The Lawless Obama Regime Relents On Gulf Oil Exploration

A law unto itself, the Obama regime destroyed tens of thousands of Gulf Coast jobs, made the US more reliant on foreign crude oil and further impoverished a struggling nation. 

Finally, a tiny bit of oil drilling will be allowed. Oh thank you Lord Obama the most merciful one!

Ken Salazar can no longer avoid issuing deep-water drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico. Though the secretary of the interior recently said he would not bow to political pressure on lifting the de facto drilling moratorium in the gulf, rumors that he would crack under that pressure were confirmed Monday evening when the first deep-water permit since the BP oil spill was issued.

Prior to the announcement that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) had approved a permit for Noble Energy’s oil well off the coast of Louisiana, rumors were circulating on Capitol Hill that the de facto moratorium would be lifted prior to Salazar’s appearance on the Hill later this week.

Frank Maisano, a consultant at Bracewell & Giuliani, told The Daily Caller that a decision by Salazar to issue a permit this week was a “lock.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/01/interior-secretary-salazar-cracks-under-pressure-and-begins-issuing-gulf-of-mexico-drilling-permits/#ixzz1FM2mZu2o