The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...James Inhofe!

History books tell us about U.S. senators in the early 20th century practically being owned by various industries. For instance, you'd have "railroad senators", who did rail lines' bidding. But Jim Inhofe - an Oklahoma Republican - is a modern-day "oil senator."

And he accomplishes this stupidly.

BP makes enough profit in 4 days to cover the entire cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill. So the current spillage liability cap of $75,000,000 is mere pennies to BP.

This has prompted efforts to raise or eliminate the liability limit. But Inhofe has singlehandedly blocked these efforts at least twice in recent weeks. (Gee, I can't wait until the Democrats win back control of the Senate, can you? Hey, wait a minute.)

Inhofe's excuse? Well, he says relaxing the liability cap would cost big oil companies too much the next time there's a spill.

Um, yeah, Jim. That's the whole point. Irresponsibility should have consequences.

So much for the Republicans being the party of personal responsibility, huh? I guess that doesn't include corporate responsibility. Hey, I thought corporations were people now.

(Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100519,0,1169385.story)