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Title: Dems peg Angle and other GOPs as ‘BP Republicans’
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THE HILL
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... d-other-gops-as-bp-republicans
Published: Jul 9, 2010
Author: Michael O'Brien
Post Date: 2010-07-09 12:56:26 by Brian S
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Views: 11684
Comments: 26
Democrats launched a new website on Friday highlighting "BP Republicans" meant to highlight different GOP lawmakers' defenses of the oil company. Obama himself ripped Angle during his visit to Nevada.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) seized on Nevada Republican candidate for Senate Sharron Angle's criticism of a $20 billion fund BP created to pay damages to victims of the oil spill, and sought to tie other GOP lawmakers to BP.
The DNC set up a new site, BPRepublicans.com, which casts GOP lawmakers as representing the interests of the oil company in Washington, and not their constituents.
The first image on the site targets Angle, who called the $20 billion account a "slush fund" on Wednesday, before backing off those remarks later in the day.
The site builds on political momentum Democrats saw after Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) expressed similar sentiments about the fund during a hearing last month where BP CEO Tony Hayward was testifying.
"It's more than Barton redux, it proves that an expression of empathy toward BP is not an isolated misstatement by a wayward Republican," said a DNC official, pointing also to Republicans' opposition to raising the liability cap for oil companies who cause accidents, or the GOP's opposition to an energy and climate bill.
But the site is just as much about taking issue at Angle as it is anyone.
"If Sharron Angle's going to fight for BP and be their candidate we thought we'd make it official. Besides, we understand that Sharron Angle is a fan of having more than one campaign website," said the DNC official. "Since she took down the one the one with her true positions, we thought the voters of Nevada would be interested to know who she's really fighting for."
Angle is the Republican candidate this fall against Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who, as Senate majority leader, serves as the top Democrat in that chamber. Republicans have made a point of trying to defeat Reid this fall in what has become an especially heated race.
To that end, President Barack Obama was in Nevada on Thursday evening to help raise money for Reid.
"Let me tell you, most Nevadans I meet -- and I've spent a lot of time here -- you know that," Obama said of Angle's remarks. "I've been seeing you. Most of the people I meet here in this state, they don't think like that. They don't subscribe to that kind of thinking. So why would you want somebody who has that philosophy representing the people of Nevada?"
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Day 80 and Owe-bama's biggest response is to twice try to layoff a 100,000 oil industry workers nationally.
SHARRON ANGLE, 5/11/10: I'm not in the business of creating jobs.
She's right. And honest. Oh, the HORROR...(laughing)
She's right. And honest. Oh, the HORROR...(laughing) Who's right. Who's honest. LMFAO put a name in there for future quoting possibilities. Politics, democracy, lies helpless and is ravaged. At the moment little help can come. But we can at least regard these police unions with clear eyes. The moral: ALL existing institutions are rotten, are corrupt, are enemies of the people; we must break free of them.
# # Guest Post: Toxicologists Say Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”, “Allows Crude Oil To Penetrate “Into The Cells” and “Every Organ System” - 07/10/2010 - George Washington
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"This year will be remembered as the year that common-sense conservative women get things done for our country," Palin said in a speech, as highlighted in a video released by her political action committee on Thursday. Menendez brushed off the success Palin has had in more reliably red states, where she's managed to help more conservative candidates snag the GOP nomination. "Well, South Carolina is not a place that we would be playing in these races," he said. "I'm not worried about Sarah Palin; I'm happy that she's supporting candidates that are winning against the establishment, and are out of the mainstream for the electorate in the general election."
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#3. To: Badeye, brian s (#1)
SHARRON ANGLE, 5/14/10: People ask me, what are you going to do to develop jobs in your state? Well that's not my job as a U.S. Senator.
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