SocraticGadfly: Dear Louisiana: Don't expect much from BP

May 06, 2010

Dear Louisiana: Don't expect much from BP

Your friendly federal government capped disaster payouts at $75 mil after Exxon Valdez. Congressional attempts to change that cap and make it retroactive?

The retroactive part is unconstitutional as ex post facto legislation. Are our Congresscritters more pandering, or more that stupid?

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