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Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool
The Washington Examiner ^
| 06-09-2010
| Timothy P. Carney
Posted on 06/09/2010 7:04:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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So the truth will out no matter how desperately the state directed media is trying to cover for Dear Reader's regime.
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:04:37 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
To: MNJohnnie
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:06:35 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
To: al baby
Now that right thar is funny!
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:07:57 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
To: MNJohnnie
Theres a problem: BP was a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby dedicated to passing a cap-and-trade bill. As the nations largest producer of natural gas, BP saw many ways to profit from climate legislation, notably by persuading Congress to provide subsidies to coal-fired power plants that switched to gas.There you have it. Follow the money, as always.
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:08:42 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?)
To: al baby
What the hell is she doing?
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:09:25 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?)
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:10:57 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: bamahead; All
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:18:11 AM PDT
by
Larousse2
(The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: bamahead
This is one area Conservative need to follow the lead of Libertarians.
Being "Pro Business" is not the same thing as being "Pro Free Markets". Conservatives too often confuse the former for the latter. That needs to stop.
Some of the worst enemies of liberty sit in CEO offices of major corporations using their money to by influence in DC and choke off competition.
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:20:44 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
To: MNJohnnie
Good to see you saying that. I couldn't agree more. I always go back to this Jonah Goldberg piece when someone confuses being 'Pro Business' with the government coddling and enabling of 'BIG Business':
Et Tu, Big Business?
The latter is a most unsavory partnership. Especially with the left in charge. But frankly neither party has any qualms about selling Joe Taxpayer up the river if it enhances their power base (and often their election coffers).
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:29:01 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: MNJohnnie
Being "Pro Business" is not the same thing as being "Pro Free Markets". Conservatives too often confuse the former for the latter. That needs to stop.
I always thought that "free markets" is a better term than "capitalism" to describe what we believe in.
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:31:35 AM PDT
by
kenavi
(What drove BP to drill 5,000 feet down?)
To: MNJohnnie
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:37:32 AM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: MNJohnnie
bp’s always advertised daily in the wsj or nyt for global warming.
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:10:20 AM PDT
by
ken21
(i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
To: All
In one of her excellent books, Ann Coulter talks about Bob Packwood, the former Senator from Oregon.
She opines that as long as he was useful to the Democratic party, he was presented in the liberal media as a “rock ribbed maverick” and so on. He was pro-abortion, and had no problem bashing any Republican in the White House (sounds familiar...)
Once Clinton was elected, the liberals no longer needed good old “Groper Bob”. There was a President in power who would preserver abortion at all costs including the veto where needed, so they torpedoed him and sunk him.
Thing was, his slobbering overtures to the women who worked for him were well known to everyone for years, but as long as he was a useful idiot, a reliable vote to keep abortion, and a vocal critic of Republicans in power, everyone in the media, the feminist movement and the government looked the other way.
I see the parallel here with BP.
When they needed the money and political cover for cap and trade, the stimulus, etc. and they were reliably on board with the green BS agenda, they were the favorite child of liberals.
Once this disaster hit, all the things the liberals want to accomplish, could be be done in the name of protecting the environment from disasters like the BP spill.
Obama was already in office and there is a liberal majority. They don’t need the dirty BP money now.
They could use this spill to advance severe restrictions on domestic energy production and didn’t need any corporate “green” help from an entity like BP.
Basically, they could toss BP aside, they had outlived their usefulness.
Like Bob Packwood, BP is the same company today that they were two months ago. But overnight, as Ann Coulter said of Bob Packwood, they have been transformed from the corporate equivalent of a “Rock Ribbed Maverick” into the “Groper Bob” equivalent of a “graceless clod”.
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:11:40 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: ken21
bps always advertised daily in the wsj or nyt for global warming.I despised them for those "Beyond Petroleum" tv ads. Not that there's anything wrong with thinking of yourself as an energy company and working with other energy sources as appropriate, but the whole tenor of the ads was essentially a full retreat before envirowhackos and implied that petroleum was somehow a not-too-necessary evil and would be retired as soon as feasible. As if they were continuing to produce it reluctantly and that it was a shameful product but necessary for the moment. Assholes.
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:40:33 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: rlmorel
She opines that as long as he was useful to the Democratic party, he was presented in the liberal media as a rock ribbed maverick and so on. He was pro-abortion, and had no problem bashing any Republican in the White HouseWait -- I know that guy! Shamefully, he's from here in AZ, nor Oregon. I don't think his name's Packwood anymore either...
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:42:43 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: rlmorel
Oh, OK, Pack wood, I get it!
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:44:11 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
LOL...that is why I had the parenthetic statement (I know...he sounds familiar...:)
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:54:29 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: rlmorel
I know, but I was already thinking it when I got to that part and couldn’t stand to waste the humor!
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:56:26 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
I can understand that completely!
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:16:33 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: MNJohnnie
“The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don’t go there they shoot you.” - P.J. O’Rourke
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posted on
06/09/2010 10:56:03 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
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