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The only thing worse than a massive oil leak from the bottom of the ocean would be massive radioactive oil leak from the bottom of the ocean.
— Rep. Ed Markey (D – Mass.), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment and the president’s point man on the Gulf oil catastrophe, responding to calls from Donald Trump and others to nuke the oil spill. Markey was responsible for forcing BP to install its “spill cam” so the gushing oil could be viewed by the public.
Being ignorant of all that doesn’t inspire confidence. It’s no better to be a schnook than a crook.
— Nell Minnow of the watchdog Corporate Library, describing Republican candidate for Florida governor and former CEO of HCA/Columbia Healthcare Rick Scott. Scott claims to have been unaware of the hospital group’s massive fraud, including bogus Medicare and Medicaid billing, that was the subject of a ten-year Justice Department investigation resulting in guilty pleas to 14 felonies and the largest fines — $1.7 billion — ever charged a company. Scott went on to found Solantic urgent care clinics, which largely serve the uninsured on a cash basis, and Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, which financed much of the lobbying against and “grassroots” opposition to healthcare reform.
