
By Keith Olbermann on last night's Countdown (no video unfortunately). Rethuglican / New Confederate Party Sen. Jeff Sessions to a Keebler cookie elf. Frankly, we'd vote for the Keebler elf.
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"The President, Congressional leaders, and Democrats of all stripes should be yelling day in, day out, that REPUBLICANS ARE SABOTAGING NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY. AND PREVENTING JOB GROWTH, JUST FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE. That should be the message all the time, led by the President. Stop the murky compromises and the whining about "helping the unemployed." Stop pretending this is about the deficit -- nothing will hurt the deficit more than delayed economic growth. Say what it happening in terms of the national interest."Well said, and worth heeding.
-- he's collected some $1.4 million in contributions from the oil and gas industry during his careerJon Stewart did a segment on Barton last night that's a classic. Let's not forget, however, that Barton was only echoing the sentiments of other wingnuts like hate radio's Limpballs, and his House colleague crazy Michele "The Commie Hunter" Bachmann had expressed just a day earlier. It's also worth noting Rethug John "Boner" Boehner's gaffe earlier in the week where he suggested that the government should share cleanup costs with BP. See the pattern? When the Rethugs speak candidly, they defend big oil, Wall Street financiers, and the health insurance industry. In fact, that's whose interests they represent, and it's only when their game is exposed are they forced to issue false "apologies."
-- he's the #1 recipient of oil and gas money in the House
-- before his election to Congress, he was an executive at ARCO, a company that was later bought out by (drum roll, please) BP.
"Libertarian ideology rejects most of the modern regulatory systems that protect consumers, because everyone should be responsible for determining whether the hamburger contains E. coli on his own. But does that do-it-yourself dogma apply to the regulation of medicine, too? If you're Dr. Rand Paul, practicing ophthalmologist, the answer is emphatically yes."As a result, Hackwhackers may decide to drop this blogging gig, and set up a certification board for ice cream. Despite our limited experience, we think we can get some ice cream companies to get their ice cream "certified" by us. Pretty sweet.
"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended the executive, Tony Hayward, on Friday, saying the public should not rush to fault the company’s leaders for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. . . . On Friday, Mr. Bloomberg said BP should be left alone until the recovery operation is complete. 'If you want him to fix it and they’re the only ones with the expertise, I think I might wait to assign blame till we get it fixed,' the mayor said."Leaving aside the fact that BP has already taken "responsibility" for the blowout, the Mayor might want to take note of the fact that BP's environmental and safety record has been blemished by numerous violations over the years, so malfeasance on their part wouldn't be an unreasonable assumption. Or he could just read this.
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"FreedomWorks worked with BP to build grassroots support for opening up large sections of both the East and West coasts to new oil drilling. BP listed the group as part its 'significant grassroots supporters' on a PowerPoint slide at a presentation by the BP-funded front group 'Consumer Energy Alliance' at a conference in 2007."
"Where were the boats that could have been commandeered by the government to be sent into this region to deal with that oil plume as it was coming up in the water and destroying marine life?"Get that? "Commandeered by the government." Isn't that heresy among the teabagger mob that Bachmann plays to?