Halliburton also bought Boots and Coots, an oil clean-up company, 8 days before the gulf oil disaster.
Sue them. Sue them. Sue them.
If Exxon had been rightfully punished, as the Alaskan Court decided 20 years ago, this might have been avoided. But instead, the $5 Billion punitive settlement was cut to $2.5B and ultimately to $500 Million. Thanks US Supreme Court! Now Libertarians are coming out of the woodwork, saying that the gulf spill wouldn't have happened if One Man owned the ocean because he could sue for damages.
Free Markets are NOT the solution. Selling the oceans and forests is not the solution. We need to nationalize the oil companies, and JAIL the offenders.
Justices who favor corporations (i.e. Kagen & Monsanto) are the ENEMY.

I had a chilling thought the other day. Was Cheney in cahoots with somebody to blow this rig up? Yikes!

Republicans have never hesitated to harm the nation in favor of coddling campaign donors. Cheney orchestrated much of this whenever he could.

It could be because when Dick Cheney dies, he wants to take the whole world with him.

This dude is really the anti-Christ! He will be remembered as one of the three most evil men in the 21st century.

The other two are GW Bush and Karl Rove.

As for Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Hannity, Glen Beck, these guys are just demons in the service of Satan, himself.

What is wrong with this is, yes, they will also die, but they will resurface again later on in the future. Evil always surfaces when human kind forgets.

I like the characterizatio n of this as "Cheney's Katrina", other than the point that it's actually his second. But, just how is it "Obama's Katrina", any more than it was Obama that bailed out the banks that were too big to fail?

I'm no cheerleader for Obams--I think he knew he was promising CHANGE in Washington that a President doesn't have the power to provide--but the offshore rigs were off the leash thanks to Cheny, and the bleeding from dog bites you can't reach is hard to stop.

In the thirty years of Corporations Uber Alles, the United States has wantonly sacrificed all that is decent, righteous and estimable to the axiom of profits for few. The historical review of a nation that bankrupted its values for a sea of oil will not be kind. Bush glibly shouts out for international war crimes. Cadres of 'black ops' agents murder, plunder and terrorize with impunity and encouragement from a populace willing to trade respect for a false security.

Our civil rights have been exchanged for a quid pro quo of hedonism and rapacity, where you have a right to personally self destruct while the powerful burn the globe.

Thirty years of apocalyptic 'scorched earth' style politics and demonizing our own citizens have resulted in a polarized, spiteful and resentful country, where many are certain that they are getting the oily end of the shaft, but don't have any viable recourse but to find someone to blame, and to feel victimized by.

Dick Cheney is silent because he knows he is responsible for the many catastrophes involving the oil industry. Now, the thing to do is to get all the former Bush appointees and Bush/Cheney minded people out of the current administration. I'm not sure this will help but it's a start. I am not so naive as to think that there aren't more of these unscrupulous people waiting in the wings to take their place.

What I can't understand is how these unscrupulous people can't foresee the terrible future that will result from their actions.

This reminds me of the Three Stooges; Halliburton breaks it, then hire Halliburton to fix it. The Stooges were repairing lunch pails that had holes in them for "a nickle a hole." First they were punching the holes in the workers' lunch pails. Another time was when they were exterminators and could not find work. They climbed into someone's house, put mice, ants, and bugs everywhere, climbed out of the window and rang the doorbell asking the lady of the house if they need exterminators. She said yes, "Heaven must have sent for you."

Dich Cheney is silent because he has already prevailed. Industrialized life needs oil, coal and gas. Try living without these energy resources. If big energy shut down their systems for 30 days you would see what your life would become. Do not flip the switch, go outside and read. About 3 weeks from now you would not have to go to the service station for gasoline because you will know that there is none. When we had the situation in 1973 John Denver went and purchased 3,000 gallons of fuel for his tank. What size is your tank?