He's right about everything they report him saying, but he's also kicked BP's ass. He twisted their arms into funding a $20B cleanup escrow and to forego a dividend.
Hasn't the 'Obama got big bucks from BP' storyline been debunked? I seem to remember reading that almost all of the money he supposedly got from BP came from employees of the company and not from the company's Keystone Cops management.
But I forget, the facts don't seem to matter in an era where you can get paid big bucks to lecture on Abstinence Only, while holding onto your teenage daughter's illegitimate baby. In the age of Birthers and Flying Spaghetti Monster fanatics.
I'm not sure what Obama did was constitutional.
Shouldn't we have sued BP instead of arm twisting'??
... what if the BP portion of the cleanup is more than $20N??
Kano
So, you think we should make an international political issue with Britain out of what an oil company has done?
"I think it's fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending,"
He is prob right, and many people here would have been posting headlines like "Obama spends more money, makes gas higher, pockets cash!!" I wouldnt ever mention names ofcourse ^ Points above.