Get Ahead of the Curve, Obama -- Look at Other Agencies Too

[ArcticFox]

There are so many allegations of misconduct at the Department of the Interior relating to the BP situation that one could get caught up in it without seeing the bigger picture.

But the bigger picture is essential to understand for our future well-being. It would also make a great talking point:

Yes, the Interior Department situation is bad, but it is just one of many departments that were corrupted under the previous administration to serve the very industries they were intended to regulate for the benefit of the American people.

The Obama Administration, Democrats, and anyone who believes our government should belong to us, rather than a few giant corporations, should be doing everything they can to fix EVERY agency and every department NOW, before the next disaster.

[Cant trust em]

1. Good point. This is going to take a long time. nt

[Kingofalldems]

7. kick

[jwirr]

2. I seem to remember that many of us on DU were suggesting one

of the first things he should do after he was elected. There are a lot of leftovers from the booosh years.

[glitch]

8. Quite a few of us had our hair on fire over it.

Even if Obama was too personally busy handling the economic and military catastrophes he inherited, he could have appointed qualified secretaries to oversee the cleanup of their departments, but instead he hired corporate stooges.

He must have thought it was practical to hire corporate stooges to manage this country, I sure as hell hope he rethinks that ideology now.

[jwirr]

14. Agreed. I support him but he is just so easy going and trusting that

it hurts.

[glitch]

15. So was Neville Chamberlain. History has not been kind...nt

[terrapinwelcher]

3. That's Fine

But why is everyone so quick to absolve the CEO of any blame? I know that when 9/11 happened on Bush's watch, we were quick to defend Clinton when the repugs tried to blame everything on Clinton's intelligence team and Clinton holdovers. We can't have it both ways. Seriously people, our principles need to be a little higher than "Our guy good -- Your guy bad".

[Kingofalldems]

4. Don't like Obama too much do you?

[terrapinwelcher]

5. I Don't Like His Performance to Date

Tell me why Gitmo is still open, why we are lobbing drone missiles at innocents and have put an American citizen on a hit list. Tell me why Obama continues the failed policies of Bush/Cheney and royally effs up with this BP thing and gets a pass? Do you have any principle higher than "Dem good -- repug bad"? We rightly railed on Bush for what happened with Katrina and now nearly everyone wants to give Obama a Get Out of Jail Free card for BP? If our principles are so shallow, we will continue to be served crap on a platter and be told that it's pudding.

[Kingofalldems]

6. BP was responsible--don't know how Obama is

although that is a right wing meme lately. BTW, you seem familiar, have you been here before?

[depakid]

10. Fact is the agency's problems were well known- and not dealt with

[glitch]

9. Welcome to DU! Don't let the soft bigotry of low expectations turn you away.

Some of us here still do hold President Obama to Democratic standards.

[Kingofalldems]

12. That guy you responded to is gone

He was a returning formerly tombstoned freeper.

[glitch]

13. Really now. I guess I'll have to take my entire post back, won't I? nt

[applegrove]

11. Bush chose to not respond to Katrina quickly because they were all

about teaching America how not to feel empathy and they thought they could count on Americans to behave in that manner they had taught. They were wrong. Americans expected their government to act decisively in a crisis.