BP Disaster Response Plan Severely Flawed

[boutons_deux]

So a regulatory crime is not to be punished if the hated, under-funded, Repug-compromised, oil-lobbyist-polluted regulators aren't there to enforce the regulations?

That's the old Repug/Nixonian ethics and defense, "It's not what you do (anthying goes), it's what you get caught doing"

[CosmicCowboy]

So a regulatory crime is not to be punished if the hated, under-funded, Repug-compromised, oil-lobbyist-polluted regulators aren't there to enforce the regulations?

That's the old Repug/Nixonian ethics and defense, "It's not what you do (anthying goes), it's what you get caught doing"

at BD blaming everything on Republicans.

[boutons_deux]

"BD blaming everything on Republicans."

Sure, it was Repug MMS employing oil lobbyists screwing and drugging with oil lobbyist s.

It was head whose National Energy Policy was Invade Iraq and greenlighted drill anywhere anyway, damn the regulations, while giving away federal lands and not collecting royalties

etc, etc, etc.

What exactly did Dems do to "cause" BP to be a criminal, regulation-flaunting company?

[Wild Cobra]

Personally I think BP should be responsible for every penny of damages, but adding a "fine" on top of it that goes to the US government that was equally responsible because of limited/non-existent oversight is total bull .

I could see a court case with the way the courts are today, you know... the Nanny state...

Where, BP sues the government for allowing them to make that mistake!