Reply #10: It feels a lot like we are already there, doesn't it? :-( The icing on the cake

[chill_wind]

for me in all this part of it, anyway:

...but a top Justice Department official said it is not proposing to change the $75 million limit on BP PLC's Gulf of Mexico spill because the company has pledged to pay all legitimate claims.

"We are focused on the future," Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, the department's No. 3 official, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the BP spill's 36th day.

Still, Perrelli said, Congress would be on solid constitutional ground if it wanted to raise the liability caps retroactively on BP for economic damages.

Does anybody really think BP owned (Bought and Paid) Congress is going to do this-- "fix it later"?
I think Scentopine down thread probably has it right.