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Sanity -> RE: Who's to blame for the oil spill? Dick Cheney. (6/11/2010 5:41:40 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
Interesting that Cheney was part of an energy task force that decided against demanding BP shell out half a million on remote safety cut off switches and his past (?) company was the one that ballsed up the cementing of the hole on the sea floor of which they are already under investigation for on another balls up off the coast of Australia.
It does sound like conflicting interests here, politicians and their past company interests, an abuse of position perhaps. But whilst everyone is blaming BP, it might just be the criminal in this case is closer to home.
Does the outrage swing only one way?
Try and apply the above post to the following:
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The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser
In case you were tempted to buy the faux Washington outrage at BP and its gulf oil spill in recent days, here's a story that reveals a little-known corporate political connection and the quiet way the inner political circles intersect, protect and care for one another in the nation's capital. And Chicago.
We already knew that BP and its folks were significant contributors to the record $750-million war chest of Barack Obama's 2007-08 campaign.
Now, we learn the details of a connection of Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayoral wannabe, current Obama chief of staff, ex-representative, ex-Clinton money man and ex-Windy City political machine go-fer.
Shortly after Obama's happy inaugural, eyebrows rose slightly upon word that, as a House member, Emanuel had lived the last five years rent-free in a D.C. apartment of Democratic colleague Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and her husband, Stanley Greenberg.
For an ordinary American, that would likely raise some obvious tax liability questions. But like Emanuel, the guy overseeing the Internal Revenue Service now is another Obama insider, Tim Geithner, who had his own outstanding tax problems but skated through confirmation anyway by the Democratic-controlled Congress.
Remember this was all before the letters BP stood for Huge Mess. Even before the Obama administration gave BP a safety award.
Full story here
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