….it's only a matter of time before some Republican apologizes to BP for getting the Gulf of Mexico in their oil.
Bachmann Quote Of The Day [Update: Rep. Barton (R-TX), Too!]
Wow. Just wow. Here is Rep. Michelle "Crazy As A Loon" Bachmann on the BP escrow fund to compensate Gulf shore residents for their losses: The president just called for creating a fund that would be administered by outsiders, which would be more of a redistribution-of-wealth fund. And now it appears like we’ll be looking at one more gateway for … Read More
Yet Another In A Series Of Posts All Relating To “How Much Oil Is Being Spilled”?
…. and like all the other posts, the answer is "More than we've been led to believe". Sigh: The new estimate is 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. That range, still preliminary, is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day. These new calculations came as the public wrangling between BP and the White … Read More
Should Taxpayers Pay For The Oil Spill?
Republican leaders think so. This is tremendously stupid politics. The public — particularly Republicans — are weary of taxpayer bailouts already. Now we want more? Oh, sure — count on Republicans to say, "Well, we bailed out the banks. So why not BP?" But that argument falls flat. The bailout of the banks was necessary to stem the economic downflow. … Read More
Another Oil Spill In The Gulf
Lovely: As if there wasn't enough oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, satellite images have revealed a 10-mile-long slick from another drilling rig, which apparently began leaking days after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began. Citing an environmental group and federal documents, the Mobile, Ala., Press- Register reports that the smaller leak, from the Ocean Saratoga platform, apparently began around … Read More
Religious Nutjobs Of The Day
From Newsweek, presented without comment: A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse? About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research … Read More
Visualization of Oil Spill Over Your Home
Here's what the oil spill would look like if it was centered at my home: Try it yourself.
Hurricanes and the Oil Spill
With hurricane season upon us, questions are being asked about the effect of hurricanes on the oil spill and, conversely, the effects of the oil spill on hurricanes. NOAA has the "answers", although it involves a lot of guesswork, since there's never been a situation where a major hurricane passed through an oil slick of this size. I have reprinted … Read More
How The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Turned The Right Wing Into Socialists (and Hypocrites)
Crazy Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), like many of her fellow Republicans, isn't satisfied with the federal response to the BP oil spill disaster because — get this — she wanted to see the federal government seize control and ownership of more private property. Seriously. "Where were the boats that could have been commandeered by the government to be sent into this … Read More
BP Gas Pump In The Near Future
More anti-BP internet memes here, including a nice re-working of their logo.
Obama’s Katrina?
A lot of "serious" right-wing contributors are comparing the Obama's response to the Oil Spill to Bush's response to Katrina. Read, for example, how unhinged the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. She continues: I wonder if … Read More
