I hope you realize anyone who stands with Barton writes off any chance they have of winning the primaries in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, three of which represent some of the most conservative electorates in the country.
I’ve already seen it here in Alabama. Our Attorney General who was not very popular in our area at all ran TV ads tying his challenger to BP and the oil spill and actually ended up running better in the county then statewide, and his strongest vote was in those precincts that were closest to the Bay and the Gulf.
This thing has the potential to remake politics down here forever. Until Barton opened his mouth this was the gift that was going to give forever because people blamed BP and Obama and Democrat politicians. Barton hurt our cause by providing a Republican face supportive of BP thereby nullifying some of the partisan advantage we were picking up against Obama.
Yeah, sure.
You sure have a bad case of PC. If you have a mouthful of shit and you can’t call it shit, then you have a problem.
I just don’t see how people are reading Barton’s statement as pro-BP. It was a sharp, biting, accurate anti-Obama statement.
It in NO WAY suggested that BP was not liable and should not be held liable by established and appropriate procedures.
I don’t think we want to live in a country where the POTUS tells corporations to pony up because he said so (and because, oh by the way, he’s sicced his stupid Attorney General on you to “investigate” you for criminal charges and he’s gone on teevee and flapped his jaws about kickingyoass).
There are established laws not handling these types of industrial accidents and the claims that they create — including laws specifically about oil spills in federal waters.
Again, I don’t see how in any way Barton’s remark was a show of support for BP. It was an Obama slam, pure and simple. And a good one.
If the people are that stupid, we deserve permanent socialist dictatorship. Maybe America has gotten to that tipping point.
It’s unfortunate that you may be correct because the Republicans have not managed to get the word out that the BP shake down is not going to help the people who need it the most. The pay Czar said that they will still have to go through the courts. Who knows who is going to get the money directly from the Czar, himself. The Czar doesn’t even know, he has to ask Obama.