Brasscheck TV just sent out a video of Senate Republicans blocking subpoena power for the President's committee to investigate the Gulf oil spill and Senate Democrats acting frustrated. Acting is the key word. Here's the link to the video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/890.html The Democrats are pretending to want to know who the Republicans are protecting. But everyone knows who they're protecting. They're protecting President Obama. And everyone knows who he's protecting--he's protecting Bush and Cheney. The investigation is going to be a whitewash anyway, subpoena power or no. If an investigation originates in the White House, it will be a whitewash like the Iran/Contra investigation, the JFK assassination investigation, and all the other cover-ups. Without subpoena power, they'll have to grant immunity, so nobody will go to prison. With subpoena power, a few people will go to prison but be quickly pardoned. The truth is that while the Democrats got a little more money from BP this election, both parties got plenty and want more. Without a guarantee that the Senate would block subpoena power, the House wouldn't have passed it. This is a game they play, the two money parties, pretending that they don't both rely on the same big corporate donors when they do. Pretending that they don't both have the same agenda when they do. The Republicans lost a lot of credibility during the Bush/Cheney regime, so they need the Democrats to carry on their agenda, and the Democrats couldn't carry on the Republican agenda without Republican support. Neither political party gives a damn about the United States or the American people. They're oligarchs, they have huge investment portfolios, and they belong to the same country clubs and exclusive policy-making bodies as BP and other corporate executives do. They sail on each other's yachts, fly in each other's private jets, and go to the same exclusive Embassy balls and diplomatic dinners. Sure there are a few tokens in the House who are excluded, like the Congressional Black Caucus, but everyone in the Senate, Democrat and Republican, is a plutocrat--even the blacks and females. The investigation will be a charade. The build-up to the investigation is a charade. It is meant to take attention away from the disaster and make people think that the beneficiaries of BP money, the Democratic and Republican parties, aren't really on the BP payroll. Of course if they weren't, the blowout wouldn't have happened. What a bunch of hypocrites. Do you see any emotion when the Democrats talk about lost jobs and ruined lives? They're so far from emotion they can't even fake it. They have to read from a script to make sure they don't say anything that might offend their big corporate donors like BP, even when they're pretending to want to investigate BP. It isn't Democrats versus Republicans. It's rich people versus the rest of us. Ever wonder why, on the rare occasions that rich people have to travel by land, their limousines have tinted, bullet-proof windows and they're accompanied by bodyguards? They're not Senators and corporate executives, they're members of the biggest criminal syndicate in the world. They're plunderers and murderers--that's how they got rich enough to buy elections. In order to investigate the Gulf oil catastrophe, you'd have to investigate the people who deregulated the oil companies, opened up more oil drilling, appointed do-nothing bureaucrats to the federal agencies charged with oversight, and set up committees instead of doing anything useful. And those criminal profiteers in the Senate and the White House aren't going to investigate themselves or allow their henchmen to be investigated. As Catherine Austin Fitts says, "Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment." What she means is that it is professional wrestling. And she knows because she was a member of that criminal syndicate for a long time and is still in recovery. She's trying to live a life of conscience, but doesn't really know anything but capitalism. Rich people have a real dilemma--no matter how much money they get, it is never enough to buy back their souls.