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Rep. Joseph Cao asks oil execs to commit "hari-kari"
http://www.wwl.com/Cao-calls-for-BP-head-to-kill-himself/7472051 ^

Posted on 06/15/2010 2:02:35 PM PDT by kcvl

Members of Congress chastised the largest oil companies Tuesday, accusing them of being no better prepared than BP to avert an environmental catastrophe.

As the oil executives testified at a House hearing, Rep. Joseph Cao said: "In the Asian culture, we do things differently," Cao said. "During the samurai days, we'd just give you a knife, and ask you to commit hari-kari."

As the oil executives testified at a House hearing, Rep. Henry Waxman asserted that the companies' spill response plans amounted to "paper exercises" that mirrored BP's failed plan. Their strategies to plug a spill deep beneath the sea are the same failed strategies that have stymied BP, the California Democrat said.

The other companies "are no better prepared to deal with a major oil spill than was BP," said Waxman, setting the tone for a tense hearing.

But the executives sought to distance themselves from BP, telling lawmakers they would not have drilled the Deepwater Horizon well in the same way as the British company. They suggested some of BP's design decisions and actions may have jeopardized well integrity.

One lawmaker after another expressed frustration at BP's inability to stop oil gushing from its stricken well as the chief executives representing ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell - as well as BPAmerica - sat shoulder to shoulder at the witness table.


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To: ColdOne

Cao. The only RINO to vote Yes on Obamacare, when it first came up last Fall. Big pro-lifer, and pro-suicide? Go back to Vietnam if you like Hari-Kari so much.


21 posted on 06/15/2010 2:32:30 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative (Kyle Smith)
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To: kcvl

I’m glad he didn’t become a priest. We have enough socialist priests in this country already.


22 posted on 06/15/2010 2:33:36 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative (Kyle Smith)
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To: Windy City Conservative
Cao. The only RINO to vote Yes on Obamacare

A little context here -- HIS CONSTITUENTS ( the hopeless city of New Orleans) were IN FAVOR of the bill by a huge margin. He was their representative and they gave him a piece of their mind at their town hall.

The GOP allowed him to cast the favorable vote when they knew that all was lost and his casting a no vote would not have mattered one way or the other.
23 posted on 06/15/2010 2:36:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: kcvl
At least he didn't ask the BP bigwig to commit Harry Caray
24 posted on 06/15/2010 2:37:30 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind
A little context here -- HIS CONSTITUENTS ( the hopeless city of New Orleans) were IN FAVOR of the bill by a huge margin. He was their representative and they gave him a piece of their mind at their town hall.

For good or bad, I'd give Cao props for listening to his constituents. If more Congress-critters would do that, the whole nObama-care fiasco would have gone down in flames to begin with.

25 posted on 06/15/2010 2:38:43 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: kcvl
ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell - as well as BPAmerica

I wish these oil company execs would appoint their own commission to study what went wrong and announce the loss in jobs and wages due to the idiotic premature shut down of other rigs in the gulf.

I think it's time for the oil companies to become more assertive...or we're all going to be riding horses or bicycles ...thanks to Cap and Trade Barry !

26 posted on 06/15/2010 2:40:32 PM PDT by lonestar (Barry is furious the big spill wasn't caused by EXXON...would have nationalized it by now.)
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To: Windy City Conservative
Cao. The only RINO to vote Yes on Obamacare

Cao voted for the Porkulus.

No Republican voted for Obamacare.

27 posted on 06/15/2010 2:42:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure, the one guy who actually listened to his constituents, just happened to vote with the Democrats. Big surprise. He’s a RINO, who should have run as a Democrat, but of course, if he did that he would not have won an election. Sometimes, constituents are wrong. I guess he is just representing his constituents when he advocates suicide, or at least trying to sound like he’s a big man. I knew the context before I wrote the comment.


28 posted on 06/15/2010 2:43:29 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative (Kyle Smith)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He voted for Obamacare during the first House vote last Fall. Look it up.


29 posted on 06/15/2010 2:44:16 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative (Kyle Smith)
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To: kcvl

I swear I went to sleep back in 2008 and woke up in Bizarro World.


30 posted on 06/15/2010 2:45:32 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Same here, my friend. I cant believe the world we live in today.


31 posted on 06/15/2010 2:47:54 PM PDT by texanyankee
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The women got jigai?


32 posted on 06/15/2010 3:27:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
The women got jigai?

...wit it. Aight?

33 posted on 06/15/2010 5:29:51 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can only get smarter by engaging a smarter opponent.)
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To: kcvl
WWL
34 posted on 06/15/2010 6:50:25 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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