Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) listens to testimony during a hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington in this May 27, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
NO earmarks for you, Joe.
Sic ‘em!
I agree!
Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) listens to testimony during a hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington in this May 27, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
How will these funds be administered under Feingold? A separate agency/commission? Who/what will function as a Trustee?
Feds in the middle of paperwork. Gee. Who’d’ve thought.
They want their cut. If this isn’t a protection scheme, I don’t know what is. Who’ll be the guy coming around for the money.....
It’s both a shakedown and a protection rackett.
obama = Al + Jesse + Hugo
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Chicago thug politics
***”What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations that caused this disaster than the fishermen, small business owners and communities whose lives have been devastated by the destruction,” said Gibbs.***
Barton has concern for the Constitution!
BTW Gibbs - how has your boss actually helped in this crisis?
“What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations that caused this disaster than the fishermen, small business owners and communities whose lives have been devastated by the destruction,” said Gibbs.”
The Pill-bury Doughboy demonstrates the psychosis of the left...WE WILL DECIDE WHICH BUSINESSES HAVE RIGHTS.
And it will be a VERY popular shakedown until people discover the money didn't go to the people affected but rather to democrat cronies.
Hey Gibbs we do have a rule of law and a court system in this country. Your man constantly seems hell-bent on bypassing all that. Maybe he is in it for the shake down as the good Congressman stated.
We are no longer a nation of laws.
We do have existing laws, courts, and means to deal with these matters.
Extortion is illegal.
During a time when the regime in the White House seems intent on a "Chicago Way" mode of governance, it is really refreshing to have a member of Congress remind us that the American Legal System is, in fact, one of due process and fairness.
... "White House spokesman Robert Gibbs quickly denounced Barton and called on members of both parties to repudiate his comments."
No surprize there. The regime's mouthpiece doesn't want people reminded that there is an alternative to "the Chicago Way".
""What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations that caused this disaster than the fishermen, small business owners and communities whose lives have been devastated by the destruction," said Gibbs."
What Gibbs was really saying was this:
"We gots lots and lots of friends, see. And our friends want a piece of the action, see. And so we shake down BP for a minimum of $20 billion, AND WE GET TO DECIDE whose claims are legit, see. We don't need no stinking due process to decide which of our friends to give money to. So we don't want no Congressman getting in the way of us helping out our friends."
Don't you just love the Chicago Way of politics?
It was a shakedown.. Even James Carville knows it...there wasn’t one thing lawful or Constitutional about it.
on CNN former Clinton Administration message man James Carville said:
‘It looks as if President Obama applied a little old-school Chicago persuasion to the oil
executives.’ Making ‘offers you can’t
refuse’ may be a great way to run the mob, but it is no way to run a country.”
It’s a slush fund for Obama’s union buddies.
Maybe it could have been less than $20 billion if Zero had defended our coast better?
The Democrats and their sychophants in the mainstream media are characterizing this as standing for the greedy corporations.
In fact, Rep. Barton and others are expressing concern at how this precedent will enable the government to levy fines without a trial. That is a step toward rule by decree, which is a threat to us all.
What would Reuters call it? Does Reuters admire it when the Administration acts like Chavez?
We have laws in this country that establish liability. We don’t need Obama and his stupid side-kick, Biden, demanding money from corporations.
What would Reuters call it? Does Reuters admire it when the Administration acts like Chavez?
We have laws in this country that establish liability. We don’t need Obama and his stupid side-kick, Biden, demanding money from corporations.
Rule of law makes you do the right thing but it also protects you from the mob when things go wrong. Its Wyatt Earp standing off the lynch mob even though the guy in the cell is guilty.
In O’s world, Wyatt and the lynch mob clean out the perp’s pockets and if they get enough out of him, they let him go.
This is how third world thugocracies operate. This is exactly how they operate.
The question that needs to be asked about the SLUSH FUND is why did BP agree to it so quickly?
BP is a multibillion dollar company. They have lawyers. They knew they could fight this. So what did they get in exchange?