Rand Paul: "Criticism of BP Un-American"!  

Well I can kinda see what he is saying. BP has said they will pay the bill. Why is the president all over them about the cost of the oil spill when they have already said to Obama they will pay it. Just send them the bill...only get ugly about the bill if they refuse to pay it. But so far (and I mean so far) BP has said they will pay it whatever the cost is.

As for what happened.....I have not seen an official report yet...so I can't say if it was an "accident" which yes can happen. Or if BP could have avoided what happened. So I can't say either way right now. If the reports shows it was a fluke that a three fail safes failed at the same time. Fine it was an "accident" and we need to look at how to make sure that kind of 'accdient" does not happen again. If it comes out that BP was grossly negligant in their safety protocols....then I say the American people need to go after BP with everything they have.

Personally being a free market guy...he is probly thinking that if anyone should be "putting their boot on the BPs throat" it should be the American consumer. Don't like the way BP runs it's company? Don't buy BP gas. Don't stop at a BP gas station. Get your gas somewhere else.

As for the "controversy" over his civil rights comments....well one..they have been blown out of proportions. Two...he needs to do a better job of explain his free market views in more detail. I know all about free market so I know what he is talking about...but a lot of people don't. which leaves room for misconceptions and misunderstandings.
As for the "tea party"...well he better thank them. The tea party in Kentucky worked their butts off (most for free) to work on his campaign.By the way...the tea party is pretty big in Kentucky. If elected...he will serve the state of Kentucky....which from the look of the primary most of them tend to agree with his views. Which would mean they agree with most of the tea party views.
We will have to wait and see in November for the general. But Rand won that primary by a "rand slide" as some of us like to say.

I don't know much of anything about Rand Paul. But I do see that myLot is buzzing about the guy.

The usual stuff - some for, others against in any possible way they can be against.

I find it funny he's autmatically transformed into a typical politician by the media, while he won the primary for not being part of the same machine.

Annie, I thin what he meant was that the comments from the administration were uncalled for. BP said from the very beginning that they wuld do everything they could to fix it and will pay all legitimate claims. The Administration kept hounding over something un needed. what the hell else were BP supposed to do? What warrants such a juvenile threat as
'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP

Interestingly, just 18 days before the spill, Obama said of his plans to expand off-shore drilling:

"I don’t agree with the notion that we shouldn’t do anything. It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn’t come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore."

BP might be in a position to put some blame on Transocean, since BP didn't design or build the rig, Transocean did and the rig was on lease to BP. However, BP has not said anything to dispute its legal obligations regarding claims stemming from the oil spill. It seems a bit ridiculous to be publicly threatening them over something that has not happened. Especially since BP was a finalist for a safety award from the Obama administration until this happened.

I guess if you are not completely anti-business, any business, you can understand the posturing and blame game of saying something as ridiculous as threatening to put your boot heel on the throat of a company. One very good reason to believe that BP wouldn't negligently allow such a spill is that they lose a lot of money and don't make any money off oil spilling into the ocean. Seems unlikely that it could be anything but an accident.

This is a tragedy, but like most tragedies there are only so many things you can do to prevent them. Perhaps, if Rand Paul, when he was two years old, had made a statement in favor of passing the civil rights act, no one would question his support for it now. It's clear that suggestions that he wants to repeal it are flights of imagination from some media commentators. It's very unlikely that other candidates will be quizzed on their stances on legislation passed when they were toddlers.

I think he's trying to appeal to the voters who show a modicum of common sense. I hope there's enough of them. Based on the Congress we have now, I wonder...

You won't find me on MyLot much these days (I spend more of my time on the Huffington Post - some great comments on Rand Paul there in the last couple of days if you want to check it out).

As I am not American I do not like to get into this sort of discussion too much, but I was always under the impressions that Americans laid great store upon the efforts of small businesses. So what do people make of the people running small fishing businesses in the Gulf who may lose their livelihoods long-term as a result of this oil spill? Is it un-American to offer them support?

And if it is simply a matter of them suing BP for compensation, who will be able to afford the better lawyers? This could drag on for years as happened in the Exxon Valdez case.

Eventually when a big company makes a major mistake that may affect the well-being of thousands of people, why is it wrong to criticise them?

..Hi annie, Dr. Paul has stepped in it up to his eyeballs and he will need all his skills as an opthomologist to extract himself. What the hay, is this his way of saying let the free market do whatever they very well want to do and let them as well keep on drilling. We can handle a little "accident". These strange people never cease to amaze me. These are not theories this man is espousing, he truly believes what he is saying. He was not ready as someone said, for prime time. you don't deliberate with yourself on television on the Civil Rights Act, as he did with Rachel the other night. I hope the Democrat who faces him in November is prepared to debate the issues to continue to expose Dr. Paul's flawed soul as he has already started to do himself. I really think some in the Tea Party are wondering what and who they endorsed. "o) I love it. Take care.