Posted on 06/20/2010 3:34:40 PM PDT by goods
It is funny – or blatant chutzpa – that Democrats are attacking some Congressional Republicans, such as Burton, for wanting the rule of law to apply despite public outrage against BP, while these very Democrats defended (or didnt attack) just days earlier a Democrat member of Congress, Mr. Eldridge, who physically attacked a student who merely asked Eldrige a question.
The way I see it, Dems: Bring it on! Let’s show a clip of Eldridge’s behavior side-by-side with Republicans demanding that the courts or current regulation, rather than-Obama arm-twisting, should decided how BP pays for their mess. Take it to the voting booths: way more voters will be mad as hell against Eldridge for his action and Democrats for their inaction than with Barton and other Republicans.
All this is besides the point that the hoo-ha-ha with Barton is mostly inside the beltway crap that most Americans who see the current incompetence of the federal government, do not even know or care one drop, just as few care about the Sestak Jobs story to which I have written May 30 (at the American Thinker) that Republican should drop that story.
Republicans should man up and rip Dems on Obama’s cleanup incompetence; the Democrat’s 1990 Congress for introducing The Oil Pollution Act which did zero to prevent or cleanup this BP mess; and… hold Democrats accountable for not disciplining a member of their party for attacked a young student.
If you’re going to vent your outrage at the Congressman who attacked the young questioner, I think the least you could is to be sure and get his name right. It’s ETHEridge.
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