I already sent a letter to my congressman about that.  his name is Eric Cantor and he is one of the ring leaders!  I wish I had some one to vote for this election, but I cant vote for a democrat and I refuse to vote for Cantor!!!!

Guess we know where you stand on due process, Infidel.  Furthermore, they've added red tape, not cut through it, finding ways to delay & obstruct effective measures on dubious grounds.

It's one thing to defend their actions, which I don't, and quite another to treat the company extra-legally, for which an apology would be in order.

As someone who called into C-SPAN said during the first break after Barton's comments: "I guess we know who's in the pocket of big oil."

Barton has received over $100k from BP.

So in other words the government shouldn't listen to the people who are affected?

I doubt BP would have leaped to secure a deal for 20b unless it was a cap on liability.  They get off cheap for 20b when you consider the magnitude of what they have done in the Gulf. If you think Tony Hayworth and BP deserve an apology, then go read some of their internal documents. start with the 'three little pigs' model and work your way to the worst case scenario 100,000 bpd into the gulf... then watch Barton's pathetic apology to Tony Hayworth again and see if you feel the same way.

You and Infidel are talking apples & oranges, Anthony.

I happen to agree there is only one reason BP would agree to the 'shakedown' - to offload the administrative cost and limit their liability exposure.  But if you were BP, you'd look to do exactly the same thing if given the option.  The fiduciary responsibility to shareholders would demand it.

My point is that the administration gave BP the cover to do just that, while trashing due process, to which BP should have been subjected.  They should never have been given the option.

Allowed to stand, there is nothing to stop this or any other administration from ignoring due process and confiscating whatever it wants for whatever reason it gins up.  You might not like it so much with a less 'evil' 'perp'.

Obama isn't from Texas. Barton, like Bush, has that big oil mentality.

I knew you'd see it my way.

Stupid is as stupid does.  So Obama is Al Capone?  By your logic he must be.  They are both from Chicago.

You don't really know that.

I can tell just by looking at him.

wonder how the founders reacted to the gradually expanded notion that natural individual person = corporation...besides rotating in their graves at an increasingly rapid velocity until there long ago ceased to be any remnants therein remaining.

i also wonder how any serious man or woman of authentic american conservative political persuasion who would in any other circumstance claim to be fully supportive of state vs federal sovereignty and just as fully opposed to judicial legislation is somehow able to accept--much worse endorse--the bizarre notion our constitution affords the same rights and protections to corporations as it does natural persons.

next thing ya know the 5th amendment will be voided by enemies of freedom forcing corporate entities to incriminate themselves.