Wow. My initial post of the film clip of Enron energy traders raping California struck a nerve.

To clarify.

Allowing corporations free reign to seek maximum profit at all costs is inherently detrimental to society.

Therefore, imperfect regulations must be imposed upon those corporations to prevent them from steamrolling people.

Republican/Libertarians believe that regulations are not needed because the "marketplace" will sort transgressions out after the fact.

Democrats/Progressives want to try predetermine the "marketplace" so nothing excessive happens.

Given that simplistic setup, let's posit a scenario:

Deepwater Horizon Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

My opinion, it was the fault of Republican/Libertarians who undercut the regulations needed to proceed with such an operation.

Now, the Republican/Libertarians are "revisioning" saying that the Democrats/Progressives didn't do enough upon taking power in 2008 to "houseclean" MMS, so it's all Obama's fault!

Time to watch that initial Enron clip again...