Props To Mary For Fighting The Good Fight
It doesn’t happen often that we say nice things about her. But Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) did a hell of a job Tuesday in tearing up BOEMRE director Michael Bromwich at a Senate hearing on offshore drilling.
Here’s the video of Landrieu having a go at Bromwich after he spouted off about how busy his agency has been in permitting offshore oil wells – she exposes the fact that of the 14 permits BOEMRE has issued only one of them is actually a new well rather than one that was already being worked prior to the Deepwater Horizon incident.
The 14 permits BOEMRE is bragging about make for something of a problem for Louisiana’s other senator, Republican David Vitter. Vitter has a hold on Dan Ashe, President Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Department of the Interior, which he put in place late last year in an effort to force an end to the moratorium/permitorium on offshore drilling. The condition Vitter laid down for lifting that hold was for BOEMRE to issue 15 permits for deepwater wells, but so far the majority of what the agency is counting toward that 15 is essentially maintenance-type work or new wells on existing properties rather than new exploration – meaning that with one more permit BOEMRE will have satisfied Vitter’s requirement without really doing anything to increase domestic production or put the offshore oil patch back to work.
This frustration didn’t escape Offshore Marine Service Association head Jim Adams’ attention. Yesterday Adams issued this statement:
“We should all be worried that the lead regulator of offshore drilling, Mr. Bromwich, is confused as to the number of new exploratory wells permitted by his agency,” said Jim Adams, president and CEO of Offshore Marine Service Association. “Is it that difficult to remember ‘one’?”
Prior Senator Landrieu’s pressing questions, Mr. Bromwich told lawmakers that, ““We’ve actually permitted [14] unique deepwater wells on the average of about once every four to five business days. That’s not a significantly slower pace than has historically been the case.”
“How does he sleep at night?” said Adams.
So what, she is just doing her job. On the other hand, she went above and beyond the call of duty when she ousted Louisiana in the Louisiana Purchase/Obamacare facade. We, the voters will not forget
One must be magnanimous when opportunity to do so presents.
Of Course Mary has to do something to bring light to herself. After the Prostitute Thing, she can feel the votes slipping away when she wakes up in the morning. But as usual, Mary will have something like this situation dumped in her lap, and be portrayed as a hero, winning her re-election by a splinter, and another 4 years of the same old Democrat agenda. I personally won’t forget, but the dumbed down masses have a short memory.
I don’t think this can save her in 2014. She will have a far more
substantial challenger then than she’s previously had.
” But Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) did a hell of a job Tuesday in tearing up
BOEMRE director Michael Bromwich at a Senate hearing on offshore
drilling.”
I suppose your idea of ‘tearing up BOEMRE director Michael Bromwich” and my idea of ‘tearing up Bromwich is quiet a bit different. Rep Landry’s ‘tearing up’ of Salazar and Bromwich is more in line with my idea.
You know, raise your voice a little and slyly make great stabs with fervor. Oh yeah and watch the sweat drops roll down their face.
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Sen. Mary Landrieu should have had her facts as accurate as possible in an attack. Honestly I do not see the aggression this warrants. Bromwich sounded somewhat hesitant or ignorant in some of his answers / statements of what the BOEMRE has accomplished.
Reissuing permits is certainly not an extensive exercise. Claims to average a permit every week??? How many weeks have past since last October????? This is totally unacceptable. If private industry advanced as fast as BOEMRE we would still be waiting for the 15th Model A to come off the assembly line!!! Get rid of the slackers and hire achievers………