The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 that limits BP’s monetary damages to $75 million for losses to private parties was sponsored by, amongst current names that I recognize, Nancy Pelosi (D), Barbara Boxer (D), and Joe Kennedy (D). –Dick Cheney *wishes* he was so evil.
“And who was President at that time?” was a question I got on this observation and the answer is of course Bush Sr, though thats as relevant as who was on the Supreme Court at the time since the bill came from a Democrat controlled Congress, not the Presidents desk (passed 375-5). But it’s also irrelevant because im not actually calling anyone evil – im doing the opposite: illustrating the absurdity of the lengths people go to demonize politicians instead of actually investigating the details of a certain policy.
Instead of openly debating how it may or may not be fair to add a loss limit in a bill containing a ton of other regulations and rules on oil companies to prevent such accidents or acknowledging the fact that Halliburton is the only company that can do certain jobs, we’re given smears of how “eeeevil” Dick & Dubya are because everythings a vile scam in service to their oil baron puppet masters. If we’re to believe those smears then the Dems who signed this bill must be REALLY evil and Obama must reall REALLY be a monster for doing things like awarding Halliburton a no bid contract for half a BILLION dollars. That’s an odd thing to do for someone who campaigned on the promise of not awarding any no-bid contracts over $25,000. Quick – remind me again: is 500 million more than 25 thousand?
President Bush was attacked for playing golf by critics who manufactured as much phony outrage that they could muster. Things got difficult for them when Bush stopped playing golf in 2003 because he agreed that it wasn’t a good image to be seeing the President enjoying a leisure sport while troops were engaged in combat. Since that destroys the entire smear of Bush being a heartless elitist robot that plays all day and cools off with a bottle of his own Blood of American Patriots brand of Gatorade, his haters had to scramble to turn even THAT into a “Bush is evil” meme by claiming he “lied” about not playing golf since he did in fact pick up a club after 2003 *gasp*. Good work, critics! You totally exposed a “lie” that in no way is a desperate attempt to cling on to a phony meme you invented despite being based on nothing but personal hatred!
Except now you’ve made a problem for yourselves. By inventing the ridiculous smear that a President playing golf is a soulless act that spits in the face of Lady Liberty, you fuck yourselves when the guy you like comes in and does that 8 times worse (literally).
President Obama has already played more golf than Bush ever did. 8 times more. Where as Bush canceled golf games as a symbolic gesture, Obama canceled a trip to Poland for the funeral (attendance of which is a symbolic gesture) of the Prime Minister and then played golf instead.
Obama, in his first year has already become the 8th most golf playing President in history. In one year Barack Obama has played 8 times more golf than George Bush did in 8 years.
But its all par for the course for Barry – which doesn’t make him “evil”, it makes him just as bad as any other politician who did similar unethical things. No problem there, UNLESS you call those other politicians evil corrupt manipulators and give a free pass to Obama because you like him better. That’s the definition of a hypocrite.
So here’s an idea: how bout we save the ‘that guy is evil’ stuff for real evil instead of just saying ‘its evil when THAT guy does it, but not MY guy’?”.