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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (572128)	6/17/2010 12:44:07 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577893

Why don't Rs want BP to pay? "The Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative members of the House, released a statement today calling the $20 billion BP escrow account a "Chicago-style political shakedown." "BP's reported willingness to go along with the White House's new fund suggests that the Obama Administration is hard at work exerting its brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics, wrote chairman Tom Price (R-GA). "These actions are emblematic of a politicization of our economy that has been borne out of this Administration's drive for greater power and control."" tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com