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Americans have two toxic, spreading slicks that must be cleaned up. One is in the Gulf where we are haunted by pictures of a never-ending flow of oil. The other uncapped gusher, of even more dangerous toxins, is in Washington and flows from a broken pipe out of the Obama White House. This toxin is going to be even harder to clean up.
While most Americans’ attention is focused on the oil-spill tragedy unfolding off the shores of Louisiana, back in Washington, Team Obama is pressing forward, determined not to waste this crisis and use it to instill fear in...
Obama and the Gulf: Two Toxic Gushers
Did you know:
* Statistical measures of offshore safety performance improved significantly throughout the Bush years.
* Ditto the drilling well blowout incident rate.
* Bush-era internal investigations led to significant improvement in ethics throughout the organization.
* The Bush Administration increased royalty rates on new leases for the first time in recent memory.