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once again, this ISN'T settling out of court. so stop saying that it is. First you say this is a out of court settlement, then you say they're still liable for lawsuits, and then say they're settling out of court. you're continuing to contradict yourself. Obama doesn't have the authority...

really? how so? thanks for your brilliant insight.

sounds like more excuses to me. more excuses to ignore the law.

funny, i thought you were trying to look out for the tax payers. what a joke. you champion policy that subverts the rule of law and then want to blame Republicans and Bush for Obama's failures. So to be clear, are you for or against bailouts? because in one post your argument is to protect...

the only reason BP would file bankruptcy would be because of the cost of compensating the people and businesses it hurt. if you're suggesting that BP would file bankruptcy as a method to avoid their obligation, then that's ridiculous. That only works for individuals that either have...

how about MORE ridiculous strawman arguments. funny how the OP was complaining about "partisan" politics but essentially made it a partisan complaint by blaming the republicans. you seem to follow that train of thought.

i don't follow :clueless: BP had a claims process already set up. I guess you're talking about lawsuits? so now you're saying that since the courts decide the outcome of the lawsuits, that the president should just speed up that process and eliminate the courts altogether by deciding...

That's the way a claims process work. What gives you the impression that BP wasn't meeting (which it was) or wasn't going to meet it's obligations? We have a court system for a reason. We also have a balance of power between the different branches of government for a reason. And when the...

there's nothing wrong with getting a down payment legally. Being summoned by the President, and then told you're going to put 20 billion in an escrow account to let the President decide who gets it. That doesn't sound like ethical and legal protocol, more like mafia style corrupt Chicago politics.

the federal government's claim? how so? this isn't even a claim to begin with. and it's to payout claims not the government. they aren't being charged $20 billion on top of everything?? no, they're being intimidated into giving up $20 billion on top of everything.

is that what this is? BP settling out of court? Even Obama explicitly said that the escrow account did not supersede either individuals' rights or states' rights to present claims in court, and said BP would continue to be liable for the environmental disaster it has caused.

you're making 2 different arguments here. payout of claims to businesses and individuals affected by the oil spill and the cost of cleaning up the oil spill. whatever accrued cost to the tax payer to clean the spill is supposed to be payed back by the responsible party. that's irrelevant to...

then why not just follow the rule of law.

so you're saying that without putting government in the middle of the claim process that tax payer's will be liable for damages? i say the exact opposite.

nice strawman

how about all the neolibs demagoging all things profit.

how about we follow the rule of law instead of the president trying to use his influence to get government in as the middleman of the claim process. so now the so-called independent third party in the claims process will be Kenneth Feinberg aka Obama's Pay Czar. The same guy that has the...

He did know. And the Nevada state athletic commission knew, yet they still cleared him to fight. :order: http://mmajunkie.com/news/19618/with-broken-hand-blurred-vision-and-staph-infection-matt-hamill-says-its-all-about-heart.mma

To be accurate, I don't really have a theory. I guess you can say I'm agnostic about it since I can see both sides as plausible. I guess I'm in the minority there, so either I'm giving Scorsese too much credit or I'm just wanting to believe that Teddy is sane. I realize the book is cut and...

correction: that Teddy was sane from the beginning. Even if you choose to believe that Teddy was insane, then you also have to believe he was sane at the end and chose to have the lobotomy to purge the memories of his past. But then that means he was faking the regressing in the conversation...