Michael Brown is still not backing down from his claim that President Obama is playing politics with the Gulf Coast oil spill, saying last night that the administration wants “to use a crisis like this to shut down oil and gas drilling.”Brown had said on Fox News on Monday that Obama delayed his response to the spill out of “pure politics,” and so he could “pander to the environmentalists” on offshore drilling “and say, ‘I’m gonna shut it down because it’s too dangerous.'”
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