BP's 20 Billion Shakedown

During a congressional hearing with BP executives, Rep. Joe Barton spoke out on President Obama's meeting with BP officials, calling it a "shakedown."

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• shakedown
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• congress

[mushroomagical]

OMG! This is the most shameless thing I have ever witnessed. Well, at least we see the true face of the Republican Party, for several other Republicans said similar things, too. I guess Republicans really do hate America, and love massive British corporations.

[volvokid60]

This guy is living in a dream world...these oil clowns are destroying the entire planet, and this guy wants to apologize for making them pay for what they have done to our people and our land/ocean.

[gman2000]

Yo, there is an ad on the upper right corner of this web page advertising a white T-shirt that says "Had Enough?" and the U in Enough is a hammer & sickle, you know like the symbol of the Soviet Union, then it says "NOBAMA 2012" under that, i'm more interested in the blonde chick wearing it, but oh well, I guess I have had enough of a black president trying to make life better for everyone, who the fuck does he think he is? He keeps up this shit I will have health insurance in no time!

[gman2000]

@hiiamrick : LMAF, that's mess up, just because you don't listen to unintelligible metal music, you don't cut yourself, you're not obese, and you didn't get left back in Kindergarten, they pull this kind of shit on you. That's just plain wrong right there. : P

[hiiamrick]

@gman2000: I made a shit load of money when I invested into cell phone towers early. I bought a home in an upper middle class neighborhood (mostly whites). They didn't like my skin color in their part of town. What surprised me the most, the third time some assholes pulled the shit trick. Some of my white neighbors actually helped me clean up the mess. So people are people you have good and bad in all groups.

[gman2000]

@hiiamrick : Allow me to respond to a question with another question: Why the fuck did someone put shit in your mailbox??? LoL

[hiiamrick]

@gman2000: Dude what up with you and this sign issue? Hell when I bought a home in an upper middle class neighborhood, some of the towns folk put shit in my mail box. I know how fucked up local governments can be. If MMS did bend over it was because of all the bribes they took?

[hiiamrick]

@gman2000: Remember Bushit turned MMS into a bunch of whores for the quick and easy buck. While Bushit passed laws so the government could just look the other way, while the bribes were passed out . Also I know all to well about little town governments and their silly ass laws. But that is totally different.

[hiiamrick]

@gman2000: Dude a little history. Remember when Bushit fought the fight for deregularation and free markets. The Minerals Mang. was corrupted just like the SEG and the FDA. This is a direct result why rules must be in place to stop Big Business from killing us and themselves for some quick and easy money.

[gman2000]

The Federal Gov't, acting thru the MMS, having been the regulatory body for oceanic oil exploration within our waters, has to respond to this tragedy, and they have, this "moratorium" is like damage control, but it's too late. If we keep poking the earth for fossil fuels, it's only a matter of time that the core is going to get pissed off and we are going to see some fucked up things. New slogan: "Earth: It was fun while it lasted."

[gman2000]

@hiiamrick : The MMS bends over and says, "Hey, thats OK, drill however deep you want!" Next thing you know, BOOM! Why is it so hard for a citizen to put up a sign on their lawn, and these ppl can drill anywhere they want to, miles into the earth's crust?? Doesn't make sense, BP should pay, yes, but there is plenty of blame to go around is my point.

[gman2000]

@hiiamrick : Then, you will have to draw the sign for them, tell them how wide by how long by how tall, what it will be made of, will it be cemented into the ground? Will it be lit with electricity? How long do you plan to keep the sign up? Will it cause a serious distraction to cars driving by? I'm not kidding, you have to sit through meetings to get this sign up. Now, here comes good old BP, they tell the MMS, Hey, we want to drill here! Is that OK?