On 17/06/2010 10:08 AM, Harry wrote:


Texas Rep. Joe
Barton apologizes
to BP CEO Tony
Hayward over
White House's '$20
billion shakedown'

By Corky Siemaszko
Daily News Staff Writer

Thursday, June 17th 2010, 10:52 AM


A Texas congressman with a tin ear gave Tony
Hayward, the embattled honcho of reviled oil giant BP,
something totally unexpected on Thursday - an
apology.

Will not help Texas oil patch. Bet all noew offshore stuff is canceled
or pending a indefinite stall. Obama might claim to cancel new wells,
but it is just posturing. Big oil is now going to want some serious
liability limits from hen pecking or Obama can suck the free oil himself.

Rep. Joe Barton, a Republican whose sprawling district
includes Houston, called Hayward the victim of a "$20
billion shakedown."

Even democrats shoudl consider. Economically the USA makes about as
much sense to invest in oil as does Venezuela.

"I apologize," Barton told Hayward. "I'm ashamed of
what happened in the White House yesterday. I think
it's a tragedy."

Marxist Obama has spoken. Me, if I was the CEO of BP, I would have sat
in my London office and told Barrack to shove it behind closed doors.
Forcing Obama's hand.

Barton was referring to President Obama's faceoff with
the BP barons that ended with the oil company saying
sorry for the mammoth oil spill currently fouling the
Gulf of Mexico - and promising to finance a $20
billion fund to compensate the victims.

You work it out, this is an insane amount. And a lot of victims were
victims even if the spill never occured. Tourism for example, nobody
was traveling any way. All Obama is doing is shifting the cost of
bailout to BP....

And the corrupt president still hasn't charges any GMer with fraud.
Pretty obvious Obama is anti-business tyrant. Thinks he is above the
law too.

All we need to ask is who will he screw up next?

Hayward, who was bracing to be raked over the coals
at the Congressional hearing, appeared to be taken
aback by Barton's apology.

Not everyone agrees with Obama marxism and open dictatorial hostility.

Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, quickly
slapped back at Barton, saying the compensation fund
was "not a slush fund, not a shakedown."

Had that right. There was a oil tax put on after Exxon that was
supposed to be invested in just such spills as BP, a reserve fund of sorts.

Needless to say Congress happily ****ed it away.

"It was the government of the United States working
to protect the most vulnerable citizens that we have in
our country right now, the residents of the Gulf," he
said.

Might want to think of everyone as vulnerable. Obama isn't going to
stop until he causes more damage and someone has the guts to stop him.

Barton is one of Big Oil's biggest boosters. And he
has taken $1.4 million in campaign contributions from
the industry since 1989, according to the Center for
Responsive Politics.

Probably all of the senate, congress and we know Obama has too. Funny
how not months before this Obama was spewing how he was going to open up
off shore drilling for US jobs and energy. 180% about face, the Obama
does not think, he reacts like a back woods African dictator.

Barton's backers have been political action committees
and employees of Anadarko Petroleum, Exxon Mobil
and Valero Energy, the watchdog group reported.

In earlier statements, Barton said he held BP
accountable for the environmental disaster but said the
committee should also be looking into the Obama
administration's response to the spill.

Barton has also opposed attempts to more tightly
regulate the oil industry.

There is no dout TransOcean (owner/operator) and BP (clientlease owner)
are going to pay. But Obama grand standing needs to stop, US is
sounding more like Castro/Chavez than ever before.

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