Video: GOP Rep Barton's Apology to BP

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Congressman Joe Barton Apologizes To Tony Hayward For ‘$20 Billion Shakedown’
by Frances Martel | 11:46 am, June 17th, 2010

Sitting before Congress as if standing before a firing squad, it only took about five minutes of the House committee’s opening statements for BP CEO Tony Hayward to stop looking like the sort of man who has the will to live. But amid the barrage of scolding and stark reminders of his company’s negligence, someone threw Hayward a lifeboat: an apology.

Republican Congressman Joe Barton agreed with his colleagues that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was outrageous and required extensive investigation but, unlike Reps. Henry Waxman, Bart Stupak and company, he found some sympathy for the defeated man in front of him. Specifying that he spoke neither for Congress nor the Republican Party in saying it, Barton told Hayward he was “ashamed” and apologized for what he characterized as a “$20 billion shakedown” yesterday, referring to the escrow account President Obama agreed with Hayward BP would open for use exclusively for claims.

He also argued that, should he have asked Hayward for the same amount of money in a similar manner, he would have been arrested, and rightfully so.

Video from today’s Congressional hearings below:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/congressman-joe-barton-apologizes-to-tony-hayward-for-%E2%80%9820-billion-shakedown%E2%80%99/

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[AspenRose]

1. *Praying that Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert mentions this*

[Clio the Leo]

4. lol, oh, they'll probably devote their whole shows to it.

lol, and glad SOMEONE got my sprockets reference! :)

[nmbluesky]

6. oh yeah

They will love it...

[ProSense]

2. There is also the statement by House Republicans

here.

[The Wielding Truth]

9. "Oh, lets trust BP. They said they would give us the money." Fools!!

[supernova]

3. LMAO! Accompanying visual

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg

[Clio the Leo]

5. lol! yep! ... and I was worried that was too vague. nt

[vaberella]

7. Hayward was even looking at him weird. n/t

[Turbineguy]

11. Hayward should be smart enough to know

that this guy in in the minority party for a good reason and not to take anything Barton says seriously.

[The Wielding Truth]

8. I don't see this politically. I have personal disdain and disgust. for Barton.

He is a traitor to the people of this country who is placing corporate embarrassment over the disastrous consequences, the greedy irresponsibilities,and criminal decisions made by BP.

I will always see him as a man who would sell out his country for the sake of this filthy corporation.

[NI4NI]

10. Besides not speaking for Congress or the Repug Party,

he wasn't speaking for the dead and injured oil rig employees, the fishermen, or the folks who live on the Gulf Coast either.

Barton is a soiled wad of used toilet paper.