Remember Dubya's approach to regulation? More specifically, how he'd appoint former industry insiders to positions in charge of regulating their former industries? Many of us bitched about it, and rightly so.  Time to start bitchin' again:

To shape the government's long-term response to the Gulf oil calamity, President Obama recently formed an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the origins of the leak and BP's efforts to control it.  Yet one of the commission's two co-directors, former EPA chief William K. Reilly, sits on the board of directors of the oil giant ConocoPhillips and the chemical company Dupont, which supplies goods and services to the oil industry.

Now, putting aside the fact that Obama still hasn't gotten rid of a lot of the abysmal Bush appointees, is there something really wrong with this picture?  And it's not the first time he's done this:

Now, Reilly is not the first Obama appointee with direct ties to the oil industry. Indeed, two former BP execs now occupy high posts within, respectively, the Department of Energy and the Minerals Management Service. In March 2009, the president named  BP's chief scientist, Steve Koonin, to the post of undersecretary of science to the Department of Energy. The pick drew little criticism within green circles at the time — perhaps because at BP, Koonin's role was evidently to take the oil giant "beyond petroleum."

Then there's Sylvia V. Baca, whom Obama tapped last summer to serve as deputy administrator for land and minerals management at the now-infamous Minerals Management Service. As Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard reported  last week, Baca had spent her previous eight years as a BP exec.

So we have the man in charge of BP's greenwashing campaign in an upper lever position at the DOE, a former BB exec at the MMS,  and now this. A quick peek around left-blogistan reveals nothing but the sound of crickets. This is really getting tiresome, and in light of the oil disaster, downright dangerous. Where’s the accountability?