NYT: Republican Backpedals From Apology To BP
Representative Joe L. Barton had to be truly sorry by the time he
apologized for his apology on Thursday.
In the four hours between his televised apology to BP -- for what he called a $20 billion "shakedown" by President Obama for loss claims in the gulf oil spill -- and his apology for that apology, Mr. Barton, a Republican from Texas, had been pummeled in the blogosphere, assailed by Democratic Party operatives and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and, in the blow that landed, threatened by Republican leaders with being yanked from the party's top seat on the powerful House energy committee.
Read the entire New York Times article here.
In the four hours between his televised apology to BP -- for what he called a $20 billion "shakedown" by President Obama for loss claims in the gulf oil spill -- and his apology for that apology, Mr. Barton, a Republican from Texas, had been pummeled in the blogosphere, assailed by Democratic Party operatives and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and, in the blow that landed, threatened by Republican leaders with being yanked from the party's top seat on the powerful House energy committee.
Read the entire New York Times article here.
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