Judge Holds Obama Administration in Contempt

Well, why should he be any different than any of the rest of us?

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 it to pay attorneys' fees for several offshore oil companies. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman chided the agency for its "dismissive conduct" after he overturned its decision to halt 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 he overturned the moratorium in June, the agency issued a second nearly identical suspension.

To this day not a single new permit for offshore drilling has been issued, and gas prices continue to rise.