When your Republican friends complain about the Gulf Oil Spill

[CreekDog]

...and how it's being handled.

ask them if before the spill, they supported increasing or decreasing the budgets of the government agencies involved in the cleanup.

ask them if before the spill, they supported increasing or decreasing the regulation of offshore oil drilling operations?

[NewJeffCT]

1. good comment

weren't most of them in the "drill baby drill" category?

[Captain Hilts]

2. We need to haul Bush-era govt. officials - including Cheney - before Congress. nt

[amyrose2712]

3. So true. But, I have already purged those people from my life.nt

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Ask them if they support unionizing all offshore oil work.

Clearly the workers wanted to shut the well down. They also knew BP was breaking the rules using seawater instead of drilling mud. Had they been in a union they could have shut down the project and forced them to do it right.

[Jennicut]

5. My conservative Mom told me yesterday that we still need to drill in

Alaska. We would have tons of oil there...like we should trust anyone to drill there after this! Why are conservatives so clueless, even my own parents?

[CreekDog]

7. I would ask her the following:

1) if the drilling she wants is allowed to proceed, in how many years will the oil from that drilling be available?

2) then ask her about that oil...ask her if that oil will be for the USA or if it will be sold to some other nation who is willing to pay more than we are?

[Jennicut]

8. Another point is how much oil is really there? Will it make

a huge difference in what we have to import now?

[ShortnFiery]

6. Tell them that both parties are to blame for NOT properly regulating and inspecting

large private OIL Companies.

[zulchzulu]

9. Ask them if George H.W. Bush was responsible for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

It happened under his "watch" in 1989.

[treestar]

10. Yes and did the media demand he go to Alaska and fix it?