As poll finds 82 percent support victims’ fund, Clark works to capitalize on Bachmann’s BP support
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12:53 pm
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Photos: Clark for Congress, Bachmann for Congress
As a new poll shows that 82 percent of Americans approve of an escrow fund to aid victims of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill, congressional candidate Tarryl Clark is launching a new TV commercial calling out Rep. Michele Bachmann’s apparent support for BP. The ad highlights Bachmann’s recent comments about the $20 billion fund in which she warned BP not to be “chumps.”
The commercial isn’t on YouTube yet, but the Star Tribune’s Eric Roper offers the script:
“America’s worst-ever environmental disaster,” an announcer says. “Killing thousands of jobs. Costing billions. It’s BP’s fault. And they should pay. But Michelle Bachmann calls making BP pay for the clean up ‘extortion.’ And said “If I was the head of BP, I would let the signal get out there – ‘We’re not going to be chumps.’ If Bachmann lets BP off the hook, guess who’s paying? Us. Michele Bachmann: standing up for BP. Not us.”
The commercial comes out a day after CNN released its telephone poll (pdf), conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on Wednesday. It’s the first poll about the oil spill conducted entirely after Obama’s Tuesday night speech. The news isn’t great for Obama: 59 percent of respondents say they don’t approve of his handling of the spill — nine percent more than felt that way a month ago.
But for those who’ve been defending BP — Bachmann and the apologetic Texas Rep. Joe Barton, most prominently — the news is worse. Sixty-seven percent say they want Obama to be even tougher on the oil giant, while only 13 percent of respondents say they think BP has done a good job in responding to the disaster. A huge majority — 82 percent — approve of a “creating a fund of billions of dollars to compensate workers and businesses that have been affected by the oil spill that would be paid by BP but administered by a neutral party.”
Clark’s not the only one hoping to leverage Republican comments about BP. The Democratic National Committee is raising money to run ads about Barton’s apology (later retracted) to BP. Unlike the online video the Democrats rushed out yesterday, this spot won’t feature Bachmann.
7 Comments
Comment posted June 18, 2010 @ 5:29 pm
Oh just watch, before the week is out Bachmann will be apologizing to BP for getting our Gulf of Mexico in their oil.
Comment posted June 18, 2010 @ 11:37 pm
Only an Idiot American, a lying liberal or criminal Democrat would not agree what Obama did to BP is and was EXTORION!!!!! ( Spell corrected for liberal idiots who are incapable of comprehension without properly spelled words) Face it America! You are under the Dictatorship of a Criminal!
Extortion, outwresting, and/or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime groups. The actual obtainment of money or property is not required to commit the offense. Making a threat of violence which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the offense. Exaction refers not only to extortion or the unlawful demanding and obtaining of something through force,[1] but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant.[2]
Comment posted June 18, 2010 @ 11:40 pm
BTY Let’s see the actual poll, who took it, who paid for it, what did it say… The Nazi’s fed the German people a steady diet of hatred and misinformation that led to the death of 6 Million Jews… and yes they were SOCIALISTIS! Just like Obama and the Democratic party! Wake up you sheeple! Your heading to a slaughter!!!
Comment posted June 20, 2010 @ 10:43 pm
I love the funny fulminating by right wingers about this, especially the ignoramus who thinks there’s a word “extorion”. hee hee
Comment posted June 21, 2010 @ 7:51 am
Only 82 percent? Are they polling under rocks? Maybe in places of worship, like Wall Street…
Comment posted June 21, 2010 @ 7:33 pm
I feel sorry for the idiot leaving their post here (Patriot)who lets their extreme right wing agenda get in the way of using their brain. They seem to be so politically vapid that they would actually stick up for any oil company that doesn’t give a rats butt for them. Go ahead and vote against your won self interest. I guess politics trumps intelligence. Your rant of misspelled words and hate of a black president is obvious. and also not calling out Bachman on her BP butt licking is pitiful. Why do these people think the corporatists are on their side….please get a clue. you sound ignorant.
Comment posted October 12, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
Oh poor BP, how they’ve suffered. Its sadder than a poor child in namibia.
By the way, does anyone remmber that eleven workers died for BP because of their cost cutting measures?
I suppose their profits are more important than a few insignicant lives.
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