Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Obama's BP (NYSE:BP) Connection

A lot of people may not know this, but Obama has received more campaign contributions than any other federal candidate over the last two decades from, you guessed it - BP (NYSE:BP). That includes employees of BP.

This must be an issue more thoroughly explored as to why Obama sat around for weeks doing literally nothing as oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico.

The connections seems to get worse though, as proposal being pushed by the White House is one that was partially written by BP.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel said this recently:

"An administration that seems to spend most of its time coming up with new ways to show how angry it is at BP is pushing a proposal that BP actually helped write. I can't understand it, and I don't think the American people will understand why that it makes sense to respond to the BP oil spill by imposing a gas-tax increase on the American people that was advocated by BP."

He's referring to the horrendous "cap-and-trade" bill which could result in the cost of gas more than doubling, along with our electricity bills.

It's incredible the apparent faux outrage of Barack Obama, who has been in bed with big oil for some time, and BP specifically, to propose this bill that would harm so many Americans if it became law, and which was co-written by his friends at BP.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

you mean Obama would lie to the public, sounds something like Hitler!