Just to review: A group constituting roughly two-thirds of all Republicans in the House takes the position that President Obama was wrong to demand that BP set aside money to guarantee that those whose livelihoods are being ruined by the oil spill will be compensated.
In other words, it's more important to kneel at the altar of radical conservative ideology than to feel any sense of compassion for one's fellow Americans. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how today's GOP rolls. Eugene Robinson Via Washington Post
One begins to wonder how gullible are Americans ?
Media Matters -FOX Defends BP & despises "The Small People"
Those who unjustly devour the property of orphans
devour a fire into their bodies
They will soon be enduring a blazing Fire. (Qur'an 4:10)
Muhammad & the Qur'an judge harshly those who take advantage of those whom BP refer to as "The Small People". The Nations BP defenders say are to bow down and worship the Corporations as Fox News does.
Glenn Beck for instance thinks that the rights of the corporate elite which now includes Beck come before the rights of "The Small People" or the average citizen.
This is also why Beck ,Fox News & the GOP have little interest in the fact that 11 employees were killed but not anyone in their view who is of importance such as a CEO or Manager & other VIPs.
Drinking Glenn Beck's brand of Kool-Aid Beck expects his followers to believe anyone expecting any compensation from BP or who dares question the actions of BP is to be judged UnAmerican /Not a Real American/ a socialist and anti-Christian since Beck's "Jesus" loves the Wealthy and hates the poor.
The BP disaster occurred in large part because there was little or no government oversight of BP's drilling operations.
So there's still a hole in the bottom of the sea and the Gulf Region is devastated.
You might think that maybe when a whole region is being destroyed even conservatives might feel their pain but of course not . Instead They are more concerned about BP and allowing Oil Companies to do as they please. They are against regulations of any kind .
BP created this disaster not Obama or the average citizen.
When profits come before workers safety or the protection of the ocean or the livelihoods of a few million citizens who are of little importance compared to Corporations.
Fox News has been using the spill for their own political agenda from the get go .
So it was a surprise to see someone on Fox ditching the official talking points. Dr. Many who's giving his report on the Gulf Disaster becomes more combative while the anchor keeps trying to get Dr. Many back to the script .
Gulf Oil Spill Workers Reporting Illness
BP Disaster in the Gulf
BP & government agencies accused of down playing disaster using their Public Relations side show attractions of "Ponies and Balloons ".
BP still cutting corners?
BP refuses to give workers respirators
Much of the Gulf Region may already be beyond repair
Kindra Arnesen Venice LA Local At The Gulf Emergency Summit
June 22, 2010. via Afterdowningstreet.org/ War Is A Crime
Hear the horrors of the front lines and behind scenes workings of the BP Gulf Oil Spill Catastrophe.
A GOP chorus of Joe Bartons on the BP oil spill by Eugene Robinson Via Washington Post, June 22, 2010
Joe Barton is not alone. The Texas congressman's lavish sympathy for BP -- which he sees not as perpetrator of a preventable disaster but as victim of a White House "shakedown" -- is actually what passes for mainstream opinion among conservative Republicans today.
...But Barton was only echoing a statement that Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) had issued a day earlier in the name of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus of House conservatives whose Web site claims 115 members. The statement groused that there is "no legal authority for the president to compel a private company to set up or contribute to an escrow account" and accused the Obama administration of "Chicago-style shakedown politics."
Just to review: A group constituting roughly two-thirds of all Republicans in the House takes the position that President Obama was wrong to demand that BP set aside money to guarantee that those whose livelihoods are being ruined by the oil spill will be compensated. In other words, it's more important to kneel at the altar of radical conservative ideology than to feel any sense of compassion for one's fellow Americans. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how today's GOP rolls.
...Barton's remarks were no spontaneous gaffe. They came in a prepared statement and represent his genuine view of the situation: that the rights of a private company are absolute even when weighed against the clear interests of the public.
While the party leadership has managed to squelch members of Congress who might have been tempted to weigh in on Barton's side, the conservative amen chorus can't help itself.
Rush Limbaugh called the agreement on the $20 billion escrow fund "unconstitutional" and accused the administration of acting like "a branch of organized crime."
Newt Gingrich said the White House was "extorting money from a company."
Stuart Varney of Fox News claimed -- falsely -- that Obama had moved to "seize a private company's assets" and complained that the action was "Hugo Chavez-like."
Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol said that "I have no sympathy for BP," but then proceeded to be sympathetic, offering that "it's not helpful for the country, for the economy as a whole, for the president to bully different companies and different industries."
I'd advise these people to get a grip, but they're just saying what they believe. It just happens that what they believe is absurd.
Yes, President Obama used the power of his office to pressure BP to set money aside for compensation. If Republicans believe he shouldn't have, then by all means they should speak up. Come November, the voters will be able to decide who's right.
and so it goes,
GORD.
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