Reply #81: Great Post - If ever there was a time for anger it is now - at BP and at Obama

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he launched into his "drill, baby, drill" program without wholesale changes in the incestuous culture of MMS (before the rig exploded and killed eleven people and poisoned the Gulf). The same people who were angry at Bush for blaming 911 on Clinton are telling you don't get angry with Obama its all because of 8 years of Bush. They are lying and standing in the way of government accountability.

Don't listen to the bullshit about "anger never solves anything". Get angry and demand change, starting with demanding the cancellation of "drill, baby, drill" (although Obama uses much more flowery language in his description of deep sea drilling off the Atlantic seaboard).

The Obama admin has stuffed Washington to the gills with corporate insiders. From Geithner to Salazar (http://coloradoindependent.com/18141/nine-reasons-not-to-trust-ken-salazar-as-secretary-of-the-interior) on and on. Don't let the corporate types try to tell you that you are wrong headed or angry, etc. He decided on joint BP/Government briefings and let BP prattle on about their wonderful partnership with the government.

MMS should have been gutted. Instead they got a "stern lecture" from a master of soothing and flowery rhetoric.

Of course DLC and OFA hacks are going to be here - Obama could take a giant shit in the middle of the white house lawn and the OFA DLC hacks will be extolling the wonder of it all, trying to convince you that it isn't shit you smell, its change.

The horror of this event transcends the ridiculous ass covering from the apologists. They are just digging themselves into a deeper hole.