Comments on: The Senate Loves Big Oil https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/ We Cover The World Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 By: Ryan Carson https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22265 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:24:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22265 And the filibuster strikes again…

]]> By: nicole https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22264 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:23:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22264 Not surprising. They are, after all, first and foremost corporate shills, and I guarantee you that a vast majority of the Senate Republicans reaps a larger share of their income from damn lobbyists than from Uncle Sam.

Consider too, that the House GOP voted to end Medicare yesterday. This, if nothing else, should hurt them BIGTIME in November if we beat the drums loud enough.

Adding…. 47 senators – cost to big oil $24 million

]]> By: mnpollio https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22261 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:28:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22261 Not remotely surprising in the least. And if there are any Republicans that defect you can rest assured that it will usually be Snowe and Collins. Ditto, that if there is a list of defecting “Democrats” on a big oil issue, the names Landrieu and Nelson will surely be there. Landrieu has been especially unapologetically vocal about being in their bag for some time now.

]]> By: Mike Edinger https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22259 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:17:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22259 But Begich, Landrieu, Nelson, and Webb are all Democrats. We HAVE to support them!

]]> By: agrazingmoose https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22253 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:26:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22253 And, god forbid we lend some money to the struggling auto industry.

]]> By: trgahan https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22252 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:59:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22252 Can they pass a bill that anyone who votes against ending subsidies for a profitable industry can’t campaign on a platform of fiscal responsibility; portray themselves as “self made”; claim ANY libertarian leanings; or make any speeches about average Americans needing to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.”
They ended most subsidies for alternative energy in 2011 on the argument “If it needs federal subsidies, it’s not a viable industry and should be allowed to fail. That’s free market capitalism!” So…?

]]> By: Michael Norris https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22251 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:35:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22251 Brought to you by the same people who believe that an individual mandate to buy healthcare insurance is unconstitutional. But drug testing welfare recipients is not. And of course, shoving a probe into a woman who is seeking an abortion is certainly constitutional under this kind of thinking. Good people indeed…and smart too!

]]> By: morningsky https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22250 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:04:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22250 Just another day and another disaster:
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/03/gas-leak-north-sea-deepwater-horizon

]]> By: eljefejeff https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22249 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:01:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22249 McConnell made some bullshit argument about this wouldn’t help gas prices, and he’s right. But that’s beside the point. They continue to make record profits while the rest of us go broke just driving to work.

]]> By: morningsky https://www.bobcesca.com/the-senate-loves-big-oil/#comment-22248 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:59:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=24590#comment-22248 Just makes you want to pull the waste can over and puke in it!

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