…If the DNC had competent leadership instead of the one man the Democrats have that makes Micheal Steele look like a friggin’ genius in comparison, the ads would already by running tying Barton and BP to every republican candidate and incumbent in the entire country…
The Democratic National Committee has a video:
BP caused the worst oil spill in American history. Now at President Obama’s direction BP set aside twenty billion for recovery on the Gulf Coast. But if Republicans were in charge this is the guy who’d be overseeing BP. “I apologize.” He apologized to BP and called the recovery fund a tragedy. “So I apologize.” Republicans apologizing to BP? Tell Republicans: stop apologizing to big oil. The Democratic National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Representative Joe Barton (r) had a thing or two to say about British Petroleum’s $20 billion:
…Barton apologized to Hayward earlier in the hearing for the $20 billion escrow fund BP was pressured to create. The congressman’s remarks have been lighting up the blogosphere ever since….
“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. Congressman Barton may think that a fund to compensate these Americans is a ‘tragedy’, but most Americans know that the real tragedy is what the men and women of the Gulf Coast are going through right now. Members from both parties should repudiate his comments.”
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Oooh, that’s gonna leave an oil slick.
Update:
Apparently the House republican leadership smacked down Joe Barton (r) and sort of made him backtrack. Sort of.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs via Twitter:
Who would the GOP put in charge of overseeing the energy industry & Big Oil if they won control of Congress? Yup, u guessed it – JOE BARTON about 1 hour ago via web
…If the DNC had competent leadership instead of the one man the Democrats have that makes Micheal Steele look like a friggin’ genius in comparison, the ads would already by running tying Barton and BP to every republican candidate and incumbent in the entire country…
