Let’s export Ken Salazar to Brazil

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 23, 2011 09:39 AM

Since day one of the Obama administration, I’ve chronicled Loathsome Cowboy Ken Salazar’s War on the West, War on Jobs, and War on Science/Rule of Law. His eco-radical sidekick Carol Browner is gone, yet Salazar remains in place — and has launched a new public campaign to demonstrate his purported moderation on energy policy. Yesterday, he announced a new coal mining push in Wyoming and for the past month, he has been touting the administration’s long-delayed, stingy, and misleading drilling permit approvals.

My column today cuts through the baloney, bring you up to date on all the White House legal wrangling to delay economic recovery in the Gulf, and offers a modest proposal: Since President Obama is now so enamored of sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to Brazil in the name of creating jobs and energy innovation, why don’t we send Ken Salazar over there, too? Permanently.

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Drilling Ken Salazar
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011

After two years of practicing unrepentant contempt for science, jobs, law and truth, why should Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s words mean anything anymore? While President Obama promotes offshore drilling overseas thousands of miles away in Brazil, Salazar now promises to revitalize America’s oil and gas industry. It’s like Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian promoting himself as a lifesaving CPR specialist.

This week, Salazar announced that the administration has just approved the first deepwater oil and gas exploration plan since last spring’s BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mind you: This is not a granting of permits, but a green light for Shell Offshore to seek drilling permits for three new exploratory wells off the Louisiana coast. Shell first submitted and received approval for its original exploration plan in 1985 — 26 red tape-wrapped years ago.

Salazar’s make-believe resurrection of American offshore and onshore drilling began a few weeks ago, when the Interior Department Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement issued a deepwater drilling permit to Noble Energy for a well at the Santiago project about 70 miles off the Louisiana coast. But as Louisiana political analyst and blogger Scott McKay pointed out, “This isn’t a permit for a new project. The permit issued to Noble was for a bypass of an obstruction in a well they’d already drilled before the Deepwater Horizon accident. It took 314 days to get that well back online with this administration.”

Nevertheless, Obama oil czar Michael Bromwich claimed credit for the decision and insisted the project be treated as a new well. So this is how Democrats win the future: crushing industries with one hand while patting themselves on the back for saving them.

The measly Noble Energy permit approval came months after the Obama administration purportedly “lifted” its junk science-based drilling moratorium — and only after federal courts repeatedly spanked Salazar and the White House for their “determined disregard” of judicial orders and “increasingly inexcusable” action on stalled deepwater drilling projects.

More than a month ago, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman ordered the Obama administration to decide within a month whether to grant a set of five permits for deepwater drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Feldman wrote that the foot-dragging administration’s “time delays at issue here are unreasonable” and told the feds to act in an “expeditious” manner to “restore normalcy to the Gulf region and repair the public’s faith in the administrative process.”

The Obama administration’s response? Last week, just under the wire on the judicial time limit, the White House won a stay from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Delay, baby, delay.

Unsurprisingly, the man who misled the public about scientists’ support for his overreaching moratorium now faces more charges of data doctoring. Louisiana GOP Sen. David Vitter called out Salazar and Bromwich for publicly low-balling drilling application figures. While the pair informed Congress that the administration has received fewer than 50 shallow water permits and that only six to seven deepwater permits are pending, the Obama Justice Department asserted in legal filings that “there are 270 shallow water permit applications pending, and 52 deepwater permit applications pending.” Which is it?

Jim Adams, president and CEO of the Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA), further skewered Salazar’s book-cooking on the permit-orium: “There were 32 deepwater drilling operations already permitted when the president imposed his moratorium last year. Interior Secretary Salazar is merely allowing existing permit holders to resume their operations.”

OMSA reports that there are more than 100 deepwater development plans that have yet to be cleared to even become eligible for a permit. Salazar is “treating Gulf workers like peasants, tossing us work crumb by crumb and expecting us to be grateful,” Adams said. “We’re tired of fighting for scraps. We want to get back to work — all of us, not just a handful of crews.”

At least 13,000 jobs have been lost, according to Louisiana State University professor Joseph Mason’s latest estimates. Isn’t it high past time to send Salazar and his misery-inducing eco-radicals packing? How about exporting them to Brazil?

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  1. #101
    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:27 am, Paratus said:

    Can anyone here come up with the name of the troll,it’s been a year and a half or maybe two.She said she was a physician in training. I never heard it put that way.

  2. #102
    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:28 am, stillontheroad said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 pm, Bruce said:

    Feeding a troll can be a lot of fun really and informative as well– once they divulge their intentions, which are always for something else besides any truth in anything, sooner or later the real he/she/it emerges.Take for example RSS, who finally went on a anti-Semitic rant and revealed what it really is.

  3. #103
    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:29 am, stillontheroad said:

    Paratus said:
    I think thats the Alps Mountain Flower or some such 60′s throwback name

  4. #104
    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:33 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:24 am, spaceycakes said:
    Hey remember Rusty, nyc and mistressjustice? Man those were the days…

    (waxing nostalgic) You can say that again! Hey, don’t bogart that!

  5. #105
    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:45 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Anybody notice the absence of chappy? Did he chase ambulances all the way to Japan?

  6. #106
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:01 am, spaceycakes said:

    stillontheroad said:
    Paratus said:
    I think thats the Alps Mountain Flower

    edelweiss

  7. #107
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:02 am, spaceycakes said:

    stillontheroad said:
    Take for example RSS, who finally went on a anti-Semitic rant and revealed what it really is.

    oh, and I will not let it forget that. Beezelbub, like all of them.

  8. #108
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:20 am, babiesgrandma said:

    BayouKiki said:

    WHY DON’T THESE PEOPLE SEE THIS???

    Because the gubmint does NOT want you to think for your selves, and if we drill our oil and become self-sufficient, then the gubmint loses CONTROL of us. Right now, we do their bidding, we pay their asking price for oil/gas, we live in a fear-induced state of paranoia that we may, JUST MAY not be able to drive our nice cars anymore. We may have to drive their hybrids, become mind-controlled.

    Oh, wait, that’s the plot to the movie called “Brazil” (made in 1985).

    Hmmmmm. makes one think.

  9. #109
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:26 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    Hey – that’s no fair.

    I respond as often as I can.

    Plus, I do think you folks are pretty awesome – because you do believe in stuff, instead of not caring.

    Plus, I respect that we don’t agree on many things, but all of you are respectful.

    ILMC

  10. #110
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:38 am, Flyoverman said:

    We need to connect the dots on this administration.

    George Soros invests 2 billion in Brazil’s energy development. Obama blocks all deep water drilling in the gulf, stonewalls the court, and awards one lease to placate the court. The lease to drill is to the Brazilian National oil company.

    Following this Obama goes to Brazil to promote and subsidize their oil development.

    This thing stinks to high heaven.

  11. #111
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:42 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    This thing stinks to high heaven.

    Everything about the District of Corruption stinks to high heaven.

    Soros may own 100% of the Evil Party, but he also has a sizable percentage of the Stupid Party on the payroll as well.

  12. #112
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:52 am, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah, How come every picture of this guy looks like he’s the last pumpkin left in the pumpkin patch??!!

  13. #113
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:57 am, rocketman said:

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    HI BAYOUKIKI–#100. I bet you Louisiana / Gulf dwellers can really tell some bad true stories about the worsening employment damage to your areas by Comrade Obama’s bad energy policies.
    ***
    It’s pretty sick to see our good jobs and money being sent to Brazil. Along with Billions of taxpayer dollars to support drilling there. Our citizens are worth less than other countries people in our Precident’s mind.
    ***
    But Comrade Obama puts the world economy ahead of the U.S. economy. He is a community organizer (aka shakedown artist) just doing his “thang” and organizing our economy into the toilet.
    ***
    Lots of people are going to remember in November 2012. Buckle your seatbelts–it’s going to be a much rougher ride till then. Like a baby buggy bouncing down the ties on a railroad track–as the choo–choo races on towards it. It ain’t gonna be a pretty sight when our economy crashes.
    ***
    Thanks, Comrade!
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    John Bibb
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  14. #114
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:05 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:45 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Anybody notice the absence of chappy? Did he chase ambulances all the way to Japan?

    I mentioned this a week ago. Think txvet2 (if wrong,apologies) whacked him pretty good, forget what thread it was.

    And…

    YES WE CAIN

  15. #115
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:06 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Soros may own 100% of the Evil Party, but he also has a sizable percentage of the Stupid Party on the payroll as well.

    VP,

    P.T. Barnum would have viewed the GOP as an opportunity of a lifetime.

  16. #116
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:08 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:26 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    I respond as often as I can.

    Employment is hell isn’t it. :)

  17. #117
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:18 pm, Blackstone said:

    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:05 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    I mentioned this a week ago. Think txvet2 (if wrong,apologies) whacked him pretty good, forget what thread it was.

    There were a few of us involved in the whacking. I don’t know if that’s the reason for his absence or not.

    Last seen here

  18. #118
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:20 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    I dunno, do you still have to go in person to the UNemployment office? Maybe that’s taking up someone on this thread’s time…

  19. #119
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:21 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:18 pm, Blackstone said:

    Thanks for setting that straight.

  20. #120
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:38 pm, mondamay said:

    Beware:
    That is not dead which can eternal parse.

    R’lyeh may be undergoing renovation or something…

  21. #121
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:45 pm, spaceycakes said:

    ILMC said: bring me back a happy meal!

  22. #122
    On March 24th, 2011 at 12:46 pm, spaceycakes said:

    ILMC said: tomorrow i get to wear big boy underwears

  23. #123
    On March 24th, 2011 at 1:38 pm, chapoutier said:

    There were a few of us involved in the whacking. I don’t know if that’s the reason for his absence or not.

    The only whacking going on was the sound of me hitting my head against my keyboard in utter amazement at the cognitive dissonance on display there.

    And if and when I do leave, I guarantee it won’t be because of anything that mental midget txvet wrote. I put the value of his opinion of me somewhere around a Zimbabwean dollar circa 2009.

  24. #124
    On March 24th, 2011 at 1:47 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    There he is!

    Quick, get the net….

  25. #125
    On March 24th, 2011 at 1:50 pm, chapoutier said:

    There he is!

    Quick, get the net….

    You forgot to ask who Barry Soetoro is. Isn’t that like a 10 point Birther Cred deduction?

  26. #126
    On March 24th, 2011 at 2:26 pm, Hiraghm said:

    I just thought of something rather obvious…

    While attention is on Operation: Idiot Dawn, while the debate is over Libya and said operation….

    Obama was in Brazil giving them 2 billion dollars to drill in waters his own countrymen can’t drill in, for oil to sell to us (from our own back yard).

    This is kinda like shooting missiles at an aspirin factory to distract from a stained, blue dress…

  27. #127
    On March 24th, 2011 at 2:28 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Isn’t that like a 10 point Birther Cred deduction?

    I’m sorry, but that’s the shiz.

  28. #128
    On March 24th, 2011 at 3:27 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    You forgot to ask who Barry Soetoro is. Isn’t that like a 10 point Birther Cred deduction?

    So tell me, chappy..

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

  29. #129
    On March 24th, 2011 at 3:31 pm, chapoutier said:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    Keyser Söze.

  30. #130
    On March 24th, 2011 at 3:35 pm, Hiraghm said:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    Well, he sure as heck ain’t John Galt.

  31. #131
    On March 24th, 2011 at 4:01 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    This is a “BFD”…

    Ike Had Nothing To Hide

  32. #132
    On March 24th, 2011 at 4:48 pm, BK said:

    Looks like the federal treason laws won’t be enforced during this administration.

  33. #133
    On March 24th, 2011 at 6:11 pm, Blackstone said:

    The only whacking going on was the sound of me hitting my head against my keyboard in utter amazement at the cognitive dissonance on display there.

    What a coincidence. I had the same reaction to your repeated inability to answer a simple question.

  34. #134
    On March 24th, 2011 at 6:39 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    spaceycakes said:
    ILMC said: tomorrow i get to wear big boy underwears UNDEROOS

    Updated…

  35. #135
    On March 24th, 2011 at 8:23 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 24th, 2011 at 6:11 pm, Blackstone said:

    Well at least we now know how to get him out of lurking mode ;)

  36. #136
    On March 24th, 2011 at 11:08 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    chappy, what if he really is still Barry Soetoro?

  37. #137
    On March 25th, 2011 at 10:33 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Well chappy?
    What if he was sent back from Indonesia, as an Indonesian citizen named Barry Soetoro and no one bothered to do anything about it?

  38. #138
    On March 25th, 2011 at 10:49 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    It would kind of explain why he is using a Social Security number belonging to a deceased man from CT.
    And the fraudulent Selectice Service registration and fraudulent JPEG COLB.

  39. #139
    On March 26th, 2011 at 10:37 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Well at least we now know how to get him out of lurking mode

    And how to get him to disappear…

  40. #140
    On March 27th, 2011 at 1:14 pm, chapoutier said:

    Birther conspiracy nonsense doesn’t make me disappear. It just bores me to tears.

  41. #141
    On March 27th, 2011 at 7:12 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    When the fraud is exposed you won’t be bored…..

  42. #142
    On March 27th, 2011 at 8:05 pm, chapoutier said:

    When the fraud is exposed you won’t be bored…

    Nor will I be when Nessie is finally caught. But until then…

  43. #143
    On March 27th, 2011 at 10:18 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    If he was eligible for office…..

    Why two Nomination certificates?

    Why were two Nomination certificates prepared on the same date, both signed by Nancy Pelosi and notarized by the same individual?

    The Nomination certificate sent to state of Hawaii mentioned the Constitutional requirement:

    “THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 through 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.. “

    The Nomination certificate sent to the other 49 states DID NOT mention the Constitutional requirement:

    “THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively.. “

    If this is true, did Hawaii demand a legal cover because they knew there might be a potential Constitutional problem?

    Did any of the other 49 state DNC organizations know about a potential problem and, if so, why did they keep silent?

    What did they know and when did they know it?

    We can handle the truth.

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