Posted on 06/17/2010 7:56:42 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
WASHINGTON – Who's sorry now? Rep. Joe Barton, that's who. The Texas Republican, the House's top recipient of oil industry campaign contributions since 1990, apologized Thursday for apologizing to the chief of the British company that befouled the Gulf of Mexico with a massive oil spill. His double mea culpa plus a retraction, executed under pressure from fuming GOP leaders, succeeded in shifting attention from the tragedy, BP's many missteps and the stoic British oil chief at the witness table, to his own party's close connection to the oil industry. Barton started the ruckus at midmorning when he took aim at the $20 billion relief fund for victims of the spill sought by the White House and agreed to by BP. "I apologize," Barton said to BP CEO Tony Hayward, who was sitting at a witness table for another of Congress' ritual floggings of wayward corporate heads. "I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is — again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown," Barton said. "So I apologize."
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I knew that he had apologized for apologizing. I have already expressed by anger at that on some other threads. For I minute here, I thought he was apologizing for apologizing for apologizing — in other words, stepping up and re-asserting that this was indeed a shakedown. But I guess not. He’s still eating his words. Sigh.
Screw the RNC.
I repeat: Screw the RNC.
You’ll never be a winner acting like a loser.
Screw the RNC.
Yeah—I think mainly boneheads are the only ones who runfor office, but on the whole, I think Barton is less bone-headed than most.
To bad we can not have both houses of congress go through the same torment by the little people and ask then what they knew and when did they know it and why did they not do anything about it!
He apologized for Obama’s $20B extrajudicial half-nelson. And rightly so.
Put it out of its misery, it's worthless.
Barton was right...for a while!
He retracted that apology...
Spineless...
I am sorry to hear that.
Just don’t call him a RINO. Being politically correct and not speaking out is exactly what the Republican party stands for. Joe has obviously received some remedial coaching today, and is now back in the fold.
We know what to do with incumbents.
I continue to shred ANY mail I get from the RNC. Either they get a spine......or I’ll continue. In fact....I’m thinking about registering as an independent.
The cowardly lion scared of his own tail-maybe he can go to see the wizard and get some courage
Spineless as his own party leaders who threatened him with removal.
The GOP sissies are quite a team.
Idiot. He was right when he said what he said. He was wrong when he retracted what he said. He’s toast, from the voters, or should be, not from the muckey mucks.
*sigh*
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