re: #172 JasonA

Limbaugh Doubles Down On Barton’s ‘Shakedown’ Claims
LIMBAUGH: Joe Barton apologized to BP executives on behalf of himself, the American people, for the shakedown. … The United States government may as well be a branch of organized crime the way that it is being conducted and the way it’s doing business, and the way it’s looking out for itself and no one else. … Organized crime. It’s the closest thing I can think to analogize what’s happening here. And even these guys that are being shaken down, they’re paying protection money, and it isn’t enough. It isn’t enough.

Are there a lot of people who see this issue like this? Organized Crime?

It needs congressional authorization and oversight, a legal framework…otherwise, it is only as above-board as the people running it choose to make it. That’s not how govt is supposed to work.