1st there is no cap on money amounts from a deep water well, look it up!! the cap is for a leaking tanker kind of thing. Barton recieved over 1.8 millon in support for his campaign from big oil so that suprises me NOT!!. Just the facts man... We as a nation are doomed to fall sooner than later if this **** keeps up. It's all about the almighty buck, well when there is nothing left or no place to spend it we can always burn it for fuel.....

 

You're dead right about that. The world wants oil, so companies will do whatever they can to provide. And when they're prohibited from doing what they want, they'll do what they can... even if it's not the smartest or safest thing to do.

- NCSU

 

It is also about he almighty buck in the fact that the conservatives do not want to give it up to help their fellow man.

It is why individual is stressed so much more then team in this life.

 

There is a place for team and a place for taking care of yours and your own. But, what has tha staement go to do with Barton's speech?

 

i agree 100% i know "**** happens"

 

It's certainly intersting to see BP getting ALL the blame so far and Barry O stressing British Petroleum at every opportunity, when it hasn't been called that for the last 10 years.

Always good to deflect the blame somewhere else

 

I know it was an accident, but you can't help but think if they cut corners to gain profit and in return..."major disaster". I think it is a great possibility.

 

I see nothing wrong with what he said. Barton spoke the truth about it being a Government shakedown. That's all it was.

 

completely agree with you. possibly his motivation for saying what he said was political, but what he said was dead on

 

Ummmm hate to point out the obvious but he is a Congressman, they serve a two year term. This is an even number year so EVERY Congressman is up for re-election, flush all 435 of them.

His point was that barry is running a scam. He waited weeks to even make a cameo appearance there to act like he cares. What he is really doing is pushing his Socialist agenda, bashing corporations and selling cap & trade.

 

The slush fund that Barry won with the public opinion polls is illegal, and sets a very bad precedent (legal or not).

 

Making them put up the money was a smart thing to do. Look at Exxon...they fought kicking and screaming and screwed everyone up there in Alaska with a drunk driving shipping vessel. If anyone should have hung it is them. If we fail to learn from our mistakes we are doomed to repeat them.

The GOP is so deep in bed with big oil that I am surprised the rest had the guts to chastise Barton.

Yes it was a disaster but their greed caused them to keep going even though they knew something was wrong. Don't feel sorry for British Petroleum them just because they were drilling in the gulf. They chose to go there and this is what happens.

As far as BP/British Petroleum...that is who they are. KFC is Kentucky Fried Chicken too. The reality is that while they are a multi-national company they have strong ties to GB and there is nothing wrong with referencing it.

We can blame anyone we want to but the reality is that initially BP said they could handle it. The president is not an oil man and wasn't going to go to the bottom of the gulf and cap the well himself. What do you expect him to do? When it became crystal clear that BP was bumbling this then he stepped in. You can only do damage control now and make them fix it. You can't turn back time nor can you "quick fix it".

 

I wish I had your ignorance or optimism... I'm not sure which it is.

Again, tell me how the US gov't has the power to dictate financial business practices to a foreign company?

It's your attitude of "If anyone should have hung" that drags our country down. It's all part of the sue happy BS way of thinking that some people love. They want something for nothing, or way more than they deserve. Why hang anyone? Why would you want destroy the companies that fuel our lives. I suppose we should all boycott BP and start buying from Chavez instead. I'm sure all his oil drilling operations are 100% safe, clean and no risk of the money finding its way into the hand of extremist groups.

I kinda think that if the country wasn't in the crapper, and if we didn't have a POTUS who was essentially worthless, this spill wouldn't big as big of an issue. As things are, there are alot of pissed off people on the left (maybe because their Hope and Change turned out to be Smoke and Mirrors) and on the right (cuz so many idiots voted in 2008) that everyone needs to vent. It's easy to pour your anger on BP, but it doesn't help any.

If you want to talk about bumbling the clean up? How about the other day when the US Coast Guard shut down ships that were collecting spilled oil because the CG could not verify if those ships had life preservers on them. How many gov't agencies are down there "helping" the clean up? Who's in charge? When was the last time the gov't did anything better than the private sector (military aside).

Or what about the POTUS's long term plan for oil? "A huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we're forced to use less." Awesome.

- NCSU

 

typical liberal.

 

do you work for free?