Cenk on Msnbc - Corporations corrupt oil spill debate

enough about the banks of for the moment looks like transparency in the white knights have momentum at this hour are other big story the obvious one the oil spill now covering about to thousand square miles in the gulf of mexico british petroleum planning to lower our mass of containment dome they would like a giant jara topping you put over abella johnnie open over something over the larger of the two remaining weeks remember they plug one although it hasn't cause of the flow to subside it just goes to the other two holes this is now a cap for another hold the cleanup effort continuing above a icy level amid new questions about how the obama administration handled the crisis news out of the interior department's chief of staff actually left to go on a rafting trip three days after the leak had been reported two years ago federal regulators told deeply in fact that it did not have to file a plan to handle an offshore oil disaster good thing they didn't have a plan the administration in full damage control mode today sending homeland security secretary janet napolitano two of the gulf to oversee the cleanup efforts and the small business administration offering loans of up to two million dollars to small businesses affected by the spill so imagine your shrimp boat operator you've lost your job because of the oil spill and now the government is offering you debt as a way to get through it how nice of them this is democratic lawmakers push to raise bps liability cap for damages which is right now it's seventy five million dollars they're trying to get that wave to get up to ten billion dollars here to mix it up one of my paper panels dozens of the other church cheng kilgore and blogger and call mister politics daily dot com now though is that the delight to see both of you what strikes me guys and you look at all of this is the obvious problem conflict of interest between supervisors and pipe private business in this country we see with the banks receipt with the energy companies five change at what point does the revolving door that exist between somebody like jenna massieu was the supervisor for vp and the actual oil companies or the revolving door will go with pick your favorite agency lobbyist politician how much longer will the american people ought tolerate revolving doors that compromise our country's interest well again bill when we come in the same exact issue that we do on almost all these obvious which is corporate risk taking over other politicians taking over our regulators so from both sides here with that of serb claims merrill andrew saying hey you know what we had to be more aggressive do more uh... weekend retreat with you more or drilling site she saying let's attack the world's like over there before they get taxes over here doesn't mean he says john bainer says the same thing rush limbaugh's is fantasy about environmentalists lot teams that cause this problem eddie he's body and have have by corporate interests and nobody represents us and all bomb leg redrew the ridiculous republican plan to do more offshore oil drilling so now he's on board who's fighting for us that matt your perspective it again at the issue as i see it does the government function in a way where serves the interests of our country or does it functioned away were serves the interests of those who'd best take care of the individuals in a given agency well i think you're right it's a good president obama stuff we've been talking about are over the last few weeks because while president obama received i think a million dollars from goldman sachs he was the largest recipient of money from b_p_ went but not forget the politics i think everybody get to the democrats are undertaken the republicans are on the take exchange point it's really my point and it were trying to figure out how much truth has to come out effectively before both parties taking from special interest at the expense of our country candies put to a stop you and i both know that there are conservative factions in this country libertarian factions in this country factions in the tea party that would claim and have acted in a way that would solve this problem we also know there are progressive factions in this country who are aggressively working to solve the same problems it's almost like two armies working on the same problem which is game rating in the government do you get the sense that that work anna precipice of a of a collaboration of you will between the disparate political interests who were all being effectively torch via the current system which is being conducted at uh... most of our expense well look i'm might surprise you hereby i don't want to casting which claim on the obama administration from the actual policy i don't know that they've got an actual horrible job of handling what they could actually do to fix this but from a political standpoint i think the big issue as a conservative is is not the sort of conspiracy theory with without international interest but it's not a proper c when president obama eighteen days before this will spill went and said that or words are perfectly safe like i said he took a uh... more money from b_p_ than anybody else the department of homeland security took a week before they ill call this a case filled national significance and then we have a top guy at the department partner of the interior decided to go graphing afterwards i i i i i gotta wrap this up man died on the air and we're not going to get a lot of work to get a rebuttal from mir changkat here saying listen the democrats and i have not done a good job of managing our relationship with our country's minerals i've got your going to get much of a bottle from checker myself word is going to say the republicans are no better cobbled level bring this one backup of later i got live long and the banks of the topic isotype houston will make up for next time