From the VOMITORIUM

For the past year and half the GOP has been pissing and moaning about the destruction of our country at the hands of Obama and the Dems……first it was health reform and then it was the FinReg and now it is the oil spill and the steps taken or not taken by the White House…….Repub after Repub has gotten up in front of anyone with a mic or a webcam to bitch about the lack of measures taken by the president…..

All in all it is for political gain…they seem to care nothing for the people that are being totally screwed by the spill…oh, they mention the American people but fail to come up with an idea….even a bad idea…..but all that is about to change…they now have a plan to stick it to BP….(Yeah and I am a Mexican gardener)…….

House Minority Leader John Boehner went on the record this weekend in support of lifting the $75 million cap on BP’s liability for damages caused by the catastrophe, he and his party for weeks had opposed Democratic efforts to retroactively and permanently lift that cap so that BP ponies up for this spill and so that damages from future spills are the full responsibility of the oil companies that cause them.Last week, as controversy over the GOP’s position on BP raged, Boehner’s office suggested that a better way to hold the oil giant accountable for the current spill would be to pass legislation sponsored by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) who proposes lifting the cap on BP, but leaving the $75 million cap in place — punting for now on the question of what to do about future spills.

Vitter’s bill, they say, doesn’t require BP to do anything, doesn’t address the systemic problem of the liability cap, and may not even be constitutional — all things the Democratic alternative, pushed by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), would address.

“This bill has massive loopholes that BP could walk right through, and it leaves in place the liability limit for every future oil spill,” Menendez spokesman Afshin Mohamadi tells me. “Protecting oil companies is a political albatross around the necks of Republicans, so they are using this bill as a talking point. But it’s nothing more that — it has no teeth.”

This is just pure bunk…..BP, if this bill is adopted, could just walk away from their responsibility with little or NO penalty……I would like to see a list of Vitter’s campaign donors…bet we would find a oil company or two in there….

There is already a precedent set by the Supreme Court on the Valdez thing and I would bet that the lawyers for BP are already looking at it for future reference….