Halliburton Pours Money Into Campaigns Of Congress Members Who Will Investigate Oil Spill.

[kpete]

Just when you think Halliburton couldn't be any more blatant, and Congress members couldn't be any more corruptible, it gets worse. No, we don't need publicly funded campaigns! Nope:

*****As Congress investigated its role in the doomed Deep Horizon oil rig, Halliburton donated $17,000 to candidates running for federal office, giving money to several lawmakers on committees that have launched inquiries into the massive spill.

Gee, I wonder why. Do you suppose they simply want them to let them know there'll be no hard feelings if they should find Halliburton at fault in some way? I'm sure it's something like that.

*****The Texas-based oil giant’s political action committee made 14 contributions during the month of May, according to a federal campaign report filed Wednesday — 13 to Republicans and one to a Democrat. It was the busiest donation month for Halliburton’s PAC since September 2008.

Of the 10 current members of Congress who got money from Halliburton in May, seven are on committees with oversight of the oil spill and its aftermath.

more:
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/halliburton-pours-money-campaigns-con
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38047.html

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. K&R

[Winterblues]

2. If money is their voice then they are yelling and there should be noise violations.

:shrug:

[spanone]

3. quid pro quo

[Hubert Flottz]

4. That should work out nice.

For Halliburton.

[1776Forever]

5. Will this Cheney venom ever go away? They have done so much damage to our country & still going! n/t

[Bluebear]

7. It's more than Cheney, I am realizing. The whole shebang is bought and paid for.

[yella_dawg]

6. "Texas-based oil giant" Huh?

Shouldn't that be Dubai based oil giant??

[glitch]

13. Yes it should be Dubai-based oil giant. nt

[elehhhhna]

8. And that sums up America today. One tidy sentence.

[Uncle Joe]

9. This by any other name is bribery and/or conflict of interest.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[closeupready]

20. Yes, and Congress has made sure it's all perfectly legal.

:mad:

[renate]

10. I'm sorry, but $17,000?

I would be insulted if I were a congressperson who could be influenced by donations and all that Halliburton could manage to scrape together was $17K to be split seven or ten ways.

I'm not entirely being sarcastic. I mean, either someone's corruptible or they aren't. And if someone's vote could be bought, why is Halliburton cheaping out? They must have more money than God.

[Canuckistanian]

19. I'm constantly amazed at how cheaply politicans can be bought

Often, corporations spend 10's of thousands of dollars to get laws changed that net them BILLIONS.

The ROI is so impressive, how can corporations resist?

[Uncle Joe]

22. This isn't a one time deal, that was only for the month of May.

Halliburton and those Congress People know this gravy train is not stopping after just one month, the increased payoffs will last so long as the Congress focuses on the Gulf Catastrophe; which could be a very long time and again during the run-up to elections.

If Halliburton had shoveled hundreds or tens of thousands over all at once as you suggest, the increased political risk, particularly during an election year would have been too great.

So they just feed them an elephant one bite at a time.

Edit for P.S. And this doesn't even take in to account whatever BP and/or Transocean sends them.

[Ruby the Liberal]

11. Why is a foreign corporation allowed to donate to US politicians?

[closeupready]

21. Because Congress will take money from any source.

They don't care, and they have made sure this is legal.

[laughingliberal]

12. ...

:nuke:

[Skidmore]

14. We need some ads and we need to make those names known to

the public and demand that they return the money or recuse themselves.

[glinda]

17. Great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should be a full page AD!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. kick it's too late to vote

:kick:

[glinda]

16. Bribery! Bribery! Bribery! K & R! Throw all who accepted money off now!

[glinda]

18. K&R n/t again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bobthedrummer]

23. kick

[bobthedrummer]

24. .