Commentary: Where's oil expert Dick Cheney when we need him?

[babylonsister]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/18/96077/commentary-wheres-oil-expert-dick.html

Commentary: Where's oil expert Dick Cheney when we need him?

By Bob Ray Sanders | Fort Worth Star-Telegram


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But of all the people seen and heard regarding the disaster, one person is conspicuously absent and notably quiet.

Has anyone seen Dick Cheney?

Where has the former vice president been these last two months? After all, his No. 1 goal when entering office in 2001 was to fashion a new energy policy for the nation, remember?

So where is the man who, during the first month after being sworn in, was having private White House meetings with oil company executives? Could he be in one of those undisclosed locations?

Last year and earlier this year, Cheney didn't hesitate to speak out about President Barack Obama's handling of the "war on terrorism," suggesting that the man who succeeded George W. Bush had made us "less safe."

Surely this energy expert can offer suggestions on how to "plug the hole." After all, he was head of Halliburton, one of the largest oilfield services companies in the world. And that company was doing work on the BP well that exploded and collapsed into the Gulf, creating heartbreaking calamity.

It's strange we haven't heard a peep out of him on this one.

Many feel his administration's coziness with the oil and energy companies led to lax regulations and very well may have contributed to this environmental disaster. I certainly hold that view.

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Just as we have to clean up the mess in the Gulf, we also have to clean up the mess in Washington that for years — thanks to people like Dick Cheney — basically allowed big energy companies to make their own rules.

[bdamomma]

1. I think everyone is wondering where that 'Dick" is.

his fingerprints are all over this.

[Blue Owl]

2. Every day he's silent, the admission of guilt seems that much bigger

n/t

[caledesi]

10. Agree...the dick, Cheney has *suddenly* disappeared...not good. nt

[jobycom]

3. I think he jumped into Pakistan and is hunting Usama bin Laden with a machette and an automatic 9.

I think. he did say he wouldn't rest until UBL was caught, didn't he?

[Deep13]

4. Well, if this could be fixed by shooting someone in the face....nt

[calimary]

5. dick cheney is the Joran van der Sloot of American politics.

Whenever something's really gone wrong, you can bet cheney's got a horse in that race, somehow or other. A whole slew of crises we've faced since the start of this millennium can be traced directly back to him, whether it's the theft of the White House in 2000, the Iraq War, "never letting a crisis go to waste" - like 9/11 for one thing, rolling back as many regulations as possible wherever he found them, and of course that sneaky-ass "energy task force" of his, in which the oil barons were allowed to write all the new rules and regs, and "regulators" were either under-funded or downgraded or laid off or replaced by the wink-wink, nudge-nudge crony kind.

[damntexdem]

6. For that matter, where's oil-shill Darth Cheney when we don't need him?

But if he knew how to plug holes, we wouldn't have been hearing anything from him since Obama's election.

[opihimoimoi]

7. The GOP is to blame...they supported Cheney into office along w the dummest prez ever

Its now obvious Cheney is an evil dude....fuck Country...he is for big profits...

He should face a Trial in court.....

[wizstars]

8. yeah, he could plug the d&%$ hole

that would be the one good use for him. I think he'd fill it just nicely. And he'd be out of our hair down there.

If he doesn't plug it, we could cap it with his %$&* mouth--and just pump all the oil out of his ass.

I support that plan!

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[ladywnch]

11. I've been wondering the same thing. he sent his daughter out so he

could hide behind her skirts.

He dodged the draft 4 times because he was a coward and he still is!