A Republican Apology...

Oh to the Big Business that they so dearly love, 

a moment we all can treasure;  APOLOGIA

the spirit of a political party  on display.  

Just like the rupture in the belly of the Gulf of Mexico, the true nature of a thing is revealed in the most dramatic terms. YES, the Republican Party values its corporate sponsors greater than this country, greater than the value placed on human life.  As if to them, life is unfortunately common, billionaire donors are unfortunately rare.  Well, let's see...if a man dumped 500 million barrels of oil on Joe Barton's lawn, he would apologize to the man if we demanded he pay for the clean up, or for the neighbors properties that then become toxic, cancer causing hazards...right Congressman, an APOLOGY TO THE MAN WHO POISONED THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT. 

It is important to remember, the oil companies do not own the oil, the oil belongs to everyone, it was made by the Sun and stored in Nature's vast undersea storage facility, the energy of the Sun... the oil companies simply get it and sell it back to us for enormous profits.  So it is not too much to ask that they do it carefully and prudently, and--if they make a mess, have a plan, resources for fixing it.

A bailout, a shakedown, ohh... the agony of making a rich donor pay a small price for an unfixable damage to the world.  So revealing this is, the true nature of the bungling oil industry, how willing they are to risk the assets we all need for survival; and how utterly contemptuous the Republican Party has become of the intelligence of the American People.

Republicans in the business world...

many of the major corporations and the military leadership have a common thread of Republican affiliation, it is in the cultures and  runs deeply, McCain over Obama deeply--and that is like Grand Canyon Deep, yes?
But consider the Republican's Supreme Court and its incredible bias towards giant corporations over the little people of the country- and by that I include the children, working families--people not living off the equity of the country; and consider the impacts of business on our lives--

shipping of our jobs and careers away for the country
moving whole industries away from the US
making a global preference for foreign workers
making tax laws favorable to global business and 
tax incentives for moving businesses out of the US
massive layoffs
massive bailouts
massive profits from military adventures 
and politically inspired wars such as the invasion of Iraq

The point is A Republican strategy to make things better or worse in the country would be an easy thing to accomplish, perhaps as simple as raising gasoline prices because of the Gulf Spill, or deciding it is a good time to cut back and trim payrolls- by the tens of thousands.  Or deciding to drop gasoline prices, deciding it is good to hire people here in the US.  We trust that these decisions are made without regard to political impact in the private sector, but after seeing the burn the earth strategy against the Health Care Reform in the Congress, a year of Senate filibusters...why in the world would we believe that!!!

Oh, and that Gulf Spill, it will have Obama's name all over it, in the fall elections---so he is doing the right thing to give it priority, so so very busy he has been cleaning up one after another Bush Era mess

a legacy for us all to endure, the badness of King George...on the humorous side, won't it be a hoot hearing Republicans talk about fixing the environment!!!!

The Gulf Oil Spill shows...

the business and greed  of people, the footprint of mankind on the environment, has the power to poison our world.  The Gulf Spill needs no exaggeration, no melt through to China story, no horror story about bumps in the night; this is the disaster that men could cause, unfolded before our disbelieveing eyes, it is already worse than we could imagine.
A school child, on the day after the explosion, said to me: " My teacher said there is an oil well in the ocean pouring oil into the sea and it could poison the whole Gulf of Mexico."  I smiled and had not even connected the explosion to the open well gushing oil. Then I thought-- the oil will stop, or the company will plug the well.  I thought about the first Gulf War when the oil wells were set on fire, how they never went out until we capped them.
Now, we are mute witnesses, because the company has so much money it does not need to listen to us.  It had no reliable plan for this event, and this event was not unlikely.  It was likely and still is.  The Bush years still haunt us, when government was like a rich man's toy.  Our chickens became diseased, and we still ate them, our government became the ministry of fear and alarm, we watched the colors of the alerts and felt afraid; New Orleans sank while the White House plotted against Democrats, we winced at the sight of destruction--although it affected me deeply, I wonder how many still feel anything.  Now the Bush policies that allow a corporation to ignore risks to the world for its profits; a Supreme Court that gives BP - a foreign corporation- the Constitutional Right to spend its billions to influence our elections, and who could blame them, if the Bush people allowed this disaster to take shape--they are worth every penny BP will will spend to get rid of Obama.