<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Judge who struck down Obama's Deepwater Drilling Moratorium holds Interior Department in Contempt<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/judge-who-struck-down-obamas-deepwater-drilling-moratorium-holds-interior-department-in-contempt/> *Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| February 3, 2011 at 5:00 AM | Tags: deepwater drilling moratorium<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=deepwater-drilling-moratorium>, drilling ban <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=drilling-ban>, Interior Department <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=interior-department>, Ken Salazar <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=ken-salazar>, President Obama <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=president-obama>, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=u-s-district-judge-martin-feldman>| Categories: Political Issues <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?category_name=political-issues>| URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4l6
The Obama regime does not like the Judiciary branch of government. The federal judge that stuck down Obama's deepwater drilling moratorium (it was struck down twice) holds the Interior Department in contempt. Guess who gets stuck with paying the oil companies' attorney fees? The taxpayers. ABCNews.com <http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12827405> reports: *The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling after the Gulf oil spill held the Interior Department in contempt Wednesday, and ordered the federal agency to pay attorneys' fees for several offshore oil companies.* The taxpayers will foot this bill created by the Obama regime. We must also remember that Interior Dept. Secretary, Ken Salazar, changed the expert's report<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/more-fraud-from-obama-experts-claim-obama-white-house-misrepresented-views-of-experts-to-justify-drilling-moratorium/>to make it look as if they agreed with the Obama regime's moratorium. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman chided the department for its "*dismissive conduct"* after he overturned the agency's decision to halt any new permits for deepwater projects and suspend drilling on 33 exploratory wells after the Deepwater Horizon blast, which killed 11 workers and triggered the massive spill. After Feldman overturned the government's moratorium in June, the agency issued a second nearly identical suspension. *"Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government's contempt of this court's preliminary injunction order," he wrote.* Continue reading>>> <http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12827405> Add a comment to this post<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/judge-who-struck-down-obamas-deepwater-drilling-moratorium-holds-interior-department-in-contempt/#respond> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/16684/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/16684/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/16684/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/16684/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/16684/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/16684/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/16684/> [image: WordPress] WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/> | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com>| Unsubscribe<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com&b=yki8b5ZN%7C%3Df1%26fwCowhDC%5B%26_%7ChFTxWoyo%7C%7CNIwM8>| Reach out to your own subscribers with WordPress.com.<http://wordpress.com/signup/?ref=email> *Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser:* http://subscribe.wordpress.com -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
