Texas Republican Apologizes to BP

[chunky]

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Dead Indians dont have jack and or shit to do with this, so there is no answer.

I am 100% sure you would be as high and mighty as you are right now if this happened in your backyard and you were unemployed.

Back on closing the threads again res0 Your like the TLVdave of the USA Yes I have never been unemployed and that’s not due to do with avoiding natural disasters. EU citizens like Americans have the ability to relocate fairly easily. Something the innocent Iraqi's didn't have when they where bombed out of their homes by the UK & US Air force after being leafleted to relocate.

[i!!ustrious]

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you're, not your*

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were, not where*

/signed

[res0nat0r]

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Back on closing the threads again res0 Your like the TLVdave of the USA Yes I have never been unemployed and that’s not due to do with avoiding natural disasters. EU citizens like Americans have the ability to relocate fairly easily. Something the innocent Iraqi's didn't have when they where bombed out of their homes by the UK & US Air force after being leafleted to relocate.

Your point about Iraqi's has nothing to do with the oil spill so it is irrelevant. Also "just picking up and moving" sounds like a nice quaint and easy argument, but again this is just drivel on a web forum and not real life. I'm sure 3rd genration crawfishermen and their familes can just move out to the coast of Cali and pick up where they left off and leave everything behind, no problem.

But why am I bothering, you always pick some innane argument that has nothing to do with the subject at hand and then run in circles.

[Jenks]

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you're, not your*

due, no do* {check editing]

were, not where*

/signed

awesome.

[DIDI]

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Chunky, Bhopal was and is horrendous . I feel ashamed that my fellow human beings could let this happen and then do so little about it.

If I thought it would make the slightest bit of difference to the Indians, I would agree with you , but it won't . So I say get everything possible from BP as soon as we can ! The longer we leave it the less chance of getting anything for the people involved.

[vinnie97]

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What Obama is doing is looting while the riots are going on.

That's Obungler, a rotten Chicago Marxist thug, except the riches go to him and his marry band of bungling campaigners.

BP has a very cozy relationship with politicians and it has stood behind plenty of particularly leftist causes, including cap and trade. The usurper was the biggest recipient of BP campaign donations after all. These relationships should be investigated with the same fervor that the nationalizing zealots are using to demand the $20 billion upfront right now.

[chunky]

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Also "just picking up and moving" sounds like a nice quaint and easy argument, but again this is just drivel on a web forum and not real life. I'm sure 3rd genration crawfishermen and their familes can just move out to the coast of Cali and pick up where they left off and leave everything behind, no problem.

I actually work with people who did just that. When the work dried up they got up an moved. It was either that or sit around in poverty

[chunky]

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If I thought it would make the slightest bit of difference to the Indians, I would agree with you , but it won't . So I say get everything possible from BP as soon as we can ! The longer we leave it the less chance of getting anything for the people involved.

You don't think giving them decent compensation packages and having Warren Anderson face the consequences of his action will make a difference to the Indian people. They are still tiring to extradite Warren Anderson who is living in the US with his Golden Parachute.

[DIDI]

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I'm sure it would , but, as you said, they are still trying . I can't see that letting BP get away with this disaster will help get justice for Bhopal. I sure don't want to argue with you though. I appreciate that you feel very strongly about this. It's truly awful.

[vinnie97]

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This breakdown is pretty much spot-on:

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/06/ed-schultz-conf.html

Nobody likes the bumbling crony capitalists at BP, least of all countermoonbats, considering that they gave more money to Comrade Obama than to any other candidate in the past 20 years and were lobbying to enrich themselves at the price of our country's ruin through the Cap & Tax conspiracy. But the rule of law applies to everyone, even lizards low enough to crawl into bed with Obama and then get knifed by him. Like Congressman Joe Barton, I find it alarming in the extreme that the President of the USA can exploit an accident to shake down a corporation for a $20 billion slush fund.
Encouraged by the contemptible cowardice of a Republican Party that appallingly stooped low enough to force Barton to apologize, liberals have been squawking in sanctimonious outrage about his entirely appropriate use of the term "shakedown." Yet one of Obama's most loyal cheerleaders at MSNBC used the same term while praising the Hoodlum in Chief for committing this act of grand larceny. Quoting the Stalinist thug Ed Schultz:

President Obama, you are the dude.

The president takes the heads of BP behind closed doors, shakes them down for $20 billion, and gets an apology. …the president of the United States took on a multinational, shook them down for $20 billion for the American people. President Obama got more out of BP than the Congress ever has.

And just remember, weeks ago the Democrats were trying to lift the liability cap from $75 million to $10 billion. … President Obama doubled the amount in a 20-minute meeting.

The $75 million liability cap was no obstacle because under Hopey Change, laws can be changed retroactively into whatever the Manchurian Moonbat wants. This is how it works in tin-pot dictatorships of the sort Ed Schultz and the rest of the liberal media are trying to make of America.
Hold on, Schultz is still crowing:

President Obama has done more to kick ass on oil companies than any other president ever has. … And now, you know what? This $20 billion is just chump change. It's not a cap. It's a start.

The effects on economic stability of having a president whose major accomplishment is to "kick ass on oil companies" and loot them into probable bankruptcy to the delight of his adolescent Marxist supporters will become increasingly obvious as the recession heads into its second dip.
Why couldn't a settlement have been reached by legal means, for example, through legislation instead of by a de facto dictator's decree? Schultz explains:

He can't go to Congress and get $20 billion because the Republicans will never work with him. So his only option is to go to the American people and say look, we're going to hold these people accountable, I'm going to have to figure it out some way. We're going to hold them accountable.

So, he doesn't meet with them right away, but over time he lets this boil up with emotion of the American people, puts BP in a corner as far as public relations is concerned. Let's all get documented, then he says come on into my office, now it's time to talk. And he walks away in a 20-minute meeting with a $20 billion commitment.

Has any other president done that? And the answer to that question is absolutely not.

If the law gets in your way, throw the law out the window and apply extortion behind closed doors. As if Republicans on the whole had any inclination, let alone the numbers or the guts, to defend BP anyway.
Schultz is right about one thing. No other president in American history would have behaved like this. Consider America "fundamentally transformed."

[chunky]

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I'm sure it would , but, as you said, they are still trying . I can't see that letting BP get away with this disaster will help get justice for Bhopal. I sure don't want to argue with you though. I appreciate that you feel very strongly about this. It's truly awful.

I'm not saying they should get away with it. I'm saying they should not hand over $20 billion on Obama's say so. A figure they seem to of plucked out of the air. How many other companys have had to do this in the past?

[DIDI]

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Not enough In fact that is a good idea, every company that operates and profits in areas of environmental fragility, should have to put up an environmental bond of as many billions as we can get. !!

[chunky]

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Not enough In fact that is a good idea, every company that operates and profits in areas of environmental fragility, should have to put up an environmental bond of as many billions as we can get. !!

Yes I think that may not be a bad idea, though it could be difficult for some new company’s to set up due to the extra finances that would be involved. You know some company’s actually set up production plants where they can get away with polluting the surrounding environment with little repercussion. Maybe Coca-Cola should put some money up front

[jasonemrysss]

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How about barton getting $100,000 from BP in a the form of a campaign donation. Would that have anything to do with it?

[Jenks]

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