re: #5 Charles

Meanwhile, the GOP base is unanimously declaring that Joe Barton was right.

The leaders of the GOP are trying to bail out the Crazy Ocean with a teaspoon.

That’s because the base has been fed the mantra that unregulated, big business capitalism is the best policy. “Drill, baby drill” is a appealing sound bite if you don’t consider the potential down side.
Now, all we hear about is the job losses from a hold on drilling, and very little about jobs losses “from” poorly regulated drilling, not to mention the decades of environmental damage.