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Time Out for O/T – Vol. 15

I’ll be looking forward to joining you in the fight!

» Posted By squeezed On February 24, 2011 @ 3:05 pm

Hellooooooooooo!

Found you guys! It was getting lonely at the HP (not to mention the unbearable stench of unwashed trolls funking up the place).

I’m going to stumble through this so don’t laugh if I fall.

» Posted By squeezed On February 24, 2011 @ 3:04 pm

So I’m browsing through my favorite Progressive sites today and I come across this article on Think Progress linking back to Bloomberg news in which they are reporting that the Oil Industry isn’t even trying to hide their agenda anymore. Thank you SCOTUS for your commitment to screwing the people with your ruling on Citizens United, you corrupt pieces of *bleep*.

A spokesperson for the API (American Petroleum Institute) came out and proudly and shamelessly announced that beginning next fiscal quarter, the API will be contributing millions directly to candidates with every intention of controlling the agenda:

The American Petroleum Institute, the Big Oil industry’s chief lobbying organization, will start directly backing political candidates in the second quarter of this year. API, whose membership includes oil giants like Exxon-Mobil and Chevron, already spends tens of millions of dollars every year on lobbying, advertisements and Astroturf campaigns to support the the oil industry agenda. As CAP’s Dan Weiss wrote, API “wants to drill in fragile, sensitive places, keep government tax breaks, expand offshore drilling without reforms, and block global warming pollution reduction requirements.”

“This is adding one more tool to our toolkit,” Martin Durbin, API’s executive vice president for government affairs, told Bloomberg News. “At the end of the day, our mission is trying to influence the policy debate.” As Bloomberg pointed out, oil-supported political action committees like the Independent Petroleum Association of America overwhelmingly donate to Republican candidates.

I still have quite a bit of fight in me and am not about to allow these guys to control the agenda. These Big Oil megalomaniacs are feeling quite emboldened and of course they should. They’ve been given the green light to buy every election from here to eternity and with labor unions under threat of extinction they’ll have no one standing between them and our very existence.

» Posted By squeezed On February 24, 2011 @ 2:31 pm