One Of The First Things The GOP Should Investigate

When the Republicans take over in January, one of the first orders of business is to investigate the Obama's administration's handling of the oil spill crisis in The Gulf of Mexico and specifically, the drilling ban that was put in place by the Obama administration. This is a soap opera story that includes disaster, fraud, lies, jealousy and the middle finger stuck into the eyes oil companies and oil workers, that has caused the loss of 10,000's of jobs.
From Michelle Malkin: I’ve been covering Loathsome Cowboy/job-killer Ken Salazar’s ongoing corruption of science and environmental policy at the Interior Department for you extensively here. He has largely escaped mainstream scrutiny. But with a new House GOP majority and independent watch dogs on his tail, he may finally get the lasting ass-kicking he deserves.
As you’ll recall, Salazar and his minions were roasted by federal courts in June and July for fudging data and misrepresenting and contradicting what Obama-appointed scientists recommended regarding the administration’s deepwater drilling ban. In September, the courts again rejected the drilling ban before the White House finally relented in an election-season feint.
He refused to acknowledge his deception and instead strolled into a federal oil spill commish meeting and did this:
Undaunted, Salazar conjured up a “revised” moratorium rubber-stamped by oil spill czar Michael Bromwich, who sheepishly admitted that the new ban was “roughly congruent with the original moratorium.”
The sham changes would permit some drilling rigs to re-start operations – but only under onerous, fantasyland testing conditions that industry leaders say would be virtually impossible to meet. In short, Salazar’s “new” moratorium is a lot like Salazar himself: All hat, no cattle....
Now, the Interior Department inspector general has officially confirmed what whistle-blowing scientists exposed this summer. Salazar and the Obama eco-radicals doctored their moratorium report to mislead the public. Whose fingerprints were all over the lies?
Carol Browner, again.
The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report.
In the wee hours of the morning of May 27, a staff member to White House energy adviser Carol Browner sent two edited versions of the department report’s executive summary back to Interior. The language had been changed to insinuate the seven-member panel of outside experts – who reviewed a draft of various safety recommendations – endorsed the moratorium, according to the IG report obtained by POLITICO…
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/10/confirmed-obama-job-killlers-salazar-browner-lied-about-drilling-ban-rationale/

Obviously, the Attorney General will not investigate this because Eric Holder's sleeps in Obama's bed when Michelle is not around. (figuratively speaking, of course)
So, it will be up to GOP to investigate this fraud that Browner and Salazar and their staffs have perpetrated.
But then again, there are so many other problems the GOP needs to investigate, but this case should be on the top of the list.