Zombie Senators
No matter what happens, Southern Republcans are as predictable as buzzards returning to Hinckley, Ohio.
Sean Reilly reports” Alabama, Mississippi senators push for easing of drilling moratorium
WASHINGTON — Gulf Coast senators are pressing federal regulators to resume processing permits for off-shore drilling in shallow waters, saying that a moratorium imposed earlier this month is too broad.
In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today, the lawmakers said that shallow-water wells mostly involve “natural gas resources with less environmental risks, and these wells are drilled in predictable and mature reservoirs.”
If the moratorium, which was imposed earlier this month in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is not lifted soon, most of the approximately 57 shallow-water rigs in the gulf “will be unable to work,” the letter states.
The letter was released late this afternoon by Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Oxford, who signed it along with the state’s other senator, Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo. The remaining eight signers include Alabama Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, and Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, according to an accompanying news release.
It’s an election year and the scum wants to get their campaign cash. They just don’t care that oil companies have destroyed the economy of the Gulf Coast, once bought, they stay bought.
