How does this work for you..remember Dashle who pushed Obama during our primaries..working with Whitman..the lady who lied about the air quality at Ground zero in NY?? Can i tickle your memory..she fucking lied and people died and keep dying!! And that is just one example..
and these bastards were advisors making $120,000....from BP and now we face the death of the Gulf Of Mexico..and the possibilitty of the oil going up the Atlantic Ocan from the Florida Keys to Maine............oh and guess it is a coinsidence that BP wasn't audited last year??????? Oh and Obama got the most $$$ from BP..but they all got their damn pockets greased..both fucking parties..( 2 parties my ass!)
Come tell me there are two parties while you look at the dead birds and fish on my used to be pristine beach!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8261946Spill, Baby, Spill: Christine Whitman, Tom Daschle & Leon Panetta got on BP's payroll in 2007
Posted by Better Believe It
They went to work for BP in 2007 as advisors. They are shocked and surprised by the offshore oil rig explosion. After all, they were certainly impressed by BP's sterling safety record. And the company CEO flew them out over the Gulf of Mexico on a helicopter in 2008 to demonstrate the oil giants safeguards.
What in the world could ever suggest to Whitman, Daschle and Panetta that BP had major safety problems? They obviously never read or heard anything negative about BP's safety record in the mass media. And how in the world would they find the time to read that stuff? They were far too busy taking helicopter trips and counting their money from BP. BBI
Spill, Baby, Spill
By Michael Isikoff, Ian Yarett and Matthew Philips | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated May 10, 2010
BP has been trying hard to burnish its public image in recent years after being hit with a pair of environmental disasters, including a fatal refinery explosion in Texas and a pipeline leak in Alaska.
One major step was to announce, in 2007, that it had hired a high-powered advisory board that included former EPA director Christine Todd Whitman, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, and Leon Panetta, who were each paid $120,000 a year. (Panetta left when he became President Obama's CIA director.) Two years ago the oil giant's chief executive, Robert Malone, flew board members out to the Gulf of Mexico on a helicopter to demonstrate the safeguards surrounding BP's advanced drilling technology. "We got a sense they were really committed to ensuring they got it right," Whitman told NEWSWEEK.
Now BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, finds itself blamed for what could prove to be the worst oil spill in U.S. history. And only weeks after Obama announced an ambitious plan to open up more U.S. offshore waters to oil drilling, shunting aside environmental concerns from his own Democratic Party, his administration is facing a comeuppance from hell. "There was a lot of wishful thinking, I guess," says Villy Kourafalou, a scientist at the University of Miami's Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "The new technologies were said to be so wonderful that we'd never have an oil spill again." Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), who had sought to block the expanded drilling, says the oil and gas industry was pushing this idea hard. "They said, 'We'll never have a repeat of Santa Barbara,'?" referring to the 1969 rig explosion off the California coast. Both the Bush and Obama administrations "were buying the line that the technology was fine," Pallone adds.
BP pressed hard to make that point in D.C. Its PR efforts included payments of $16 million last year to a battery of Washington lobbyists, among them the firm of Tony Podesta, the brother of former Obama transition chief John Podesta. Last fall, after the U.S. Interior Department proposed tighter federal regulation of oil companies' environmental programs, David Rainey, BP's vice president for Gulf of Mexico exploration, told Congress that the proposal was unnecessary. "I think we need to remember," he said, that offshore drilling "has been going on for the last 50 years, and it has been going on in a way that is both safe and protective of the environment."Read the full article at:
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how's that FISA immunity for the telecoms working for ya?
when do we get Habeas Corpus back?????????
How's the Patriot Act that destroys our bill of rights working for you?????????
How's the sell out of our Health care working for you ?
How is the dems writing a bill to force all Americans to carry a national ID with fingerprints and embedded chips to be required to get a jobbbbbbbbbbbb............ working for you????
Wall street bailouts and abnk bailouts while millions upon millions of Americans remain jobless and are losing everything..with no bailfuckingouts for them!
drill baby drill or bettter known in Fla now..Drill Obama Drill...by Floridians and Fla dems who he PROMISED DURING HIS CAMPAIGN.. no new drilling..and now we know his mentors and his campaign staff was loading their pockets with BP OIL $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ right alongside of Republican Christine THE AIR IS CLEAN Whitman! A one women killing machine!!
These are just a few things dems have done or are doing..that Bush and the repukes are having wet dreams about!
Let us know when you wake up!!
Baaaaaa..baaaaa black sheep...........
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