Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Because corporations are more important citizens than you or I
The Republican Party has stepped up to prevent poor little BP from being forced to pay their full liability for fucking up the Gulf of Mexico.
The failure to pass Menendez's proposal has become symbolic, in no small way, of what Democratic strategist James Carville described as a "lackadaisical" response to the crisis as a whole. As with the government's efforts to stop the flow of leaking oil, top Senate Democratic aides insist that they are utilizing all the available tools to get the liability cap raise into law. So far, two unanimous consent agreements to pass the bill have failed after a single Republican senator expressed objections -- worried, they say, that the higher liability would make it prohibitively expensive for smaller oil companies to drill in the Gulf.If "Mom & Pop" can't pay the bill they shouldn't drill.
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