Fiorina: Team Obama ‘Asleep at the Switch’ on Oil Spill

June 16, 2010 06:15


In an exclusive Newsmax interview, former CEO and California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina says the Obama administration was “asleep at the switch” and failed to properly monitor offshore drilling activities. As the disaster grew, neither the administration nor the massive government regulatory bureaucracy was equipped to take charge.

By: Lawrence M. Walsh at Newsmax.com


The Obama administration was “asleep at the switch” and failed to properly monitor offshore drilling activities, then responded ineffectively as the scope of the oil spill in Gulf of Mexico emerged, California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina charged in an exclusive interview.

“I am stunned that we have visuals all of the time where it kind of looks like nothing is going on,” Fiorina told Newsmax. “You know, the last couple of pictures I have seen of President Obama walking along the beach looking at tar balls, it doesn’t look like a beehive of activity to me and I think those images are really troubling.”

President Obama’s 8 p.m. address to the nation Tuesday night will detail the administration’s response to the growing plume of oil fouling the Gulf.

Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, is seeking to unseat Democrat incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer.

In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Fiorina questioned the effectiveness of the administration’s clean-up response.

“It is the federal government’s responsibility to protect the shoreline and in this regard I think that the government has not demonstrated a lot of competence,” Fiorina said. “When we find out that there are 26 separate federal agencies involved in this, you know that’s not working well.

“You know that you have a series of bureaucracies that are not coordinating. When we hear that equipment that could be used to clean up the spill is sitting in warehouses the federal government isn’t doing an efficient and effective job. We have local officials begging for assistance and not getting it,” Fiorina said.

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