Republicans apologizing to BP for having to pay the oil spill victims for the oil spill? Are you okay with this?
Other Republicans are echoing his call. Rep. Michele Bachmann said that BP shouldn't agree to be "fleeced." The Republican Study Committee, with its 114 members in the House, called it a "shakedown."
How does that make you feel? Why would he say these things? What does this accomplish? Is this Congressman being part of the solution?
For your persusal, the story below in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/opinion/18fri3.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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The Republicans keep denying that Rush Limbaugh is
the head of the Party. Again, these Republican are following his lead and using flawed Fox News polls as their "permission." After all, these flawed polls and experts from conservative-funded think tanks are stating that we Americans dislike the President to such an extent that he will not win a second term. I believe that such tactics bring dishonor to the Office of the President of the United States..
Finally, after harping that the President was not doing enough, they tear down his work in the few areas he has control to act. as the President. He assured that those hurt economically by the oil spill will get financial assistance without the use of US funds and without the legal roadblocks put in place by corporate attorneys.
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M$Part of the solution would be to vote these bums out. Starting with every Republican in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida because they could see the damage for themselves but instead stick their head in the sand.
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Term limits also effectively vote the bums out, and they are a considerable improvement when they are used.
You are right that it matters to vote someone better in. It's hard not to find someone better than Republicans. Vote Green! or at least Democratic.
Got an "error 500" and resubmitted the original comment. I've deleted it here.
Voting everyone out is not the answer (though I'd happily lose all of these republicans in Texas! I am a lonely Democrat). Teaching these office-holders to listen to the people who vote, not the corporations who pay for campaigns, is the task at hand. Personally I'd rather see career politicians, who know how the system SHOULD work in office than starry-eyed neophytes who don't know anything when they get to office and it takes a few years to really learn how to really be effective. IMHO. Being a politician shouldn't be a bad career choice, if you do it correctly. Honestly. If you "vote the bums out" you just get a new crop of bums.
Bobby Jindal (R) is way ahead of the curve and is head and shoulders above Obama in trying to solve the problem. Get the problem solved first, then worry about recriminations! If the house is flooding because someone left the faucet running, shut off the faucet first then figure out who gets to buy the new carpet.
I don't think Barton should have apologized as he was not the one extorting money. I do think the major question not asked was what was promised, or more likely threatened, in the meeting with Obama to get BP to agree to set up the fund?
BP is responsible for the oil spill. It's clear that they did not follow proper procedures in constructing and managing the well. While accidents do happen, those who are responsible pay. Even if you were honestly mistaken in a car accident, if its your fault, you pay.
For anyone to suggest that there is a "shakedown" at hand for requiring BP to compensate those affected shows that they are not wanting to acknowledge guilt or liability. Interestingly, the same voices are those tied closely to the oil industry. People have lost their livelihood perhaps for a generation if not more. 11 men died on that rig. Numerous others are possibly affected by the areosolized fumes the night of the explosion. Wildlife, wild habitats, natural food resources, natural tourist attractions and the beauty that is the Gulf has been damaged significantly.
Responsibility has to be taken by BP. They take the risks to dig deep in the open ocean on the chance of making it big selling oil. Taking their money and running with an "oops" and "sorry" won't cut it.
Anyone else who wants to shrug their shoulders and say to those who are struggling in the Gulf simply does not respect the average working class American. They are as elitist as Mr. Hayward on his yacht.
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M$Personally, I think the BP CEO is as helpless to solve this problem as is President Obama. Right now they're all waiting on oil roughnecks and pointy-headed engineers to try to solve this problem. The U.S. federal government has no way to go in and stop this spill (unlike something like forest fires, where the government is the main entity that does the fire fighting).
Taking a day off after weeks and weeks of focusing on this mess from Houston, well, I can't really hold that against the BP CEO. And a yacht is powered by wind, so he's setting a clean energy example. (touch of irony, there) But then, nothing he can do right now is going to make anyone happy. I think the level of cooperation in trying to solve this has actually been (and will be shown to be, in retrospect) pretty high. And the escrow fund, set up less than 2 months after the disaster, in the scheme of most big industry or governmental things, that isn't bad. So I think Barton was incorrect in suggesting that the U.S. was mistreating BP by insisting on the account being set up. This company probably realizes that the sooner people receive compensation, the sooner they can begin to rebuild their good name, once the oil finally stops flowing from that break in the line.
Personal opinion, and a North Texas voter, though Barton is in the next district east of me.
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