Memo to Tom Carper: Asking tough questions of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico does not suddenly make you a tree-hugging hippie on the subject.
As a ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, wasn’t it your responsibility to ask these questions BEFORE anything terrible like the BP oil spill happened?
If we had it Carper’s way, we could have had oil rigs off the coast of Delaware. On this issue, he’s to the right of Republican Governor Chris Christie.