However, it seems as if they could let the oil stop spewing into the Gulf because of the greed and cost-cutting of BP before they rush to defend the oil giant and the oil industry in general. Of course, with their brainwashed, hate-filled base ready to follow anyone who spews Rush Limbaugh's maniacal talking points, they never feel they will be held accountable.
So that is why Republican Senate candidates this year think they can say anything. The tea-bag masses are fired up and out to get more imagined outrages and ready overthrow anything the government does, except of course for their own checks and benefits. That allows candidates such as Sharron Angle, and earlier Rand Paul to say such idiocies as this and not be completely shunned:
"Government shouldn't be doing that to a private company and I think you named it clearly, it's a slush fund," Angle said.
"The problem with even the EPA is that it's all about money. It's a taxing, fining agency. What we really needed was a management agency," said Angle.
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Uh, no the problem is that we have a candidate running for the Senate that does not realize that the EPA does not regulate offshore drilling but that the Mineral Management Service does. She also seems to forget that the rig that is still spewing oil into the Gulf was approved by the Corporate Republicans in the Bush Administration. Folks like her. Of course the government they created was a very bad thing, it catered only to the rich and Corporate America. They broke the rest of us and are holding on to the money used to bail them out.
Of course just like Rand Paul, Ms. Angle was soon backtracking and apolegizing:
"Having had some time to think about it, the caller and I shouldn't have used the term slush fund; that was incorrect," Angle said. "My position is that the creation of this fund to compensate victims was an important first step - BP caused this disaster and they should pay for it."
In other words Angle just wants to be yet another "angle" for Corporate America in our government. She just accidently told you what Republicans really believe like Rand Paul did.
And speaking of the Mad Doctor of Kentucky politics, it appears as if he has re-emerged from his Mitch McConnell-induced haitus. As if he needed any more he got a good dose of Corporate Republican fantasy land training and is now right on cue. He was blasted by Jack Conway in a joint appearance:
The comments came in response to blistering criticism by Democratic opponent Jack Conway at their first appearance together. Conway blasted Paul for saying in late May that Obama's stance toward BP was un-American and anti-business. Those and other comments by Paul led to a backlash at the time that caused the Republican to retreat from the national scene for a couple of weeks.
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Paul went on to give his new, McConnellized approach to the whole matter which of course was just Republicanspeak for let BP get off the hook and what the hell, toss some Corporate Welfare to them to get them kick-started again:
"I don't want them to go out of business when they can't pay for the mess, and that's what that kind of rhetoric could do," he said. "I want BP to be in business so it can afford to pay for the mess."
To his credit Jack Conway simply was not buying it. He ripped into Paul again:
Conway, who has run a low-key campaign so far, came out blasting Paul for the past comments on BP and for expressing misgivings about applying a portion of the Civil Rights Act to private businesses.
"Accountability is not going on national TV and saying that it's un-American to go after British Petroleum," said Conway, the state's attorney general. "Accountability is not having a world view where you think the government basically should never touch business whatsoever."
And that sums it up right there. Conway hit upon the Republican mindset that is so dangerous. They think that anything whatsoever should be sacrificed so the very few can enjoy huge profits. They cannot run government because they hate it. It regulates the actions of businesses that would exploit their workers and cut corners on safety and protecting the environment. That is of course, if the wrong people aren't running it.
The other side says we must get over blaming President Bush and to a point that is true. The Bush Administration left a record to follow and accurately represents the Republican ideology. Debt, deregulation, depressed wages, bailouts for the wealthy and the finger to the rest of us. I do not blame Bush anymore but a new generation of Republicans and some disgraceful Democrats who are more than ready to step in and carry on the tradition.
That is why they have to be stopped. We are still trying to fight off the effects of the damage they already did under Bush. Turning our economy and country back over to them would make our country legally insane, "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result". Republicans offer nothing but more extreme versions of the policies that almost destroyed our country to begin with. I just hope they keep speaking their minds and letting America know how they really feel.
That path can only lead them to their own demise on the political stage in the end.
See Jack Conway and Rand Paul go at it here:
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