WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s chief of staff is warning about what might happen if Republicans — who have defended BP over the Gulf oil spill — were to run Congress after the fall election.
Rahm Emanuel says the GOP philosophy is to paint BP as the victim, pointing to Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP for what the congressman called a White House “shakedown.”
“That’s not a political gaffe, those are prepared remarks. That is a philosophy. That is an approach to what they see. They see the aggrieved party here as BP, not the fishermen,” Emanuel said on ABC’s “This Week.”
It would be “dangerous” if the GOP held power in Washington, Emanuel said.
“I think what Joe Barton did was remind the American people, in case they forgot, how the Republicans would govern.”
It IS dangerous to have the GOP in power. All we need to do is look back a few years at the disaster of the Bush administration and the Republican controlled Congress from 1995-2007. What we got was deregulation that resulted in the collapse of our banking/finance sector and sky-high oil prices, a housing boom and bust, the humongous media conglomerates, two disaster wars (not to mention our country being attacked on 9/11), the explosion of our national debt, the worst recession since the 30s, The Bush/Cheney administration allowed oil companies to write the rules, and as a result we now we have the worst environmental disaster in our history. We had President Bush congratulating the head of FEMA for doing a “heck of a job” while people went for days without food or water.
Right-wingers believe the government can’t do anything and everything should be privatized. Reagan once said, “The ten most dangerous words in the English language are ‘Hi, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.'”
It’s insanity to expect competence from a political party that believes it is incompetent.
DRUDGE RETORT 