November 12, 2007
Dianne Feinstein Fit To Be Tied Over Oil Spill
Well spun, Dianne.
Looking to use the oil spill to get some much needed face time -- perfect for balancing out other less savory images of the Senator -- Dianne Feinstein flew to San Francisco yesterday to put her foot down about the Bay Area's "disturbing lack of readiness" to the oil spill.
"It's pretty clear cities around the bay should have been brought in faster than they were," she said, according to the Chronicle. She also diva'd in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that a "full and expedited investigation into the cause of the accident, as well as the Coast Guard's response." (The rookie crew of the Cosco Busan is currently being held for questioning, according to NBC 11.) She'll be meeting with him today to discuss "communications and preparedness systems in the Bay Area."
In related news, Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to visit the area and speak out today about the spill today.
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Yeah, well I don't see DiFi really doing anything in her job as Senator that will really prevent this kind of thing in the future...but hey she's posturing and that's lovely.
Personally I'm beginning to wonder if this so called accident really should be considered an act of terrorism - it's really f*cked up the Bay pretty good, and it's really exposed how unprepared the entire Bay Area is for a real disaster.
God help us when the quake comes.
Hey Diane, why not write to your Senator? I believe it's congress that's ultimately responsible for all these agencies.
It doesn't look like we'll be getting much federal disaster funding.
Di wasn't holding Bush's arm in the picture this time.
One of the ways Oil corporations convince Americans that oil is the best energy source available is by insisting that current technologies guarantee the safest, cleanest, and most secure means for drilling and transporting oil. The public relations machine run by oil companies is so smooth, it has been successful at staving off government investment in renewable energy technologies, auto industry investment in more efficient automobiles, and attempts to block drilling in America's most serene natural habitats. Again and again we are all duped by this enormously powerful industry that acts as the perpetual victim while reaping the world's largest revenues in history.
http://greenpieceblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/oil-spills-on-2-coasts.html
She may be the only local politician who I seriously, personally despise. She's an authoritarian schoolmarm filled with self-righteousness who has been a disaster for most of her constituents during her entire career. Her recent buddy-buddy moment with our criminal president was just yet another sickening example of her delightful values. Plus, she has a crook for a husband who hasn't seen a pot of public money that he didn't try to get a cut from, including Iraq construction money and California pension funds.
And she's lecturing who, exactly?
I can only echo SFMike's comment.
Plus she has a bad hairdo, and wears the same god damned pearls all the time.
She probably has plastic coverings on her furniture, and pays the servants minimum wages.
I'm surprised she hasn't proposed a Senate bill giving immunity to the pilot and COSCO, and indemnifying all the companies involved.
The potential liabilities aren't small and I doubt she would want her corporate friends to be operating in such an uncertain legal climate. If it's good enough for the telecoms...
This is all Dan White's fault.
Ha ha, yeah theo:
"Oil companies should not be held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about commercial activities."