Rep. Joe Barton Got $1.4 Million From Big Oil, All You Can Get Is This Lousy T-Shirt
This morning, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) said, “I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy in the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown — in this case a $20 billion shakedown — with the attorney general of the United States.”
Barton, by the way, has taken in $1.4 million from Big Oil. Not a bad deal if you can get it.
In response to Rep. Joe Barton’s heinous, un-American, insensitive apology to BP, on Twitter I wrote, “GOP: Grand Oil Party.” Someone replied that there was already a tee shirt for that. In fact, there is. Take a look:
For the record, I have no idea who created the tee shirt, nor where the profits go, but if you’re so inclined, feel free to buy one.
Oh, and Barton in 2004, defending big oil, said,
“Offshore drilling and production platforms are so technologically advanced that one platform on the surface of the water can handle production from several different wells several miles apart, house a myriad of technologically advanced computer systems, employ scores of personnel, generate electricity, enable people to face and conquer the adversities of living in the middle of the ocean, and do so 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; all without so much as losing a gum wrapper over the side of the platform. It is truly amazing.”
Amazing doesn’t begin to describe it.
(H/T to bujeeboo for the tee shirt link)
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