DINOS Shill for Oil Industry

[Keith Bee]

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic attempt to take on the major oil companies is being challenged from within, with representatives of producing states rushing to the defense of the industry, complicating the plan to present a stark contrast between the two parties.

Democratic Sens. Mark Begich and Mary Landrieu, who represent Alaska and Louisiana, respectively, each took to the Senate floor Wednesday to decry their party's attempt to strip tax breaks from the top oil companies.

Landrieu bemoaned the "inherent unfairness" of closing the tax loophole, insisting that doing so "will not reduce gasoline prices by one penny.”

Begich chided the party for putting message over substance. "It is a gimmick, a gimmick to get the next week of activity, and get some press out there,” he said. “Picking on one industry because it sounds good, rates good in the polls, gets you a couple of headlines is not what the American people want us to do here. If anything, they're getting fed up with that. … Let’s stop the headline-grabbing and get serious about the energy security."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/mary-landrieu-mark-begich-oil_n_860743.html

Not a big fan of P.J. O'Rourke, but, when he chose "Parliament of Whores" for a book title, he knew what he was talking about.

[Trajan]

1. "Well Mary ..."

"maybe we should also FIX PRICES for petroleum products as well ...."

[badtoworse]

3. You should study history. Carter did that with natural gas in the 70's.

It was a disaster.

[Arctic Dave]

2. This would be a gimme for Mark.

It will take everything we got to keep him in the congress. The teabaggers and repugs are frothing at the mouth that a Dem is in office for Alaska.

This is mostly theatre for the braindead up here. Can't look like your picking on the poor old oil companies.

[whathappened]

4. you got it

them greedy old fart that are called the oil barrons in america , have been waiting for the price to go up , now they will pumb some oil , there getting rich big time , and there pulling the strings on our freedoms