Gov. Bobby Jindal urges Obama to get deepwater drilling back quickly

Source: The Times-Picayune

On Wednesday, Gov. Bobby Jindal sent the following letter to President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar regarding grave concerns about the administration's decision to place a moratorium on deepwater drilling:

Dear President Obama and Secretary Salazar:

I am writing to express my grave concerns regarding the severe economic impact of a six-month (or longer) suspension of activity at 33 previously permitted deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, including and in particular the 22 deepwater drilling rigs currently in operation off the Louisiana coast.

Already, Louisiana has suffered severe negative economic and ecological impacts from the BP oil spill. Our seafood industry is experiencing huge economic losses that have only been partially mitigated by a frustratingly slow and inadequate BP claims process. Moreover, our precious wetlands are suffering incalculable, permanent damages, while our tourism industry faces escalating losses.





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This little scumbag was never anything more than big oils "butt boy" in LA anyway.

Now with the toothless Repuke rustics, complaining about their beaches, his "REAL MASTERS" are flogging his ass to get on with the "Crude Exploitation".

Carville's anger is probably more about the moratorium also.

where are the Jindal cheerleaders on DU ?

I expect that we will probably hear much the same from other Repugs. in these Gulf States as well. Where is GOVERNOR BARBOUR in his similar request? I'm sorry but these F*** wads are pathetic.

Godamn bastards don't even bother to think.

Is that his point? The seafood and tourism industries are gone forever, so let's at least keep drilling?

That's what I get from this.

Obama and the Federal Government aren't doing enough to stop BP's spill and clean it up...and then he wants to hand the Gulf right back over to oil co's for more of the same. Where's the folks proclaiming him a "take-charge" hero, again?

his wife was on AC360 tonight whining that Obama needs to lift the moratorium on deep sea drilling and Mr. "Keeping them Honest" Cooper gave a feeble push back.

The woman actually used the following analogy, if a plane crashes you don't shut down the entire industry, what!!! when a plane crashes the event is over and then you are on to recovery and clean up, in case she has forgotten what she has been whining about for 2 weeks the gusher is still spewing. Wow.

twisted ghoul

She and James Carville live in a funhouse of their own...and come out to haunt us from time to time.

Hey Mary, if an entire ecosystem with millions of people on board crashes, do you try to save the place from more such horrors?

Are you fucking insane?

for the moratorium. Build up his little Piyush political prospects--he's probably thrilled about the spill, gives him an advantage over the Brainless Bimbo.

You'd think after the catastrophe that BP caused, Jindal would be a least a little...hesitant. Anyone else would not be that eager to jump on the drilling bandwagon that fast.

But then, Jindal has always proven himself to be the ultimate hypocrite.

that Obama isnt reacting fast enough to the spill yet then whine that drilling needs to resume.

personality.

It's no wonder things are crazy, with leadership like this.

:rofl:

I don't have enough lysol in the house to get that image out of my head!!!!!

And the more of your fellow Rethugs you get to jump on the "We're pro-oil spill" wagon, the better... for us.

I've never seen anyone spin so fast. He should also get kudos for Palinesque hypocrisy. Drill Baby Jindal, Fucking Drill!!!!!!

Hypocrisy abounds. Dude's a scared-shitless governor who sees his whole state's economy collapsing around him.

If you don't have a solution to suggest, why criticize?

The oil vultures have come home to roost on poor wittle Booby Jindal's head & he's covered in poop. Too bad.

May Booby and the rest of the Drill Babies drink oil, like the rest of the creatures of the gulf.

Bobby Jindal has decided to hypocritically use the oil spill for personal gain--and this is acceptable to you?

And Jindal's one of the principal REASONS his state's economy is collapsing around him, FYI--instead of stopping what's going on and taking a good, hard look at just how dangerous off-shore deep water drilling is, he wants to forge blindly ahead.

It appears as if mr. jindal can't get enough of the governments help now.

First he wouldn't take the bail out, but now, he goes on and on about how the government won't help him.

Nothing like a political opportunist to cast blame where it's convenient.

So where are those select few DU folks who thought he was showing "leadership" and "initiative"?

about the moratorium and any other limits on drilling. they never gave a shit about the BP disaster.

fuck them all.

they really are showing what they are about now.

and i will never forget the DUers who sided with these thugs and bashed Obama.

There's a board titled Yet Another Politics Board on Yuku. I went there recently and was sickened by the meanness, most of it directed at Obama and Democrats. This whole topic has the exact same tone as the rightwing topics, just a different perspective.

'Piyush' indeed, and making fun of somebody's looks. It just gives me the creeps like when I've heard Obama called Purple Lips.

Criticizing Jindal for opposing the moratorium reminds you of the RW?

Yes, we all know you hate the brown governor.

But right now many of us know how to move FORWARD!

i'm of indian descent and i agree with prosense.

and it's well known piyush jindal wishes he was white and tries hard to be liked by the racist white republicans. fuck him and anyone supporting him. he is a fucking hypocrite.

prosense has only posted on what these whores are doing. she never attacked anyone for their looks.

for the shit-faced response to Katrina, that did WAY bad things to Louisiana's economy?

And that people are going to stop coming to LA because the oil spill has fucked up the coastline, probably forever?

What a fucker. The entire political machine in Louisiana is so corrupt that they can't see beyond the entire current mess. I wish they would all go straight to hell. Either that, or be sent off to a deserted island where oil is poisoning even the beaches.

Jindal is the environmental hero dontcha know?

:sarcasm: