Emanuel on Barton and the GOP: ‘They see the aggrieved party here as BP, not the fishermen.’

“one the President will use in coming weeks to contrast his governing vision with Republicans…”
Obama has a “governing vision”? LOL!!
Maybe it’s “should I play 9 or 18 holes today?”
What a leader!

I see you’ve all got the Foxnews talking points.

The Government is way behind the eight ball, as expected. Just like the great job they are doing protecting the border. Their answer is to sue the state for stepping up to enforce the same law the Feds are supposed to be enforcing. BOs admin needs to stop the whining about the GOP and get to work to get this disaster under control.

First came THE Conservative Supreme Court taking power away from America’s small people and giving it to corporations … even foreign corporations. That same Conservative philosophy is again handed over to one of the world’s most powerful foreign corporations with what’s becoming a GOP standard: an apology that not enough of us died and lost our jobs, our environment.

This is nothing more than partisan politics and has nothing to do with the real problems we are facing! Republicans, Democrats, Independents, both Houses of Congress, the President, all need to grow up and start doing what’s in the best interests of this country and it’s citizens. Work TOGETHER!

Fascinating story – basically this reporter stood around and recorded Emanuel’s lies and talking points without a thought entering his corrupt, democrat, government loving head. It seems he has an unnecessary title at abc news for a government stenographer. …another example of this dark age of journalism.

let’s see the President can play golf go to baseball games entertain hollywood while this crisis is going on in the Gulf and the media still praises him.

That right Emanuel let’s use this for the good of this nation. Let’s turn help away, Let’s not accept help from other nations,let’s not give help to the state gov.of Louisiana to protect the coastlines…OOps! Darn Republicans only care about money, yeah let’s throw them together with BP.. What that senator was referring to was due process of our legal system that doesn’t seem to apply to this administration. If you bankrupt BP, where are the thousands of workers going, straight to the unemployment lines?? What about the responsible for approving the drilling? We just approve without overseeing if the process is going per safety standards. What vision this administration has given us is it’s ill equipt. to handle the real problems of our nation, it is only stepping all over our judicial process and continues to play politics based on polls instead of working for the people who put them there, I remember a line by line accountability Obama vowed, but he is far removed from his on propaganda….

and AGAIN, Jake Tapper provides cover for MSNBC Ed Shultz, for saying the DAY BEFORE, Barton made the comment… That Obama shook down BP
Journalist COVERUP and extremeism
Obama VS America

Barton’s apology was for Obama violating the rule of law by shaking down BP. Nobody, including Barton has suggested BP isn’t responsible for cleaning up e spill. Without the protections of the rule of law, all US offshore drilling will cease, and all those jobs, profits, and taxes will evaporate.

We’ve got oil washing up on the shores of Florida, destroying wildlife. We’ve got out of work fishermen and resort owners and workers who’s livelihoods have been annihilated. Food prices will skyrocket (if they haven’t already). And what do we get from our “leaders?”
Politics. The same, exact dog and pony show that got us into this ridiculous mess in the first place.
That’s not change, it’s more of the same.

Media Outraged BP CEO At Yacht Race Saturday, Don’t Care Obama Golfed
Obama/left wing media VS AMERICA

It’s an election year, for crying out loud! Of course, Emanuel is going to bash the GOP any way he can…common sense tells us that…..Also, most folks realize that Barton is an idiot and was only speaking or himself and not for mainstream GOP philosophies. I know a lot of Republicans who are just as outraged and concerned about this oil spill as anyone else…..BTW, was Obama and Biden really out playing golf yesterday while the gulf continued to ‘oil’ up? So much for thier concern, eh?

Actually it was a shakedown-nothing wrong with that,just politically dumb to say it.Apologizing to BP also was dumb: BP was going to have to come up with a reimbursement fund anyhow (by law); the dumb thing about the $20 billion plan is that it opens up for BP lawyers a potential limitation of liability in court.They can make a case that beyond $20 billion the Federal government should be responsible; if BP assets drop (on paper) to below this figure the taxpayer will be on the hook.

the American Citizens voted for Hope and change. Well the Obama regime hopes the oil well will stop leaking and the climate will change on the golf course and the Hollywood Party Circuit at the White House. It is a perversion beyond description as to how a barely literate person got into a position to shake down anyone who has any money and golf while oil shuts down the Southern Economy. We have had enough of this nonsense.

That man makes me feel ashamed of being Jewish. To think someone so ruthless and sick could come from our fold disgusts me. For the record, the government is equally responsible for this because the MMS has been cozy with Big Oil through both Republican AND Democrat administrations.

That was the most weak/softball interviews I have ever seen. He let Eamanuel get away with his, ‘They see the aggrieved party here as BP, not the fishermen’ without comment. Patently weak if not patronizing.

Michael wrote: “That was the most weak/softball interviews I have ever seen. He let Eamanuel get away with his, ‘They see the aggrieved party here as BP, not the fishermen’ without comment.”
Did you hear Barton’s shot at the White House for blackmailing BP into a $20B fund? And then Barton refused to apologize for the point of view, just his wording of it! So what comment would you make?

Jake – I love you and always love your interviews but you let so many opportunities go by to counter what small hands Emanuel was saying. He is so full of himself. You actually let him sit there and say that they are averaging 140,000 new jobs each month. NOT TRUE! I want proof that Barton was operating off of prepared talking points from the Republican party. If he can’t prove it, then he needs to resign because that was shameful and we are sick of Chicago-style bullies.

Rahm Emanuel….. this bagel-head fielded some of the softest questions I have ever heard and didnt answer one question from his softball throwing host. Take this narcisist to task and make him answer the question. I know personally of the rip-offs from Katrina. Talk to the other employees of Bechtel and you will find the largest frauds in US history. Make the claimants show historical tax returns to verify their information. That wont happen. When someone with Rahm’s history is involved it is like Michael Corleone is in charge. At least Mr Corleone told the truth some of the time.. Just more Chicago politics.

johnny 33308,if the Democrats didn’t agree with deregulation why didn’t they do something about it?They have controlled the Congress for nearly 3 1/2 years and the whole shebang for 1 1/2 years.As far as more money and more jobs, things economically were better the day Obama was inaugurated than they are today.

I am asking for evidence that it is an GOP standard. Posted by: malcat
Repeating myself: Conservative Supreme Court gives extreme powers to foreign Corporations. Conservative politicians apologize to foreign Corporations after 11 Americans die, millions suffer for foreign profits.
There’s a “repeated” standard going on here. If you don’t notice it, okay. I do and that’s okay also.

rkm63 – It’s Un-American for the President to have 40 Czars.
You mus have overlooked the number of Czars the last one had almost 50. Check your facts before you write.

Folks,here is another Republican talking point:Barack Obama is President and the Gulf coast is getting covered with oil.

There’s a “repeated” standard going on here. If you don’t notice it, okay. I do and that’s okay also.
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Let’s look at math for a second. I have heard of only one (1)Republican representative apologized to BP. One is not plural..do you agree with that statement? The addition of an ‘s’ to the word Conservative means you are claiming that more than one (1) conservative politician apologized. I’m saying that your statement is wrong.
The Supreme Court did say corporations should be treated the same as individuals. The decision did NOT change anything about the rights of foreign-owned corporations. The decision did NOT extend rights to foreign-owned corporations. Now we know the ‘global economy’ does make it possible for foreign-owned companies to donate to American politicians. President Clinton had to return a lot of money to the Chinese once it was discovered that he accepted such donations.
In the written decision, the justices who agreed with the ruling stated they hoped Congress would quickly change the law so they could alter the decision.
But the actions of SC justices who happened to have been appointed by Republicans cannot be considered part of a pattern to one Republican who apologized to one company outside the land of wishful thinking. That apology was publicly condemned by Republican leaders (real ones). They told him to retract or risk losing committee assignments. He did withdraw the apology to BP and then apologized for making the apology.
So, you have claimed there is a repeated standard based on two rather disconnected incidences. One of which was made with a request that law be changed. The other was condemned by Republican leadership and then withdrawn.
I don’t see this grand repeated pattern because it doesn’t exist. You see it because you want it to exist.

Emanuel is so wrong about how this is playing out in public perception.
November is going to be a bloodbath for the DNC.

So…if the GOP were put in charge of the Energy Committee, there might be a huge disaster like a gigantic oil spill or something?

The Democrats are earning their pejorative of Dimocrats by the administration repeatedly exploiting Barton’s statement of support to BP. For one, partisan rhetoric shouldn’t be a distraction during a national emergency. The people living close to the Gulf Coast could care less about GOP and Democratic grandstanding while the land they’ve lived on for generations and their livelihoods lie in waste.
It’s a dangerous assumption that the damage is contained to their area without the potential for becoming unpredictably massive in scope. So it would actually be reassuring to hear realistic assessments coming from Rahm and the administration instead of condescending, sunny platitudes that are similar to BP’s. Sorry, but the administration isn’t comprised of genies and can’t actually restore the Gulf back to its former condition. I believe most individuals living and working in the affected areas would disagree, too, that restoration to a state before the leak is impossible.
Furthermore, it’s at the height of hypocrisy to lambast Barton for his supportiveness towards BP. It wasn’t a Republican controlled Department of Interior that granted the waiver in 2009 from a blow out prevention plan because BP wrote they didn’t need one. Nor did they give they give the go-ahead for the Macondo well at an unprecedented depth to an oil company that has a background of prolific fines and violations for safety.

There are two Republicans, the money junkies and the minions who are trying to reach the penultimate rung. The money junkies grow their wealth by manipulating the minions and throwing them a religious verse every once in a while. The minions feed on the Bible readings and base their lives, philosophies and politics on how the money junkies spin the versus.

Marxist Rahm’s comments mean squat. The President should not be acting like some kind of activist lawyer hero. We need Government to work with companies to sole great tragedies instead of becoming uncontrolled activists. We need to vote them ALL out.

It is time for honest answers about the spill.HOW MUCH OIL IS LEAKING EVERY DAY?Enough with the simplistic answers and excuses.Is Barack Obama President or not?I don’t care what BP’s estimate is.100,000 per day? Is that possible? Is it possible that our non-Phi Beta Kappa President has no idea of the magnitude of the spill? And if not,why not?This is getting to be unbelievable- what is the next estimate going to be? Does Obama have anybody who can give him the correct figures? More important,does he even give a damn?

What I object to is denying due process to BP and “negotiating” with Obama’s boot on its neck. We’re supposed to be a system of laws and not of men, but where is the law that allows the government to coerce anyone, even “evil” corporations, in this manner? If Holder wants a criminal investigation by all means go ahead. Let the U.S. and the Gulf states file lawsuits and prove their damages. Let a court appoint a receiver or a trustee to handle this. But the President should not be a judge, jury and executioner.

John…what is it you want from this man. His acting like a lawyer is what got us this deal. And the way he put it to spread it out is wise to help keep the company from going bankrupt. No other president has ever gotten a dime from any company especially the oil companies. This is unpresidented and he deserves some credit not your cynical comments. He also got money to rebuild the area and is letting the people decide what they want and how they want it. They are thrilled with this idea and no other president has even listened to them in this regard. Let’s give him some slack.

While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.
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.

Jombo: Check it out …the republicans took the most from BP…the democrats the next highest…S. Palin (drill baby drill) the next and then Obama.

Rahm is un-American, I don’t see how his lie/spin does anything to mend the rift between the two parties. It is especially stupid because Emanuel is on the losing end of the argument. What a dweeb.

Due Process for BP?????? who thinks up this shuga??? How about due process for all of those American citizens in the Gulf who are unable to make a living, both the oil company workers AND the fishermen???? Where is their due process????

Barton spoke from his heart and his wallet – as do most GOP-ers when being honest. The only difference this time was than other members of the party read the public mood with more skill and common sense than usual and shut him down to minimize the backlash. For the middle class, voting for a Republican is like a seal voting for a Great White shark – the middle class is the natural prey of Republicans.