This week brought what President Obama termed the "ridiculous spectacle" of executives from three companies involved in the catastrophic Gulf oil spill testifying in front of Congress, each desperately trying to blame the other. Think "The Three Stooges Go To Washington" -- Moe, Larry, and Halliburton. Seeing Dick Cheney's old company, the poster child for crony capitalism, back in the spotlight was like one of those horror movies where the crazed killer keeps popping back up from the grave. You thought they were dead and buried when government audits showed the company had bilked taxpayers out of hundreds of millions during the war in Iraq? Well, they're baaa-aack! This is how it works in America these days. Chronic corruption and incompetence are not a disqualifier. As Chris Matthews put it: "It seems like a third world banana republic would do things this way!"
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The health care bill is a disgrace - a total giveaway to the insurance and drug industry. Insurers cheered it because they wrote it. No single payer, no savings on Canadian drugs.
We give billions to banks, but where are any jobs bills, or job training bills, when jobs will bring us back, not banks? God forbid Obama proposed something liberal, like Lyndon Johnson's CETA.
We now have more troops deployed overseas, not fewer.
Financial reform is a shredded joke, and the best proposals, like breaking up the "too big to fail" banks, were Opposed by this Administration and Geithner the Wall St. Crony.
Obama is semi-republican. Hillary was much more liberal. Heck, Nixon was more liberal. If you look at many of Nixon's actual proposals, current Dems would run screaming from them as too socialist. He proposed the EPA and also proposed a minimum income for everyone. Today's sniveling Dems would be afraid to propose either. If a repug drops his hat, all the dems in Congress bend over and cower, even With a majority. And Obama, like the DLC, turns us more and more to the pro-corporate right. This is NOT th e Party of the People any more. We need a new one, but the two parties maintain a stranglehold.
Democrats will stay in bed rather than vote for a milquetoast President and his cowering Dem enablers.
Instead of bashing another industry, and inciting more hatred and anger, Obama needs to bring everyone together to focus on problem solving the oil spill. That's what a true leader does.
Up to now it could have been assumed that this disaster was an "accident". Now that assumption is blown away. It appears that BP's management is directly involved in the decisions which led to the explosion and that this was known immediately after the explosion.
This report may turn also out to be President Obama's "What-did-the-president-know-and-when-did-he-know-it?" moment. It may also explain the letter sent to BP a couple of days ago by Obama's Sec. of Energy basically asking BP to put in writing what they have verbally told the president and the president has told the American people, "BP will pay for all the damage, even beyond the legal limit of $75,000,000."
CBS must have given Obama advanced notice of their expose. Obama must have realized that BP was now going to lawyer up and renege on their promise to pay all the bills. With the new information of BP's culpability, the law suits that will be filed become slam-dunks in court. This is probably why BP was trying to get Gulf residents to sign away their claims for $5,000 cash. Was Obama finessed by BP to buy them time, or was Obama doing them a big political favor? Stay tuned.
They deserve your contempt .
Speak up and stop exceptting incompetence and fraud....if you did it you would be in a cell with Bubba !
At least they would be worse for a vast majority of Americans.
corruption are worse than ever.
Spoiler alert: none. It was all done before Obama became President.
And note that since, Republicans have blocked all laws, AND all Obama appointments, including ones to the MMS that oversees drilling.
Obama's people are not in charge, Bush people are.
Thank the Republicans, who hope people are dumb enough to blame Obama.
Apparently they are right.
from the corrupt GS banksters who SATURATE the Obama administration, who DOMINATE Pelosi's 110th Congress.....
But HuffPost has the gaudy, DISTRACTION headlines & "nothing to see here, move along, move along" attitude of the NY Times, WashPost & lesser corporate-propaganda "mainstream media."
IT's a shame, because HuffPost HAD the potential to be a truly informative & INVESTIGATIVE news/media info source.
Oh well, I guess HuffPost wants to be like BOB WOODWARD, the hero & "courageous investigative reporters" of Watergate
who is now mocked as a fawning toady to official Washington with his "BUSH AT WAR,"
"PLAN OF ATTACK," "THE COMMANDERS"
and especially Woodward's FAWNING, outright SYCOPHANTIC book,
"MAESTRO," about Alan Greenspan, who LONG ago was exposed (Greenspan's FRAUD)
and -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/greenspans-testimony-will_b_526403.html
< Alan Greenspan testifies before the Angelides Commission.... Without wishing him any personal ill will, let's hope he gets a grilling. We come not to bury Greenspan, but to ... well, actually WE DO COME TO BURY HIM. For the greater good of all, he and the RADICAL PHILOSOPHY _HE REPRESENTS__ MUST BE EXPOSED for all to see. >
Yep, EVERYTHING that "the Great" Bob Woodward wrote about Alan Greenspan was FARCE, & ENABLED the DESTRUCTION of the American economy....
It is a shame that HuffPost is NO LONGER DETERMINED to "EXPOSE" those LOOT, PLUNDER, & PILLAGE economic farces that are constantly being ENABLED by Huffpost's media "competitors."
There is a chapter in Linda Martinez's book Freeing yourself from the Narcissist in your life about Rand. Everybody should check this book out and read it.