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25 May 2010

Why is Napolitano at spill?

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0510/on_the_neck_00a867b3-0270-4c71-8497-ae88dd948b93.html

          The above link is a video of Janet Napolitano threatening BP to fix the oil spill disaster. The immediate question that comes to mind is why is she there? Isn't she the head of homeland security? This department was created by the much vilified Bush administration as a result of the 9-11 attacks. Ken Salazar, the Interior Secretary, has every right to be there. This catastrophe is under his jurisdiction. But, unless the spill was caused by a hostile or terrorist attack, Napolitano has no business sticking her nose into this. Possibly, she considers BP an enemy combatant now because of their failure to clean up the oil spill mess. After all, this oil spill is beginning to make the administration's handling of this mess look "not so good." George Bush is not around to blame either! Ironically, the Obama administration has had a much tougher tone against BP than they do against Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Putin, Kim, or Castro. Also, they seem to have a tougher talking tone against Benyamin Netanahu and any conservative right-wing talk show host as well. Unfortunately, this tactic of demonizing BP will do nothing for cleaning up the spill any quicker. Obviously, it would have helped if the Obama administration had a plan in place for oil spill disasters in the first place!