Atwater (R):: BP can build a friggin' oil rig, but can't fill a hole?

Source: Palm Beach Post

If it wasn’t for Atwater fighting considerable pressure, even from Gov. Charlie Crist, it’s very reasonable to think a bill to allow drilling within 10 miles of the coast would have been approved by the Republican-controlled legislature this year or even signed into law by Crist at this time last year.

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His skepticism over the oil industry safety claims were pretty much exactly on target.

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Atwater, who wrapped up the meeting telling BP, “No one is going to forgive anybody for the action that occurred. That’s the reality. There is environmental damage.”

He said BP “owes it to the people” to hire an independent contractor to confirm the amount of oil flooding the Gulf and verify progress is being made.



Read more: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2010/05/atwater-bp-can-build-a-friggin%E2%80%99-oil-rig-but-can%E2%80%99t-fill-a-hole/

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Wow. A republican that doesn't cave to the party...

After all, if an underwater oil well is hard, a volcano should be totally easy.

...IIRC.