Maybe the National Hurricane Center should suspend the normal alphabetical listing of storm names and call the first Gulf storm, “Hurricane Toxic Stu.”
BP or “Beyond Petroleum-and-into-destroying-one-of-the-world’s-great-oceans” will get a visit today from President Obama. He will, no doubt, kick their corporate ass before donning his Aquaman suit, swimming down 5,000 feet and plugging the volcano himself with one of the whale carcasses he may find.
Why has the U.S. government not seized the assets of those companies? Why have they not been shut down? Why have the assets of BP, Transocean & Halliburton not be placed into a trust to immediately begin saving the Gulf’s wildlife and provide assistance to the hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents...