GOP lawmaker defends duct tape pipeline ‘fix’ in wildlife refuge.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Republican congressman from Louisiana this week blasted an environmental activist who submitted photos of leaking oil pipes that had been repaired with garbage bags and duct tape.

At a Tuesday hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs, Noah Matson, vice president of Defenders of Wildlife, said that existing one-paragraph regulations were inadequate for protecting the National Wildlife Refuge System.

To make his point, he presented a slideshow, including photos of oil pipes that had been covered with duct take and garbage bags at refuges in Louisiana.

Louisiana Rep. Vance McAllister (R) accused Matson of throwing a “fit” just because “some guy took initiative.”

“You took a picture of someone who was innovative, and rather than leaving the fluid to drip on the ground, repaired it with duct tape and a garbage bag, and yet you seem to be very upset about that,” McAllister said. “We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.”

“We take a garbage bag and fix it and keep it from leaking and yet you’re still not happy, and come to Washington and testify before Congress and want to throw fits because some guy took initiative.”

Matson pointed out that he had photos that showed a garbage bag repair from a year earlier, and no one had ever come back to complete the repair.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/22/gop-lawmaker-defends-duct-tape-pipeline-fix-in-wildlife-refuge-thats-what-america-is/

[sakabatou]

1. Yeah, it'll work, no need for actual matinence

[pscot]

13. Some folks are just hard to please

[randys1]

2. Republicans seem to offer nothing but death and destruction and stupidity

[leftyohiolib]

3. yet they keep getting elected

[randys1]

10. America has been lied to and dumbed down since raygun

[old guy]

4. When he says "We take a ...." and "We're damned..."

exactly who is he referring to? Sounds to me as if he is admitting to being employed by the oil company.

[Sunlei]

5. Typical Repub. Defends a Pipeline Corp.with no repair parts & degrade the American citizen

[Faux pas]

6. I've said it before

and I'll say it again 'ignorance is only blissful for the ignorant'.

[joeybee12]

7. McAllister has set the new standard for bending over for the oil companies...nt

[Orrex]

8. All the better to insert the dipstick

[joeybee12]

9. Hey, he could probably fit the whole pipeline...nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. His head's up there (nt)

[joeybee12]

12. His head, the pipeline, and there's still plenty of room for more! nt

[mindwalker_i]

14. Shit, we should be using those purple-heart bandaids

Fix pipelines with them, broken sewer pipes, hell, almost any infrastructure could use a box of those! Bridges falling apart? Fix it with purple-heart band aids! Potholes? Fill em up with, you guessed it, purple-heart band aids. Space shuttle blew up? It didn't have enough purple-heart band aids holding it together (and they're cheaper than those ceramic tiles).

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Duct tape can't fix stupid