In Congress, which has an approval rating even lower than Joe Biden’s IQ, lawmakers were thrilled to be able to degrade and humiliate someone looked upon with more disfavor than themselves – oil executives.
CNN noted that “A hearing to discuss the future of national energy policy in the wake of the Gulf oil disaster got pretty ugly Tuesday. Lawmakers slammed executives from five of the world’s largest oil companies. At one point Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., called on Lamar McKay, chairman and president of BP America, to quit his job. Rep. Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao, R-Louisiana, went so far as to suggest McKay try a type of ritual suicide.”
Although the meeting called by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass) was intended to “focus on the ongoing spill, renewable energy development and the effect of President Obama’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling”, It quickly degenerated into a celebration of The Most Ass Kicking President In History’s new get tough policy.
Lawmakers took turns lambasting the oil executives about their poor contingency plans saying “Those plans included ’embarrassing’ errors like a reference to protecting walruses, which haven’t lived in the Gulf Coast for at least 3 million years, and the phone number of a marine biologist who died five years ago.”
(Strangely enough, rumor has it that the deceased biologist voted for Obama last year, but we digress.)
In truth the oil companies plans were horribly outdated and ill equipped to deal with any disaster. Unlike our government’s contingency disaster plan which, which no matter what the disaster may be, calls for raising taxes and passing massive new legislation designed to reduce the United States to third world status.
And that plan seems to be working perfectly so far.
Source: CNN
