Media Quiet About Obama Contempt Ruling

As I alerted you yesterday, federal Judge Martin Feldman ruled that the Obama Administration was in contempt of court due to its persisting with its moratorium in various forms on deepwater drilling in defiance of an earlier order from Feldman.

There is little question this is significant and that if such a ruling were made against a Republican administration, the “mainstream” news media would be all over it.

But the news media is being strangely quiet about this. I searched the front web pages of the Washington Post, CBS News, and CNN and found nothing. Maybe it was off in a corner on those home pages, but I could not find it. Searches of those three news sites using “Obama contempt” came up with AP stories at the Post and CBS and nothing, nada, of this story at CNN.

The news media dropped the ball when it came to informing us about Obama during the 2008 campaign. That dereliction of duty continues.

But I cannot let Republican leaders off the hook on this. They should be raising hell about this ruling and about Obama’s unlawful attacks on the offshore oil drilling industry. Few, if any, are.

BREAKING: Obama Administration Held in Contempt of Court . . .

. . . but it is not over the issue you think. Long after a federal judge ordered the Obama Administration to lift its moratorium on deepwater oil drilling, the administration persisted and persisted, costing thousands of jobs and making us that much more dependant on oil imports.

Now federal Judge Martin Feldman, stating the regime acted with “determined disregard” for the earlier ruling, has found the Obama Administration in contempt.

This is a story to watch. At the very least, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar should resign . . . at the very least.

More Oil Spill Failure from Obama

If you read my last post and thought, “But surely Obama is cutting through the red tape and stepping up efforts to clean up the oil spill now,” think again.

The A-Whale, which sounds like the Mother of All Skimmers, is finally on the way to the Gulf. But the Coast Guard and the EPA still have not signed off on it joining skimming efforts. And that after it has already been delayed for months.

Meanwhile, there was not a skimmer to found off the Mississippi coast this weekend. More utter failure from Obama.

Obama’s Feds Stop Oil Spill Efforts . . . Again.

Shortly after the BP oil spill, I had disdain for efforts to blame Obama. I feel most efforts to blame Bush for Katrina were rubbish, and I was not about to do the same to Obama. And just as Bush did not blow up the World Trade Center, Obama did not make the Deepwater Horizon blow out.

But it is becoming clear that Obama is more of an obstacle than a solution to the oil spill clean-up. While he is busy playing golf and using the oil spill to practically shut down the Gulf of Mexico oil industry, and that based on lies and borderline forgery, his Feds keep getting in the way of actually fighting the spill.

Fish and Wildlife stopping the building of berms to protect the Louisiana coastline is only the latest episode.

At the very beginning, feds delayed burning off the oil spill. Since burning doesn’t work on oil slicks after they intermingle with water for a time, this harmed anti-spill efforts at the start.

Then the EPA stopped use of an effective type of dispersant on the spill. What? The dispersant is worse than the oil? I don’t think so.

And Obama hardly lifted a finger to provide skimmers even though many are available worldwide and though state and local officials were begging for them.

And then the Coast Guard shut down 16 Louisiana skimmers with red tape.

And how long did Obama take to meet with BP officials? 57 days?

Really this episode is the flip side of Katrina. If Bush can be faulted, it is for not being fast and pushy enough in going over the heads of incompetent state and local politicians who were getting in the way. Instead, Obama is the one getting in the way of state and local and private authorities doing the work of fighting the spill. Those officials have often found themselves trying to do what the Feds should be doing . . . and then Obama’s Feds stop them.

What part of “Lead, follow, or get out of the way” does Obama not understand?