Hey, TEXAS US Rep. Joe Barton! Listen up you BIG OIL TOADY!
You think we don't know? Bullshit. It doesn't take a math whiz to figure out who owns you . . .
Huffington Post observed today that:
While most of the opening statements by lawmakers contained harsh criticisms of BP, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, turned the tables and apologized to BP, accusing the White House of conducting a "$20 billion shakedown" by requiring the company to establish the fund to compensate those hurt by the spill.
"I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House" on Wednesday, said Barton, who has received at least $100,470 in political contributions from oil and gas interests since the beginning of 2009, the second-highest amount among all the committee members.
Vice President Joe Biden later called the shakedown comment "outrageous," and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, "What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations that caused this disaster than the fishermen, small business owners and communities whose lives have been devastated by the destruction."
Later, Barton told the committee: "I want the record to be absolutely clear that I think BP is responsible for this accident, should be held responsible and should in every way do everything possible to make good on the consequences that have resulted from this accident. And if anything I said this morning has been misconstrued, in opposite effect, I want to apologize for that misconstruction."
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