Sarah Palin Wonders If BP Cash Has Influenced Obama’s Response To The Gulf Oil Spill

In case you missed it, while appearing on Fox News Sunday, with Chris Wallace, Sarah Palin brought up the fact that Barack Obama was the largest recipient of campaign dollars from British Petroleum in 20 years







This is actually rather old news, as JammieWearingFool pointed this out on May 3rd:

Surprise! Obama Was Top Recipient of BP Donations in 2008

No wonder it took him nearly two weeks before getting on the ball with the Gulf oil spill. He's the top recipient of British Petroleum donations in the last election cycle. Now watch him demonize them every chance he gets. If he wants to lead by example, he should return their money.

During the 2008 election cycle, individuals and political action committees associated with BP -- a Center for Responsive Politics' "heavy hitter" -- contributed half a million dollars to federal candidates. About 40 percent of these donations went to Democrats. The top recipient of BP-related donations during the 2008 cycle was President Barack Obama himself, who collected $71,000.

BP regularly lobbies on Capitol Hill, as well. In 2009, the company spent a massive $16 million to influence legislation. During the first quarter of 2010, it spent $3.53 million on federal lobbying efforts, ranking it second (behind ConocoPhillips) among all oil and gas industry interests.

Its registered lobbyists include a number of former federal government and high-ranking political campaign officials, including longtime political operative Tony Podesta, former congressional chief of staff Bob Brooks, former congressional legislative director David Pore and vice presidential aide Michael S. Berman, the Center's research shows.

Tony Podesta, of course, is the brother of former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, who also helped launch the far-left smear merchant outfit Media Matters.

Of course the $71,000 Obama received from BP is chump change compared to what he got from Goldman Sachs, so don't expect him to be returning any of it. Nor should you expect any of his media lapdogs to mention his BP connection.

You suppose if something this disastrous happened under Bush's watch the media would be reticent to mention the company's donations to the "oil man" Bush? Fuhgeddaboutit. It would be a 24/7 talking point until your ears bled.

Funny how Podesta's boys at Media Matters haven't noticed any of this, huh?

It should be noted that Obama received almost $1 million from Goldman Sachs, and we know how much effort Obama has put into making sure all of the new legislation aimed at "banking reform" is designed to help, not hurt Goldman Sachs, who is also partners with Obama in Crime Inc. , the massive attempt to defraud the world out of tens of trillions of dollars through the carbon credit scheme he [Obama] helped create. You can read more about Crime Inc. here and here.

As one can imagine, Sarah caused a stir with all of this, with The Obama regime’s Minister of Propaganda, Robert Gibbs chirping: "My suggestion to Sarah Palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what's going on in and around oil drilling in this country"

Now this is rich! As someone on Twitter pointed out Sunday, Piper Palin, Sarah’s youngest daughter, knows more about the oil business than Gibbs does, and probably more than Obama as well. Sarah Palin has forgot more about the oil business than the clowns in the Obama regime will ever know.

For her part, Sarah shot back with a couple of quick tweets that read:

Mr. Gibbs, BP gave over $3.5mill to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest amount going to Obama http://u.nu/5vpia

Mr. Gibbs, Obama is the top recipient of BP PAC & individual money over the past 20 years. http://u.nu/5vpia Dispute these facts.

It’s interesting to note that rather than address the issue, either dispute the facts, or own up to them, the Obama regime tries to paint Sarah is a dummy. This is a typical tactic of the left. They can’t compete in the marketplace of ideas, so they revert to the tried and true debate method, used by kindergartners world wide, and shout: "Oh yeah...well...you’re stupid!" Sadly, for their zombie followers, this is sufficient for them to all claim "victory!"

No wonder our nation is in such sad shape. It’s being run by children.

Anyone who knows anything about Sarah knows that she was Alaska’s chief energy and environmental regulator, as Chairman of the Alaska Oil And Gas Conservation Commission, and as Governor was also Chairman of the nation’s Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. Sarah was also Natural Resources chair for the National Governor’s Association.

In fact, as Chris Wallace stated, Sarah Palin has a long and successful record of taking on Big Oil, British Petroleum included, and holding them accountable. Sarah’s efforts to clean up the oil business in Alaska, to fight corruption, and force the companies to act responsibly were so epic, Kay Cashman, from Petroleum News, wrote the book: Sarah Takes On Big Oil, which is available from Amazon.com.

Once again the Obama regime beclowns itself and "acts stupidly" when it comes to Sarah Palin. But frankly, this is a distraction designed to keep the zombies who support the regime occupied. The real story here is why has Obama failed to lead, and get this oil mess cleaned up? Why did it take weeks for him to react to it at all? Was it the BP cash, or just plain incompetence?

This oil spill is but one of three Katrina sized disasters on his watch that Obama has not been able to handle. You had the massive flooding in the Mid-West last year, Obama was MIA. You have the Gulf oil spill, which is a total mess, and of course, there is the massive flooding in Tennessee, which may be worse than Katrina in every single way. Not only is Obama MIA, but so is the media.

The real story is the fact that "hope" and "change" really means incompetence and neglect.

You can throw in corruption for good measure.

Mexican Pirates Terrorize Boaters On Texas Lake

This would be bad enough on it’s own, and enough of an outrage that heads should roll, but seeing this, after that clown from Mexico, Calderon, comes to our country, insults us, and our laws, while our joke of a President cheers him on, and the Marxist-democrats in Congress give him a standing ovation....Well it’s just about more than one can bear.

In case you missed it, here is Calderon addressing a joint session in the House chamber. The people’s House.







Doug Powers writes for Michelle Malkin.com descibing this disgusting video:

If Jan Brewer had been the territorial governor of Hawaii in 1941 and these same Democrats were in charge, they would have applauded the Pearl Harbor attack, had a State Dinner for Hirohito, and the memorable quote from Obama’s post-attack speech would have been, "The only thing we have to fear is that the Hawaiian authorities will start profiling Japanese."

Think about it — a foreign leader comes to the U.S., bashes a state within the U.S. for doing something that it’s well within their constitutional rights to do, and Democrats stand and cheer. This isn’t surprising but it never ceases to be amazing.

Also look for Attorney General Eric Holder at about the 23-second mark, who slowly stands up to applaud the President of Mexico for bashing an American law he hasn’t even read.

You can read more here.

Now that you are sufficiently worked up, take a look at this from the National Terror Alert website:




Pirates Terrorize Boaters on Texas Lake

KVUE News reports with machine-guns in hand, Mexico’s deadliest cartel is patrolling the waters of a Texas border lake. These pirates have already ambushed three, possibly four boats, operating with virtual impunity as they make off with cash and electronics. It’s happening on Falcon Lake in Zapata, 200 yards from the Mexican border.

Source – KVUE News – KENS TV.









Unbelievable.

Investor’s Business Daily has more on this:

Fairly Warned Be Ye: The Pirates Of Zapata County

In Zapata County, Texas, there is a lake that overlaps the U.S.-Mexico border. Buoys in Falcon Lake mark the border — and you’d better not cross it:

With machine guns in hand, Mexico’s deadliest cartel is patrolling the waters of a Texas border lake.

These pirates already have hit several boats on Falcon Lake near Zapata, which is about an hour south of Laredo.

If you go too far across the lake and past the international boundary buoy, you are in Mexican territory and subject to attacks by pirates toting assault weapons.

Known as the Zeta cartel pirates, they have robbed at least three boats so far. Once an American boat passes the border, there is nothing the U.S. authorities can do about it and there is no Mexican law enforcement on the other side.

There are five bass-fishing tournaments between now and July on the lake that help the local economy. So the Zapata County Chamber of Commerce has issued a press release saying that boaters are safe — as long as they stay on the American side.

That’s understandable but perhaps unwise. After all, pirates that have no compunction about laws against armed robbery probably don’t have much concern about border laws either.

One has to ask,... just where is Rick Perry on this deal? In times past the Texas Rangers would have made fast work of these pirates and that would have been that. Nowadays, with these terrorists, and make no mistake, that’s what they are, we need serious firepower down there.

Perry has been a rather vocal opponent of the tough measures that Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer signed into law, and Sarah Palin has gotten behind, with the Secure the Border campaign that you can visit here.

Look, we know that Obama is not going to protect America and the treasonous scoundrels in Congress are most likely drafting an invite for these pirates to come speak to them and tell us how wrong our laws are!

This is serious business. For all intents and purposes, we are at war with Mexico. The Mexican government actively promotes and aids illegal immigration into the United States. Illegals sending money back to relatives in Mexico is vital to the Mexican economy. It would collapse without it.

Since the Obama regime is on the side of the Mexican government, and the terrorists, rather than

with the American people, this is left to states to handle. That means Governor Perry needs to take swift action. Put the Texas National Guard on the border with the authority to do what needs to done.

The longer we put off decisive action, the fewer options we will have. At some point, if not nipped in the bud, we will be in a shooting war with Mexico. So...how about it Governor Perry...are you paying attention?

OK....now that your blood pressure is at "stroke" level, how about a nice palette cleanser courtesy of Congressman Tom McClintock. Of California. After watching the spectacle of the Marxist-democrats kissing Calderon’s butt, this is a welcome site and the right way to address Calderon, as well as the Obama regime:

Lt Col. Allen West On Barack Obama: "I can’t stand the guy. I absolutely can’t stand him."

Lt . Col. Allen West is one of our favorite Conservatives, bar none. This guy tells it like it is, and pulls no punches. It’s no wonder he was one of the American Heroes that Sarah Palin has endorsed for Congress.

In the video below, courtesy of The Right Scoop, West discusses illegal immigration. Some quotes:

My compassion starts with the American people, cause I believe one thing. There are 3 types of people that should be here in this country: Americans, those people that want to be Americans, and those people we invite here as our guests. Other than that, you don’t deserve to be here

[....]

See our government wants to castigate us as the enemy. Our President went down and said that the problem is here in the United States of America. Well, you know, let’s face it. Wherever he goes he’s going to apologize for this country. I can’t stand the guy. I absolutely can’t stand him.

Allen West gets it. No better illustration of this is his quote from Teddy Roosevelt on Americans. We should never have hyphenated Americans. You are either an American, or not. We really do not have room for divided loyalties. Frankly, this is Barack Obama’s problem. He is not loyal to the United States. In fact, he is anything but. His hatred for the Nation, and it's people, is on display daily.

 Lt. Col. West is a true leader, and an American Hero. This is exactly the kind of people we need in Congress if we are going to save this nation.

Much like Sarah Palin, Lt. Col. West speaks his mind and is not afraid to take anyone on.

The video below is West is giving a rousing speech at the opening of his campaign headquarters. While the entire speech is just awesome, the payoff comes at the end when he says once elected he is going to walk up to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and tell her: "Give me that damned gavel!"







We need to support this man. He is the sort we need in Congress. Please visit Allen’s website here to donate to his campaign, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

You should also check the speech he gave last year at a Tea Party that became a viral video on YouTube with over 2 million viewers.

Sarah Palin Talks Illegal Immigration, Socialism, BP, Oil Spills, And Putting America Back On The Right Track

When the President went on to speak about immigration, some people are going to listen to his sound bites and ask: "Is this another ‘you lie’ moment?"

~Sarah Palin

On Wednesday, Sarah Palin gave a lengthy interview with Fox Business News’ David Asman on his popular America’s Nightly Scoreboard show. In this interview, Sarah talks about a wide range of topics: The power of her political endorsements, Obama’s march towards socialism, British Petroleum, the oil spill, corruption, and of course, the hot topic of illegal immigration.

No words minced here. This is Sarah Palin callin’ it like she sees it.



Palin on Putting America Back on Track





Palin: Every Border State Should Have Arizonas Law





Palin: We Cannot Continue on Road Toward Socialism





Palin on BP Oil Spill, Terrorism





This is serious red meat Sarah is dishing out. Solid answers to the most pressing questions of our time. Here is Sarah Palin showing not only her toughness, but her belief in American Exceptionalism.

Sarah also talks about her own career as she dealt with corruption, especially within the Alaska Republican Party, as well as her hard core stance on the oil companies and environmental responsibility.

Why aren’t we hearing this sort of candor and enthusiasm, and these sort of solutions from the GOP show ponies who think it’s "their turn" in 2012?

Obama Regime Asking Students For "Citizen Status" Before Commencement Address

Wait a minute,... hold the phone! I thought you were a Nazi (or something worse) if you asked people to "show their papers." And yet....here we are.

This from Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Kalamazoo News:

 Kalamazoo Central seniors aren't the only ones asked the 'Citizen status' question

The White House appears to be laying the groundwork for President Barack Obama to shake the hand of each senior at Kalamazoo Central High School’s commencement ceremony next month.

Seniors are being asked to provide their birthdates, Social Security numbers and citizen status to the Secret Service so background checks could be performed. Such a check is required for anyone who gets within an arm’s length of the president, students were told at their senior breakfast Friday.

Of the fact that the White House is requesting information on all the graduating seniors, K-Central Principal Von Washingon Jr. told the students, "I’ll let you figure out what that means," said senior Simon Boehme, who was at the breakfast.

Look, in all fairness, it’s the Secret Service’s job to protect the President, and no one wants any harm to come to a President....any President. But it’s quite interesting that while Obama and his minions have been on an apology tour, with the latest disgrace being over Arizona’s tough immigration policies, that mirror the federal standards, this comes out.

As we have written here and here, the Obama regime has trashed Arizona while apologizing to China. Just today, Obama dumped on Arizona, from the White House lawn, and stood there, like the impotent fool he is, while Mexico’s President Calderon trashed Arizona. This was a truly disgusting display of hatred toward America, not only from Calderon but from our own Barack Obama.

I guess it’s "protection from dangerous illegals for me, but not for thee."

This truly a sad time in American history. Never have we had such a hypocritical, ant-American government in place.

As an American, I stand with Arizona, and the Rule of Law, in all of this. We must stop illegal immigration. We must secure our borders. Barack Obama is not the only one who deserves to be protected from dangerous illegal aliens!

Sarah Palin: Barack Obama’s American Apology World Tour Continues

Still I can’t help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizona’s citizens for the incompetence shown by these Administration officials. Arizonans have the courage to do what the Obama administration has failed to do in its first year and a half in office – namely secure our border and enforce our federal laws.

~Sarah Palin

We wrote earlier, that while Sarah Palin was standing firmly with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, and her brave action to help curb the violence and other crime that her state faces as it is invaded by foreign forces of illegal aliens, the Obama regime was making a full throated apology to China!

China is one of the world’s worst violators of human rights on the planet. How DARE Barack Obama, or anyone representing the Obama regime, apologize to any nation, but especially China, for upholding the Rule of Law in THIS Nation.

Sarah Called out Obama and John Huntsman, et;al yesterday, this morning, and now has this to say via Facebook:

American Apology Tour Continues

On Fox News this morning, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley became the third Obama administration official in short succession to admit that he hadn’t actually bothered to read Arizona’s 10-page long "secure the border" bill before condemning it and criticizing Americans who support Arizona’s necessary efforts to do the job the Obama Administration should be doing. Crowley’s statement follows similar admissions from Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

At first blush this revelation seemed unbelievable, but maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. This now seems "the Washington way" of doing things. If the party in power tells us they have to pass bills in order to find out what’s actually in them, they can also criticize bills (and divide the country with ensuing rhetoric) without actually reading them.

Still I can’t help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizona’s citizens for the incompetence shown by these Administration officials. Arizonans have the courage to do what the Obama administration has failed to do in its first year and a half in office – namely secure our border and enforce our federal laws. And as a result, Arizonans have been subjected to a campaign of baseless accusations by the same people who freely admit they haven’t a clue about what they’re actually campaigning against.

The absolute low point of this campaign came last Friday, when a U.S. State Department delegation met with Chinese negotiators to discuss human rights. Apparently, our State Department felt it necessary to make their Chinese guests feel less bad about their own record of human rights abuses by repeatedly atoning for American "sins" – including, it seems, the Arizona immigration/pro-border security law. Asked if Arizona came up at all during the meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner answered:

"We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society."

Note that he said "We brought it up" – not the Chinese, but the U.S. State Department’s own delegation. Instead of grilling the Chinese about their appalling record on human rights, the State Department continued the unbelievable apology tour by raising "early and often" Arizona’s decision to secure our border.

Arizona’s law, which just mirrors the federal law, simply allows the police to ask those whom they have already stopped for some form of identification like a driver’s license. By what absurd stretch of the imagination is that the moral equivalent of China’s lack of freedoms, population controls (including forced abortions), censorship, and arbitrary detentions?

Surely our U.S. Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, must disagree with the Obama Administration’s continued apology tour? We have nothing to apologize for. If Administration officials want to apologize to anyone, apologize to the American people for the fact that after a year and a half in office, they still haven’t done anything to secure our borders, and they join our President in making false suggestions about Arizona’s effort.

- Sarah Palin

In short Obama is the most un-American scoundrel this nation has ever had in our government. I honestly expect "Barack Obama" to replace "Benedict Arnold" as the universal name for a traitor in American society. At least Benedict Arnold served his nation honorably, for a time.

Barack Obama’s entire life has been dedicated to the downfall of American society. It’s past time to no longer accept the hate and division Barack Obama preaches. It’s past time to no longer accept the unabashed anti-Americanism that spews forth from Barack Obama, the Obama regime, and the Marxist-democrat party.

We know that many in the Obama regime, and no doubt Obama himself, admire Communist China. One of Obama’s closest advisers, Anita Dunn told school children that Mao Tse Tung a brutal, murderous dictator, who killed tens of millions of his own people, was her favorite philosopher! Some of Obama’s Czars, like Cass Sunstein, John Holdren, and Ezekiel Emanuel actually advocate the very human rights violations that Sarah lists, including forced abortions, censorship of free speech, and arbitrary detentions.

With that said, America is not a communist nation, yet, and if the Americans have their say, it never will be.

This nation cannot wait until 2012 to be rid of this guy. We must take back the House and Senate this fall, and we must do it in unprecedented numbers. Once achieved our new Congress must start working toward both neutering the Obama regime, and ultimately removing it.

Barack Obama and his people are embarrassments to the entire nation. Their deep hatred for America, and the American people cannot be allowed to continue to effect our once proud standing in the world.

Sarah's ongoing effort to unite America, as Barack Obama works every angle to divide us, is the inspiration for this Karen Allen artwork:

Pamela Geller Discusses 9/11 Mosque with Mike Huckabee.... Oh, And Steal This Flyer!

This past weekend Pamela Geller appeared on The Mike Huckabee Show where she talked about a major insult to the victims and families effected by the Muslim terrorists who attacked New York City on September 11, 2001. It seems radical Muslims are looking to build a Mosque within the shadow of Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center attacks.

Not only is this an insult to those murdered by Islamic terrorists, and their families, but it is an insult to New Yorkers, and Americans as a whole.

Pamela, a popular conservative author and journalist, is one of America’s leading voices against radical Islam. Her website, Atlas Shrugs, is a must read....daily. She reports on the atrocities and horrors of radical Islam like no one else. If you want the unvarnished truth, check out Atlas Shrugs here.

She has also taken on the project: Stop Islamization Of America and has a Facebook page dedicated to this that you can visit here. You can also follow her on Twitter here.

Pamela has a huge rally coming up in New York on June 6, at Ground Zero. She has asked her readers to "Steal this flyer" below. We ask our readers to do the same. Steal this flyer and send it everywhere! Write, make phone calls, send tweets, whatever, just help stop this insult to the memory of all of those who were slaughtered on 9/11 by Muslim terrorists.