Who Does Big Oil Consider Its Most Devoted Sycophant In The Senate-- Nope, Cornyn Is Only #2

Who can Big Oil thank for rising prices at the gas pump? Well, this year, they are certainly rewarding John McCain more heavily than any other politician in America. So far this year they've given him more than any two senators combined, a whopping $1,010,868. They also love John Cornyn (R-TX-$480,100), James Inhofe (R-OK-$220,350), Steve Pearce (R-NM-$204,234), Mitch McConnell (R-KY-$197,150) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA-$184,850). What do these half dozen politicians have in common? They all slavishly vote for every single bill Big Oil and Gas ever wants passed and each of them fights to prevent any bill Big Oil and Gas opposes. And each of them has to face the voters in November. (It's only McCain, though, who has 29 oil company lobbyists on his campaign staff!)

McCain will try blaming high gas prices on Obama and on the Democrats, but his latest ad is patently false and the fault is bipartisan-- Republicans and the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. As you see there are 6 bribe-taking whores listed above, the six worst, and they come from both political parties. All six should be defeated.

So you can't just blame McCain or even just McCain, Cornyn and Inhofe. Just take Ted Stevens (R-AK) as a good example of a senator who everyone knows is for sale and always takes bribes from big corporations and votes for their special interests. He's the 13th biggest recipient of bribes/donations from Big Oil this year ($95,600) and over the course of his Senate career has accepted $469,440 from Big Oil and has never opposed them on anything. It looks like voters in Alaska are finally wising up to him too. Just today Rasmussen reports that Mark Begich is beating him and "is now ahead 50% to 41%. When “leaners” are included, Begich leads 52%to 44%." Maybe that's because Mark Begich sees the connection between gigantic special interests "donations" and voting records that hurt working families.