Mary Landrieu for insisting that Big Oil participate in the investigation -- of itself.
WASHINGTON -- On the same day the White House commission investigating the Gulf oil spill announced its first meetings -- July 12-13 in New Orleans -- a Senate committee cast what amounted to a no-confidence vote on the commission's objectivity. [...]
"Maybe the commission that the Congress sets up, in a more balanced fashion, with both very strong environmental views and very strong industry views, could actually come up with something that really might work for the dilemma and the challenge that this nation faces, which briefly is this: We use 20 million barrels of oil a day," Landrieu said. "That was true the day before the Deepwater Horizon blew up. It is true today. And we need to get that oil from somewhere."
WTF? Strong industry views? The same group of corporations that Ctrl-V'ed each other's oil spill response plan?
Mary Landrieu is such an obvious shill and she's making the Democrats look worse. We're supposed to be against Big Oil, senator. Stop it!