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June 23, 2010 01:11 AM UTC
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We’ve marveled repeatedly at Republican Cory Gardner’s incredible “talent” for self-inflicted political wounds, but the depth of his deafness on sensitive political issues is really becoming fascinating.
Scene: semi-dark room with traces of smoke
Narrator: “Cory Gardner sells his soul to BP.”
Give me a break. You’re just shilling for Markey. Despite Obama’s macabre vilification of BP, polls show people blame him as much or more for the mess. BP has been more than willing to pay for the damages and do everything it can to stop the leak and clean up the mess. Obama has been lax on the government side of things in order to push can and trade. Mr. “never let a good crisis go to waste” is right by his side.
The point is that the fundraiser should never have been scheduled to begin with. Whether people blame Obama or BP more for the oil spill is irrelevant — no politician in his or her right mind should want to be associated in any way with BP right now. You really think this is a good idea?
But it’s one guy out of handful; they probably didn’t even realize he was from BP. If people are upset I’m sure they’ll cancel him too. The fundraiser was before King made the controversial race comments. After King made the comments and people were upset, he did cancel, which you have to give him some credit for. He’s no hard right winger; in fact he used to be a Dem.
Do you actually believe that? No politician who works in the same environment as lobbyists is unaware of who the clients are – it’s the lobbyist primary job to make sure their client has top visibility and most importantly, access to the politician. There’s no way Gardner could not be aware of who that lobbyist works for – virtually impossible, unless the lobbyist is doing an extremely poor job or Gardner is extremely unaware. He’s not that unaware.
Excuse me Mr. Government_no_private_enterprise_yes – the prime responsibility rests with BP and everyone knows that. But if you want to take the approach that the government should regulate so heavily it bears prime responsibility, go crazy 🙂
And BP deserves the outrage from the country at the safety lapses that led to the spill. But I think they’ve gone over and above in being willing to pay for all damages and do everything they can to clean up the leak, if for no other reason than PR. After all they just forked over $20 billion extra at Obama’s request.
and everything else about it since day 1. Why anyone would imagine they have made any type of good faith effort here is mind boggling.
For someone always railing against the ‘establishment’ candidates you seem perfectly comfortable with Gardner at a DC fundraiser with well-heeled lobbyists representing (foreign-headquartered) multi-national corporations, including the one currently being vilified (rightly, IMO, or wrongly, in yours). How does this play to the Tea Party tune? Or are they only afraid of Mexicans, gay people, and scientists?
Right now, Republicans are desperately trying to distance themselves from BP (and connect them to Obama and other Democrats) and Cory is missing the memo. Maybe Rep. King took him off the Young Guns e-mail listserv?
No, it was probably not a good idea for Gardner to do this. BP certainly deserves blame. My point is that this article exaggerates in a blatant attempt to defame Gardner. I have said before I think he’s a squish, but he certainly isn’t corrupt. He genuinely wants to represent Coloradoans and I don’t fault him for trying to raise some money. Norton, on the other hand, tries to pretend to be the grassroots candidate while hiding her D.C. fundraisers. She is more tied in with the national establishment than Colorado.
What proof do you have to support your assertion?
and we didn’t hear a peep out of the campaign. Instead, she posted video of her tour through western Colorado where she had been previously in order to give the impression that she was still there.
She sent out email invitations to those fundraisers to people right here in Colorado. There was no attempt on her part to hide them.
These were fundraisers in D.C. I don’t recall her inviting anybody to fly out there. There wasn’t a peep from her campaign about it.
You’re totally misreading this diary — it’s not about whether or not he’s corrupt, it’s about whether or not he’s stupid and his campaign can’t avoid obvious landmines.
….and it’s not being all paid at once. It’s over a number of years.
And if you think the BP lawyers aren’t going to try to rewrite this, or deny claims, there’s a bridge with Brooklyn at one end….
It might not be all that much to BP but it will make a difference to a lot of folks in the Gulf. It was a brilliant move by Obama to get BP to setup the escrow without a cap. It was true statesmanship. Do you think this administration didn’t learn about slippery corporate behavior from the banking bailout?
I don’t think I implied otherwise.
It’s peanuts to BP (British Peanuts?), especially over the four or five years that they will pay into it.
Yes, I think it was, for the most part, a brilliant move on the part of the administration.
How original! A republican does something stupid yet you still find a way to blame Obama. Way to think this one thru without jerking your knee out of socket.
Gardner has always been in the back pocket of Big Oil; remember the oil slush fund money Gardner used to drive a RV around the state to campaign against higher education? Yes, to him Big Oil is more important than education.
And I’m sure just like Reps. King, Bachmann and Barton, Conoco Cory also probably believes the real victim here is the oil company, not the small people.
…before we heard a peep out of Obama. He was out playing golf. Dems used to complain when Bush would play golf; why aren’t they concerned when Obama plays way more than Bush ever did?
What evidence do you have that, in your words, President Obama was “lax” in his response to the BP disaster in order to garner support for his cap & trade legislation? Put another way, what evidence do you have that President Obama intentionally withheld federal action in the Gulf of Mexico as a means to get support for cap and trade legislation?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2ca8…
I don’t have absolute proof, but given Rahm Emmanuel’s “don’t let a crisis go to waste” philosophy it seems very likely. Why else would he be so lax?
though I can’t find it now. Regardless, there was his big prime time speech to the nation.
“I’m sure I saw it somewhere.” It’s remarkable you don’t get salaams of respect when you’re supporting your arbitrary statements with evidence like that!
Though I was serious that it’s the most support you’ve ever mustered….
is only going to make me look better by comparison. And yes I did say most, not all.
Pure, arbitrary, unsupported, random, blindly ideological garbage, as everyone except you knows.
I could have sworn you were talking about yourself.
(and original) the hundredth time as it was the first….
But if you want to keep putting your spectacular lack of sentience on display, I’m glad to keep throwing confetti on your parade….
I’m just enjoying your “spectacular lack of sentience”. Actually if your intention was to irritate me, congrats. Much like the whine of a mosquito, your buzzing can be annoying. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to swat all the mosquitos. I hope you enjoy your pathetic life as a bjwilson83 tracker. It’s not like anyone listens to you on the campaign trail either I guess.
you’ll have an original thought, or at least phrase an unoriginal one in some semblence of an original way. But no one’s holding their breath.
my intention isn’t to irritate you. I couldn’t care less whether you’re irritated or not. My intention is to batter your fortress of self-delusion until: 1) you shutter yourself safely within it, and cease to bombard us with your spit-balls of obnoxious stupidity; 2) you miraculously convert yourself into a thoughtful participant in robust and meaningful public discourse (yeah, like that’s going to happen…); or 3) there is no chance that any of your little verbal farts (often comprised, as above, of the undigested whole phrases of others with whom even you recognize your complete inability to compete) will ever stand unexposed, and be mistaken by some unsuspecting passer-by as anything other than the meaningless noise that it is.
Interestingly enough, you’ve never once responded to the many definitive debunkings of your many meaningless utterances here. I wonder why that is? (just kidding: No one wonders why that is; we all know why that is).
Why do I feed the trolls?
is that the same piss ant who kept bragging about how good he was at annoying others is so both hypocritical and brain dead that he uses their very words to complain about being served a helping of his own medicine (only leavened with reason and knowledge, two ingredients he’s never managed to include). The only problem is that you’re too stupid to be humiliated by your spectacular stupidity.
When it comes to being annoying, you take the cake. /snark
but I am one of those people who think that BP was actually honorable in dealing with their mistake particularly compared to the way the Wall Street bankers behaved. BP might have a dirty name right now but they were head and shoulders better in their post mistake efforts than the Wall Street bankers
The robot sub drivers were amazing in what they did a mile under the ocean with a joystick.
The BP engineers tried things like the top hat and analyzed the flaws in the original prototype and came back with something that worked enough to put them on a better footing for containing the problem.
The roughnecks and drillers drilling the relief wells are at it 24/7 and are going in for the kill. They are probably some of the finest drilling crews in the world and they are as motivated as anyone to plug this runaway well.
I don’t believe that Tony Hayward wanted this accident to happen even if BP was negligent and greedy but he did the right thing to negotiate with the US government to setup the $20 billion escrow with out a cap and go in front of the cameras on Capital Hill for a public flogging. If this was the old days he would have been put in the stocks and folks would have thrown rotten vegetables at him. It was a public whipping and his restitution was this escrow fund without a long drawn out legal process that would have bankrupted a lot of people.
Maybe Gardner should avoid BP for the image issue but I hold BP in higher regard than the Wall Street bankers absolutely. BP did some honorable things and I suspect will alter their corporate practices in the future. There is precious little honor in what the Wall Street bankers did with their problems.
You’ll be in the minority, sorry to say.
Having said that, Wall Street bankers or Tony Hayward? That’s like the slumber party game where you say who you’d kiss to avoid death!
so maybe that will count as something to those who clamor for a pound of flesh.
That’s quite true.
for negligence, greed and cutting corners to the point it resulted in the death of their own employees.
1. Contain, cap, stop the blowout. BP is doing everything they can on this front. But, then again, they have to. They really have no choice.
2. PR: Offer to pay all “legitimate” (undefined) claims. As I recall, they’re not doing so well on this one. So when the rubber hits the road, they’re not so eager to pony up. They made some lovely TV ads, though.
3. Legal liability. The penalties they will have to pay are proportional to the size of the spill. From day 1, BP has been low-balling their estimates of the spill, by at least an order of magnitude. They’ve made no effort to assist those who are attempting to make an accurate assessment. Quite the contrary, they’re doing everything they can to hide the size of the spill.
(No links to substantiate these assertions, but you don’t need to look far to find them.)
I mean I’m sure Pols will run front page stories about Michael Bennet attending fundraisers with BP and other big oil lobbyists and taking money from BP, Exxon, and others.
Oh wait…nevermind.
1) On the right, Jane Norton. Last week NRSC chair Cornyn Wall Street Journal reported is going to appear in July at Cherry Creek Country Club with Norton for a joint Norton/NRSC fundraiser. Way to show you are the DC outsider, Jane.
2) On the left, Betsey Markey. Voting for Cap and Tax and Obamacare in the district that she represents? Bet that went over big in Greeley.
It’s Betsy. You’re welcome.
Republicans outnumber Democrats in registration but it’s sweet of you to totally ignore how Dems feel as well as the Independents that reside here, too.
I guess we don’t count because we don’t have an “R” on our voter cards.
I don’t recall the specifics but somewhere north of 60% of everyone in her district is against both of those policies.
I care how dems feel, and so should politicians, as long as their feelings are consistent with how most of their constituents feel they may get reelected.
1) The perception that BP and/or the government could have done a great deal more to prevent and subsequently stop the spill is misplaced. What we’re seeing is largely a technological shortcoming that has resulted from an unforeseeable freak accident.
2)Obama has no interest in continuing the spill to mobilize support for cap and trade. Look at what the spill response is doing to his polling numbers. That, coupled with the fact that the majority of the public does not see the nexus between the spill and cap and trade kills this theory. In short, the public cares about stopping the spill and mitigating the impacts to the economy and wildlife. They do not see this as a call to replace all drilling with renewables.
3) BP has no interest in continuing the spill as a means to recover the oil. This was made abundantly clear by the fact that they have announced that they will not develop this well and yesterday committed to donating all profits from the oil recovered to a conservation foundation to fund habitat restoration.
4) I’m quite confident that Dan Meyer had little or nothing to do with the events leading up to the spill and his job as a lobbyist is explicitly protected in the U.S. Constitution. If you don’t think CG should accept any oil and gas industry donations, don’t vote for him. But to claim an indiscretion because he accepts a donation from someone who lobbies for an oil and gas company whose mistakes he had nothing to do with is a bit of a stretch.
5) Does attending a fundraiser co-hosted by your party’s Senatorial Committee make you a DC insider? If so, I suppose that all of the DSCC events for Bennet , coupled with the appearances for him by the President make him an Uber DC insider.