dependency list. Shrimpers, fishermen, oil rig workers...they are all welcome in the big government dependency tent. The more the merrier.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Paul, the scarey thing is, they are NOT stupid. They know exactly what they are doing and it is a planned dismantleing of our economy and way of life. If they were JUST stupid, one could say "OK we were stupid and voted for a stupid President" but he is not stupid. This is a plan. This crisis fits right into it, he has no political beneift to stopping this leak and the damage it will cause. He does not care about that. This will put hundreds of thousands more people on the government dependency list. Shrimpers, fishermen, oil rig workers...they are all welcome in the big government dependency tent. The more the merrier.

While I have no doubt that Obama has officially shifted into "dangerous" President territory what profit would he gain from this? You think he wants to run a National Oil Company?

I have no doubt he will be thrown out of office in a few years.

[evli1966 88]

While I have no doubt that Obama has officially shifted into "dangerous" President territory what profit would he gain from this? You think he wants to run a National Oil Company?

I have no doubt he will be thrown out of office in a few years.

Thrown out and ridiculed for decades to come as a president known for his super inflated ego bolstered by his own lies and deception.

I truly believe it wil be written in history that Obama was one of the worst mistakes our country ever had.

[mawilson 2,133]

I truly believe it wil be written in history that Obama was one of the worst mistakes our country ever had.

Second only to Jimmy Carter.

[Advanced Aardvark 82]

Second only to Jimmy Carter.

The peanut farmer did manage to accomplish one thing of enduring benefit to millions of Americans: Under his sad and sorry term in office, it became legal for adults to home brew beer and wine. This was certainly a boon to Women's Libation!

Maybe the Obamination will leagalize home distillation before he is run out of Washington in January 2013?