Byron York:
I, for one, don't believe a word of it .. .
Old joke: How can you tell when Obama's lying?
There was one particularly striking moment in President Obama's widely panned Oval Office speech on the Gulf oil disaster. About midway through his talk, Obama acknowledged that he had approved new offshore drilling a few weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion on April 20. But Obama said he had done so only "under the assurance that it would be absolutely safe."
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For the sake of argument let's say someone did tell Mr. Obama that drilling is "absolutely safe". Given the fact that they are in mile deep water, and that BP supposedly has 700 violations of government regulations in its file, why would the Prez believe it was absolutely safe?
For the Senate blowhards who so enjoyed beating up on Tony Hayward, where were they on the 700 violations? With that kind of a safety record, why weren't they shutting BP down?
My favorite lie was that we are running out of oil. We can see by this gusher, that doesn't seem to be the case. Many places on shore and near shore are also brimming with oil, but by government regulation are off limits to drilling. We in effect do not have that oil and so we drill where it is allowed and where a spill becomes an unimaginable catastrophe.
Who has more experience dealing with oil company regulation, Barack Hussein Obama or Sarah Palin?
Barry, call her.
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