Reply #171: No actually, since you brought it up, your entire argument is dishonest.

[DirkGently]

There is simply no basis to claim that the oil company should be in charge pending someone submitting detailed plans to you to fix BP's disaster themselves. It's a rhetorical cheapshot favored by rightwingers, and it doesn't belong in any honest discussion.

BP really, actually, literally, has proven itself to be not only the "bad guy," in that it caused this disaster, but it has indisputably proven itself utterly incompetent here. It's obvious it entered into this operation without the slightest consideration of what to do in this contingency, and that it's primary concern now that it's happened is to blame its business partners. Yes, the government could do a better job. The fire department could do a better job. Bozo the Clown could do a better job. BP has the experts? Apparently not. BP has the equipment? Fine. Someone else needs to tell it how to use it. BP has done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt here, it has absolutely the WRONG motivations, and it clearly is at loose ends for a plan. You like insistent questions, but you still can't answer why BP should be running the show.