Old Rocks
Diamond Member
I'm not feeling the love.
Why exactly are conservatives desperately trying to make gulf coast residents pay for this disaster caused by BP, a foreign company?
I'm wondering if the middle class is finally understanding which party is on their side?
http://www.usmessageboard.com/the-f...-conservative-exceptionalism.html#post2425152
The middle class should get a pretty good clue on this as their tax cuts expire, their employers cut their health care and the price of gas rises to $5.00 per gallon.
I have no problem at all with BP paying for the damages related to the oil spill. It's the process. There was no negotiation in the sense of real negotiations. It was the Godfather style negotiation technique. "When I leave this room, your signature or your brains will be on this contract." That is technically a negotiation, but factually, not at all.
That was the negotiation technique of the Administration.
If, on the other hand, this is a negotiation in the truest sense of the word, what was given up to BP? No word on that.
If one team in the negotiation has a gun on the table and the other is allowed only to agree, that is not a negotiation. It is something else.
If you endorse this use of authority for one, you endorse it for all. What will be your attitude when they come to your table?
In other words, hurray for Exxon and the stalling technique that kept it from having to pay the real damages it inflicted on the people of Alaska.
Your true colors are showing loud and clear. Defend the indefensible, as long as it is a major corperation. And the hell with the people of America.