BREAKING: a bailout for BP's oil spil

http://www.truemajority.org/index.php

As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig continues to spill over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf every day, Republicans are demanding less regulation for companies like BP and Transocean while also looking for a taxpayer-funded bailout of BP. Yeah, I'm serious.

After a month of oil spewing into the Gulf, the cost of cleaning up BP's mess is $542 million and counting. But a group of Republican senators led by Lisa Murkowski of Alaska want the company to pay for only the first five days of the cleanup and put taxpayers on the hook for everything else. That's right, Murkowski and her pals want to "Bail out BP."

We need to tell Murkowski and her Senate colleagues that this is not OK. Can you send a message to your Senators that it's time to end offshore drilling and focus on clean energy instead?

Send a message.

http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=71

I mean, how many gold plated political opportunities must they hand to the Democrats before Obama and his team actually use them? This should be an absolute slam dunk destroy all comers moment. Bailing out a foreign company that made tens of billions in profit last year?

That someone would take this position in itself is unimaginable. That they would publicize it proudly is beyond the scope of my wild imagination.

Pure D Hubris.

"want the company to pay for only the first five days of the cleanup"

Republicans: It's the government's fault.

No one is interested in hearing about any more bailouts at this point. Especially for an industry that is already SUBSIDIZED to the max by the American taxpayer.

The oil companies have been making HUGE PROFITS the last few years. They don't need our help.

I hope anyone who even thinks of this being an option finds themselves voted out next time they run. Ridiculous thought.

It's destroyed and at the bottom of the Gulf somewhere.

The riser from the well head snapped off the rig, that's what's leaking.

Criminy, who writes this stuff???

YouTube of the Deepwater Horizon Rig sinking.

BTW, I did use the link to send a message to Boxer and Feinstein.

For a detailed look at what's out there underwater, and the shock of your life, see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8385057

Recommending this post for the link.

Thanks.

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Figures it was "$400,000 donations from oil companies" Murkowski who just "casually mentions" this.

If their business is destroyed, so be it. They chose to be irresponsible and greedy, not the taxpayers.

The BP decisions makers should be held accountable, too. Monetarily and jail time.

This is where all Americans need to come together and say NO!

Companies like BP are only responsible when the make $$$$$$$ but when something goes wrong then it's our taxpayer money that bails them out. This is bullshit!

We need to make sure Americans know what these congress whores are doing to protect these companies that are breaking the back of America.

use toxic dispersants with impunity, and mark my words: taxpayers will be footing the bill for the cleanup, etc......

Lets BP off the hook.

Meanwhile the President has been over at West Point telling the graduating class that it is time for "A New World Order."

phone calls on this....they are they ones that are most likely to vote yes.

When it's completely BP's fault and BP has plenty of money to pay for the damages. But they want us to pay instead of BP.

God.

Pool would have to cover whether taxpayers are put on the hook, when they're put on, and for how much, either in percentage or in actual dollar amounts.

C'mon people, you know this is going to happen, one way or another.

What's a few billion more dollars.

Tax the people, waste the commons, all to provide bailouts and military for corporate ventures.

(quickly followed by voting for it while verbally condemning it, and claiming it was the only recourse because anything the democrats would have wanted to do wouldn't have had enough votes.)

:wtf:

Now let's see what the taxpayers are gonna do about it.Oh look,American Idol is on !

I guess the GOP is stealing from the Democratic playbook now.

fuck that,

they need to be sued to their last dollar.

after that. yes it will still take tax dollars to clean up the shit they wrought.