Emanuel - It Will Be Dangerous If GOP Held Power

Washington (AP) - 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. He says Obama will make clear to voters the fundamental differences in how each party would govern.

Emanuel tells ABC's "This Week" it would be "dangerous" if the GOP held power in Washington. He says GOP lawmakers and candidates are attacking the administration for demanding that BP set up a $20 billion compensation fund.

Last week, Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP for what he called a White House "shakedown." The Texas Republican later stepped back from those remarks.

The oil spill is the 'crisis' Obama and Emanuel needed and they will use it to their advantage. This is 'cover fire' for the mid-term elections in November. At this point in time it looks as if the Democrats could lose many House seats and some Senate seats.

But now, Obama will have a $20 billion political slush fund from BP, supposedly to clean up the oil spill and help the people who live and work on the Gulf coast. Much of it will not be used for that. Does anyone really believe that none of this money will be used to buy votes for the upcoming November election?

Who is overseeing this $20 billion? Obama's Pay Czar - he will do whatever Obama tells him to do with this money. Disgusting that Obama threatened BP to hand over a $20 billion political slush fund to be administered by Obama with no oversight whatsoever.

Meanwhile the federal government will be immune from prosecution for the responsibility they should have to face for their inept handling and lack of action to help control the spill. Obama and Emanuel will try to turn this crisis from also being their responsibility and plant it firmly on the back of BP. It is already happening from the White House, with the help of the MSM.

h/t:sodahead