“I pwomise you, we’ll make that big ole BP pay a lot of money, OK? Billions of dollars, I pwomise you. We’re going to have a big cleanup job and it’s going to get cleaned up, all right?” said Landrieu.

Almost 48 hours after Rep. Ed Markey pressured BP to put on the Internet a live video feed of the gushing oil pipe, you can finally see the choppy images from the ocean floor. Of course, that’s only if you’re using Internet Explorer, or some instances of Firefox.

The problems surrounding what should be a simple task of putting live video on the Internet are really a microcosm for all the incredible fuck ups in capping the pipe gushing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

In its emergency plans in the event of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP made clear it knows how to save “seals, sea otters, and walruses” in the Gulf waters. The only problem is, no such animals live in the Gulf.

Indeed, it appears BP literally copied and pasted emergency response plans to apply to any spill in the world, regardless of the reality of the local ecosystems. While “seals, sea otters, and walruses” are a concern for oil spills in colder waters, there are none of those animals in the Gulf.

Anthony Weiner joined us yesterday give thanks for his top three finish a week after the Fire Dog winners were announced.

Weiner touts his progressive principles:
I’ve fought hard for a single-payer system like Medicare, because it shows that you can achieve better results than insurance companies with only 1 percent overhead. But I’ve also fought for common sense reforms like the public option or the Medicare buy-in—solutions that have been blocked by a broken Senate process that makes a majority out of the 41 senators who don’t want real health reform.