From the Hall of Fame of Hypocrisy, The Heritage Foundation Forgets Its Role in the BP Gulf Catastro

[unhappycamper]

From the Hall of Fame of Hypocrisy, The Heritage Foundation Forgets Its Role in the BP Gulf Catastrophe
by Bill Berkowitz | July 9, 2010 - 1:00pm

If you've been wishing, hoping (or praying) for any good news regarding British Petroleum's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, you will not have to wait much longer. On Tuesday, July 6 -- in what can only be interpreted as a classic fox-guarding-the-henhouse move -- Ed Fuelner, the President of the *Heritage Foundation announced that the Washington, D.C.-based think tank "has sent a team of respected energy, environmental, homeland security and disaster response experts to the Gulf region."

The "team" will "investigate what's currently being done, what's not being done, and what should be added to the federal 'to-do' list."

What the Heritage team will not do -- and what the Heritage Foundation is probably incapable of doing -- is acknowledge that the think tank's unceasing thirty-plus-year advocacy of de-regulation has contributed mightily to the disaster in the Gulf.

Instead of accepting even a scintilla of the blame for BP's uncontested oil drilling - and apparently with nary a sense of irony -- Fuelner e-mail is penned as if no one remembers that deregulation is one of the conservative think tank's most cherished building blocks. In a recent BuzzFlash piece about the Reagan administration, the BP oil spill and deregulation, I wrote: "During the 1980 presidential campaign, the Heritage Foundation burst onto the national scene with the publication of 'Mandate for Leadership,' a comprehensive set of policy recommendations which became the intellectual underpinning for the 'Reagan Revolution.' Heritage's blueprint included trickle-down economics, a major emphasis on deregulation, and massive cutbacks in social programs."

While Fuelner blamed both BP and the Obama Administration for failing to stem the flow of oil into the Gulf, he also blamed the administration for taking advantage of the catastrophe by pushing for its Climate Change legislation.

[Turbineguy]

1. This Depression

is brought to you by the Heritage Foundation.

[Tsiyu]

2. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Glad to add the 5th rec


These fools "conveniently forget" everything they do wrong.

And then they go do the same evil shit.

Like psychopaths and sociopaths do...

[applegrove]

3. Yup. But how do we communicate this the the wingnuts and teabaggers in the south?

[Canuckistanian]

4. Hahahahahaha

The Heritage Foundation "has sent a team of respected energy, environmental, homeland security and disaster response experts to the Gulf region."

That's like sending Ayn Rand with a plunger to unclog a toilet. Ain't gonna happen.

[Urban Prairie]

5. Heritage Foundation=Hypocrite Falsification n/t