Posted on 06/14/2010 9:14:49 AM PDT by pissant
If you want to see where President Barack Obama’s response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster is heading, try following the urgings of the Center for American Progress.
The liberal think tank with close White House ties appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president’s in-house advisers. On May 4, for instance, the CAP’s energy and environment expert, Daniel Weiss, called on the president to name an independent commission to look at the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. On May 22, he did just that.
On May 21, CAP president, John Podesta, privately implored White House officials to name someone to be the public point person for the spill response. A week later, the White House announced that Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen would hold daily briefings on the spill, wherever he would be on any given day.
On May 26, Weiss said the White House needed to demand that BP immediately set up an escrow account with billions of dollars from which claims for Gulf state residents would be paid out.
Monday’s headlines proclaimed the president’s latest get-tough stand: BP needs to set up a billion-dollar escrow account.
What’s next, Mr. Podesta?
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OK let it go viral: What’s next Podesta???
guess Spike Lee didn’t return his call.......
I heard Glenn Beck discussing this article on his radio show today. He said Soros is on the other end of the Blackberry.
We need an Obama graphic with Podesta holding the puppet strings as O is inspecting the tar balls on the beach.
A teleprompter on the beach also.
CAP is not merely a “think tank”: it is one of the most powerful and influential organizations informing the President, as led by John Podesta, and funded in no small measure by George Soros. You can be certain they view the oil spill in the Gulf as a crisis not to be “wasted”, and will assist Obama in framing the issue in ways that help promote his “cap-and-trade” scheme and other such “Green” power and money grabs.
“Liberal think tank”.
Now, there’s the father of all oxymorons.
pretty much this whole administration has been farmed-out to liberal think tanks
I think that's a code word for pretending to do something when you don't have a clue or you don't want the real truth to get out.
and unemployment was what?
and our economy was in what shape?
The DUmmies and KOS are running the show...............
Damn, you BMTI
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