Rahm Emanuel got free rent from BP flack for 5 years-Daschle was dumped for much less

• Tom Daschle was axed from consideration for an Obama cabinet job for much less than what Rahm Emanuel did.

6/8: "If you or I lived rent free for five years in an apartment in pricey Washington, DC, we would have to pay

• income taxes on the value of the rent on the place. But apparently not Rahm Emanuel.

The wonderful Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times writes:

• We already knew that BP and its folks were significant contributors to the record
  
• $750-million war chest of Barack Obama's 2007-08 campaign.

Now, we learn the details of a connection of Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayoral wannabe, current Obama chief of staff, ex-representative, ex-Clinton money man and ex-Windy City political machine go-fer.

Shortly after Obama's happy inaugural, eyebrows rose slightly upon word that, as a House member, Emanuel had lived the last five years rent-free in a D.C. apartment of Democratic colleague Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and her husband, Stanley Greenberg. [....]

Greenberg's consulting firm was a prime architect of BP's recent rebranding drive as a green petroleum company, down to green signs and the slogan "Beyond Petroleum."

Don't forget that BP also made enormous research grants to a project headed by

• Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

There was no oil company more politically correct, or more politically connected than BP. It is time that voters receive a

• complete accounting of BP's connections to the Obama administration."

from American Thinker by Thomas Lifson

• Formal mob control of America by the criminal left courtesy of the inept GOP. ed.