Now can we sue Bush and Cheney for the Gulf Oil disaster?

The Obama Administration is "on watch" now and the Obama Administration gave BP a pass on safety requirements just prior to the accident, and the Obama Administration also just gave BP ANOTHER pass on safety requirements this last week. I think that we need to hold our leaders NOW accountable for THEIR ACTIONS. And leave the past in the past and move on. Leave Bush alone and start looking at Obama and his actions grow up.

The oil well was brand new, the explosion occured as it was being completed to begin collecting oil. This entire fiasco occured under Obama's watch.

In February 2009, BP filed a 52-page exploration and environmental impact plan for the Macondo well with the federal Minerals Management Service, an arm of the U.S. Interior Department that oversees offshore drilling. The plan stated that it was "unlikely that an accidental surface or subsurface oil spill would occur from the proposed activities" and that "due to the distance to shore (48 miles) and the response capabilities that would be implemented, no significant adverse impacts are expected".

At the time of the explosion, the rig was on BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252, referred to as the Macondo Prospect, in the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico, about 41 miles (66 km) off the Louisiana coast.The rig commenced drilling in February 2010 at a water depth of approximately 5,000 feet (1,500 m). The well was planned to be drilled to 18,000 feet (5,500 m), and was to be plugged and abandoned for subsequent completion as a subsea producer.

It is very ironic that on the day that Barack Obama expressed his frustration over the efforts to contain the oil leak in the Gulf by pointing fingers at those who are to blame, he expressed how displeased he was at the finger pointing by the entities responsible for the mess.

“I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter,” he intoned. “You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else.” CBS

Obama took the opportunity to blame George W Bush (though not by name) which has been his pattern since taking office. The so called “Ridiculous Spectacle” of finger pointing that Obama does not appreciate is something he has been doing since he took office.

"For too long, for a decade or more, there has been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency..."

Obama or his sock puppets have blamed Bush for every problem faced (and have never given him credit when something good happens) and they continue to this very day. Barack Obama is unable to accept any criticism of something taking place without reminding people that he inherited a mess or that Bush did this or the past administration did that.

That, for you Obama sycophants, is FINGER POINTING. So it smacks of irony that the finger pointer in chief would have trouble with companies pointing fingers at each other.

And to clear the record, oil companies might very well have been friendly with government regulators over the past decade or longer (they were) but Obama has been in office for nearly a year and a half and it was his regime that issued all the waivers in this mess and it continued to issue them after the problem. HIS REGIME issued them. If he were concerned about a cozy relationship he would have been more proactive.

Funny how he does not care how cozy labor unions, communists, socialists, illegal immigrants, and terrorists are with his regime…

At least they now have another “crisis” they can’t let go to waste…

'Tinman' Cheney - if he only had a heart

'Scarecrow' Bush - if he only had a brain

It was Cheney who stacked the regulatory agencies with his Big Oil cronies and blocked needed regulation, be cause the acoustic triggers were 'too expensive'.

Prosecute them, sue them, then tar and feather them.

Go ahead. Using your logic that means we can blame CLINTON for the 911 attacks since they were planned for over 3 years on HIS watch!

Well you might as well sue 0bama and his administration also! They relaxed the regulations in April 2010! Nice to check all your facts before opening your mouth!

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and Bush Bimbo who told Social Conservatives that only US oil Corporations would be drilling there

hah, go ahead, let me know how that works out for ya!