Strike Two: Judge Rejects Pres. Obama’s Drilling Ban Again
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 2, 2010
H/t to The Anchoress
Pres. Obama to Americans: 'You should be thanking me' | Graphic credit: The Anchoress
Like a tenacious little terrier with a blanket gripped in its teeth, Team Obama has tried again to stop US offshore drilling.
And again — strike two! — this second moratorium has been ruled against.
From Reuters, Judge rules against U.S. government on oil drilling:
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. government’s request to dismiss an industry lawsuit challenging its deepwater oil and gas drilling moratorium, dealing another blow to the Obama administration.
Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc and other drilling companies sued the administration on June 7 after it first ordered a halt to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following BP Plc’s well rupture that killed 11 workers and caused the world’s worst offshore oil spill.
As a result of Louisiana-based Hornbeck’s lawsuit, U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans blocked implementation of the drilling ban on June 22.
The Obama administration then issued a reworked second drilling moratorium and asked that the Hornbeck lawsuit be thrown out because the first ban was no longer relevant.
But in his 20-page ruling on Wednesday, Feldman said the administration’s new moratorium offered “no substantial changes” from the first one, and denied the motion to dismiss the Hornbeck lawsuit.
Michelle Malkin weighs in…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama job-killing machine get kicked in the ass one more time. They wanted federal judge Martin Feldman to dismiss the drillers’ lawsuit challenging their original moratorium. No dice.
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More scathing criticism for Salazar, via the WSJ:
Judge Feldman also noted that in crafting the second moratorium, Mr. Salazar appeared to have relied heavily on documents and data that he had at the time of the first moratorium order. “Nearly every statement in the July 12 decision memorandum is anticipated by documents in the May 28 record, or by documents that were otherwise available to the Secretary before May 28,” the judge said.
From Bloodthirsty Liberal, Drill, Barry, Drill:
I might have tried to pass off this crap as scholarship in college, but my Freshman Comp teacher would have kicked my a**.
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Professor Irwin Corey used to do a bit in his comedy routine. When asked why he wore tennis shoes he would say something like, “That’s a two-part question! ‘Why’ is a question that has plagued mankind since the beginning! From the moment primative man crawled from his cave, raised his gaze into the heavens and asked ‘why?’! Why the pyramids? Why the Colossus of Rhodes? Why are those giant heads on Easter Island? … To answer the second part of your question: ‘Do I wear tennis shoes?’ Yes!”
It sounds like the judge is not interested in why Ken Salazar wears tennis shoes.
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Frugal Café Blog Zone: Oil Spill Update: Obama’s 6-Month Ban on Deep-Water Drilling Overruled by Federal Judge, Says Government Offered No Proof That All Rigs Pose Similar Danger and Golf, Parties, Vacations, Fundraisers… Why Party-Boy Obama Took So Long to Respond to Catastrophic Oil Spill (video) and Pres. Obama’s Gloriously Inept Oil Spill Speech: Left-wing Pundits Ruthlessly Beat Up Obama on Disastrous, Asinine Speech (video)
Gateway Pundit: Thank Goodness, Obama Can Finally Rest– The Oil Well Is Dead and New Low For Boy Wonder… Obama Approval Sinks to 42% and Obama’s Industry Killing Policies Spark Protest By Fisherman Off Martha’s Vineyard Coast and The Disaster Continues… Obama’s Gulf Drilling Moratorium Has Cost At Least 23,000 Jobs and After Overturning Obama’s Drilling Moratorium Leftists Threaten to Kill Judge Feldman and Obama Administration Loses Bid to Keep Oil Drilling Ban and Breaking: Federal Judge Rules Against Obama’s Job-Killing Moratorium
New York Times: Judge Blocks Deep-Water Drilling Moratorium
Michelle Malkin: Breaking: Judge rules against Obamatorium on drilling; link to decision added; Interior Secy Salazar roasted
Bloomberg: Deepwater Drilling Ban Lifted by New Orleans Federal Judge
Nice Deb: Video: FL Sen. George LeMieux: “Where are the Skimmers?” and “America’s Putin” and The BP Oil Spill Escrow Fund and The President thinks we’re stupid… and The Flailing President
Motor City Times: Oil Spill Is Now An Excuse For Democrats Green Energy Agenda
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Rhetoric that makes me see red — or brown shirts
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