Politics in the US of A inherently brings out the best and brightest – but also the gross, ignorant and insipid. It is the yin and yang of it.
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...