President Obama's new oil watchdog has no oil/energy experience - good or bad?

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On one hand he's gonna have a lot of trouble understanding the intricacies of an industry that he has never worked with in the past. On the other hand, at least he's not an oil company insider like the last 11ty "watchdogs" were.
 
see at least when people were getting angry at bush for katrina, there was valid reason to do so
 
A experienced litigator with integrity will figure out the competency component pretty quickly I think.
 
Now he's going to be a knee jerk faggot and probably try to stop this because he was too short sighted.
 
The #1 reason I would have never voted for him was his healthcare plan. People bucked at the idea, AT LEAST half the country didn't want it. So he let his plan go get cannibalized and fucked to the point where it benefitted nobody, people STILL balked at it and he bulldozed it on through anyhow.

The one thing I wanted to see him do was get tough on lobbyists. That was little more than campaign rhetoric.

Cash for clunkers was a joke and a band aid. The auto bailout was a horrible idea (and in all fairness was a ball Bush got rolling). GM needed to declare real bankruptcy to get out from underneath all of their debt, lopsided contracts and backbreaking deals with the UAW. But since he's a slave to the unions Obama propped up GM and put them on life support to pacify the UAW.

The financial instutions bail out is neither here nor there. I wasn't for it, some say it was needed, I'm not a psychic, so this is a push.

Then there's all of the bailout money that's gone out and is largely unspent and will be used as political favors for those who's jobs are on the line. That's politics, still think it's shitty and money we didn't have to give out though.
 
I was -ing that guy's post, I didn't see it before.


...and @ six years. Obama is a one termer and he's already acting like it.
 
That's the problem with politicians, they think because someone has the experience or went to a prestigious school, they can do no wrong. If you don't shake things up occasionally your "experts" are going to get complacent like they did in this case. Congress doesn't have the ability to act swiftly or provide any oversight over government agencies at all; when you have revolving doors between industry and regulators you need someone to provide oversight and an outsider might be the best one for the job.
 
First and last paragraphs are all fluff. People could say the same exact shit about Bush.

The only concrete thing you've given me that he's accomplished is healthcare. The healthcare bill was cannibalized to where it didn't represent anything he really wanted and gave power back to insurance companies, and you still laud that as a success?
 
Yup - and sadly the business world often goes by the same "logic" which is why idiots like Chainsaw Al are revered and consultants are called in to find the obvious that idiotic management is too stupid to see.
 
Newsflash - No one has a clue how to stop this because it's never happened. Exxon, Chevron, etc. all had similar plans to BP and they were recently chewed out for it.
 
"Some" meaning lobbyists and pundits that peddle whatever the lobbyists tell them and a bunch of other people without the economics background to comprehend the situation but since they watch Jon Stewart they think they're pretty smart.
 
Must suck not understanding history, and how it repeats itself because of mental midgets who can't learn.
 
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