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Title: BP's Spill-Claim Fund Is a `$20 Billion Shakedown,' Republican Barton Says
Source: BLOOMBERG
URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? ... 0601087&sid=aws_F3lAVbXE&pos=8
Published: Jun 17, 2010
Author: By Jeff Plungis
Post Date: 2010-06-17 11:12:06 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 314
Comments: 20

June 17 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, said a fund BP Plc agreed to establish after meeting with President Barack Obama yesterday amounted to “a $20 billion shakedown.”

“I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House,” Barton said today as a House Energy Committee panel began a hearing on BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Due process wasn’t followed during negotiations between BP and administration officials, Barton said.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

He's right.

Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.

Badeye  posted on  2010-06-17   11:25:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Badeye (#1)

Chuckles...

"Let the government clean it up and the taxpayer pay for it..."

--Boofer on the spill/leak that he claimed was less than natural "seepage"...

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-17   11:26:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Badeye (#1)

Oh I really do hope you and your neocon ilk line up to support BP!

{{{chuckle}}}

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2010-06-17   11:27:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Brian S (#3)

PHILIP MESSING

1. I'm not a 'neo con' - meaning I was NEVER a liberal turned Conservative as the term is defined.

2. I'm not defending BP here. I'm noting Barton is correct with his assertion the Constitution is being blatantly violated.

There is a right way, and a wrong way, of dealing with the disaster BP has wrought upon us.

This is the wrong way in my view.

Meanwhile, your side is getting creamed on this issue....just wait til its day 159....

Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.

Badeye  posted on  2010-06-17   11:45:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Badeye (#4)

1. I'm not a 'neo con' - meaning I was NEVER a liberal turned Conservative as the term is defined.

ok.

Neocon loving lickspittle then.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2010-06-17   11:57:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Brian S (#5)

ok.

Neocon loving lickspittle then

The movement history hardly means it applies individually as Badeye would suggest. Or else he once must have been a Whig too. lol

Making the world safe for United Fruit.

mininggold  posted on  2010-06-17   12:02:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Brian S (#5) (Edited)

Any word can mean anything when you insist on conytriving your own definitions.

In Boofer's world...this guy isn't obese:

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-17   12:13:36 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Brian S (#5)

Going 'juvenile' here is pathetic Brian s.

Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.

Badeye  posted on  2010-06-17   12:16:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: All (#0)

$1.4 MILLION *donated* by the oil industry to Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)

Just reported on MSNBC.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2010-06-17   13:07:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Brian S (#9)

America needs to speak with one voice here and it ain't Joe Barton's.

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-17   13:11:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Brian S (#9)

$1.4 MILLION *donated* by the oil industry to Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)

I suppose he is upset he got so little in his 'shakedown'.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-06-17   13:19:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Fred Mertz (#11)

Barton's still correct as to the Constitutionality of this. Or does that not matter?

Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.

Badeye  posted on  2010-06-17   13:20:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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

How is it unconstitutional, Boofer?

It wasn't legislated, therefore, a Bill of Attainder. It's going to be adminstered to privately.

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-17   13:49:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Brian S (#0)

It's the Chicago Way.

Liberator  posted on  2010-06-18   1:07:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Badeye (#12)

Barton's still correct as to the Constitutionality of this. Or does that not matter?

Sure it's unconstitutional, but an 0bama official when asked the same question stated they would merely create a law that authorizes the shake-down (no mention of just how shakedown are "constitutional.")

Liberator  posted on  2010-06-18   1:10:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Brian S (#9)

$1.4 MILLION *donated* by the oil industry to Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)

Just reported on MSNBC.

When did MSNBC report on the million bucks 0bama got from BP?

That right - NEVER.

(Did you get that Brian? BP + $1,000,000 = 0bama's campaign.)

Liberator  posted on  2010-06-18   1:12:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Badeye, Brian BS, Dwarf the anti-Groupie, Liberal Who Attack the Messenger (#1)

Hey BE - why don't the Liberal/Leftist ankle-biting tards here ever address the story instead of obsessing over you?

They're like gushing school girls with crushes. I'm jealous.

Liberator  posted on  2010-06-18   1:16:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Liberator (#16)

When did MSNBC report on the million bucks 0bama got from BP?

When did seventy-seven thousand dollars become a million bucks?

lucysmom  posted on  2010-06-18   1:19:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: lucysmom (#18)

When did seventy-seven thousand dollars become a million bucks?

When the disinformation from 0bama's media lap-dogs like MSNBC and the Times is ignored.

Liberator  posted on  2010-06-18   1:30:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Liberator (#17)

Hey BE - why don't the Liberal/Leftist ankle-biting tards here ever address the story instead of obsessing over you?

Gay crush? Envy? Decade long demonstration of insanity? Inability to refute the statement it violates the Constitution?

Pick one...

Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.

Badeye  posted on  2010-06-18   9:41:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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