Just saw a clip of Tony "Fat Tony" Hayward of BP receiving a grilling from Congress. His apology was about as dry and unconvincing as you can get. Hel-LO! You're heading up "Satan's Little Helpers 'R Us Oil Inc." and you can't even muster up even a tad of remorse? In case you haven't noticed, you've graced America's and most of the world's shit list, and you still can't even make an honest attempt at earning a few brownie points? Wow. When he wasn't dishing out hollow apologies, Hayward occupied himself with dodging questions, claiming ignorance, and asserting that he's" not an engineer." Hey buddy, don't take my word for it, but you might want to start looking into that since a career switch may be in order soon...
Not to be outdone, Rep. Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas (I'm sure you can guess what's coming next) actually had the gall to apologize to Hayward for the "shakedown" conducted by the White House and Congress over this ecological disaster. There's nothing like bipartisan cooperation and crossing over of party lines, this time to take Barton to task--so much so that he was obliged to apologize for his apology and retract it altogether. Well done!
If there's one thing Congress is good at, it's a good grillfest. Now let's see what comes of it and the $20 billion allocated towards righting the terrible environmental wrong that has occurred.
A short passage and quotes from a BBC article which highlight what many are probably thinking:
"Texan Republican Michael Burgess expressed surprise when the BP chief said he had not known anything about the well in question until he was told in April that drilling had confirmed an oil discovery.
'But you're the CEO of the company,' Congressman Burgess said.
'With due respect,' Mr Hayward replied, 'we drill hundreds of wells around the world.'
'Yeah, that's what scares me right now,' said Mr Burgess"
This would be LOL-worthy if the whole thing weren't so horrible.
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