In the mood for some whiplash? ( hypocrite alert!)

[Froward69]

http://coloradoindependent.com/54373/coffman-colorado-gop-clamor-for-environmental-protection-after-blasting-salazar-for-years

Coffman, Colorado GOP clamor for environmental protection after blasting Salazar for years

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s scathing attack on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday at a House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sounded a little like a jewel thief berating the cops for not catching him sooner.

Coffman, who represents Colorado’s uber-conservative 6th Congressional District after serving as an outspoken and controversial Secretary of State, has a track record of blasting Salazar and Gov. Bill Ritter for over-regulating the fossil fuel extraction industries in Colorado. But here’s what he had to say Wednesday:

" “Secretary Salazar, on Jan. 20, 2009, you were confirmed as the Secretary of the Interior. Just nine days later you were in Colorado where you publicly ordered a re-examination of the scandalized Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service.

“At that event you said, ‘There’s a new sheriff in town,’ and the American people took you at your word that you were going to make it a top priority to clean up MMS, but you didn’t. At least not until the lax industry oversight of MMS contributed to what may turn out to be the single most significant environmental catastrophe in U.S. history.

“Can you with certainty tell me what assurances you can give to the American people going forward? Can you really change what is an incredibly dysfunctional agency? Where is the increase in oversight? Where is the new sheriff? The American people are seeking some assurances Mr. Secretary.”

Coffman was referring to a 2009 visit by Salazar to the Lakewood offices of the MMS, which simultaneously regulates and collects royalties from energy companies drilling on public lands. That office was wracked with a sex, drug and influence-peddling scandal at the time.

But since his days as a Democratic Colorado senator, Republican lawmakers have been blasting Salazar for impeding everything from natural gas drilling on the Roan Plateau to oil shale production across northwestern Colorado and eastern Utah. Salazar often was simply pushing for better environmental practices to protect the state’s natural heritage.

What a total two faced bullshit artist!!! (Coffman that is)
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http://coloradoindependent.com/54373/coffman-colorado-gop-clamor-for-environmental-protection-after-blasting-salazar-for-years

[sandnsea]

1. Did he cry?

Apparently if these fuckwits cry, then all is forgiven and on to bashing the "Obama Corporatists" who are now to blame for everything wrong in the world.

[Xipe Totec]

2. We live in a Hypocracy n/t

[RandomThoughts]

3. New sheriff analogy misses the point that it is about what many people do.

Thinking it is about a person, or that a person can do everything is a form of desire for followship. It is part of authoritarian thought.

I think the oil spill is attempt to keep people from thinking on other problems.

If you agree with these postulations.
Some people for profit and control.
Would crash the economy
Would start wars
Would smear mostly innocent people.
Would lie without concern.
Would allow homelessness.
Would allow people in poverty and only bring people out of poverty if it helped them also.

Then thinking they would be capable of making a large ecological disaster just at the time that reforms in many sectors were moving forward, to take peoples attention from those problems is not a far fetched concept.

Although it fails in that attempt in the long run, it seems like one sector throwing another under the bus to try and save itself, another common thought process in that group.

I think the oil spill is people trying to hold onto a claim to power or control only using destruction and hurting themselves, but trying to get time to stay hidden.


I hope the Oil spill problems in the gulf gets the help it needs for clean up, and for the discussions to get back to areas that have been hurting society for many decades.

But both of those efforts are about many people, not some individual person.


There is a system that will protect itself above others in society and that is a claim to being special. And it is institutionalized in many places. It is true people should help each other, even in those systems, but they also should be strong enough to protect people outside their group from people in their group that do wrong, and work within an equal justice system for reasons of what is best, not reasons of blind loyalty.

The system that treats its own members above other people does have many opinions, but the concept of protecting the bad in its own society from public scrutiny and forms of justice seems to go against its own charter of believing in better ways. In that loyalty becomes to high of a priority.

We are our brothers keepers, but who are the brothers? And who is worthy of equal justice and dignity. I think a few people in some systems think only some people are 'brothers' by their own decision, while some, including many in those systems see many people as brothers, if not all people.


The new sheriff has to be many people, with better intents. To think it is one person, or even a single group, is authoritarianism and wanting to follow or even wanting someone else to correct problems everyone can help correct. But for everyone to be able to correct problems there has to be better forms of equal justice so they can feel that they are part of the society they protect.

[Froward69]

4. Shameless kick to

expose Coffmans flipping.