So You Still Trust Obama?

"WASHINGTON — Since the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded on April 20, the Obama administration has granted oil and gas companies at least 27 exemptions from doing in-depth environmental studies of oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico.

The waivers were granted despite President Barack Obama’s vow that his administration would launch a “relentless response effort” to stop the leak and prevent more damage to the gulf. One of them was dated Friday — the day after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he was temporarily halting offshore drilling.

The exemptions, known as “categorical exclusions,” were granted by the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) and included waiving detailed environmental studies for a BP exploration plan to be conducted at a depth of more than 4,000 feet and an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. exploration plan at more 9,000 feet..."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/07/93761/despite-spill-feds-still-giving.html

h/t FDL

Wash, rinse, repeat: Barack Obama will order a fiat execution on the legality of his own say so, will nominate an advocate of further expansion of the Unitary Executive to the Supremes, wants to interrogate "terror" suspects without notifying them of their rights, has a SecState who likes Lieberman's inquistionary proposal, has sent tens of thousands of working class young women and men into Afghanistan, has quietly disabled historically black opposition to power and the abuses of power, and in the face of one of the worst man made environmental disasters in US history, approved twenty-seven exemptions from environmental impact studies, for the same sort of explorations, since that disaster occurred.

For a cogent review of Obama's expansion of Bush doctrine, see Chris Floyd's latest:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1967-the-poetry-of-death-patterns-of-state-terror.html