Seeing as how he’s Mr. Big Oil, and all. And she goes so far as to link Cheney to BP through his former spokeswoman:

Symbolic of Cheney’s connection — past, present, and future — to Big Oil is BP’s hiring of Anne Womack-Kolton as its chief of U.S. media relations. Womack-Kolton served as Cheney’s press secretary during the 2004 campaign and later worked for President Bush’s Department of Energy. While this small bit of employment news is far too circumstantial to gin up serious outrage, it nonetheless puts a nice bow around the questionable coziness between government and industry that Bush and Cheney encouraged during their time in the White House.

I like the “guilt by association” game. Let’s play. If Cheney’s former spokeswoman is important, what is the implication for Democrats when rising DOJ star under the Clinton administration and prominent investigator into 9/11 is now a lawyer for BP. Politico:

When BP executives filed into the West Wing on Wednesday morning to meet with President Barack Obama, they were joined by at least one familiar Washington hand: former Clinton administration Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who signed on earlier this month to represent BP in congressional inquiries linked to the massive oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
As one of the top lawyers in Washington and a former Justice Department official, it is no surprise that BP tapped Gorelick and her prominent law firm, WilmerHale, to do the nearly impossible: defend it against a deluge of legislative inquiries into the oil disaster.
And her role is not very different from the one played by another prominent Democrat, former White House counsel Greg Craig, who is now representing Goldman Sachs — which until the oil spill was Washington’s favorite corporate pariah.
“Speaking generally, the reliance on high-powered insiders results in corporations escaping penalties that are not as severe as they would otherwise face. The familiarity of the former prosecutor with the system enables them to think creatively about tricks to end up with resolutions that seem much more significant than they actually are,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.
Still, Gorelick could easily have been on the other side of the table as one of the Obama administration’s key players. Her role in the Clinton administration and her later service as a member of the 9/11 Commission made her a logical choice for deputy attorney general.

And one thing that will be amusing tomorrow (when the transcript is up) is Bart Stupak’s opening statement in the grilling of BP’s CEO, when he asks BP why they didn’t listen to Hallibruton’s warning about the well. And all this time I thought Halliburton was the villain.