I read on the Daily Beast today a report that several of the congressmen grilling BP on Capitol Hill asking the tough questions had taken large sums of money from BP in campaign donations.
This is supposed to be scandalous information, but I don't understand why. The guys who took a lot of money are going against their interests and calling BP out for the company's gross negligence.
So the problem is...they aren't giving BP their money's worth?
Exactly why is it wrong to take money from a lobbyist and then not do what they ask for? Isn't that what we claim is so wrong with our political system in the first place, that our Congressmen are in the pockets of their contributors?
The paper's headline is like, "BP's Biggest Hypocrites!", Like, yeah, you bastards, how dare you take money from big oil and then...not do what's in the best interests of big oil.
That's terrible!
I don't understand politics sometimes.
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