Rand Paul Says WH Criticism of BP is 'un-American'

[tomm2thumbs]

Run time: 02:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLhyPnZgKgg   Posted on YouTube: May 21, 2010 By YouTube Member: ThinkProgress2 Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 21, 2010 By DU Member: tomm2thumbs Views on DU: 1709

 

Rand Paul is certainly digging his way to the bottom of the barrel of Politics.

He says the oil disaster isn't necessarily someone's fault... 'accidents happen'. Then he goes on to say he doesn't even know how BP was regulated. Seems like he just likes to hear his own tongue wagging rather than speaking coherently about issues he knows about.

_____

Keep it up Rand - the newest Palin of the GOP Party.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Does he look like his brain is functioning?

[CoffeeCat]

2. I was wondering how the tea partiers...

...felt about the oil spill and BP. I actually thought this
was an issue under which we could all be united. Isn't it
obvious that a lack of deregulation (that BP paid our politicians
to obtain) caused this disaster?

If the tea partiers aren't in an uproar, then they truly are the
biggest political hypocrites.

This oil spill is a clear evidence that our Constitution is not being
followed--and that corporations, together with corrupt politicians--have
usurped "We The People."

Anyone know what the tea baggers are saying about the spill?

[rurallib]

3. This guy is one condescending little frat boy prick

Goddamn but he minds me of Shrubeenie

[scentopine]

4. BP will put a little something extra in his stocking at christmas time...

the "free" market at work. Ron and Rand - these are two nasty people.

[donco6]

5. A pro-corporate populist?

Wow - there's a combo to make you go HUH?

[Crowman1979]

17. It's about as ridiculous as a pro-life feminist.

[donco6]

18. Or a gay Republican. n/t

[Enthusiast]

22. Wouldn't have believed it if

I had not heard it. Unreal.

[PA Democrat]

6. BP is spewing oil; Rand Paul is spewing BS.

The more he talks the more he reveals himself as shallow and despicable. How DARE Obama talk badly about BP, that is SOOOOO "un-American"! But I'm sure Rand Paul has NO problem with the millions spent by corporate interests to smear politicians on the public airwaves.

I need to check my thesaurus to see if libertarian is a synonym for hypocrite.

[dsharp88]

7. Holding a British oil co. accountable for destroying part of the U.S.A. is... un-American????

He must have had a big bowl of insanity for breakfast this morning.

[lame54]

8. Side with BP - Keep digging that hole

[fascisthunter]

9. keep talking.... Hmmmm... who will Americans side with? BP or...

just keep talking.

[handmade34]

10. beyond words

I am just incredulous... his attitude is what is wrong with this country

[Flipper999]

11. Hooray for... BP?

What is this shit?

[formercia]

13. More like:" Hooray for Wall Street!!!"

http://shareholders.morningstar.com/owners/MajorShareholders.aspx?t=BP

[formercia]

12. BP=British Petroleum

It has nothing to do with the US. It is a foreign corporation, operating in the US.

[nightrain]

14. knr. Thanks. Yep. Keep it up Rand, the latet GOP Palin electee! LOL!!!

[Grassy Knoll]

15. What a sickening little fuck.....

He reminds me of Eddie Haskell

[Hulk]

16. "....they're very brave people...." doh, maybe they're VERY DESPERATE people??

These men and women need to feed their families....THAT'S why they go into those stinking, dangerous coal mines. It's NOT cause they are "brave". What a moron.

A GREAT representative for the tea-baggers in this country. Let's see just how f*cked up this nation really is...or how f*cked up KY citizens are. Are they going to elect this clown? Just another male version of "the lip-stick pig".

Nation of morons.

[billymayshere]

19. Yes! The hits keep coming!

In three days Rand has given his opponent ammo for the duration of the campaign. How sweet would it be if this free market freek gives us a southern seat in the Senate?

[Raoul]

20. Reguritator Mouth!

Yeah Curly, just keep shooting your mouth off and Kentucky will have another Democratic senator.. ROFL!!
This guy makes the teabaggers look almost normal. LOL

[herbm]

21. How does he keep a straight face? He really, really believes his illogical spew.

[izquierdista]

25. He studied under the master

I wonder if he has as good an aim with a seltzer bottle....

[herbm]

27. I tmakes me understand why dad has never made his racial outlook public.

I can't believe Rand didn't learn this on his daddy's knee. I know what my grand-dad and dad claimed about race and I know where the old man got his racial attitudes. As a kid on somebodies knee.

[LuckyTheDog]

23. What a tool.

The phrase "shut the fuck up you stupid douche bag" gets over-used. But in this case, it's the only appropriate response.

[herbm]

29. Isn't calling a douchebag a "Rand Paul " just a little harsh. Douchebags got feelings, too.

[izquierdista]

24. The best description of his candidacy

Accidents happen :rofl: :rofl:

[Devil_Fish]

26. Why is any one listening to this guy? he admits he dosn't know anything, and clames to be a pro.

He is a walking Oxy Moron.

[MrModerate]

28. One of my jobs involves safety for a large engineering and construction firm . . .

And history and science prove Rand Paul both a fool and a villain: accidents *don't* just happen.

In properly run companies (and private homes, I might add), you institute broad and deep safety programs that educate, engage, and evolve your people so that you can literally approach zero accidents. You design processes that are so full of fail-safes and inherently-safes that even when people err (generally due to a moment's inattention), there are so many levels of procedural and physical prevention in place that there is little or no negative outcome.

So when two people die in a coal mine in Rand Paul's state, that's not an accident "just happening," it's management not doing its job correctly and allowing lethal conditions to persist until some poor schmo gets it in the neck. And when you talk about criminal enterprises like BP and Halliburton -- who make most of their money by cutting corners and turning a blind eye (sometime I'll tell the story again about how Halliburton nearly got me killed in Iraq because they we're trying to save a few bucks) -- what they call "accidents" are more accurately described as inevitable outcomes.

We went after the big shots at Enron who looted the country of billions of dollars. How about going after the BP and Halliburton big shots who've looted the entire Caribbean Basin?