Let them eat cake: The GOP Mantra is billions in giveaways for big oil but go f*ck yourselves on that wetlands problem you have….

Folks you can typically tell at a business conference who the hard-core GOPers are by spotting the guys on their knees licking the wingtip shoes of the big business representatives in attendance. I’m sad to say it appears most in the modern-day GOP share this affliction of favoring the corporate folks that stuff big money in their pockets over the local folks that elect them but it is what it is. So I guess none of us should be surprised at the new normal where the GOP controlled House of Representatives has no problem extending billions in taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies while literally chopping off local Corp of Engineers wetland projects at the knees barring new construction starts even on projects with funding in the pipeline. 

The Louisiana GOP delegation is MIA on this of course while their party craps all over the local populace but we witnessed Mississippi’s own Steven Palazzo cutting big money from a defense project being constructed in his own district endangering the jobs of thousands of folks in the process so none of this is new. Unfortunately none of these sellouts shared any of those specifics when they were campaigning to “fire” Nancy Pelosi last year while gorging on Wall Street funded campaign cash.

The country is heading into the crapper faster now than ever with the draining of our treasury by special interests leading the way. They won’t stop until there is nothing left folks.

sop

The sky is falling….not.

Folks, remember during the oil spill all the doomsday predictions of all the rigs leaving the gulf (causing massive unemployment) if Prez. Obama didn’t back down on his drill moratorium?

More oil drilling rigs are in Gulf of Mexico than before BP oil spill.

Now I know some of y’all pucker up when I term GOP politicos as corporate bootlickers but I offer as Exhibit A apologizing Joe Barton, the GOP bootlicking congressman that could not wait to drop and genuflect before BP’s Tony Hayward when he came calling on congress last year during the spill. Once upon a time Republicans favored the rule of law, free markets and competition over corporate handouts and bailouts from the treasury and groveling. ‘Tis is why I left the fold several years ago.

You folks reckon wind insurance price gouging would end if our political leaders exhibited the kind of sack towards insurers that Obama did in the drill moratorium with big oil?

Don’t hold yer breath waiting on the hollow one to engage insurance as Ed Rust owns him.

sop