Shakedown? How About Shut It Down?

I am continuously and repeatedly disgusted by the right wing of politics in America.

Shakedown? A 6-month moratorium on drilling is unwarranted?

All right folks, as soon as one of these blowhards figures out how to STOP THE GUSHER BP HAS VISITED ON US, then, and only then, can they talk about how any response thus far is the wrong one. As far as I see it, BP assured the Federal government that it, BP, had not only the equipment and manpower, but also the know-how to stop any disaster, BEFORE they were granted permission to start drilling this well.

Apparently they lied, just like they lied initially about the volume of oil spewing into the Gulf.

And from what I can tell, NONE of the other major or minor oil companies has a single clue how to stop this ongoing disaster.

As far as I am concerned, until someone can come up with a fix for this present problem, we need to have an open ended moratorium.

The claptrap I hear from Fox, Limbaugh, Beck, and all the other conservative voices is the rumbling of traitors as far as I am concerned. That Joe Barton, an elected representative of the American people would even CONSIDER apologizing to BP is, in my mind, the epitome of traitorism, and he should be shot by a firing squad for that offense. The folks who defend not only him, but also BP, should stand beside him for the next round of fire.

It seems to be quite in fashion for networks such as Fox to criticize President Obama’s response to this "spill", but not one single one of those critics has any idea what to do.

Joe Barton doesn’t want to live in a country where BP can be made to pay for its monumental screw up. I don’t want to live in a country where a corporation, foreign OR domestic, can be allowed to skate on such a maneuver.

And then these folks say that our government doesn’t have the right to make BP pay. Really? I know for a fact that if I am driving down the road and, for whatever reason, I lose control of my vehicle and take out a utility pole, I WILL be forced to pay to replace that pole. I don’t see any difference here.

Please, I know at least one of the folks that reads this has some way of spinning this situation where BP is some kind of victim here. Spin it for me. Please.

Maybe it will be one of the folks that are against regulation of any kind, asserting that, without regulation, companies will self-police and regulate themselves. Like BP did in this situation. Though, since these same folks seem to blame the regulators’ lack of regulating for this screw up, I don’t think I can take them seriously anyway.

Then, on the moratorium, we have folks asserting that, if there were a plane crash, the government wouldn’t shut down the entire industry while they figured out what went wrong. First, a plane crash involves only the folks on the plane and any unfortunates on the ground that happen to get landed on.

Second, anyone who had a ticket to fly on an airplane leaving an American airport at, say, 3pm on 9-11-2001: how’d that work out for you?