Tony Hayward at the races
Big kerfuffle over BP CEO Tony Hayward spending the weekend at the Yacht races off the Isle of Wight.
Same weekend,
Obama and Biden spend golfing and not a peep.
From
HotAir:
(story from
Reuters)
Rahm Emanuel hits BP chief for attending yacht race � while Obama and Biden golf
The White House renewed its sharp criticism of BP Plc CEO Tony Hayward after he attended a yacht race off the English coast on Saturday as his company struggles to plug its huge Gulf of Mexico oil leak.
�This has just been part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes,� White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said in an interview taped for ABC�s �This Week� week program, referring to Hayward.
Sheila Williams, a spokeswoman for the British energy giant, said Hayward attended the boat race at the Isle of Wight, saying he was spending some time with his teenage son after devoting most of the past two months away from family.
Hayward had just spent most of the last two months on site monitoring the situation. To top it off, he had just been relieved of his duties concerning the spill cleanup that previous Friday.
Obama didn't even mention the spill for eight days and has dithered and sent in lawyers, had the Coast Guard stop skimmer ships, failed to temporarily suspend the Jones Act so foreign owned and operated ships could come to our aid (Bush did this during the Katrina cleanup). The only technologies being used by the Federal Government are those that are deployed from union shops. The miles of absorbent boom in Maine and Louisiana -- sorry -- non-union shop...
Posted by DaveH at June 19, 2010 8:07 PM