We Support The Oil Spill

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

The Oil Spill improves the value of Dawn Dish Detergent's stock!

Also, an excuse for all those stinky ocean animals to be given a bath.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

BP doesn't give campaign donations anymore (they stopped in 2002).  So the guy wasn't even properly paid for.

Tell me another one, Requia.  They're funneling money somehow.  NO oil company walks around without a congressman or 20 in their pocket.

BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company's political action committees - $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.

On top of that, the oil giant has spent millions each year on lobbying — including $15.9 million last year alone — as it has tried to influence energy policy.

During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.

In Congress, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who last week cautioned that the incident should "not be used inappropriately" to halt Obama's push for expansion of offshore drilling, has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of BP's largesse. Her comments created some blowback, with critics complaining that she is too blasé about the impact of the disaster, even though she was among the first lawmakers to call for a federal investigation into the spill.

As the top congressional recipient in the last cycle and one of the top BP cash recipients of the past two decades, Landrieu banked almost $17,000 from the oil giant in 2008 alone and has lined her war chest with more than $28,000 in BP cash overall.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64420A20100505

[Doktor Howl]

Ouch, ouch, ouch.

Poor Requia.

[Requia ☣]

Reuters is full of shit, oil rig workers giving to Obama doesn't count as BP giving to Obama.

That said, according to Reuters' source it looks like while BP hasn't given its own money to campaigns or PACs anymore, they set up a PAC fund that still has money to give out, about $200,000 a year.  So yeah, BP is gaming the system.

[Adios]

I support the oil spill because when oceanfront property is worthless I want to buy a few thousand acres and open it to rednecks so they come kill black animals. For $1500 a head.

[Kai]

I'd make up some  joke, but I'm really too depressed about it to poke fun.

[Jenne]

I support the oil spill because when oceanfront property is worthless I want to buy a few thousand acres and open it to rednecks so they come kill black animals. For $1500 a head.

 

[Jenne]

I'd make up some  joke, but I'm really too depressed about it to poke fun.

I'm right there with you, Kai--I tried for horrormirth and got a booze shot out of it. 

[Adios]

I support the oil spill because when oceanfront property is worthless I want to buy a few thousand acres and open it to rednecks so they come kill black animals. For $1500 a head.

 

wut?

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Reuters is full of shit, oil rig workers giving to Obama doesn't count as BP giving to Obama.

That said, according to Reuters' source it looks like while BP hasn't given its own money to campaigns or PACs anymore, they set up a PAC fund that still has money to give out, about $200,000 a year.  So yeah, BP is gaming the system.

Generally the employees donating political contributions aren't Joe Oil Rigger but rather Joe the Veep or Joe the CxO... its one of the rather oily ways that corporations are getting around the "OMGZ you're in the pocket of Big Corp"... of course, without full disclosure, I have no way to be sure... and it could be Joe Rigger just hoping to get a democrat elected.

[Suu]

BP doesn't give campaign donations anymore (they stopped in 2002).  So the guy wasn't even properly paid for.

Tell me another one, Requia.  They're funneling money somehow.  NO oil company walks around without a congressman or 20 in their pocket.

"Incentives".

[Elder Iptuous]

I support the oilspill because were finally going to be rid of all those gulf walruses...

[Captain Utopia]

I support the oilspill because it's removing most of that nasty yucky oil from the site of my future undersea cave fortress.

[Triple Zero]

The Atlantic supports the Oil Spill.

literally.

[Rumckle]

Ok, found one:

That there's now a martini on tap called "the Oil Spill"?

That's not a martini, that's just a cocktail