Open Thread

I almost can’t take it. The very party that has been most against government regulation of almost any kind, the very party that has been in bed with the oil companies, that has decried environmental initiatives – HOWLED about them – anyone remember the sainted Ron Reagan making great dramatic show over removing solar panels from the White House? laughing at, even mocking Carter’s initiatives and warnings – that has given more corporate tax breaks than imaginable to said companies, that has SCREAMED that off-shore drilling is SAFE, and has whined that companies do just fine, thank you very much, safeguarding, checking and regulating THEMSELVES without oversight or interference, is now not only not admitting to serious wrong-headedness, and to a huge mistake, but is BLAMING the other party and environmentalists?

It is beyond. I have officially stepped into the rabbit hole and am still falling.

but jackal, benson, et al, we could still have had regs, as they do elsewhere, for construction of these types fo rigs that would have minimized the risk of this type of accident. It was a government failure at tehr egulatory level at the time it was built, and a BP/Transocean etc. failure of responsibility in electing to assume a known higher risk in order to cut costs. As long as we consume oil, there will be risks, but this was easily preventable, and the locus of responsibility falls on those who should ahve but failed to prevent it. Driving a car does not eliminate someone’s moral right to comment on that.

Like I said yesterday, if Lord Browne were still in charge of BP I bet this sort of thing would never have happened.

It’s a pity he had to step down because of that nasty situation he got himself into with the trashy Canadian hustler.

By daveinbedstuy on June 4, 2010 11:24 AM

donatella, I’m concerned about the spanking fetish.

Trust me, Dibs, the people here are even MORE concerned.