Posted on 05/30/2010 12:20:05 PM PDT by devane617
Over at The Next Right, the've pieced together some interesting connections about the White House's ties to British Petroleum, better know as the company currently polluting the Gulf of Mexico. We all know Obama was the biggest recipient of BP's campaign cash in Washington, but it seems BP's ties to the White House run even deeper. According to The Next Right, PR firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner "helped BP plan and evaluate its successful re-branding campaign, focusing the company's branding on energy solutions, including the development of solar and other renewable energy sources." The firm's Stanley Greenberg is married to Rep. Rosa De Lauro, D-Conn. There was something of a flap last year when it was pointed out that White house Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had been living in the couple's Capitol Hill townhouse and resulting in a lot of questions about whether or not this arrangement violated congressional ethical guidelines. Further, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee paid Greenberg's firm some $500,000 in 2006 and 2008 while Emanuel was living with Greenberg, and Emanuel was even in charge of the DCCC during the 2006 election cycle. And I'd be willing to bet that BP has paid Greenberg Quinlan Rosner a lot more than that. I doubt I'm the only one who thinks that BP's relationship with the White House might be a little too close for comfort.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Top-PR-firm-for-BP-tied-to-White-House-Chief-of-Staff-Rahm-Emanuel-95223369.html#ixzz0pRTaW0n2
BP also needs to be tied into cap and trade. They are a top player in the european climate exchange which is in turn half owned by the chicago climate exchange.
The big brazilian oil company is another top player on the ECX.
The list, ping
Sounds like someone is going under the bus
Sooooooo the truth sludge begins to seep into the marshes. And another case of inbreeding surfaces. No wonder Rahm has been so quiet.
Yeah and who has the gonads to do anything about it?
Ping.
“Among BP’s lobbyists is Tony Podesta, who heads the Podesta Group, a lobbying powerhouse founded by Mr. Podesta and his brother, former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, who headed President Barack Obama’s transition team. John Podesta now leads the Center for American Progress, the liberal think tank whose scholars have presented the White House with ideas like forcing BP to devote its first-quarter profits, or some $5 billion, to a fund for Gulf cleanup. It also has criticized potential BP-related conflicts of interest within the government.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704032704575268790823002422.html
Biggest d-bag corrupt liberals on earth cashing in on BP?
No one is more despicable than the evil Stanley Greenberg and hag-wife Rosa De Lauro.
“Sounds like someone is going under the bus.”
And right in the middle of those fundraisers, too. What are the fatcats going to think when they see what BP’s protection money bought.
“The big brazilian oil company is another top player on the ECX.”
The same one that we ‘loaned’ ten billion to? The same one that George Soros is heavily invested in? That one?
WALLACE: Governor, I want to pick up on the point that you just made, which is that you did, as governor of Alaska, go after oil companies, including B.P. in several cases. How do you think the Obama administration has handled the oil spill so far?
PALIN: Well, I think that there is perhaps a hesitancy to — I don’t really know how to put this, Chris, except to say that the oil companies who have so supported President Obama in his campaign and are supportive of him now — I don’t know why the question isn’t asked by the mainstream media and by others if there’s any connection with the contributions made to President Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration.
If there’s any connection there to President Obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico — now, if this was President Bush or if this were a Republican in office who hadn’t received as much support even as President Obama has from B.P. and other oil companies, you know the mainstream media would be all over his case in terms of asking questions why the administration didn’t get in there, didn’t get in there and make sure that the regulatory agencies were doing what they were doing with the oversight to make sure that things like this don’t happen.
Well knock me over with a feather. I am shocked...shocked. /s
someone who will find themselves with a bullet in their brain, and making it look like suicide
Soros ping—read the comments. Ack.
Petrobras is the company Soros put $900 million into. Soros then pays Obama, DeLauro, Pelosi, etc to prevent US drilling and yet loan Petrobras $10 billion at low interest from th Occupied U?S Government...money we don't have...to drill.
i luv it
The more that comes out on this matter, the muddier it becomes. Is it Obama’s fault? Is it the Dems’ fault? The simple answer is yes. The Dems support everything that prevents continental drilling and deny everything that doesn’t. We’re in mile-deep oil-drilling because and only because the dems refuse to permit drilling and even exploration on land, where damages like what we’re seeing now could NEVER happen. Not as though such stupidity needed reinforcing, they’re now denying ALL drilling. How incredibly well this works out for Bambi & co.
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