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ace, you've been saying the same thing over and over. and the trick is that i'd almost agree with you if i thought you were making a coherent case. but you're not.
one last time. the fundamental structuring problem here is the regulatory set-up. that set-up was revamped in 2001 by cheney's energy commission. that's where the self-reporting business becomes such a central part of the way off-shore oil drilling is overseen. that regulatory scheme makes it **impossible** for your pipe-dream of some LEADERSHIP from a manly man to happen because it puts almost everything in the control of the corporations---the anticipation of disaster, the generation of scenarios, the development of procedures, the building of technologies--all that is based on corporate self-reporting. the government was reduced to signing off on the reports, when they were required, and signing off that the things recommended in those reports were in fact done.
none of that process was required for the deepwater horizon and that's why there is no way for the federal government to take anything over.
it's your way of thinking that set this disaster up, ace darling.
that's one of many reasons why it's irritating to hear you go all blah blah blah leadership blah blah blah while you ignore page upon page of actual data about the situation preferring instead to go again blah blah blah obama sucks bp is awesome blah blah blah.
conservatives in the cheney mode imagined the federal government incompetent to regulate cheney's buddies at halliburton and the petro-capitalism for which he, and it, stands so they created a version of the federal government that IS incompetent and can't help but be incompetent. and now you complain?
give it a rest.
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