BP= Bullshit Politics

I wonder how this country ever gets any law passed or any thing done.   From confirmation hearings to the latest congressional hearing investigating the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf Coast I have come to the conclusion that at least for me this confirms that these hearings are nothing more than a gathering of talking heads saying the same redundant sound bytes one after the other.  

In a courtroom when a witness does not answer a question they are usually considered a "hostile witness," meaning they are being uncooperative and stand a chance of being found in contempt of the court and/or committing perjury.   Yet, somehow, on the "Hill," (DC), witnesses get away with redundancies like:  "I don't recall;"  "I never saw that communication;"  or my favorite response after some whispering with a counselor and a covered mic the witness will respond, "I cannot answer that at this time."  

I often wonder how any man or woman with a conscience can deliver such inane, limp, & asinine "testimony," like Tony Hayward did this past week and walk away from it seemingly prideful.   I guess when you are getting paid over $ix Million dollars in annual compensation plus millions more in stock and benefits, maybe it is easy to play stoic and in the end render such empty rhetoric.

It would be easy to just to beat up on Tony for his testimony to nowhere; but what about those congress members pointing the fingers.   It struck me duplicitous that the men and women conducting this hearing were lambasting Mr. Tony for his "don't know," answers and his very apparent prepared general statements when they give the same circuitous blank answers whenever you see them being questioned on a Sunday morning news program.   Somewhere along the way America has lost its integrity and soul and especially the men and women who allegedly "represent," us in the government.   Everyone of those members questioning Tony (Republican and Democrat alike) have all received donations from "Big Oil."   I dare say the whole damn hearing was just a show to make the American public at large feel like government was at least "doing something."   I cannot help but wonder if the organization of this hearing went like this:  "Hey, Tony we need ya to come up to the Hill so we can look like we are giving you a public whipping........ all ya got to do is to continue to look like the schmuck and provide no real answers and we will get a little testy with ya, then we will all go have a nice lunch, give the people a little show then go home, what do ya say?"  

B.P. may stand for a corporate brand of petroleum products; but for me it will always mean bullshit politics, which I understand is saying nothing new; but if we take it to a larger picture I feel like this oil spill is just a big metaphor and wake up call for the real clean up work that needs to be done in this country.   Our Country's integrity has had a black, mucky, sticky residue eating away at it for some time now and that icky sticky substance is politics.