Originally posted by Xkeeper

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Oil Worker Filled out his Will on Deepwater Horizon - because of Safety Concerns

show of hands if you are at all surprised by this

anybody at all

anyone

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"Jason's father told us Jason was concerned that BP, which controlled the rig, kept wanting to stray from procedures to finish the well faster, which Jason considered unsafe," Myers reported.

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Originally posted by Xkeeper

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iirc, $69M (or somewhere around there) is actually the cap on liabilities for this kind of crap. And you only get one guess to which party in Washington is making sure it stays that way.

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Originally posted by LastNote678

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Originally posted by FieryIce

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First of all I didn't stereotype, I merely stated that a majority in the Gulf region follow a certain ideology.

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Originally posted by FieryIce

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...the majority in the south shouting for a year that the federal government is too big...

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Originally posted by FieryIce

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They want little government and more corporations...

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I assume you mean little, as in, "little to do," which is wrong from what I'm told. Republicans do want more State Government involvement, rather than Federal Government. This is the majority of the south. Your stereotype claims they don't want any government intervention within the private sector, which isn't true. Maybe for some of the very far-right ones ( Anarchists? ), however, I'm seeing a different reality. I also don't see how not wanting a Federal Government to have an ass load of uncontrolled power correlates to wanting it to have absolutely no power. If I'm against part of x, I'm not necessarily against all of x.

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Originally posted by LastNote678

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Originally posted by FieryIce

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What in the world are you arguing here? Did you read my post? I'm talking about a majority, not everyone and I'm not saying they don't want any government, I said they are complaining the government is too big.

And again, it is not a stereotype if what I'm claiming is that a provable majority in a certain region believes in something. A stereotype is when you claim everyone of a group/region follow/believe something.

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I'm sorry, let me clarify:

Yes, the majority are Republicans who want less government. You believe that because they want less government too, but to you, less government means no government whatsoever, including help during state crisis. In contrast, Republicans want less uncontrolled power going to the Federal Government, or any part of government really. It doesn't mean they're not willing to accept any help from the Federal Government, which I think is a wrong assumption that you made, it just means they don't want the Federal Government to have abusable power.

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You know what I find funny, the majority in the south shouting for a year that the federal government is too big, that tea party is anti-federal government movement and yet they complain when the feds don't do one little thing and instead leave it to a private company (probably what would be left if the tea-baggers have it their way). They want little government and more corporations, then this is what they might get.

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Does that sound insane to you in this environment in which the congress is refusing to extend unemployment benefits? Me too. But John Boehner is actually pushing it:

Congressional Democrats and the White House are toying with different ways to force BP to cover the costs of damages from the Gulf oil spill. But they face stiff opposition from industry…and it seems leading Republicans. In response to a question from TPMDC, House Minority Leader John Boehner backed Tom Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce, in saying taxpayers should help pick up the tab.

“I think the people responsible in the oil spill–BP and the federal government–should take full responsibility for what’s happening there,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference this morning.

On Friday, Donohue made clear that he opposes efforts to stick BP, a member of the Chamber, with the bill. “It is generally not the practice of this country to change the laws after the game,” he said. “Everybody is going to contribute to this clean up. We are all going to have to do it. We are going to have to get the money from the government and from the companies and we will figure out a way to do that.”

One very clever thing about this is the fact that they are framing this spill as being the equal fault of BP and the Federal government, which means it’s all the fault of an oil company and the Democrats.

The article says that Democrats will jump all over this, and one would certainly hope so. Unfortunately, I would bet some big money that quite a few Dems will join in and give it some bipartisan cover. Mary Landrieu certainly will.

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