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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85742)	6/11/2010 5:57:00 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 224744

From Brumar: Obama was not only the biggest recipient of BP cash. reuters.com It also funded Obama's Secretary of Energy Steven Chu's Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley in the amount of $500M. Steven CHU selected Steve Koonin, BP's chief scientist, to be his undersecretary: motherjones.com BP was one of three major oil companies that were going to appear in Washington the week of the blowout in support of the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill: .... While Kerry did not name the three oil companies, a source familiar with the negotiations said Shell, BP and ConocoPhillips would back the climate measure. ... views.washingtonpost.com; --------- Considering the above, its obvious BP was plugged into the Obama administration and the Congressional Democratic leadership. Now think about that when evaluating whether an onsite regulator would have over-ruled BP out on an oil rig. Would a regulator who overruled a connected company like BP be risking his career?

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