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MonkeyF0cker

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I've been watching the Senate hearing of BP CEO Tony Hayward all day. It's appalling how stupid these Senators are. They were asking questions that I could have answered and I don't know shit about oil rigs. It was a bumbling, stumbling circus. For a bunch of people who had a guy on the hotseat, they actually made him look good. How the fuck is that possible? All of those idiots on the bench should be ejected. Massive fail.
 
Oh, while we're on the topic of government, I have a question. Many of my liberal hippie friends continue to prattle on about Obama's eloquence and obvious gift for public speaking. I honestly can't see it; I watched him when he ran for the Senate in IL and he was a much better speaker then than he is now. It's too obvious that he's parsing his own words whenever he moves away from prepared remarks. Am I off base, or are my hippie friends just too stoned to know their ass from a hole in the ground?
 
In comparison to the rest of the political field, I suppose you could call Obama eloquent. However, against a normal segment of the population, he's nowhere close. Watching the Senate hearing today seriously made me wonder how any of those people have jobs. There was a lot of "Uhh... Ahh... Umm..." followed by third grade strategic attacks at Hayward. It was as if they were surprised when the CEO wasn't willing to admit fault in this oil spill. "Err.. Uhh.. Umm.. Well, you can't have it both ways." was the retort by one Senator after asking about a bunch of problems with the failsafe component on the rig. He asked him about a bunch of emails that indicated that there were problems with it and that they had modified the component. He asked Hayward why they didn't try to fix it. "That's what we were attempting to do." No shit. The Senator was baffled by that response. It was a disgraceful display of the absolute ineptitude of these Senators. It made me sick.
 
Wow, sounds like I missed one of the all-time lows of Senatorial Conduct, which is a bummer since I wasn't alive to see Ted Kennedy weasel out of homocide during the Chappaquiddick incident. On the flip side, I wonder if the Senate isn't now a better reflection than it's ever been of the average American citizen, plodding through life with nothing more than a sense of entitlement and a third-grade mentality.
 
The oil companies have congress and the senate by the short and curlys. The last 8 Presidents promised to end our dependency on oil and fossil fuels. That's going back to Nixon. All of which stood up there and set a timeline for the US to no longer be dependent on oil that would end just outside of their last term. This will never happen. The tragedy in the Gulf could happen again and again and nothing will ever change. Oil means money for Senate and Congress in the form of 'campaign contributions'.
 
I watched some of it, what little of it I could stomach...

what was the purpose of it?
to get BP to admit it was their fault? like that was gonna happen

there will be an ongoing investigation until the public forgets about it with the next big tragedy
Is it hurricane season yet?
 
MonkeyF0cker
They were asking questions that I could have answered and I don't know shit about oil rigs. It was a bumbling, stumbling circus.
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I didn't watch it because I've seen that crap too many times. It's almost as if the senators are there solely to try and make themselves look good by attempting to belittle whoever is being questioned and turning the whole thing into a circus. Unless there is a history of former senators making it onto the judging panel of American Idol, they should really think about trying to do a better job.
 
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