BPand the Democrats.

So the same people who were beating the hell out of BP are the people who sought to get special favors from the government? Wow... just freekin' wow.

BP, Transocean tap a well of Washington lobbyists and consultants

"BP, which has garnered the bulk of public attention and contempt for the spill, has assembled a formidable team of Democrats for its Washington lobbying, legal and public-relations offensive. There is Tony Podesta, who heads one of the District's leading lobbying firms; legal adviser Jamie Gorelick, a top Justice Department official in the Clinton administration now at the law firm WilmerHale; Hilary Rosen, a former recording-industry lobbyist who heads the Washington office of the Brunswick Group, a public-relations consultancy; and Michael S. Berman of the Duberstein Group, who was a longtime aide to former vice president Walter F. Mondale before becoming a lobbyist."

Bold is mine.

Note that these people were in place BEFORE the spill, not hastily assembled after. Do these people have even an understanding of the word shame. They are obviously without any moral standing, ethical standing, or 'spirit of the law' standing. Just sanctimonious, clueless hacks who have nothing but the bringing down of this country in their sites.

I just wish they weren't being so successful at it.