Seize BP? Yeah, that's a great idea..... not!

[Dorian Gray]

The thread title is based on a sign someone was holding in the clicky picture on Yahoo. I'm not posting it for obvious reasons (rhymes with Mule Whore).

Anyway, on with the OP:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl2270

Public opinion is turning on Obama, OF COURSE divided along party lines, and OF COURSE increasing as more time goes on with no pluggy oil hole.

I think when this started, Republicans stupidly and knee-jerkingly started calling it Obama's Katrina. They were all idiots. Katrina was a hurricane, predicted days or weeks in advance, in a hurricane-prone area. However, it was his non-Katrina not to be actualized, and I also think he should have gotten right on that with stern rulings and time-based penalties (e.g., for every X hours of leak, BP must pay $Y million dollars). He didn't do that. So he's got an Obama tropical storm, and if he doesn't jump on BP and ride them constantly until they fix it, then perception will be that it's just as much his fault as theirs.

He's been, as James Carville said in the article, too hands-off.

 

[geni]

However, it was his non-Katrina not to be actualized, and I also think he should have gotten right on that with stern rulings and time-based penalties (e.g., for every X hours of leak, BP must pay $Y million dollars).

1)I doubt he has the legal power to do that
2)BP would react by citing the $75 million cap and walking away from the leak.

 

[Dorian Gray]

And that would be a good thing for BP to do.... why? But hey, it WOULD take the heat off Obama once again.

 

[Darth Rotor]

... if he doesn't jump on BP and ride them constantly until they fix it ...

He'll have to ride somebody else. Wrap the rascal, in any case.

 

[geni]

And that would be a good thing for BP to do.... why?

Because BP are already facing costs well in excess of the cap.