Still kickin'... but I'm sad that my niece and nephew will enter the job market under “Obamanomics”.
Posted on 10/19/2008 7:20:19 AM PDT by Billg64
...Chuck Schumer, along with Claire McCaskill and John Kerry, responded quickly with a letter to Condoleezza Rice asking her to prevent the deals from going forward until there is an oil-revenue sharing law.
Both Schumer and Kerry are on the Senate Finance Committee; Kerry and McCaskill are both surrogates for Barack Obama, whose campaign has been going after John McCain for McCain's new, oil company-friendly position on offshore drilling.
Here's the release along with the letter (which, weirdly, doesn't include McCaskill's name at the end of it).
SCHUMER, KERRY & McCASKILL SEEK TO BLOCK BIG OIL’S NO-BID CONTRACTS IN IRAQ UNTIL CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ADOPTS REVENUE-SHARING AGREEMENT
Four Western Oil Companies Poised To Ink ‘Servicing’ Agreements Before Iraqi Parliament’s Reaches Agreement On How To Distribute Oil Profits ...
Gee, I thought Iraq shouldn’t be about oil. Did I misunderstand these people for the past several years?
Due to the media blackouts, we now live in an alternative reality from the truth. The Dems chant ‘no war for oil’, then work behind the scenes so China benefits from our sacrifices. No media coverage, and no one our sides brings it up. Same on the war on terror, the lead up to the Iraq war, Katrina, Obama’s life story, etc. The narrative fed to the American people has no basis in fact. It is shocking and embarrassing.
These pretzels will look even funnier in their Odumbo suits.
They want to keep those prices as high as they can... so you can WALK to the unemployment office.
Notice how the Dems feel free to write or call Condi now — they get better response then the Republicans. From the minute I discovered in an article I found from last spring that Madelyn Albright’s Dad was Condi Rice’s mentor, I have looked at things differently. They discussed the connection at the unveiling of Albright’s picture at the Department of State last spring.
http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/madeleine-albright-is-a-uniter/
April 16, 2008, 11:48 am
Madeleine Albright Is a Uniter
By The Editorial Board
Who says there’s no bipartisanship in Washington — either between Republicans and Democrats, or between the Clinton and Obama camps?
There was a pretty good (if temporary) display of it on Monday when the portrait of Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state, was formally unveiled at a crowded reception in the State Department’s elegant Benjamin Franklin room.
Hosted by the current occupant of that office, Condoleezza Rice, the event was historic. Here were the only two female secretaries of state in America’s 200-plus year history. Both traced their intellectual roots (improbably) to the same man — the late Josef Korbel, a Czech emigre who just happens to be Ms. Albright’s father and Ms. Rice’s professor of international relations at the University of Denver.
But that shared experience took the women in very directions — Ms. Albright to Bill Clinton’s Democratic administration, where she successfully pressed for NATO intervention to reverse ethnic cleansing in Kosovo (which is now independent) and Ms. Rice to George W. Bush’s Republican administration, where she was instrumental in the decision to invade Iraq (which is under heavy American military presence and will be for the foreseeable future.)
On this occasion, they were gracious and focused more on where they converged, including on the transformative power of Mr. Korbel’s tutelage, than where they didn’t.
Ms. Rice commended Ms. Albright for serving “admirably” as secretary of state and said they share “a belief that democratic values are at the heart of peace and stability in the world.” Ms. Albright lauded Ms. Rice for doing a “remarkable job in a difficult era” and said her father would be proud. “We did have the same intellectual father,” she added.
The good feeling was also evident among the Democrats in the room. In the crowd of about 300 guests, former Clinton administration officials who have split between Sen. Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama still seemed to be able to talk to each other without throwing a punch.
While Ms. Rice has been busy stamping out speculation that she might consider a becoming the Republican vice presidential candidate, Ms. Albright — a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton —seemed to really miss her old job as secretary of state.
She allowed how much she envied those “still in the business of making foreign policy” and made clear that with myriad pursuits as a college professor, writer, consultant and chairman of the National Democratic Institute, she’s not slowing down. “I still have miles to go and work to do,” she insisted.
If Ms. Albright has any aspiration to reprise her role as secretary of state, though, she’s going to have to get in line. Democrats Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Richard Holbrooke, a former United Nations Ambassador, among others, are jockeying for the position if there is a Democratic administration.
“big oil”
who are they kidding?
how ‘bout big u.s. congress thieves?
“Gee, I thought Iraq shouldn’t be about oil. Did I misunderstand these people for the past several years?”
LOL
Fancy that.
Remember those blood for oil mantras?
quiet prole, stand in line like you’re told to.
How ya doin Johnny?
NO Senators!
The fact is you don’t give a damn about “revenue sharing”!
The only concern you have is FEAR OF POSITIVE NEWS OUT OF IRAQ!
The fact is that as a result of your imposed delays CHINA IS BENEFITING FROM IRAQ OIL AND AMERICA IS NOT!
Schumer wants to do for Iraq Oil what he did for IndyMac Bank.
Democrats are hypocrites. These are the same a-holes who have been clamoring for us to get out ...and now want us to sit tight and give ourselves effectively a veto power over the sovereign government of Iraq.
B I N G O
The DemocRATs are trying to start a new war in Iraq.
Still kickin'... but I'm sad that my niece and nephew will enter the job market under “Obamanomics”.
Is this only another play to delay the inevitable so Barack, the ass crack in the otherwise empty suit, can appear presidential by negotiating his own contract? Otherwise, I am clueless as to WHY this “idiot crew” would be even considering this interfering! This bogus worry of starting a civil war is just too transparent. I doubt this thought has even entered the heads of any Iraqis. Why do Democrats continually think they can interfere in the affairs of other sovereign nations?
(Does Clair McCaskill remind anyone else of the hated, and hateful, Professor Umbridge of Harry Potter fame?)
We need to send this story to everyone we know—and those we don't!
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