Politics and religion.

[Lady's Human]

Speaking of morons in Politics, check out this bozo..........

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...own.php?ref=tn

Bozo? What Bozo. The Bozo is the one doing the shakedown.

Oil companies pay MMS a tax per barrel of oil which is supposed to be set aside (where have we heard that term before.....lockbox sound familiar?) for use in cleaning up spills.

They are already paying for spill cleanup.....now it's not enough, so the US Govt is going to "put their boot on the neck" of BP to correct Congressional errors?

I'd be investigating Congress to find out what they did with all the spill cleanup money they squandered.

[Lady's Human]

http://www.uscg.mil/npfc/About_NPFC/osltf.asp

TO quote the above site:

Uses of the Fund

With the consolidation of these funds and the collection of a tax on the petroleum industry, the Fund increased to $1 billion. Fund uses were delineated by OPA to include:

* Removal costs incurred by the Coast Guard and EPA
* State access for removal activities;
* Payments to federal, state, and Indian tribe trustees to conduct natural resource damage assessments and restorations;
* Payment of claims for uncompensated removal costs and damages;
* Research and development; and
* Other specific appropriations.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 increased the maximum size of the Fund to $2.7 billion.





Given they know what Valdez has cost and will cost, I think Congress dropped the ball in not increasing the size of the "fund" beyond $2.7B........but wait.......there was no fund:

WALL STREET JOURNAL: “Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell Of Kentucky Said Tuesday That Democrats Were Raiding The Fund To Pay For Programs Not Related To Oil-Spill Cleanup. New Revenue Raised By The Levy ‘Ought To Be Used To Clean Up Spills,’ He Said.”

http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/06/...-pet-programs/

Never let a good crisis go to waste, especially if you can use it for a shakedown for your pet projects.

This gang of crooks has to go.

The lot of them.

[lizbud]

Well, the bozo has already apologized for his first apology. Moron....

The only crooks I saw have already been replaced in the Federal agency
that allowed BP is set their own safety standards on drilling in deepwater.
They shouldn't be allowed to be the judge of how much damage is being
done by their own carelessness & greed.

From everything from how much crude is escaping from the broken well,
to how much damage has already been done, they have lowballed the
numbers. They cannot be trusted to get anything right.

[Lady's Human]

BP has done what they were allowed to do.


CONGRESS has oversight. The Executive Branch has regulatory power through the Dept. of the Interior.

Whose fault is this?

[Puckstop31]

BP has done what they were allowed to do.


CONGRESS has oversight. The Executive Branch has regulatory power through the Dept. of the Interior.

Whose fault is this?

Well, DUHHHHHHHH LH


George Bush. Republicans. "Anybody who thinks Obama is a loser wanna be despot."

Yeesh. How long you been here?


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I can't help but go back to my belief in admitting an error is the greatest learning opportunity we get... And how the President is utterly incapable of doing so. Along with his brain dead acolytes.

[RICHARD]

I am kinda hoping/wishing that the spill stops on it's own, that way everyone will stand there, fingers hidden in their underwear, trying to figure out what's going on.


I think that would be poetic justice.

[Bonny]

If the oil flow stopped on its' own there would be millions of dollors spent on an investigation as to why, while everything else goes to hell in the gulf. That is how these idiots think.