BP was one of founding members of Cap & Trade Lobby (Supported higher taxes)

[Soul Crusher]

I really wish one of you libs can please tell me how BP is not the the same as Halliburton for Cheney Bush. 

[Soul Crusher]

READ IT AN WEEP!!!!
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Assembling the Team

During 2000 and 2001, the Joyce Foundation, a progressive trust with assets near $1 billion, known for funding groups like Center for American Progress and Tides Foundation, provided grants to CCX totaling $1.1 million. State Senator Obama served on the foundation’s board of directors during that time and was instrumental in awarding the grants.

Shortly after the first grant was approved, the president of The Joyce Foundation, Paula DiPerna, left to join the executive team of CCX. Other notables with familiar names soon followed.

• Former Vice-President Al Gore became part-owner of CCX when his company, Generation Investment Management, made a sizeable investment. Gore brought with him his senior partner at GIM, David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, along with a company chalk full of former Goldman Sachs’ executives

• Goldman Sachs itself soon joined the team buying a ten percent interest in CCX

• Maurice Strong, once linked to Tongsun Park, the central figure in the United Nation’s oil-for-food scandal in 2005 and one of the architects of the Kyoto Protocol, joined the CCX board of directors

• Carlton Bartels was one of the first, and perhaps most important, additions to the CCX roster. As CEO of a company called CO2e, Bartels developed and delivered the actual guts of the exchange — a system for facilitating and managing the actual carbon trades

Strange Bedfellows

Just three weeks after filing for a patent for his carbon trade system, Bartels was killed during the attacks of 9/11. Bartels’ death opened the door for a new partner to join CCX, easily the oddest fit of them all: Fannie Mae. In a move still unexplained, the quasi-governmental mortgage agency, led by CEO Franklin Raines, purchased the rights to the system from Bartel’s widow. A patent on the invention was granted to Raines and Fannie Mae on November 7, 2006, ironically, the day after the Democrats regained control of Congress. According to Barbara Hollingsworth of the Washington Examiner, the patent covers both the “cap” and “trade” parts of Obama’s top domestic energy initiative and gives Fannie Mae proprietary control over the automated trading system used by Sandor’s CCX.

When asked about the patent recently Fannie Mae communications director Amy Bonitatibus told the Washington Examiner, “Fannie Mae earns no money on this patent. We can’t conjecture as to the cap-and-trade legislation.” A source close to Fannie Mae, however, says a plan is in place to funnel future earnings from the patent to a non-profit housing organization called Enterprise Community Partners. Ironically, Raines, who left Fannie Mae in 2004 amidst allegations that he inflated earnings reports in order to collect higher bonuses ($52 million in bonuses over 5-years; $90 million in total compensation), serves on the board of trustees at Enterprise. In a continuation of theme, Goldman Sachs also has a representative on the board in the person of Alicia Glen.

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“Just three weeks after filing for a patent for his carbon trade system, Bartels was killed during the attacks of 9/11.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046736/posts

“Guess who’s been involved intimately with Fannie Mae? Does the name Jamie Gorelick ring a bell?

This woman is everywhere, and

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Jamie Gorelick got a 26 million payout when she left the place.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2053986/posts

Jamie Gorelick’s Cloudy Memory (mega clintonista wall gag alert)
American Thinker ^ | 7-29-08 | Ed Lasky

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1460263/posts

Fitting the Pieces Together—Able Danger, Jamie Gorelick & 9/11
The Strata-Sphere ^ | August 9, 2005 | Bronc1

HT: taildragger

More on Mrs. Gorelick....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2526486/posts?page=45#45

Her law firm buddy, his job, and her being on the board with a firm working on Carbon Sequestering is such a co-wink-a-dink..

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HT: Diogenesis

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1119404/posts

Jamie Gorelick Authored Conflict of Interest Booklet

Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004

In 1989, Jamie Gorelick authored a 21 page booklet for The American Bar Association titled: “Conflicts of Interest in a Changing Legal Environment : Traps for the Unwary.”

Also in 1989, she co-authored “Destruction of Evidence” with Stephen Marzen and Lawrence Solum. Published in New York: Wiley Law Publications, Description: xxvii, 516 p. ; 27 cm. Series: Trial practice library.

And again in 1989, she authored a 26 pages booklet for The American Bar Association titled: “Structuring the Internal Investigation When a Corporation is Faced With Parallel Civil, Criminal and Administrative Proceedings.”

In 1988, for The American Bar Association, she authored a 41 page booklet: “Effective Representation of the Corporation, Its Directors, Officers, and Employees in Grand Jury and Agency Investigations.

In 1987, she co-authored a two volume book with Roger C Spaeder & Cono R Namorato: “Federal Enforcement 1987 : Representing Corporations, Their Officers, Directors and Employees, April 2-3, 1987, Loew’s L’Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.: program materials. Published by The Center, Washington, D.C.

Then, in 2001, the Department of Justice published a volume of her addresses as Assistant Attorney General.

[Soul Crusher]

BUMP AGAIN FOR ANYONE STILL SUPPORTING THIS COMMUNIST REGIME IN WASHINGTON DC. 

[Soul Crusher]

BUMP

[MRDUMPLING]

Dude...quit butt raping these guys with facts.  At least lube it first for them...and use REAL lube.  My girl doesn't like it when I just use spit for the backdoor.  I bet these guys don't either. 

[Soul Crusher]

Dude...quit butt raping these guys with facts.  At least lube it first for them...and use REAL lube.  My girl doesn't like it when I just use spit for the backdoor.  I bet these guys don't either. 

Beck starting to hit this now on the radio.

This article is DEVASTATING to the left beyond anything. 

     

[pro nitrousADRL]

where are all the libs at to spin or defend this???

[Montague]

Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
June 9, 2010
 
In this May 30, 2010 file photo, BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward talks to reporters as he visits a Coast Guard command center in Venice, La. BP's inability to contain the worst oil spill in U.S. history has focused attention on CEO Tony Hayward's words and deeds over the past six weeks - and the scrutiny has not yielded a flattering image. (AP file photo)

 
As BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig was sinking on April 22, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was on the phone with allies in his push for climate legislation, telling them he would soon roll out the Senate climate bill with the support of the utility industry and three oil companies — including BP, according to the Washington Post.

Kerry never got to have his photo op with BP chief executive Tony Hayward and other regulation-friendly corporate chieftains. Within days, Republican co-sponsor Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., repudiated the bill following a spat about immigration, and Democrats went back to the drawing board.

But the Kerry-BP alliance for an energy bill that included a cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gases pokes a hole in a favorite claim of President Obama and his allies in the media — that BP’s lobbyists have fought fiercely to be left alone. Lobbying records show that BP is no free-market crusader, but instead a close friend of big government whenever it serves the company’s bottom line.

While BP has resisted some government interventions, it has lobbied for tax hikes, greenhouse gas restraints, the stimulus bill, the Wall Street bailout, and subsidies for oil pipelines, solar panels, natural gas and biofuels.


Now that BP’s oil rig has caused the biggest environmental disaster in American history, the Left is pulling the same bogus trick it did with Enron and AIG: Whenever a company earns universal ire, declare it the poster boy for the free market.

As Democrats fight to advance climate change policies, they are resorting to the misleading tactics they used in their health care and finance efforts: posing as the scourges of the special interests and tarring “reform” opponents as the stooges of big business.

Expect BP to be public enemy No. 1 in the climate debate.

There’s a problem: BP was a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby dedicated to passing a cap-and-trade bill. As the nation’s largest producer of natural gas, BP saw many ways to profit from climate legislation, notably by persuading Congress to provide subsidies to coal-fired power plants that switched to gas.

In February, BP quit USCAP without giving much of a reason beyond saying the company could lobby more effectively on its own than in a coalition that is increasingly dominated by power companies. Theymade out particularly well in the House’s climate bill, while natural gas producers suffered.

But two months later, BP signed off on Kerry’s Senate climate bill, which was hardly a capitalist concoction. One provision BP explicitly backed, according to Congressional Quarterly and other media reports: a higher gas tax. The money would be earmarked for building more highways, thus inducing more driving and more gasoline consumption.

Elsewhere in the green arena, BP has lobbied for and profited from subsidies for biofuels and solar energy, two products that cannot break even without government support. Lobbying records show the company backing solar subsidies including federal funding for solar research. The U.S. Export-Import Bank, a federal agency, is currently financing a BP solar energy project in Argentina.

Ex-Im has also put up taxpayer cash to finance construction of the 1,094-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline carrying oil from the Caspian Sea to Ceyhan, Turkey—again, profiting BP.

Lobbying records also show BP lobbying on Obama’s stimulus bill and Bush’s Wall Street bailout. You can guess the oil giant wasn’t in league with the Cato Institute or Ron Paul on those.

BP has more Democratic lobbyists than Republicans. It employs the Podesta Group, co-founded by John Podesta, Obama’s transition director and confidant. Other BP troops on K Street include Michael Berman, a former top aide to Vice President Walter Mondale; Steven Champlin, former executive director of the House Democratic Caucus; and Matthew LaRocco, who worked in Bill Clinton’s Interior Department and whose father was a Democratic congressman. Former Republican staffers, such as Reagan alumnus Ken Duberstein, also lobby for BP, but there’s no truth to Democratic portrayals of the oil company as
an arm of the GOP.

Two patterns have emerged during Obama’s presidency: 1) Big business increasingly seeks profits through more government, and 2) Obama nonetheless paints opponents of his intervention as industry shills. BP is just the latest example of this tawdry sleight of hand.

Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool.


Timothy P. Carney is The Washington Examiner's lobbying editor. His K Street column appears on Wednesdays.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Once-a-government-pet-BP-now-a-capitalist-tool-95942659.html

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WWWOOOWWWW!!!!

Now we know why Obama aint doing shit.  

This is GOLDEN!
You seldom witness this much silence from one entire side on the Politics board.


Thread saved.
Good job, 3.

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[blacken700]

Conservatives Work to Tar Cap-And-Trade Bill With BP Connection

 

 
 By ALEX KAPLUN of ClimateWire
Published: June 17, 2010
Earlier this year, senators crafting a climate and energy bill were happy to have BP PLC and other oil industry giants at the table. Now, with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill nearing its third month, Republicans are taking aim at this "inconvenient truth."



 The White House and its allies on Capitol Hill are using BP as a political villain in their effort to jump-start Senate energy legislation, perhaps including limits on greenhouse gas emissions proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Republicans, already unhappy with President Obama and Democrats for attempting to link the legislation to the oil spill, are mining the archives to establish a BP-Democratic connection.

"It's been widely reported that a major part of the Kerry-Lieberman bill was essentially written by BP," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a floor speech late last week. "This is clearly an inconvenient fact: An administration that seems to spend most of its time coming up with new ways to show how angry it is with BP is pushing a proposal that BP helped write."

The Senate Republican Communications Center sent out an e-mail blast this week describing the Kerry-Lieberman bill as a "national energy tax endorsed by BP," singling out instances in which BP articulated its support for the bill. In a press release Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) responded to attacks on his opposition to the climate bill by saying "the Kerry-Lieberman bill that was written with BP at the table and which BP is strongly supporting."

Conservative advocacy groups, commentators and bloggers have also joined the fray.

"The Kerry-BP alliance for an energy bill that included a cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gases pokes a hole in a favorite claim of President Obama and his allies in the media -- that BP's lobbyists have fought fiercely to be left alone," stated a Washington Examiner column last week that outlined BP's support for various Democratic initiatives and that has since been widely circulated on prominent conservative websites.

The "Drudge Report" had a banner "BARACK PETROLEUM" headline Tuesday, listing quotes from a congressional hearing earlier in the day during which BP and a couple other oil companies voiced their support for cap-and-trade legislation.

The claims mostly stem from the fact that BP was once a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership -- a prominent coalition that included major corporations and environmental groups that had a major voice in the crafting of climate legislation, particularly last year's House-passed bill. BP left U.S. CAP in February -- long before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or the unveiling of the Kerry-Lieberman bill -- due to disagreements over the legislation as it relates to natural gas policy.

Despite leaving U.S. CAP, BP officials -- including CEO Tony Hayward -- have generally voiced their support for cap-and-trade legislation and the company was expected to attend the formal unveiling of a bill from Sens. Kerry, Lieberman and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in April.

"BP still firmly believes that the best way to move this process along and tackle man-made climate change is by putting a price on carbon," said BP America President Lamar McKay in testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday. "A price reflecting tightening constraints on carbon would both drive energy conservation and make lower carbon energy choices more cost competitive."

The efforts to link the climate bill and BP are designed to not only take advantage of the public's deep animosity toward the oil company but also to reiterate the same theme that Republicans have consistently used in attacking the climate change effort: that it was crafted to benefit a small number of administration allies at the expense of consumers.

"Many Americans who are justifiably outraged over BP's incompetence when it comes to engineering, and now they're working with Kerry and Lieberman to write the bill," said Thomas Borelli of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank.

"What's really new under the Obama presidency is the degree under which all the special interests are all on one side, it's almost like the end of the war where they're carving up countries," Borelli said.

The architects behind the Kerry-Lieberman effort (the "American Power Act") argue that such claims are simply not true and that while a large number of players were involved in the discussions around the legislation, ultimately the contents of the bill were decided by the senators themselves.

"Senators Kerry and Lieberman, for many months with the engagement and contributions of Senator Graham, worked for months on a comprehensive approach to energy security and climate change," said Kerry spokeswoman Whitney Smith. "The senators met with more than 60 of their colleagues and all involved stakeholders including environmentalists, religious leaders and the business community.

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Go to Blog » "Senators, not any industry, wrote this proposal, and any suggestion to the contrary is false and politically motivated," Smith added.

Off-the-hill advocates of the climate change bill say that the BP claims from conservatives and congressional Republicans are nothing more than an effort to try to mask their track-record of being advocates for the oil industry and the fact that they have received substantial campaign contributions from BP and their allies.

"I think it's a total Washington parlor game, and I think what the Republicans are trying to do is make the water around American Power Act murkier than the water in the Gulf by throwing up all these things," said David DiMartino, spokesman for Clean Energy Works, referring to not only the BP claims but recent claims that the legislation carries a gas tax. "None of these things are true, it's just a sign of desperation on the minority's part."

Indeed, environmentalists have long believed that one of the most damaging arguments that they can possibly make against an incumbent lawmaker or a candidate is that they are heavy recipients of industry cash.

A poll released last week by the Democratic firm Benenson Strategy Group and the League of Conservation Voters, and which is being presented to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, shows that 82 percent of voters say they are less likely to re-elect a senator that took a large number of contributions from big oil companies. And most major ad campaigns run in recent weeks by left-leaning groups that go after opponents of climate change legislation mention their campaign contributions from oil companies.

Officials at environmental groups also note that the involvement of the oil companies in the crafting of a climate bill was due largely to the efforts of Graham, who has since dropped his support for the bill, and out of a desire to secure the support of Republicans who could be swayed by items such as an expansion of offshore drilling.

"Those provisions exist in the Kerry-Lieberman bill in an attempt to woo the Republican senators and that's what the Republicans don't want anyone to know," DiMartino said.

Aside from increased offshore drilling rights, the oil industry was seeking a deal placing them into a separate regulatory system for curbing their emissions that is outside the trading plan for power plants and major manufacturers -- a major change from the House-passed bill (E&E Daily, May 4).

[Soul Crusher]

I guess you dont even read the bs you post on these boards

BP = Obama's agenda 

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Despite leaving U.S. CAP, BP officials -- including CEO Tony Hayward -- have generally voiced their support for cap-and-trade legislation and the company was expected to attend the formal unveiling of a bill from Sens. Kerry, Lieberman and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in April.

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"Senators Kerry and Lieberman, for many months with the engagement and contributions of Senator Graham, worked for months on a comprehensive approach to energy security and climate change," said Kerry spokeswoman Whitney Smith. "The senators met with more than 60 of their colleagues and all involved stakeholders including environmentalists, religious leaders and the business community.

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Why dont these treasonous pofs like kerry, lieberman and graham consult the voters and taxpayers for once since we have to pay for this crappola. 

[blacken700]

more of pick and choosing parts of an article to fit your agenda, typ glen beck just fucking priceless

[Bindare_Dundat]

more of pick and choosing parts of an article to fit your agenda, typ glen beck just fucking priceless

 You and Mons = TweedleDumb and TweedleDumber.

[Soul Crusher]

more of pick and choosing parts of an article to fit your agenda, typ glen beck just fucking priceless

I took quotes from your own stupid ass article.  Bro - how naive and blind are you?  What are you 12 y/o? 

No one like cap Trade other than Obama, BP, Goldman Sachs, the CCX, and the other green gangsters standing to rape the taxpayer of trillions from this scam. 

And if you need another reminder of the true agenda here, maybe you need to listen again. 

[blacken700]

i like these clowns calling bump bump bump bump bump bump then when you post something they call you names, who the fuck is the 12 year old your nothing but a glen beck reject

[Soul Crusher]

i like these clowns calling bump bump bump bump bump bump then when you post something they call you names, who the fuck is the 12 year old your nothing but a glen beck reject

Bro - you got owned by your own moronic article. 

[blacken700]

try to post a little truth once in a while

[Soul Crusher]

try to post a little truth once in a while

Coming from someone who plagiarises all his posts, that is the funniest thing I have heard all day. 

[Fury]

i like these clowns calling bump bump bump bump bump bump then when you post something they call you names, who the fuck is the 12 year old your nothing but a glen beck reject

All you do is insult people and post youtube videos. I can't think of the last time you actually provided anything of substance beyond a smattering of emoticons. Couple that with your horrific grammar and punctuation and I have to conclude that you are mentally handicapped.

[blacken700]

the truth bothers the right wing nut jobs

[Fury]

the truth bothers the right wing nut jobs

I'm not a far-right or far-left nut job. I call it like it is, and your inability to type coherently leads me to believe that you're an idiot.

You can claim grammar Nazi or whatever, but it's really not hard to punctuate a sentence or differentiate between simple grammatical concepts like "to" and "too". 

[blacken700]

 man i would  like to be angry with you but i can't with that picture of your mom dancing around

[Soul Crusher]

Blacken, please dont post my threads unless you plan on actually discussing the topic. 

[Soul Crusher]

MOTHERFUCKING PRICELESS!!!!

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John Podesta
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John PodestaJohn Podesta is the president and CEO of the left-wing Center for American Progress. Under his leadership, the Center, founded in 2003, has become a notable leader in the development and advocacy for progressive policy. Podesta also served on the action fund and executive committee of the Center for American Progress.

Born in Chicago John Podesta is a graduate of Knox College and the Georgetown University Law Center, where he is currently a visiting professor of law.

Podesta authored The Power of Progress: How America’s Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate and Our Country.

Contents [hide]
1 Serving Clinton
2 Soros connection
3 Center for American Progress
4 Co-chaired Obama’s transition
5 Other achievements
6 Apollo Alliance
7 ACORN’s Outside Advisory Committee
8 References
 
Serving Clinton
Podesta served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton. He served in the president’s cabinet and as a principal on the National Security Council. While in the White House, Podesta also served as both an assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff, as well as staff secretary and a senior policy advisor on government information, privacy, telecommunications security, and regulatory policy.

Soros connection

On November 29, 2006 Open Society Institute held a roundtable discussion entitled "How Do Progressives Connect Ideas to Action?"

Individuals and organizations with similarly progressive goals often dilute their power by working alone or even working at cross-purposes. As Americans who are politically left of center move forward, questions of infrastructure, communication, and collaboration are particularly important.

Participants included several key leaders of the "progressive" movement[1];

Deepak Bhargava Center for Community Change
Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future.
Rosa Brooks Open Society Institute
Anna Burger Service Employees International Union
Eric Foner Columbia University, Department of History
Michel Gelobter Redefining Progress
Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker
Alan Jenkins Opportunity Agenda
Gara LaMarche Open Society Institute
Jal Mehta New Vision Institute for Policy and Progress
David Moss The Tobin Project
Iara Peng Young People For
Stephanie Robinson The Jamestown Project at Yale
Joel Rogers University of Wisconsin Law School
Andrea Batista Schlesinger Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation editor.
John Podesta Center for American Progress
Michael Waldman The Brennan Center for Justice
Matthew Yglesias The American Prospect
Center for American Progress
John Podesta is the president and chief executive officer of Center for American Progress.

 
Co-chaired Obama’s transition

John Podesta served Barack Obama as co-chair of the President's transition, where he coordinated the priorities of the incoming administration’s agenda, oversaw the development of its policies, and spearheaded its appointments of major cabinet secretaries and political appointees.

Other achievements

Podesta has held numerous positions on Capitol Hill, including counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Tom Daschle (1995-1996), chief counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee (1987-1988), chief minority counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Security and Terrorism and Regulatory Reform (1981-1987).

Apollo Alliance
John Podesta serves on the board[2]of the Apollo Alliance.

ACORN’s Outside Advisory Committee

In 2009 the ACORN Outside Advisory Committee comprised of John Banks Vice President of Government Relations Con Ed, Dave Beckwith Executive Director, Needmor Fund, Henry Cisneros Executive Chairman, Cityview, Eric Eve Senior VP of Global Consumer Group, Community Relations, Citigroup, Harvey Hirschfeld President, Lawcash, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Board Member, RFK Foundation, former MD Lt. Governor, John Podesta President and CEO, Center for American Progress, Andy Stern International President, Service Employees International Union[3].

References
1.↑ http://www.soros.org/resources/events/progressives_20061129
2.↑ http://apolloalliance.org/about/board/
3.↑ ACORN press release September 29, 2009

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