Public Dunking is a good founding fathers penalty for liars and thieves. This would be approprate for Barton,Palin,Beck and Limpballs as well !

Tea Baggers are now in a trap....from their paid off Corporate pretend leaders like Dick Army, Michele Backman, Rush Limpballs, Palin and Beck etc etc

They can agree with the stated anti American, pro British Capitalism stands of their leaders.......but they must realize this puts them against the Patriots in the American Revolution and for the Rich capitalist English who were just "trying to make a buck" in the colonies! Now their tea bags with wigs on!

Their over.....their cover is blown....their Totalitarian Capatalists

who want small government and no regulations.....clearing the field for the "Big" people to eat the "small" people at will !

They go the way of the most profit...if that means people die, then consider it a good decision to lay their lives on the alter of ultimate profit for the God of the Rich.

Tea Baggers you party's ...OVER !

There is NO CAP on the $20 Billion if more is needed.

Patricia-250002:

You are correct. Plus, BP must set aside an additional $100M (with no cap) for those businesses that have suffered as a result of BP's negligence.

On another note, I'm sure Barton's constituents will remember his cheerleading for BP come election time ... LOL ... what a tool!

100M is for out of work rig workers not Gulf businesses. But the 20B still has no cap for people affected by the spill.

BP does need to set aside the money. And there will likely be more gushing out of the well of their deep and extensive reserves.

Here's something, though:

one of the four parties held responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster

I've been wondering about that. I'm not sure who the fourth is, but why has everyone suddenly forgotten that there are other companies involved here who have a share of the blame? Why is no one trying to hold TransOcean or Haliburton liable? BP may have instructed them to cut corners, but they're still the ones who did the work.

Got it - thanks for the clarification, Maria

The four responsible parties are BP,Haliburton,TransOcean,and Anadarko Petroleum.Joe Barton (R) of Texas is former CEO of Anadarko and still owns stock in the company.I wrote an article about it last week on Newsvine.It has the real reason why he apologized to BP.

Yea his constituants will remember... The problem is his constituants are mostly Oil execs.. Can I say Texas Oil.. Thats what made that state rich... So he is going along with his constituants wishes anyway..

It's not treason.It is unethical though.The judge who stopped the drilling moratorium owns stock in TransOcean.That's unethical too.

Actually, he owns more than just TransOcean stock. He own's stocks in KBR, Halliburton, Parker Drilling, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Hercules Offshore, Atlas Energy Resources, and a whole slew of other companies directly involved in oil and offshore drilling.

At the very least, he should have recused himself. But that would take courage which he obviously does not possess.

Good research Freedom Maid.Americans who aren't afraid to seek out the truth.Makes me feel like all isn't lost.I'm writing a letter to have him investigated.

He was setting them up for the knock out.

Moderate speech. Make BP's attorneys act overconfident.

BP's attorneys tell C.E.O. they can handle this wimp!

Obama comes in and tears into the C.E.O.

Walks out...leaving them shakin! Unbalanced!

Invites C.E.O. into Presidental office. Shows him a way out.....CEO doesn't know which way is up!! knock out Obama!

meanwhile Biden tells other managers " You don't understand, this is not a request from the President its whats going to happen...one way or the other....NOW!

Attorneys yelled at by BP for miss reading the President!

America Wins

Another three pointer for Obama perfect art of war strategy!

Historic Win!

Yes they are mad he got the money for us(the American people who live in the gulf area).The republicans would not have gotten it.They would be using FEMA(taxpayer money) and letting BP off the hook.How would they let BP off the hook?They would force every affected party to spend 5-20 years in court.Most of those people would be financially devastated and not have the resources to fight.Even though they deserve the money for damages.Meanwhile those corporations will start or continue to receive government subsidies.Which stop the corporations bottom line from being affected.It's how they have done any corporate entity that has harmed American citizens,especially oil and coal companies.With the fund being established it puts the damaged parties in better financial shape to fight in court without giving up because of bankruptcy.So the fund also helps see that justice is served in the courts.

Nor can we afford James Inhofe in Oklahoma...but you can't tell the corrupt idiots who keep sending him back that!

Ahoy, Don Quixokie. James Inhofe is a robotic destroyer of worlds. From what spatial anomaly do these monsters emerge? The digestive tract exit of the universe, perhaps? Loozerio advises to let them continue exposing their true nature to the world. Independent voters, are you watching? Are you listening? There can be good government, but not with pathetic corporate sycophants such as Joe Barton infecting it.

Inhofe and Barton are cosmic tapeworm? Yeah, I can see that. Just alittle too vividly in fact.

Bachmann did the same thing, defending BP. Again, I wish senators and congress members would be honest, and dress in jumpsuits emblazoned with the logos of the companies they support, like NASCAR drivers. At least then we'd know who bought them, and for how much, as the primary sponsor would get the biggest logo. We could also stop referring to them like "Joe Barton, (R) TX", and go to "Joe Barton, (R) Anadarko Petroleum".

EXACTLY! How long before we start seeing members in Congress with the logos of oil companies and wall street banks on their lapels instead of the American Flag! "Today, Congress is brought to you by BP, Exxon, Goldman Sachs...", take your pick. You'll see their cars with decals all over them, ala Nascar. Maybe Congress will start doing commercials for them. I am so sick of it. I want to see someone do a story on "the little people". The real little people, like I am. What about the average workers that work for these large corporations -- administrative people, financial analysts, marketing people, etc. The exempt and non-exempt, non-management, non-union employee. How many are being "laid off" to save money. What are their raises like? How many new unemployment applications are coming from the average worker from BP, Goldman, etc?. I'm tired of hearing about the sob stories of the rich. No one is talking about the working poor and how it's affecting them. Everyone thinks they know what the American people want, but they don't have a clue.

Olbermann showcased that ninny on "Worst Person's" last night. I think she was #2 - I would have named her as #1.

"wish senators and congress members would be honest, and dress in jumpsuits emblazoned with the logos of the companies they support, like NASCAR drivers."

LOL That's not a very out there suggestion ... it certainly would suit Congress!!!!

I'll vote for Uffdaguy's idea about the jumpsuits. It would save us all a lot of time on the internet and Google. I can't believe he didn't get the shoes in his face. Or at least been stopped before he made a tremendous a-- out of himself. You know, the "Come on, Buddy, we can't let you expose our bank account."

I doubt if BP even appreciated his crass disloyalty to the government job he stands in with. He's not valuable to them if he is so obvious with his checkbook.

Texas governor, Perry, made a big deal out of secession from the Union. I wonder how they would feel about getting kicked out.

Hee hee hee. I like.

I think it should be a strait jacket embroidered with the logos... that way those nutcases couldnt push the any buttons... Or be a danger to themselves or others...lol Good one.. Tudie like

What happened to plain old critical thinking, humanity and public responsibility?

They are critically thinking.... about their wallets.

Humanity and public responsibility, it sounds and awful lot like socialism to me. There will be none of that now.

Ferrferr: I agree with you. Anything that remotely reseambles the defense of public interests is labeled as "socialism", etc. It is a shame that our politicians abusethe general public's lack of knowledge about political systems and exploit public fear of certain terms which were undeservingly transformed into expletives.

And that lack of knowledge is being helped by those NEW text books approved by the very state that DumbA@@ is from... Its the winners who write the history books... But this is rediculous.. they are trying to use- How to supress a society.. Guide them quietly into illiteracy, and ignorance.. Shame

In this case it's the whiners who are trying to write the history books.

Make that a sniviling brown-nose toady

Interesting this whole "Due Process" thing indeed. NPR actually had news about it this morning. It seems that POTUS does have the authority, through two environmental laws, to force BP to set those $20B aside. It seems that the "due process" (which I take to mean court action with the right to appeal) is not necessary in these cases. But, alas, I'm no expert...

It would seem that by talking about "due process", Rep. Barton is insinuating that BP may have committed criminal acts, ne c'est pas? After all, that is about the only time that term is bandied about. Did Rep. Barton feel the same way about giving Gitmo detainees "due process" by just holding them for years without even a chance to speak with an attorney?

BP has admitted that the gusher is their fault, so it's not as if we need to wait for the "due process" of a trial to determine if they are responsible. The only question at this point is how much this catastrophe will cost them, and I'm betting that $20 billion won't even come close. After all, can you put a price on wiping out a good portion of the Gulf fishing industry, perhaps for years? Or the tremendous damage to the tourist industry? And of course, there is the human cost of thousands of people who may be unable to continue in their jobs because the spill has destroyed their industry.

completely agree with you! However, our addition to fuels, consumer goods, and energy (in short: addiction to oil), is one of the main culprits here. I blame three parties: ourselves (one person = one car, plastic baby), the government ("regulations, why?") and the industry (cartels, price fixing, unethical and unsafe exploitation of natural resources)

"addiction"

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