The democrat party line on BP is to close ranks and paint Republicans as protecting big oil. This is necessary to distract America from Obama’s incompetence and the democrat’s cozy relationship with the British energy company. Both Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes got the memo—they are on board—using tragedy for personal and political profit as each has sent out fundraising propaganda asking supporters to help them fend of the GOP and its defense of big oil. These people are unbelievable.
In a recent Hodes fundraising email staffer Valerie Martin claims that…
"Republicans… are standing up for Big Oil, Big Insurance, and Big Banks.
It’s just another example of a Republican defending the special interests, not your interests.…
Other Republicans are even inexplicably criticizing President Obama’s efforts to make sure BP has money set aside to pay for the damages they caused.””
So let me see if I’ve go this right. Paul Hodes (lawyer) sanctions the chief executive’s right to pry billions away from a private company without due process of law, when it is politically or ideologically convenient. You can run on that and democrats will vote for you?
Paul Hodes also takes a lot of money from big banks, insurance companies, special interests (and even bio-energy industry players—more on that in a seperate post). And did you know that he has pocketed close to $250,000.00 for the 2010 cycle alone from congressional PAC’s and candidate committees many of whom take money from big industries like BP that Hodes would rather you not hear about?
He’d also rather you not know that BP has been trying to be a major player in the renewable energy market. BP supported the 800 billion dollar stimulus, and netted at least $308 million for a project in California to develop a hydrogen power plant and carbon capture technology. BP also helped craft the Cap and Trade Bill Paul Hodes and Carol Shea Porter voted enthusiastically for in the House—because they stood to profit from it. BP has also lobbied democrats heavily to restrict greenhouse gas emissions, and subsidize solar panels and bio-fuels all of which the democrats have done to BP’s continued corporate advantage, while acting as if big oil or major energy companies have nothing to gain from their largesse with your earnings.
Big energy and Big oil do not lose anything here they simply shift their business model to accomodate the circumstances. And the curcumstance is that instead of them paying for all of the R and D or develeopme costs with their own profits we pay for it with taxes extorted by democrats and dispersed by government to favored players in favored industries, like BP.
And now Paul Hodes is trolling for contributions so he can defend his hidden special interest in BP at your expense. How he thinks that is not of interest to you is curious, and how he’d like to explain that away after tripling the deficit in one year and pushing the national debt past 13 trillion dollars (generations of us will have to work hard to cover) is a question you should keep on your mind as November approaches. Yeah, there is more.
BP is all about the green.
BP’s mission and global marketing strategy for going green has been formulated with the help of Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner (GQR). GQR is a major democrat player, working PR and campaign strategy for anything left of center be they democrats, socialists, or both. The GQR family includes Jeanne Shaheen, John Lynch, and The New Hampshire democrat party, all of whom are or have been clients of GQR.
BP’s high-powered Washington DC lobbying arm includes John Podesta, (who headed Obama’s transition team); Jamie Gorelick (conflicted Clinton Deputy attorney Gen, who laid the groundwork for the implosion of Fannie Mae as Vice chair during the 10 billion dollar accounting scandal with Franklin Raines) who just helped BP arrange that 20 Billion dollar extortion deal with Obama; along with a few other well heeled democrat lobbyists. Yeah, there’s more.
Obama’s current undersecretary of Energy for science, Dr. Steven Koonin–was BP’s chief genius from 2004-2008 on matters of greening BP with renewable technology, (going Beyond Petroleum) after which he went to work for President Obama.
So democrats have been coddling special interests and Big Oil, which by the way we should simply rename Big Energy since they are the biggest players in the democrats green agenda, and hiding it from the American people. And now Paul Hodes (and Carol) need you to believe that the GOP is supporting BP, not them.
Is it dishonest of him to campaign as if BP is only about oil, and that nothing he has done has enriched the energy sector or its special interests? It is. Paul and Carol have shoveled billions at green energy/ Big energy on one side while whining like stuck little piggies as they try to connect Republicans to the same groups. There are republcians connected to this energy fraud (Charlie Bass comes to mind). But they didn’t vote for the stimulus dollars or try to benefit Big Energy companies with cap and trade. Hodes and Shea-Porter did.
BP, Hodes, and Shea-Porter all share similar goals; create big corporate-socialist energy conglomerates, who exchange more regulation by government for a multi-billion dollar feeding tube filled with taxpayer dollars, and a protected market that crushes competitors. The entire democrat agenda under Obama is based on this formula which they have been passing legislation to support since Mr. Obama assumed office.
So what is the natural response to accusations of democrat incompetence? Hide the truth about the cozy relationships, ignore their complicity, paint their opponents as the benefactors, lie to their supporters, then ask them for money so they can continue to advance the agenda of BP and big energy behind their backs and at their expense.
That’s the Chicago way. And now Paul and Carol are a bigger part of it.
(H/T Danial Foster-NRO, Greenberg research, California Watch)
Cross Posted at NH Insider
