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Title: Dems peg Angle and other GOPs as ‘BP Republicans’
Source: THE HILL
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... d-other-gops-as-bp-republicans
Published: Jul 9, 2010
Author: Michael O'Brien
Post Date: 2010-07-09 12:56:26 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 11247
Comments: 26

Democrats launched a new website on Friday highlighting "BP Republicans" meant to highlight different GOP lawmakers' defenses of the oil company.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) seized on Nevada Republican candidate for Senate Sharron Angle's criticism of a $20 billion fund BP created to pay damages to victims of the oil spill, and sought to tie other GOP lawmakers to BP.

The DNC set up a new site, BPRepublicans.com, which casts GOP lawmakers as representing the interests of the oil company in Washington, and not their constituents.

The first image on the site targets Angle, who called the $20 billion account a "slush fund" on Wednesday, before backing off those remarks later in the day.

The site builds on political momentum Democrats saw after Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) expressed similar sentiments about the fund during a hearing last month where BP CEO Tony Hayward was testifying.

"It's more than Barton redux, it proves that an expression of empathy toward BP is not an isolated misstatement by a wayward Republican," said a DNC official, pointing also to Republicans' opposition to raising the liability cap for oil companies who cause accidents, or the GOP's opposition to an energy and climate bill.

But the site is just as much about taking issue at Angle as it is anyone.

"If Sharron Angle's going to fight for BP and be their candidate we thought we'd make it official. Besides, we understand that Sharron Angle is a fan of having more than one campaign website," said the DNC official. "Since she took down the one the one with her true positions, we thought the voters of Nevada would be interested to know who she's really fighting for."

Angle is the Republican candidate this fall against Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who, as Senate majority leader, serves as the top Democrat in that chamber. Republicans have made a point of trying to defeat Reid this fall in what has become an especially heated race.

To that end, President Barack Obama was in Nevada on Thursday evening to help raise money for Reid.

Obama himself ripped Angle during his visit to Nevada.

"Let me tell you, most Nevadans I meet -- and I've spent a lot of time here -- you know that," Obama said of Angle's remarks. "I've been seeing you.  Most of the people I meet here in this state, they don't think like that.  They don't subscribe to that kind of thinking.  So why would you want somebody who has that philosophy representing the people of Nevada?"


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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Day 80 and Owe-bama's biggest response is to twice try to layoff a 100,000 oil industry workers nationally.

Badeye  posted on  2010-07-09   13:02:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Badeye, brian s (#1)

SHARRON ANGLE, 5/14/10: People ask me, what are you going to do to develop jobs in your state? Well that's not my job as a U.S. Senator.

SHARRON ANGLE, 5/11/10: I'm not in the business of creating jobs.

go65  posted on  2010-07-09   13:14:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: go65 (#3)

She's right. And honest.

Oh, the HORROR...(laughing)

Badeye  posted on  2010-07-09   13:39:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Badeye (#4)

To: go65

She's right. And honest.

Oh, the HORROR...(laughing)

Who's right. Who's honest.

LMFAO put a name in there for future quoting possibilities.

Politics, democracy, lies helpless and is ravaged. At the moment little help can come. But we can at least regard these police unions with clear eyes.

The moral: ALL existing institutions are rotten, are corrupt, are enemies of the people; we must break free of them.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-07-10   10:07:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: All (#6)

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cnbc-guest-says-absent-plunge-protection-team-stepping-market-would-fall-wien-kernan-disgust Comments from same above:

"Indeed this is when fear becomes truly debilitating in my view. I have succumbed to this somewhat after hours of conversation with various friends and family. They have become comfortable because their knee-jerk reactions tend toward the, "Well what do you expect me to do!", instead of attempting to reason and ponder possible outcomes, has quieted me. "Oh you are still worrying about all that? There's nothing you can do about it, so move on." You can always explain it much better than I can, CD, but the resistance and negativity from them, shooting the messenger (me), is too overwhelming. A twisted side in me wants to proclaim, "I told you so!" but that will only be sorrowful. I can only hope something will click inside them before it's too late to even acquire life-saving supplies or at least invest their cash into something that is useful and tangible.

Bravo! for your strength, CD. It is not wasted on us here."

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-07-10   10:21:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: All (#12) (Edited)

Classical conditioning keeps you alive. You learn quickly to avoid that which may harm you and seek out that which makes you happy, like an amoeba.

The sort of complex behavior Skinner produced in animals was the result of operant conditioning.

Operant conditioning changes your desires. Your inclinations becomes greater through reinforcement, or diminish through punishment.

You go to work, you get paid. You turn on the air conditioning and stop sweating. You don’t run the red light, you don’t get a ticket. You pay the rent, you don’t get evicted.

It’s all operant conditioning, punishment and reward.

Which finally brings us back to the third factor – extinction.

When you expect a reward or a punishment and nothing happens, your conditioned response starts to fade away.

If you stop feeding your cat, he will stop hanging around the food bowl and meowing. His behavior will go extinct.

If you were to keep going to work and not get paid, eventually you would stop.

"This is when the extinction burst happens, right as the behavior is breathing its final breath.

You wouldn’t just not go to work anymore. You would probably storm into the boss’s office and demand an explanation. If you got nowhere after gesticulating wildly and inventing new curse words out of your boss’s last name, you might scoop your arm across his desk and leave in handcuffs.

Just before you give up on a long-practiced routine, you freak out. It’s a final desperate attempt by the oldest parts of your brain to keep getting rewarded."

See Joe Barton (TX-GobP) for details on 'Extinction Bursts.'

LMFAO 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-07-10   10:28:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: mcgowanjm (#13)

Keep 'em coming James. I'm reading.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-07-10   10:40:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Fred Mertz (#14)

Keep 'em coming James. I'm reading.

Thank you, Fred 8D

You might like to go here. I read alot of BF Skinner in college.

'How to get a pigeon to read' stuff. ;}

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/07/07/extinction-burst/

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-07-10   10:42:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: mcgowanjm (#15)

Interesting article; thanks.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-07-10   10:57:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Fred Mertz (#18)

Interesting article; thanks.

Better ones:

We just had a major break out in soy.

Turns out we shipped every last bean to China.

Gambling on Brazil/Argentina and our own new crop.

Not so good, we now have lowest Grain Stocks since 1947:

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/SB/W

The major news is that over 9 out of 10 the Grain/Fiber Markets break after July 4.

Expect $15 the bu soy by Thanksgiving.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-07-10   11:05:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: All (#19)

More interesting:

http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm

The BDI tracks ocean freighters. Even with every freighter moving grain, the Index is collapsing.

And when the BDI collapses(50% in the last 3 months), so does gold, oil, and grain.

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