Right Wing Troglodytes are not smart enough to be in positions of power. Their corporate masters will remain perfectly willing to sacrifice enormous quantities of marine life, and the livelihoods of tens of thousands who depend on that life, in the interests of profit.

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Republicans, and their Tea Bag brethren, will embrace the Limbaugh and Beck aficionados and enthusiastically cheer Big Oil's relentless effort to destroy one of the most productive ecosystems on the planet. It's a very safe bet that after B.P. trashes the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S, they will busily set about their usual reckless, irresponsible behavior while the pathetically stupid American taxpayers are still in hock paying for the previous disaster.

Here are a few, well considered opinions of B.P, and its pet Congress.

"please ... quit whining about big oil unless you're hand writing a letter and delivering it on horseback to your local newspaper to do it."

"I believe that the leaking area should not very large in the water, to enclose the spill unerwater can be more easy."

"Shut down Deepwater? Get real and get a life. America needs Deepwater production to operate. Without it, we'll go back in time and start riding horses instead of driving cars. Lets just go back to caveman days.. Will that make you happy?"

"the atomic bomb detionation sounds plausible but could yield results killing off all the life in the entire gulf. who know what resullts the residue from such an action would be?"

The morons who so enjoy their Mad Hatter Tea Parties think Liberal Democrats are fascists. Steeped (pun intended) in a collective ignorance, Tea Baggers are unable to grasp the very elementary concept that corporate lobbying is the gateway through which fascism marches.

A week after Deepwater Horizon exploded and burned, B.P. released its first quarter profit statement of $6 billion. Last year B.P. raked in $16.6 billion in net profit. $16 million, a handful of loose change relative to B.P's profits, was spent on Congressional bribes - uh, campaign donations. In 2008 B.P. reported a net profit of $21.2 billion. Senate Republicans are threatening to filibuster to keep the Democrats from raising B.P's liability limit from its present $75 million, to $10 billion.

Republicans, in the dysfunctional U.S. Senate, can't see their way clear to lift the liability cap of $75 million that is currently all B.P. is liable for in lost jobs, and a ruined fishing and tourism industry, plus of course, the cleanup. The National Guard and regular Army troops, all courtesy of the American taxpayes are helping, as any American would, with the cleanup effort.

The point is that taxpayers are already subsidizing B.P's fixed liability of $75 million. Wikipedia describes fascism. "Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives, values, and systems such as the political system and the economy."

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, if he can locate his cajones, needs to schedule a twice weekly vote for raising B.P's liability limit to 10 billion. Let the Republicans, who are facing mid-term elections, explain to Americans why their tax dollars should pay for B.P's recklessness.

The National Guard has mobilized 6,000 troops to help with the cleanup putting taxpayers in the position of subsidizing B.P's costs. The Guard, helping with the spill, is right and proper. But with the Republicans blocking Senate efforts to raise B.P's liability to $10 billion their cries of sympathy for B.P. ring hollow.

To understand how utterly brainless Right Wing Tea Baggers are, one must realize they applauded happily when Dubya snuck into the White House. Then Attorney General John Ashcroft said, "I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people."

Obama, like Bush Junior, is only another corporate puppet. The media reports that he favors raising B.P's liability to $10 billion, but as is usual with Obama, he's unwilling to confront Senate Republicans by using his office to threaten Republican mid-term election chances.

Right Wing Troglodytes are not smart enough to be in positions of power. Their corporate masters will remain perfectly willing to sacrifice enormous quantities of marine life, and the livelihoods of tens of thousands who depend on that life, in the interests of profit. There is something that is essentially wrong with such people. If human survival is equated with intelligence, and the ability to think objectively, then corporate heads and elected representatives are mentally deficient.

Bush Junior amply demonstrated this. Clinton left Junior a surplus which he turned into a $12 trillion dollar deficit. The Republicans are working night and day to lay the nation's enormous debt at Obama's feet, just as they howl endlessly about Obama"s Katrina, more popularly known as B.P's oil spill.

Is there no limit to the Republican Parties, and its supporters capacity for rank stupidity? B.P, the Congress and the President, are all well aware of the length of a typical American's attention span. The U.S, given a little more time, will begin resembling Nigeria where Big Oil works with state goon squads to quash dissent. Nigeria's Niger Delta region represents an open insult to human health, and a once thriving fishing industry. Over 2,000 sites have been drenched in oil that multi-national oil companies simply ignore. No one has ever bothered computing the impact on people's livelihoods, but it"s not hard to figure that in an already poor nation, lost income has dramatically increased poverty.

Big Oil, with its lapdog Republicans, will happily turn the U.S. into another Nigeria. If that's hard to believe look to the Gulf of Mexico where B.P. saved half a million dollars by foregoing the installation of an automated B.O.P.

Choking on ruined air, and cutting itself off from the ocean's bountiful harvests of seafood, the chances that humankind will commit collective suicide are pretty good. It has become painfully obvious that there will be no political solutions to confront the deadly serious damage to the human habitat - planet earth. A tiny percentage of the world's population is responsible for so much damage that human survival is a very iffy proposition.

The U.S. lags far behind other advanced nations that are seriously investing in green energy. It's a win, win scenario whereby millions of jobs are created, and the U.S. can begin weaning itself from its dependency on foreign oil. But the oil lobby snaps its fingers, and its pet Congress jumps through the hoop. If Florida and the Eastern Seaboard dodge the bullet Americans must count themselves extremely fortunate that they had a first hand look at what might have been. Unfortunately, in such a case, Americans will still suffer from a lack of 20/20 hindsight.

Like the Commercial Banks of Wall Street, Big Oil will have another accident, then another, and the World's Oceans will retreat from the human onslaught that will eventually, sooner than later, destroy the World's Oceans and the marine life that inhabits them. Global Warming has been largely ignored in spite of melting icecaps that now equal the combined areas of California, Texas and Oklahoma. As they continue melting it is only a matter of time until coastal areas must be abandoned. Mention Global Warming to any Republican Nutcase, and Al Gore comes up as Chicken Little shouting "the sky is falling!"

There's much talk about B.P's spill, and how such a thing must be prevented from ever happening again. But Americans are only paying attention because it's happening in their back yards. In Alberta, Canada, over 200 square miles of wildlife habitat has been destroyed by oil exploration and resultant spills. Ecuador suffers from the discharge of 18 billion gallons of toxic waste that has found its way to its rainforests. The list of impacted ecosystems are almost endless, but as long as Americans can pull up to the pump and, fill "er up, they"ll continue ignoring a nightmarish future they apparently are welcoming.

Last week Shell Oil won a court case that will allow it to drill exploratory wells in the Arctic. Shell's vice president trumpeted that once again Shell has demonstrated that its drilling plans are "robust" and "safe." B.P. can't contain its spill where it is surrounded by every conceivable piece of equipment and technological know how that's available. A spill in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas will present far more difficult problems in cleaning it up. But what the hell. Potential profits far outweigh the paltry $75 million liability cap that Shell might be exposed to. It looks like B.P. has already won the Spill Club's award for greatest destruction ever from a spill. "Cleaning up" after a spill is a very deceptive description. Ten years after the Exxon Valdez washed ashore along 1300 miles of coastline, scientists estimate that only about 8% of the spilled oil was ever recovered.

Even the Terminator, California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says, "You turn on the television and see this enormous disaster, you say to yourself, 'Why would we want to take that kind of risk?' Why indeed? But like Wall Street and its commercial banks, when the dust settles and Americans are again riveted to their televisions, another oil company, operating without government oversight, will again turn the black death loose on whichever fragile marine ecosystem is next. Americans, unless a befouled sea washes across their feet, will never know, or care, that another blow against their long term survival has again occurred.

Authors Bio:
Jon Faulkner is a licensed Master Mariner. He has long considered the conservative republican mindset a form of mental illness. He lives in northern Maine.