DRUDGE: Obama oil spill commission picked for their politics, not engineering skill...

Never letting a crisis go to waste, the Obama White House appoints activists rather than experts to the commission appointed to investigate the gulf oil spill. 

From the AP: 

WASHINGTON – The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about "America's addiction to oil." One member has blogged about it regularly.

Only one of the seven commissioners, the dean of Harvard's engineering and applied sciences school, has a prominent engineering background — but it's in optics and physics. Another is an environmental scientist with expertise in coastal areas and the after-effects of oil spills. Both are praised by other scientists.

The five other commissioners are experts in policy and management.

The conclusion has already been written as one of the commission members lets the cat out of the bag:

Environmental activist Frances Beinecke on May 27 blogged: "We can blame BP for the disaster and we should. We can blame lack of adequate government oversight for the disaster and we should. But in the end, we also must place the blame where it originated: America's addiction to oil." And on June 3, May 27, May 22, May 18, May 4, she called for bans on drilling offshore and the Arctic.

"Even as questions persist, there is one thing I know for certain: the Gulf oil spill isn't just an accident. It's the result of a failed energy policy," Beinecke wrote on May 20.

Two other commissioners also have gone public to urge bans on drilling.

So that's it: reminiscent Jimmy Carter's malaise speech, this commission will blame Americans for their "addiction to oil."  Yeah, that's it; blame Americans for wanting to drive cars, heat and cool their homes, and do it at prices that even the lowest paid worker, hell even welfare recipients, can afford.  That should not be for the peons.  That should be reserved for the "best and the brightest."  This is why Thomas Friedman is so enthralled by Communist China.  The "small people" there know their place.  Besides, riding your bike to work is good exercise.  And the gall of Americans wanting to live in suburbia when they should be living in densely packed urban structures near their place of employment, leaving more room for the leaders' dachas.

Although the commission has not met, there is really no reason for them to spend the time and money to do so.  It would save the taxpayer millions dollars as the House Appropriations Committee has decreed that we will spend:

 $7 million for scientific investigations and sampling efforts, and $10 million for civil and criminal enforcement efforts.

Certainly some hack in the White House, maybe the idiot who wrote Obama's Oval Office speech, can whip out a report based on articles and editorials from the MFM that will be every bit as credible as one this commission will produce and will not need expensive lunches and dinners paid for by the taxpayer at the toniest Washington watering holes.  No one, literally no one with the IQ higher than a rock will believe any study that this commission will produce.  But it will give the MFM editorial writers and reporters an officially sanctioned tool on which to base their next round of outraged editorials.  Thus debasing their credibility even more as this commission will  debase government sponsored "scientific inquiry."  Get ready for "Climategate, the Sequel."

Suggestion for MFM people: create a macro for your word processor (I suggest "aato") to be replaced by "Americans addicted to oil."  You'll be able to save yourself lots of time as you write your articles, news reports, letters to he editor and editorials.  No need to thank me; I know how busy you are.