But are you super DUPER sorry?!

Another smug, bulletproof CEO, another "grilling" from a panel of turkey-jowled, ill-dictioned politicians. Boy were they angry. They had just had it up to here (their jowls practically resting on it) and were not about to let this gilded meanie and his bully British accent get away without really dressing him down.

The mood was as palpably tense as one would expect for a grilling. Or maybe it was a flogging. Politico said it was a flogging. Though CNN referred to it as a "blasting". I would've expected more excitement for a blasting - maybe a soundtrack for the proceedings and costumes for the pitchfork-carrying panel. I'll stick with the turkey theme and call it a grilling.

These guys were pissed, and they brought their printed grilling questions and stapled them together on standardized office stationary to prove it.

One of them whetted his finger to lift the cover page - here we go! Get ready to be flog-blasted on the grill for all of your untold damages, CEO!

"When you became CEO you said you would have a laser target on safety," his jowl jiggling righteously in the still panel air. "Were you... you were... did you know about this... problem?"

"There was a team that oversaw this drilling and we will be making continued changes with any findings that we conclude," came the equally-scripted answer.

"You.." (fumbling of office stationary, rehearsed line of questioning shattered). "you don't seem like you're regretful of this. Are you?"

"I am truly, deeply regretful of this, of course."

"Are you really, though? It sure doesn't seem that way."

"Absolutely I am."

A wry, skeptical smirk on the panelist's face. Mission accomplished. He would be questioned about his regret's sincerity by several more panelists, as well as additional "laser" references and vague attempts at sounding like they know a single thing about the technical aspects of what they're talking about. Maybe next time don't mess with America, bitch.