Rachel Maddow from Gulf: Angry Devastating Report 'Disgusted that BP Put This Coast In Jeopardy'

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 02:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmF1YlqX20   Posted on YouTube: June 04, 2010 By YouTube Member: firedoglake Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 04, 2010 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 3052

 
MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - 3 June 2010: "... Disgusted that BP put this ocean and this coast and the communities inland in jeopardy, disgusted at the billions of dollars of quarterly profits that lined the oil industries pockets and deepened their wells and didn't do a thing to prevent this, you are disgusted that the government let BP and the rest of the oil industry do it, disgusted that American leaders screamed 'Drill Baby Drill' without thinking the consequences, all in the name of whoring themselves for a few votes during the few months that gasoline prices were rising..."

Other VIDEO From The Show: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x471790

[Cary]

1. Disgusted just isn't the word

Words fail. I don't understand how we, as a species, can be so stupid and self-destructive. :(

[Alpha Numeric Wanda]

19. @Cary: Didn't Carl Sagan...

... posit that any life that becomes intelligent has only a 10% chance of NOT destroying itself once it figures out how? Not that that makes me feel any better...

[Cary]

26. Sounds vaguely familiar

Our species has been around about 20,000 years. By contrast our cousins, Neanderthal, were around 200,000 years so if we kill ourselves off any time soon our species cannot be considered to be a successful adaptation by any measure.

[tomm2thumbs]

2. RM nails it

and she showed up there - not phoning it in from a studio

good stuff HS!

[EJSTES2005]

3. Sadly most of us know Gov doesn't work..........for us

Almost never has and probably never will again.

I really wish I didn't believe what I just wrote :(

Reading this today just reinforces that belief.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/03/salazar/index.html
........"The excuse the Bush administration gave for failing to conduct that review is the same one Obama gave in his press conference. As the court put it: "MMS argues that the strict timelines in OCSLA indicate that an EIS is not a feasible option at the exploration stage. The agency only has thirty days to approve or disapprove of an exploration plan" and officials "argue that thirty days is not enough time to generate a full EIS." The court categorically rejected that excuse (emphasis added):

The agency may be correct that it is difficult for an agency to conduct a full EIS in only thirty days, but its argument that OCSLA precludes such a result is unconvincing. There is flexibility built into the regulatory scheme so that the agency can perform its full duties under NEPA. The thirty-day clock begins to run only when an exploration plan is deemed complete. 30 C.F.R. § 250.233(a). If the agency is able to identify gaps before that point, then it can request that information be added before the proposal is finalized. See 30 C.F.R. § 250.231(b). Additionally, at the end of the thirty-day review period, the agency may opt to require modifications to an EP if there are concerns that it does not comport with environmental standards. 30 C.F.R. § 250.233(b). These options give the agency additional time to consider a plan and compile an environmental impact statement, if necessary. To say simply that the agency only has thirty days to complete a full EIS is misleading.

The excuse which the court condemned as "misleading" is exactly the one Obama and his aides have been repeatedly making for why they issued exemptions to BP: namely that, as the President put it, "under current law, the Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review." As a result, the court found that MMS's approval of Shell's drilling plan (including the exemptions it issued) violated NEPA, and thus invalidated the approval and ordered MMS to re-review the proposal in compliance with the law. That decision was issued in November, 2008 -- before the Obama administration even began -- so the notion that Obama Interior officials believed they only had 30 days to conduct a review, and that it therefore was forced to issue exemptions to BP, lacks credibility, to put that mildly.".......
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Worth the time to read the whole post.

[southmost]

7. i understand government doesn't work

Unfortunately that is the only route we, the public, have to work with.

Giving up on public government and just letting the private (synonymous with secretive/hidden) sector will only make matters worse.

[AlbertCat]

25. i understand government doesn't work

....sometimes...and, like you also know... sometimes it does. It's like anything else. Except...

What ALWAYS doesn't work is deregulation.

[onestepforward]

4. Rachel is priceless.

I am so grateful to her.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. K/R

!!

[Rhiannon12866]

6. K&R. Got this on the TV right now... Rachel telling it as it is.

;(

[Hissyspit]

8. ENTIRE show was on gulf disaster & was excellent. nt

[marions ghost]

9. We have to own this

"mega-disaster," she calls it. What happens will tell whether the country works or not.

:thumbsup: Rachel -- best coverage on the situation

[waronbanks]

10. I dont think I have seen Rachel show her

emotions over any issue as much as I see when she talks about this.

[Rocky2007]

20. I totally agree

One of her best shows!!

My thanks go out to Keith Olberman for getting her into the MSNBC family!

[florida08]

11. thanks to Rachel

and Keith for keeping a bright light on this mess. Drill baby drill needs to plastered on combo pictures of the birds, the oil on the ocean and the 11 men who died, while highlighting the oil still coming out of the ruptured pipe. This isn't a spill it's a corporate malfeasance resulting in death and destruction of people's lives, livelihoods, marine life and states economies. It's reprehensible to say the least and should be seen as culpable negligence and reckless endangerment.(the felony kind resulting in death) We really should be demanding their heads as a country.

Boycotting BP only hurts the station owner not BP. Shareholders should not be getting dividends. The Atlantis rig should be shut down and all BP permits should be rescinded and if we had an effing government that gave a damn that's what would happen.
:rant:

[Blacksheep214]

24. Revrun !

[defendandprotect]

12. Rachel has been doing a fantastic job on this . . .

and suprised she has been able to show as much as she has --

[bluescribbler]

13. Gotta love Rachel

She tells it like it is.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[doctorspa]

15. Transocean

Why is it no one seems to blame the company that owned and operated the drilling rig.
Transocean owned the drilling rig and used its own staff to run it. I think BP should
bear some of the responsibility but i hear nothing about the drilling company itself.

[valerief]

18. Or Hallilburton's cement. Or US unenforced regulations. nt

[glitch]

21. Lots of shoddy (yet extremely well paid, at least at the top) work to blame

but somehow it always devolves to "we are all to blame because we use oil".

Very convenient cover for the crooks.

[shireen]

16. that was a powerful show

Rachel, thank you. :hug:

[valerief]

17. Big oil just wanted to make literal the line "from sea to shining sea."

They'll all be shining soon. And toxic.

[swilton]

22. Thanks Rachel

We have to keep this issue on page one and not let it get buried in some sensationalist crap..that typically covers the front pages of MSM...

[hourglass1]

23. we the people - myth or not

this disaster in 2010 decides whether government works.
laying down the gauntlet, rachel. you are beauteous!

[Francisco]

27. I love this woman

n/t