So much for blaming the spill on Bush's lax policies
 

I've heard this talking point too... it's Bush's fault!

Well...

"The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.

The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf."

http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/c.j...d=578815&spf=1

Even better... the Dems try and say that you should give them money so that they can hold BP to the letter of the law (that they just gave them a pass on).

DSCC capitalizes on oil spill - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

Re: So much for blaming the spill on Bush's lax policies
 

This can descend into an Obama did it or Bush did it, but in reality BP did it.. and there is a need to hold them accountable..

As far as the fund raising tactic goes, it is not different than the ethics of the republicans who send out questionnaires with a return address of the "Census Department".. it is what it is political opportunity.. it sucks, but it is what it is.

Re: So much for blaming the spill on Bush's lax policies
 

The Obama goons have got people sitting down in the cellar of the White House trying to figure out a way to Blame Bush for the Volcano and The Death Of Peter Graves.

Jeanne Garafool said GW Bush's Great Grandmother had a lot to do with the slaughter of The American Buffalo.