You know why Haley Barbour and Joe Barton and the rest of those

[monmouth]

BP fans are really mad about? They are NOT personally going to get their hands on any of this $20B that has been put into escrow. Obama pulled a good one on them and their sticky fingers are touching none of it. This pleases me immensely.

[Mimosa]

1. YES! n/t

[WeDidIt]

2. Yep, and the gulf coast residents are going to receive compensation

before November 2, and that pisses them off to no end, too.

[monmouth]

3. HA! Hadn't thought of that, good catch...n/t

[WeDidIt]

4. IT was the 90 day timeline that did it.

Countdown from June 16 makes all payments done by September 14.

Wow.

September 14.

That's after Labor Day.

And that's absolute latest.

Yep, lots of Gulf residents who'll have money in their pockets and are happy to be on camera talking about how they are so grateful they didn't have to wait 20 years like the people from Exxon Valdez.

[Bitwit1234]

5. That's what I said already...they missed their change to forgo

their viagra, by salivating about all that money. They know the public is going to get it and not them.