Rachel Maddow: Blue Dog Dems Founder, Ex-Chair Of Cong. Oil Forum, Signs On As Transocean Lobbyist

maddow: Blue Dog Dems founder, ex-chair of Cong. Oil and Gas Forum, signs on as Transocean lobbyist: #YouStayKlassy

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1316732620100513

Transocean hires U.S. lobby firm to work Congress
05:41 PM EDT

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - Transocean Ltd (RIGN.S), one of the companies under fire over the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has hired a new lobby firm to represent its interests in Congress, according to public records.

Capitol Hill Consulting Group, chaired by former U.S. Representative Bill Brewster of Oklahoma, registered as a lobbyist for Transocean on May 10, a day before the Swiss-based company began appearing before the Senate and House of Representatives oversight committees to answer for the leaking BP Plc (BP.L) well.

The disaster threatens to engulf oil giant BP, Transocean and other companies involved in the offshore drilling industry in a new era of government scrutiny and regulation. Capitol Hill Consulting declined to comment on its new role. Transocean officials were not immediately available for comment.

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The former Democratic lawmaker served in Congress from 1991 through 1997. In 1994, Brewster formed a caucus of lawmakers from oil-producing states called the Congressional Oil and Gas Forum, and served as its first chairman. He also was a founding member of the Blue Dog Coalition, an influential group of pro-business congressional Democrats.

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and waste it on those fucking traitorous cowards.

And let's not forget Billy Tauzin, the second biggest drug dealer on this planet (Poppy Bush's CIA still has him beat).

He was a "Blue Dog" too.

And these frauds have the nerve to call themselves "Liberals"/"Progressives"/"Democrats"??

would have it) or even because their screaming about GOP wickedness is hypocritical, but because they act like Republicans because they're conservatives

This DLC guy's perfect mate, preordained by Heaven, just happens to be a Bond villain, with webbed feet and an underwater empire. After you see it happen, it all fits perfectly, and you can see how inevitable it was.


Transocean founder and CEO, Karl Stromberg.