Drudge alerts readers to an article from Politico:
BP has agreed to finance a $20 billion escrow fund to pay claims to people who lost income in the Gulf Coast oil spill, an administration source tells POLITICO.
Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, who was in charge of payments to families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will oversee the fund.
The news came as President Barack Obama finally had his showdown with top executives of BP on Wednesday.
...Obama was scheduled to spend 20 minutes in the meeting. He entered the room with an entourage: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and her coordinator for claims oversight, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Commerce Secrertary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
The White House gave the executives a bit of cover, allowing them to arrive on the side of the West Wing and walk at a distance from reporters, rather than forcing them to come through the main entrance for visitors, which would have made it impossible for them to ignore the news media.
Whose bright idea was it to schedule Obama for only 20 minutes with the BP executives?
20 MINUTES??
The White House and their hacks in the Leftist media have hyped this meeting to death.
20 MINUTES???
What could Obama "learn" in such a brief period of time?
What sort of solutions could he discuss with appropriate depth?
There is no way that "20 minutes" can be considered "fully engaged."
Obama spends 4 or 5 hours "fully engaged" on the golf course.
To have been scheduled present for just 20 minutes with the BP execs is a disgrace.
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UPDATE:
WASHINGTON -- “This is about accountability. At the end of the day, that’s what every American wants and expects,” Obama said after a meeting that stretched more than four hours, with Obama darting in and out of the room.
Why was Obama darting in and out? Was he being coached? Did he need a smoke? Did he have trouble concentrating and sitting still?
How can one be "fully engaged" darting around during an important meeting? Were BP execs darting around?
Nonetheless, Obama claims he "is fully engaged."
I guess that depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.
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