Obama’s War on the West: Another judge rebukes job-killing rogue Interior Department; Update: ruling added
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 as head of the Interior Department. His eco-radical sidekick Carol Browner is gone, yet Salazar remains in place. Federal judge after federal judge has spanked Salazar and Obama’s job-destroying eco-nitwits for lawlessly and fraudulently imposing their junk-science drilling ban . Salazar spearheaded the pulling of scores of oil leases by invoking bogus eco-claims and has presided over an expansive land grab through administrative fiat.
Yesterday, yet another federal judge smacked Obama/Salazar and the US Forest Service over their onerous drilling regulations in a lawsuit brought by the Western Energy Alliance:
A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favor of a petroleum industry group, the Western Energy Alliance, in its lawsuit against the federal government, including Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
The ruling reinstates Bush-era expedited oil and gas drilling under provisions called categorical exclusions on federal lands nationwide, Freudenthal said.
The government argued that oil and gas companies had no case because they didn’t show how the new rules, implemented by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service last year, had created delays and added to the cost of drilling.
Freudenthal rejected that argument.
“Western Energy has demonstrated through its members recognizable injury,” she said. “Those injuries are supported by the administrative record.”
Congress had mandated the expedited review process that Obama/Salazar ignored in order to encourage American oil and natural gas development where the impact is minimal and/or where environmental analysis has already been conducted. Salazar’s Interior Department steamrolled over the congressional requirement and curtailed the expedited reviews without a formal process and public comment period.
Freudenthal was appointed to the federal bench not by Reagan or Bush…but by Barack Obama. Which makes the rejection of the White House’s claim that it did no harm to the economy all the more noteworthy:
“Those injuries are supported by the administrative record.”
Mark those words.
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Gee, another day and another Obama stooge trying his best to screw America.
Yeah, that’ll hurt…..The Timex in Chief: “Takes a legal licking and keeps on ticking’”
In the immortal words of Sarah, “Drill, Baby, Drill!!”
Be interesting to see if Odopo and merry men of Marxists will follow the judges ruling or as usual ignore it being the un_American traitor he is.
“follow the judges ruling”
Surely you jest.
So ashamed of Salazar who is from Colorado. As I’ve mentioned before, his brother, John Salazar, took a licking and got kicked out of Congress. Thanks, western slope of Colorado, for getting rid of this fool. Now, we’ve got to get rid of the other fool, his brother Ken.
And Ken’s hat doesn’t fit him right. What a wuss.
4 more years! Dictatorship! … still ticked off by the Perry thread …
enjoy
How many divisions does that judge have?
Wow, this is wonderful! Poor bho had two judges rule against him and his team in the last two days! bhocare and now this! I can not believe this judge did this since bho appointed her! Thank you judge Freudenthal! Maybe the worm is turning for us?
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Not fast enough.
Heck, Obama ignores laws duly passed by Congress, why would he listen to the Judicial branch? I think these arrogant neo-communist will just keep on doing what they are doing. We may have to impeach that Chicago thug to get him to stop…
Has anyone (Michelle) ever determined which of the following three, Interior Dept., EPA or NLR board does the most damage to our private sector? Under Obama they all three seem to be Marxist in nature. We had better get some of these things to SCOTUS before Obama can change its make up to his communist liking.
Two of the three 11th Circuit judges were appointed by Clinton. Tells you how crazy this eco-assault on on economy truly is.
“You can’t sue us for breaking duly enacted laws, because you can’t prove we’ve harmed you”? Really? That’s their defense?
Liberals believe that they’re above the law. The law simply doesn’t apply to them; the law is only to be used to force others to do what Liberals want them to do. Can’t blame them, they’ve gotten away with it in practice for generations now.
It’s good to see that even liberal judges have a limit.
Obummer immediately fired her. Yeah, I know and he knows he can’t do that legally. But that hasn’t stopped him yet.
Of course he does, because he is just so much smarter than the Founders who established the concepts of separation of powers and checks and balances. He definitely IS a thug. As for Salazar; just like the pig with lipstick, you can put a cowboy hat on a donkey, but he’s still just an ass.
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It will be a thing of beauty to see these anti-American anti-business corruptocrats kicked out of office after the Nov. 2012 Tsunami. The new President (Sarah Palin? Michelle Bachmann? Rick Perry? Ugh–RINO Mittster?!!) must demand the resignations of all Comrade Obama hires that are not protected by Civil Service.
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It won’t be as good a payback as Sparticus and his defeated Army got long ago. But it will be great to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth as Comrade Obama and His clueless corruptocrat Ilk return to the sewers from whence they came.
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The new Prez needs to be ready with a list of skilled replacements with real track records in their areas of expertise. And then the new department heads must start the housecleaning and downsizing of their departments. Twenty percent budget and benefit cuts for the agencies that are really needed.
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Then start the defunding and shutdown of the useless Department of the (off limits) Interior, Department of (socialist) Education, Environmental Protection (scam) Agency, Department of (poor) Homeland Security, Transportation Security (groping) Agency, Department of (greenie) Energy, Department of (union) Labor, etc. A partial list of the agencies that need to be shut down to save our economy.
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And then start on the consolidation of the 20+ security agencies under a cleaned up CIA. Clean out the vipers in the U.S. (world) State Department. Leave the worthless U.N. and NATO organizations–no funding, no buildings or offices in the U.S. Shut down most overseas military facilities and put the troops on our borders to build the real fences. Germany, Italy, et. al. can defend themselves or perish on their own dimes.
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It’s gonna be a lot of work–but we can get real benefits in the future. More atomic power plants, more drilling for oil and gas, more mining. Border security, and real jobs with real economic payoffs.
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Hit the ground running and fix our country. Or see it degenerate into a socialist third world country like Greece. Or Venezuela.
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John Bibb
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Salazar wears a cowboy hat. Using the Texas definition, that makes him a conservative.
You are so full of crap. The Texas saying that applies to Salazar is “All hat and no cattle”. It means a BS artist. Like you, for instance.
See why allowing an ineligible Marxist into the Oval Office was a bad idea?
All of our political establishment, judiciary, and media are still protecting the The Usurper.
Native born is not Natural Born.
It won’t matter; no one has more contempt for the rule of law and the separation of powers than the Obama administration. As usual, they will ignore the ruling. And as usual, no one will stand up to them and do anything about t.
The epitome of a California conservative.
OK, so what will change because the Obama administration lost in court?
Absolutely nothing.
That’s why Obama needs to be hauled away in handcuffs. PERP WALK THIS GUY!
Much of what Obama wants to accomplish has been and will be done by his minions in charge of Federal agencies. Hearings to allow for public input are a sham.
They will all continue to monkey wrench our society one rule at a time in whatever manner they wish.
The only way they can be stopped, is in the Federal Courts, or by elections that result in the complete turnover of these Liberal puppets.
Love that!
Why did this even have to go to court? If the Obama administration has any interest in creating jobs, as they say they do, then this was a no brainer. This was a way to create jobs and SAVE money at the same time. All they had to do was remove unneeded regulations that were added against the will of Congress. But the only jobs they are interested in creating are the green ones that cost taxpayers $2 million per job.
In our phone book there are nearly three pages of Federal agencies and those are only the Departments and Bureaus. All the sub-units of those Bureaus, the committees and commissions are not included. Imagine what the phone book in Washington D. C. must look like.
The Federal government is so bloated, nobody has a handle on where our dollars are going and we all know there is a huge amount of waste there. And there are decisions being made at every level, every day, that may not be in our best interests, like those under Salazar’s watch.
Many of those agencies could be disbanded and their resposibilities turned over to the States, as well as the money to run them. Those dollars should be left for the States to collect in local taxes. The best government is local government.
Once established though, it’s almost impossible to disband a government effort of nearly any kind. That’s been one of the great failings of our government.
Budget constraints however, are beginning to force some of those kinds of decisions. We can hope for those efforts to continue regardless of who controls the White House.
I don’t hold out much hope for our current administration though. Maybe in 2013.
Legally, can “The Kenyan” be a traitor to the US?
And don’t call me Shirley.
Arnold was crammed down our throats by the national GOP establishment over native son and one of the best conservatives in the country, Tom McClintock who, unlike almost every Texas “all hat, not cattle” conservative, voted AGAINST the Boehner/McConnell/Obama debt cap surrender bill.
Van Jones lover and NY transplant Meg Whitman was crammed down our throats by Mitt Romney as a reward for her being his biggest individual financial contributor and for her efforts in raising money for him.
Austin Texas liberal Carly Fiorina was crammed down our throats over bona fide Chuck Devore by McCain/Palin.
Don’t spread your brain-dead Texas liberal lies while I’m around. We gave America Ronald Reagan and threw more “no” votes last week against the bipartisan debt ceiling surrender than did “conservative” and committed to open-borders TX. There are more conservatives and Republicans in CA than anywhere else.
The very same dirty globalist national establishment GOP interests that did this to CA are doing the exact same thing to Texas but you provincials are too stupid to see it. The DREAM Act only passed in CA a couple of weeks ago. The TX DREAM Act was passed in 2001 thanks to you “conservatives” GW Bush and his acolyte Rick Perry.
That is why Obama is going to win in 2012. The Republicans are too stupid to embrace conservatism and will instead, failing to co-opt the Tea Party, continue its war against us.
And please stop telling us that you are Tea Party. You are a RINO.
There should be no need for a dept of interior. How does this not violate the Constitution? The federal authority should not extend to saving wildlife, issuing permits for minerals rights or deciding what goes on in a state. If CA wants to corner the market on species preservation at the expense of jobs, then so be it. Meantime, Alaska should be able to drill what it wants, where it wants. Anyone not liking it can vote with their feet.
As for Salazar, he wouldn’t last long in the saddle either. No self-respecting horse would allow him to sit for long, before hitting the dirt.
Saladbar needs drummed out of office as soon as possible. Other than the resident, I’ve not known of an official less qualified for their position.
Here’s Bush41 declaring that Schwarzeneggar will be president some day while presenting Arnold an award during a lucrative fund raising swing through Texas in his gubernatorial campaign. Texas had a lot more to do about Arnold being our governor than CA did. We wanted Tom McClintock but we don’t have a Republican party in CA, just lots of conservatives and Republicans. Every time we run a successful campaign, the GOP establishment jumps in and defeats us. Every. Time.
Those are your friends txvet. Proud?
Sorry, here’s the link.
IMO the judge’s ruling has all the weight of a UN resolution. This bunch has a “what are you going to do about it” attitude.
I have no expectation of Salazar doing one thing different. Who is going to inforce the judge’s ruling; Eric Holder’s DOSJ/Ministry of Love?
Nothing will happen until Obama is gone.
He was elected by California voters, who, if you’re a representative example, rank among the stupidest in the country.
He was the only California “conservative” who did.
Whitman was selected by California Republican primary voters. I know you just hate it but it’s still the fact.
Fiorina, likewise, was selected by California primary voters. Facts are just such inconvenient things for a liar like you, aren’t they, Phil?
Phil, I’d be a fool to try to out-lie you. You do it for a living. You didn’t “give” us Ronald Reagan, in fact you probably voted third party then, too. (BTW, by your standards Reagan was too impure also, since he had been a Democrat at one time). As I recall, the only California Republican who voted against the debt ceiling was McClintock. If any of your Dems did it, it’s because they thought it wasn’t leftist enough. Some crutch for you to lean on. I don’t know why you think you can take credit for McClintock, anyway. Your US Representative (and both Senators, for that matter) is a liberal Democrat.
It was signed by the governor you helped elect.
Two more of your incredible reservoir of lies. I’ve never claimed to be “Tea Party”, although in general I support them. And I’ve also told you many times I’m not a Republican, even though I generally defend them against your lies. When are you going to admit that you’re a Libertarian isolationst in the Ron Paul nutbag mould?
Don’t forget, they did give us The Gipper too.
You can’t even write two sentences back-to-back without them contradicting each other. One more time: Not a single Texan voted for either Whitman or Fiorina (Hell, we ran her out of town – only Californians would be stupid enough to nominate her for anything after she screwed up the HP/CPQ merger).
That was back in the day when California actually had some conservatives – and I voted for him twice. He still wouldn’t be pure enough for Phil, though, since he had been a Democrat at one time. He was even a union leader!
The DOI has a valid role, but as with everything government, it inevitably expands well beyond that role in its quest for more power. That’s why you have to be willing to continue to fight past one or two elections. Americans have a bad tendency to get all excited about an issue, go out and elect a bunch of people who promise to do something about it, and then go back to sleep,, leaving everything up to the politicians. It always ends up with the politicians disappoint us.
There are also a lot of other very large agencies that serve no useful purpose at all that can be gotten rid of.
Ooops, didn’t see that was already covered. Didn’t mean to disrupt the two of you in your “Which State is the most conservative” argument. Carry on.
Was my bad, but don’t we have REAL libs to contend with? RINO’s certainly bite – a internal infection that eats us alive – but those that flaunt their “progressive” nature need to be eliminated first. At least in my humble opinion.
Yeah but, does anything actually happen from all these rulings?
I haven’t seen any real action.
I’m warning you, you better quit that!
Stop it right now!
I’m tellin’ you, you better stop!
Sigh!
txvet2,
Why specifically should the DOI be necessary?
That isn’t the argument. When you boil it down over the past year or so, he’s arguing that it’s better to elect Democrats and I’m arguing that he’s nuttier than a fruit cake.
Just off the top of my head, to administer the national parks and other government claimed lands (and indian affairs, too, if that’s part of Interior – I haven’t looked), border control, maybe customs, stuff like that.
It’s frustrating, but it’s the only way to keep it out in front of the public eye. There isn’t going to be any legal resolution until it reaches the Supreme Court, probably too late to affect the next election. But then, we’ve got plenty of reasons to want to get rid of Obama and his stooges already.
Since he was sworn in as president, Obama has been making decisions based on his vision of what the U.S. should be, not what it is. He has no respect for our rule of law because he sees himself as the head of our country under HIS rule only. He has been allowed to bring into his kingdom way too many supporters who are helping him take our country down.
yep. Barky is a legend in his own mind.
txvet2,
I would think that border security would be under homeland security by now. As for the DOI, looks like it should have been dropped as a cabinet position a long time ago. Too many appointees we associated with scandals. Still think that this dept is more into land grabs and managing things which it never should have controlled or at least shouldn’t be controlling now. Too many gov depts have gone from “managing” to forcefully “controlling”.
Ken Salazar is living proof that cowboy hats and Preparation H have something in common: sooner or later, they both end up atop assholes.
The Pres. and his team MUST be thrown out of office in 2012. I hope our Nation can survive until then
Quit a crowd.
Really? Stop embarrassing yourself. Speaking for myself, I’m sick of it. Grow up.
So don’t read it, dimwit.
The judge’s name is Nancy, not Shirley!
Why do i feel the uncontrollable urge to take an axehandle upside the head of every Interior Secretary who thinks he’s in touch with rural America by wearing a cowboy hat?
Meanwhile, events far more worthy of attention are occurring. The Gints are up 7 – zip.
He looks disconcertingly like Phil Gramm in that hat.
Should be “mock those words.”
Communism will go down, it will go down hard.
Choke off the supply of worker/taxpayer money and 80% of America’s problems vanish. Cut, Cap, Balance. Just 15% of GDP, no more.
Thanks for the advice and the name calling. Is that the best you have? I can assure you I’m no dimwit. Grow up. And build a fence like they did in California.
swede tells us Phil is a miracle worker when it comes to fencing
Yeah she is the wife of former Governor Dave Freudenthal (D-Wy). Obama appointed her as a favor to the support that he gave to Obama during the first two years of Barry’s administration.
The question to be asked is – Who benefits from the Sock Puppet/Ass Hat dictums?
On August 15th, 2011 at 9:10 am, stillontheroad said:
Answer:
Communist and Islamic countries, to whom we send mega-$$$ because we are kept dependent upon their oil exports to us.
If we love our freedom, we must love our own oil and natural gas.
Just think, had Boehner stood on the high ground and let the debt limit bet hit, entire agencies, like the interior dept could have been eliminated!
The GOP establishment wants bigger government as much as the Socialists, because it gives them power and money.
It’s not only necessary to throw out Obama but also his hired idiots like Salazar. Although it might be difficult to put them back under the same rock they crawled from under.
Exactly, which is why no one here should be fooled by any of the “they have to do it or they’ll lose swing voters” excuse-making.
Here the one about Evergreen Solar filing chapter 11? Yep, The ex-workers are saying evergreen received 75 million Tax Dollars and all they got was a pink Slip and a Poster saying Vote Obama!
When a Judge tosses Salazar or one of his senior underlings in jail then I’ll be impressed. Until then nothing is going to change.
OBamas’ America: Flash Mobs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHyug2PvpB8
Has D’Ohbama said a single word about this phenonenom?
Hope not.
It isn’t any of his damned business.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
But…but…what about all the poor Muslim convenience store owners being victimized.
I know, it’s all a part of the evil Tea Party plan.
This is what the Tea Party is really about.
Regardless of the 2012 outcome, we are likely to be stuck with a liberal nutbag Republican/Democrat. The Tea Party is about staying awake and taking control – NEVER leaving everything up to the politicians. Doing that is the MISTAKE that America has been making these last 100+ years. Stay active so the liberal nutbag – regardless of party – can’t do anything unconstitutional. FORCE that corruptocrat to do the right thing. It’s the staying back and letting the politicians do what they want that has trashed America.
Stay the course and use the force. That is what America and the Tea Party are about. Never mind who wins; just stay in that loser’s face until he does the right thing. The right thing is the Constitution.
THIS is why I believe the Founders’ America will win in the end. The Tea Party is gaining momentum, not losing it. Obama can stuff the ballot box all he wants – he will still have to answer to us in the end.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Is there anyone who will see anything come of all these court rulings against the Marxist in Chief?
Will ANYONE from his administration be doing a perp walk?
No, Eric Holder’s (in)Justice Department is the bulwark against all real justice.
The GOP showed how feckless they are by not objecting to a non-natural-born citizen being sworn in against the Constitution.