BREAKING on CNN-WH supports legislation stripping caps on liability for oil companies

[jenmito]

And then Anderson played the "whose ass to kick" clip, saying it sounds like Obama's had ENOUGH of BP AND his critics who say he hasn't been on top of this. :D

[PBS Poll-435]

1. NFS. And thanks Jen

:yourock:

[jenmito]

2. What does NFS mean?

I feel so naive. :blush:

[NYC_SKP]

4. .

(no f'n shit)

:P

I think!

Could be wrong....

:hi:

[jenmito]

8. Thanks...

even if you're wrong. :D

[Cha]

11. ..

Oh..I thought it was "need for speed". :)

[jenmito]

18. LOL!

Makes no sense, which is why it's so funny. :D

[Political Tiger]

19. Don't feel bad....I don't know what it means either. lol

Half these internet abbreviations go over my head...sometimes I'm forced to call my 18 year old nephew and ask him what they mean! :freak:

[jenmito]

21. OK...

then I don't feel so bad. :D

[Clio the Leo]

3. So is he actually saying.....

[jenmito]

6. He sure is...

he always does, though.

[Clio the Leo]

14. Well now that he's a potty mouth and all....

.... how awesome would it be for him to say that during a presser? "everyone chill the F out!" ...... the fallout would probably crash DU's servers. lol

[jenmito]

17. Yeah...

he should go GANGSTA on them MFers! :D

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Breaking --- BP explores bankruptcy filing

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. followed by a billion dollar taxpayer bailout

Fuck that. Seize their assets NOW.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. BP is too big to fail, make that a trillion.

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. Most of the corporations who are "too big to fail"

would be "too big to exist" without the last 30 years of corporate fellating deregulation. It's time to roll all that shit back to at least 1980.

[The_Casual_Observer]

20. There has been all of this bravado lately about how BP can afford

all these payouts to the common man & the environment. You know that they have no intention on doing any of that, they'll shut the whole motherfucker down & re-emerge under some other god damn name & it will all be legal-eagle.

[Sebastian Doyle]

25. Sad, but probably true

I've heard they're already trying to change signs at gas stations across the country. At least one report said they were changing them to "ARCO" stations. Wonder how long it will be before ARCO scrubs any mention of BP from their website?

[Cha]

Thanks jen~

[jenmito]

9. No problem, Cha!

[Peacetrain]

7. K&R!! my friend K&R!!

[jenmito]

10. Thanks, Peacetrain. n/t

[jenmito]

15. And to my surprise, Douglas Brinkley, Historian, seems to think Obama really

is "getting" it and LIKES what he heard, saying, "How could he NOT erupt like that?"

[AngryAmish]

22. Does anyone realize how stupid this is?

What should be done is something like the airline insurance fund - everyone pays in according to how much they fly and how risky the flights are. It is called the Warsaw convention - look it up.

All this "no liability cap" bs means is only the largest firms can afford to drill. This drives down the price of the leases and automatically creates an oligopoly.

This is nonsense on wheels.

And virtually everyone around here is a shithead. Cheers, you have created a permanent government supported oil cartel. hurrray.

[jenmito]

23. Right...

because this might put all those little "mom and pop" drilling companies out of business. You sound like the Repubs.

[ProSense]

24. "little 'mom and pop' drilling companies "

:rofl:

[jenmito]

26. ...

I didn't realize how funny that was 'til you pointed it out. :D

[phleshdef]

27. Do you realize how much money a company has to have to be able to drill at all?

[Cha]

28. Kick

[Arkana]

29. That's great--unfortunately, Republicans keep FUCKING BLOCKING IT

from coming to a vote.

[karynnj]

30. That should be a political liability

With the WH now behind it - if we can get all Democrats behind it, all we need is one Republican up for election in a close race in a state that feels that this is only fair.