Here’s number two in the DNC ad series attacking the GOP party of BP for their lemming-like corporatist philosophy that the high and mighty corporation can do no wrong and should not be accountable for their malfeasance. It stars some of the GOP’s favorite sons and daughters – Bachmann, Barton, Paul… apologizing to BP for screwing the country, the environment, businesses and workers throughout the Gulf region with their incompetence and potentially criminal behavior.
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Can someone point me to the spot in the Constitution that allows the executive branch to create a fund from the money of a private institution and its shareholders? I’m having trouble finding it.
What is this Con-sti-tu-tion thing you speak of?
I’m not a constitutional law scholar, but I bet it doesn’t directly state that the government can fine or jail you for a DuI, that a company can be found guilty of pollution and fined for that action, that a company can be taxed, that cats and dogs must be licensed, that doctors must be licensed, that you must pay to license your car, that if you spill oil all over the Gulf that you can be made to clean it up… etc. etc. That you can’t rent a care if you’re under 18….
Fine then. Show me the LAW in the books where the executive branch can create a fund from a private institution and its shareholders. I’ll help you out – there isn’t one unlike the other items you mentioned.
What IS in the constitution is something called “due process.” This decision was left to one of two parties – the justice system or BP. And even then, there is already a LAW in the books for this very thing called the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. BP is already lawfully required to pay for all clean costs plus up to 75 million for losses to private parties. BP lawfully could have told Barack Obama no.
They lawfully could have said no, sure, but they have enough PR problems. That would’ve been amazingly stupid.
“where the executive branch can create a fund”
That’s really the issue. Congress could pass laws such a law, but the executive branch doesn’t have the authority to do so. Remember, the line-item veto was ruled unconstitutional because it gave the executive brach to create legislation rather than to simply pass or veto, or enforce the laws.
I thought Obama asked BP to create the fund. I don’t remember anything saying he required BP to do so.
Here is my proof, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38494.html
Please provide proof of your accusations. And also, it isn’t a law. But given some of your rhetoric, I doubt the truth matters to you.