Yeah, no kiddin'! Hankster, any lick of sense you've ever made has totally evaporated in this thread. Your unwavering support of conservatism and the Republican Party and the values of small government and now trying to have it both ways labels you as the poster child of RWnuttery. Your comebacks grow ever more feeble. You'd be more of a man to simply admit that the conservative values you stand for, and the Republican politicians and party you lean toward, are more likely than not to produce a governmental system that by virtue of "small government and less regulation," allows, permits, and facilitates catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. There's far less wrong with that than there is with the endless cut and pastes and your, "well the Deems did this and accepted that . . ." blathering. MMS failed and is incompetent precisely because that's how the Republican administration wanted it structured. The corporations that buy government, on balance buying more Rs than Ds, don't want strong government regulatory agencies. And that is why the federal laws intended to protect the environment are as weak as they are. Corporations got what they paid for.

There is a time and a place to defend conservative politics. If you were half as smart as you seem to think you are, you'd know that this oil spill topic isn't one of them. I used to enjoy the wing nut balance of KK you tried to bring to this forum. But you're really falling off the deep end here. You really ought to think about what you post in a topic like this if you expect to be taken seriously.

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