That’s Gonna Leave a Mark
Especially if this is the first in a series, if rumors are true:
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Especially if this is the first in a series, if rumors are true:
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Tags: BP oil spill
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Dang! Smack that anus from Texas around. So glad to see a quick response by the DNC.
Shouldn’t the disclaimer be “Republican Representative Joe Barton is responsible for the content of this advertisement”?
Republicans will never stop kissing the butt of big business because they are owned by big business, they do not support the people who vote for them, they support the people who finance them.
Barton should have kept his mouth shut for political reasons, but to be fair, this was a Chicago style shake down.
fbh,
You can go and apologize to BP at:
http://apologizetobp.com/
The rest of us can go and have a good laugh.
And with the repetition of that particular talking point, fbh show us that his constant protests that he doesn’t get his news from FOX Noise is a lie.
The fact that Obama got BP to agree to this is pretty remarkable. And fairly jaw-dropping that BP added in 100mil for compensation for the moratorium. But US pollution law operates on the principle that the Polluter Pays and the GOP has been working at undoing that for the entire life of laws like Superfund or even the various spill laws and regs. And beyond all of this, BP itself has been everywhere committing and recommitting to pay. Yet somehow getting them to start paying and putting in place an orderly way to do that (without taxpayer funds so far) is supposed to be a Bad Thing.
Obama is putting all of the blame on bp in order to deflect all of the responsibility for any damages away from his administrations inaction.
Of course bp is responsible for the clean up, but so is our government.
The oil well was inspected, and all the licenses and permits were granted by our government. If you own property, and rent to a business, the property owner still takes responsibility for the property. It’s in the property owners best interest, and just because the people that rent from you, screwed up doesn’t mean you don’t have a moral, and legal responsibility for damages. It’s a partnership.
Go have your “good laugh” Rebecca
fbh,
The government inspects your car too, but that doesn’t mean its the governments fault when you have an accident.
Lax regulation is part of the problem – blame Bush for that. But thanks, Republicans, for admitting that we need more regulation and not less.
BP is the one who ignored safety warnings and violated regulations all in the name of making a buck.
Why is the government responsible for BP’s mess? FBH, you want a government bailout of BP?
The MMS does not inspect the well and relies on the operator or owner to certify that the blowout preventer is in place and it works. Which is the core of the entire problem — MMS relies on lots of owner self-certifications and approves that, not a real physical inspection. BP has made legal certifications for their wells that they could handle spills of 250K barrels per day — a clear falsehood. BP had a cleanup plan (as does all of the other owners and operators), but if you’ve been following the hearings none of them are especially adequate. But I’m astonished that you would find anything wrong with this — *this* lax oversight is precisely what government getting out of the way of business looks like.
I’m with you though if you are advocating a much more rigorous inspection and approval regime for these rigs and their wells. And for the hiring of the right type of technical expertise to put into MMS and the Coast Guard to oversee this in a much more rigorous fashion. And I think that the oil industry should pay for this inspection regime as well as the occasional drilling (as in practice) of their cleanup plans. But I suspect you don’t want the industry to get more oversight — you just want to indulge in more the GOP habit of socializing private business losses.
Exactly, Cassandra. GOP critics can’t ever name anything more that Obama should be doing, except for more running around like a chicken with his head cut off.
Well, according to one Democrat strategist, he could be doing more.
James Carville said,
“The President of the United States could’ve come down here, he could’ve been involved with the families of these 11 people” who died on the rig after an explosion, Carville said on ABC’s Good Morning America. “He could be commandeering tankers and making BP bring tankers in and clean this up. They could be deploying people to the coast right now. He could be with the Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard…doing something about these regulations. These people are crying, they’re begging for something down here, and it just looks like he’s not involved in this.”
No one has seen Carville in tyveks with a rake, either. And Carville is in the “there’s gotta be magic for this” camp. There isn’t.
And it is plenty rich for Carville to be calling on the Corps of Engineers given his attitude towards them when the levees blew. But hey — notwithstanding that the Corps doesn’t have any cleanup magic for this thing, you would want the people who couldn’t quite build adequate levees, the people who approved of the massive destruction of the wetlands there via approval of all of those pipelines and who specifically engineered the flow of the Mississippi so that these wetlands would be deprived of their traditional nourishment to be in charge of cleaning this up. Right.
But I note that you’ve abandoned your apologia for BP.
A 20 Billion $ shakedown ? Give me a break !! Chicken feed.
I wonder how the blame game will sound when the first nuke “Blows” $130 BILLION damages Salem 1 $135 BILLION Salem 2. Look it up
http://www.ccnr.org/crac.html
Thousands dead, thousands sick. Medical care expense and long time care not included…
The finger pointing must be something to behold
Hi, Frieda – Windmills rock.
Miscreant, if you look up “Delaware Politics” they say Windmills kill birds and damage the environment and will be hard to dispose of !!!
LOL
I told them melting down old wind mills will be a lot better environmentally then taking care of Nuclear waste for thousands of years… Go figure !!!
Windmills have been pumping water and grinding grain for centuries, and producing electricity for decades.
“… they say Windmills kill birds and damage the environment and will be hard to dispose of !!!.”
I have every confidence that the birds will adjust, and that windmills are certainly no harder to dispose of than… cars, coal generators, the freight cars that haul the coal, etc.
I have more faith in the viability of the windmills designed for the individual homesteads and small businesses, than the massive wind turbines that I have seen dotting the landscape in NY, PA, and in the Midwest.
In fact, I know wind and solar are the hope of the future. One thing that bolsters that opinion is the fact that the travel trailer (Airstream) that I bought 5 years ago has a solar panel on the top to recharge the batteries.
It was made by BP, and carries the familiar BP logo.
I first noticed it as I was knocking the snow off of it after the blizzard this past winter. It indicates to me that when these jackholes have a backup plan after they drain every drop of petroleum from the planet.
Unfortunately, I understand they have since closed their plant in Ohio, and are now producing them in India and China.
Those assholes.
At “Delaware Politics” they think off shore wind mills are giant steam driven fans that create wind.
At Delaware Politics they claim to represent the “center-right,” but if they sailed any further to the right they’d fall off the edge of the flat Earth they think Jesus created 6,000 years ago, right after he masturbated and dribbled out Christine O’Donnell.