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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
Keywords: None
Views: 11731
Comments: 26
Democrats launched a new website on Friday highlighting "BP Republicans" meant to highlight different GOP lawmakers' defenses of the oil company.
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.
Obama himself ripped Angle during his visit to Nevada.
"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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Day 80 and Owe-bama's biggest response is to twice try to layoff a 100,000 oil industry workers nationally.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
Angle's going to hurt herself given how fast she's walking backwards these days.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#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.SHARRON ANGLE, 5/11/10: I'm not in the business of creating jobs.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#4. To: go65 (#3)
She's right. And honest.
Oh, the HORROR...(laughing)
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
EXACTLY.
#6. To: Badeye (#4)
To: go65She'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.
#7. To: All (#6)
# # 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
#8. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
Sheesh...could you be any more boring?
Back on the filter you go.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#9. To: All (#7)
"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."
#10. To: Badeye (#8)
Back on the filter you go.
I thought I was ALREADY filtered!?
Help me out on this, BE! I really need to know!!! LMFAO
Thank you!
I went and looked at a website to see how my 2004 Toyota RAV stacked up.
The main problems were 1999-2003.
The author got all the way up to 'replacing the heroin laced blood with all new flush' type procedures. Fascinating.
I do all the fluids/filters on my cars (1996 4Runner/2001 Corolla as well).
The oil screen/pan author-"My best advice to you is to use good oil and change it often."
And that's what I do. I change oil filters every time I change the oil.
But I'll keep 'the screen' in mind if I ever get to a rack. And a chance to take the pan off.
#11. To: All (#6)
To: BadeyeTo: go65
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.
So instead of names named, I get filtered.
Too bad LF isn't MSM, eh?
Then you could just cut my mike and switch cameras.
The Bonnie Blue Flag works for me. ;}
#12. To: All (#6)
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cnbc-guest-says-absent-plunge-protection-team-stepping-market-would-fall-wien-kernan-disgust Comments from same above:
"Indeed this is when fear becomes truly debilitating in my view. I have succumbed to this somewhat after hours of conversation with various friends and family. They have become comfortable because their knee-jerk reactions tend toward the, "Well what do you expect me to do!", instead of attempting to reason and ponder possible outcomes, has quieted me. "Oh you are still worrying about all that? There's nothing you can do about it, so move on." You can always explain it much better than I can, CD, but the resistance and negativity from them, shooting the messenger (me), is too overwhelming. A twisted side in me wants to proclaim, "I told you so!" but that will only be sorrowful. I can only hope something will click inside them before it's too late to even acquire life-saving supplies or at least invest their cash into something that is useful and tangible.
Bravo! for your strength, CD. It is not wasted on us here."
#13. To: All (#12) (Edited)
Classical conditioning keeps you alive. You learn quickly to avoid that which may harm you and seek out that which makes you happy, like an amoeba.
The sort of complex behavior Skinner produced in animals was the result of operant conditioning.
Operant conditioning changes your desires. Your inclinations becomes greater through reinforcement, or diminish through punishment.
You go to work, you get paid. You turn on the air conditioning and stop sweating. You don’t run the red light, you don’t get a ticket. You pay the rent, you don’t get evicted.
It’s all operant conditioning, punishment and reward.
Which finally brings us back to the third factor – extinction.
When you expect a reward or a punishment and nothing happens, your conditioned response starts to fade away.
If you stop feeding your cat, he will stop hanging around the food bowl and meowing. His behavior will go extinct.
If you were to keep going to work and not get paid, eventually you would stop.
"This is when the extinction burst happens, right as the behavior is breathing its final breath.
You wouldn’t just not go to work anymore. You would probably storm into the boss’s office and demand an explanation. If you got nowhere after gesticulating wildly and inventing new curse words out of your boss’s last name, you might scoop your arm across his desk and leave in handcuffs.
Just before you give up on a long-practiced routine, you freak out. It’s a final desperate attempt by the oldest parts of your brain to keep getting rewarded."
See Joe Barton (TX-GobP) for details on 'Extinction Bursts.'
LMFAO 8D
#14. To: mcgowanjm (#13)
Keep 'em coming James. I'm reading.
#15. To: Fred Mertz (#14)
Keep 'em coming James. I'm reading.
Thank you, Fred 8D
You might like to go here. I read alot of BF Skinner in college.
'How to get a pigeon to read' stuff. ;}
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/07/07/extinction-burst/
#16. To: Fred Mertz (#14)
And this guy, Cognitive Dissonance at ZeroHedge is good:
"by Cognitive Dissonance on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 12:01 #458551
I've experienced the same thing. You simply cannot instill moral courage where it doesn't exisit. It must be found or created by those who lack it.
What will be even more difficult for you and I and many others will be when they come to our house asking for help. The initial tendency will be to lash out in anger and frustration. But you and I will make compatriots for life and develop fierce loyalty in them if we do just the opposite and help them when we could kick them instead.
This is why I constantly work on myself. Because there will come a time when I will need to draw upon all my strength and courage precisely when I will want to surrender to the insanity. You and I and many others will be building a new world soon. We must find the courage to lead by example rather than by word."
Noe THAT sounds like something Jesus would say. And something that OMFGPalin would avoid saying at all costs.
#17. To: All (#16)
This is why I constantly work on myself. Because there will come a time when I will need to draw upon all my strength and courage precisely when I will want to surrender to the insanity. You and I and many others will be building a new world soon. We must find the courage to lead by example rather than by word."
Saw the movie, Che, the other day.
That was his strength as well.
#18. To: mcgowanjm (#15)
Interesting article; thanks.
#19. To: Fred Mertz (#18)
Interesting article; thanks.
Better ones:
We just had a major break out in soy.
Turns out we shipped every last bean to China.
Gambling on Brazil/Argentina and our own new crop.
Not so good, we now have lowest Grain Stocks since 1947:
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/SB/W
The major news is that over 9 out of 10 the Grain/Fiber Markets break after July 4.
Expect $15 the bu soy by Thanksgiving.
#20. To: mcgowanjm (#19) (Edited)
I'm stocked up on sardines and crackers.
I've recently read that the last cannery in America closed shop.
#21. To: All (#19)
More interesting:
http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm
The BDI tracks ocean freighters. Even with every freighter moving grain, the Index is collapsing.
And when the BDI collapses(50% in the last 3 months), so does gold, oil, and grain.
#22. To: Fred Mertz (#20)
I've recently read that the last cannery in America closed shop.
For sardines?
#23. To: mcgowanjm (#22)
Yes. April 14 article below...
So Long Sardines: America's Last Cannery Closing
#24. To: Fred Mertz (#23)
So Long Sardines: America's Last Cannery Closing
Darn, I love sardines. But I did notice the last can I bought was packed in Mexico.
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
#25. To: mininggold, Fred Mertz (#24)
We've got three different kinds:
Reese(Morocco), BeachCliff(Bumble Bee) and King Oscar( I assume Norway).
Thanx for that update, Fred.
BTW, I don't think the GoM is going to explode but shouldn't the US Navy be doing something a little closer to the NOGC?
"U.S. NAVY EVACUATES GULF
Posted on July 8, 2010 Filed Under Breaking News, Oil Disaster | 13 Comments
Under the guise of the “war on drugs” the U.S. Military is evacuating its ships and hardware from the Gulf of Mexico to safety off the sheltered coast of Costa Rica.
The “war on drugs” cover story is laughable being that we can’t even get that level of engagement on our border with Mexico where all the drugs come through.
The Navy is obviously worried about either poison from the methane/corexit 9500 mix or a massive methane explosion/tsunami. A tsunami fits with the NOAA blackout of the U.S. tsunami warning system. It also explains why BP is not actively cleaning up the oil on the beaches. Why clean them up if they are going to be gone.
On the 2nd July 2010 the Costa Rica Congress authorized the entry of 46 U.S. warships capable of carrying 200 helicopters and warplanes, plus 7,000 U.S. Marines “who may circulate the country in uniform without any restrictions” , plus submarine killer ships to the Costa Rican coast for “anti-narcotics operations and humanitarian missions between 1st July 2010 until 31st December 2010.
#26. To: All (#25)
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=it+could+be+completely+capped+off+by+monday
That's a Bald Faced Lie.
In the meantime worse case scenario in effect.
162 000 bbls per day.
bp ecocide.
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