Apparently, I have concluded after watching today's spectacle in Congress over the oil link that British Petroleum is a worse enemy combatant than Al Quaeda or Iran or North Korea. A mistake was made two months ago. We still do not have a cause for this mistake, but it was SPECULATED that there might have been carelessness involved by the company. I have yet to hear anyone in Congress, the media or the White House accuse BP of intentionally causing the leak. Why? They have not done so because this accident was not intentional. It was an accident. I doubt that anyone that has lived in their adulthood has not made a mistake or had an accident of some type. Isn't this why we have insurance? Perhaps this accident is so damaging because of the location of the oil leak and the difficulty in fixing this? Ok-I hear my liberal friends saying "no duh". Yes, this is "no duh", but what group forced BP to drill so far offshore when BP could have drill on land? Can my liberal friends answer this? I think a mirror might help. These were the liberal groups like Green Peace and the Sierra Club who FORCED the drilling to be so far off shore.
Sadly, the current Congress believes that "grilling" the top guy at British Petroleum will make things better. this reminds me of George Orwell's book "1984" where the people were so supposed to be agitated and stirred up with the "daily hate". The witch hunt today in Congress was an example of this. One Congressman, Joe Barton from Texas was scolded harshly for trying to apologize for this hazing.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/17/congressman-apologizes-bp-white-house-shakedown-million/
He had the nerve to call it a shakedown! Since when has Congress ever shook anyone down before? Acutally, when has anyone in Congress ever gone against these witch hunts? Anyway, Joe Barton did retract his remark gutlessly when he was scolded by fellow weasel moderate Republicans who are on the "hate BP" band wagon. Shouldn't we all be on Help and Work Together with BP to fix the leak and clean the leak up band wagon instead?
Finally, the sorry spectacle by Congress today shows that we have misguided leadership in Congress and the White House who do NOT have the priorities or the interests of the American people in mind. If we are going to have a "daily hate", it should be aimed at people who want intentionally destroy us like Al Quaeda or Iran or Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Apparently, our law makers would rather scold clueless executives of companies instead of tyranical leaders of countries or extreme Muslim organizations who are intent on destroying us. Ironically, the Obama administration has been harshest on The United States' two best allies Great Britain and Israel. Guess what? Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, the Muslim terrorists still hate us. Except now-they sense the weakness also.
