Barton needs to be pulled behind a building, and beaten. Then, just as the guys who did it are getting out of prison, hopefully, he will just be coming out of his coma. Then he gets beaten again...
a shakedown?!?!?! No sir, god forbid the world's most powerful government demand a corrupt company to pay for a fuck up to our national wildlife!!?!?! This is liberalism at it's worst, fuck you Barton and go suck BP's oil pump.
@bd1965 What's funny is that after Barton finishes, Tony Hayward tells him in so many words that the fund was the right thing to do and Barton is the one out of line.
Capitalism will never work unless the whole world operates honorably and by the same rules. These companies run rampant lobbying or bribing our government to minimize "regulatory barriers".
Everytime these companies are prifitting its OUR money. Then we the public pay for all the by products of their companies pullution, contamination, illness, death. We pay for the bad air days, the spills, and their tax evasion.
Who is paying for the government to use their time? The Nat Guard... taxes.
Go on and die joseph barton those who are responsible must be held liable for their own actions. You are a a joke to everyone except people in wealthiest 99 percentile.
Go on and die joseph barton those who are responsible must be held liable for their own actions. You are a a joke to everyone except people in wealthiest 99 percentile.
Yeah this guy had no vested interest... oh wait he owned 1/4 of the Horrizon drilling rig. Kind of like the Judge who lifted the moretorium on deep water drilling did not see his stock in transocean, halliburtion, and two other companies heavily vested in BP as a conflict of interest.
So what is the moratorium accomplished? Drilling rigs are pulling out of the Gulf, heading for West Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. Other countries' rigs are still drilling. Americans oil workers are idle, and the entire region is suffering not only from an oil leak, but a government imposed work stoppage. 35,000 wells are in the Gulf, and all focus in on this one. Once the well is capped, no one will be able to tell there was even an oil spill in a few years.
Increíblemente y Absurdamente, un miembro del congreso norteamericano pidió disculpas a British Petrolium por el hecho de que el gobierno de E.U.A. obliga, a BP, un pago por daños de USD$20 billones, debido a presiones políticas. Inconcebible que un parlamentario ponga por delante los intereses económicos de una empresa privada (y no de su país) que el de los demás intereses de la población afectada por el peor derrame y desastre ecológico, y de paso, en el futuro, de todo el mundo.
This guy comes from the same mold as the En-ron thieves -- I think it's called the Mo-ron thieves. How stupid does he have to be to see how transparent this pandering is? If he doesn't want to live in this country, I'll GLADLY help him pack his duds and throw his ass on the next flight out!
"Wait, wait Joe". "You have to pretend to stick up for Bp until the check cashes not before". (Ok...now you can slamp them like a good Rep back-stabber)
Whats the matter Joe, did you miss the last Rep meeting?
We need to follow Rep. Joe "benedict arnold" Barton own advice,
he said "Where I come from what we'd do about [traitors] would be take 'em out and string 'em up, We wouldn't go through the legalities that we have to because of our due process."
Joe literally sold out his country to the British, sting that mother-ph ucker up
thats bull. its bp's fault and they need to fix this. obviously u apologizing isnt gonna do shit to help all the animals dieng daily from this oil spill. action needs to be taken by them now. we cant just sit back and be sorry for them. they need to put the around 20 billion they saved for this into action!
What he is simply saying is come election time BP and any other major corporation listening can pay for all of my campaign funding. That is all he is looking for here. What a twat.
We must penalize all companies more often so they can pass those costs onto the american people and eventually go bankrupt. We must give Obama what he wants to give us as soon as possible - a country of slaves serving an all powerful government.
It is a shame it was a blatant showcase of the arrogance of congress. The members of congress are no more competent in their job as BP is in their field. No doubt BP was at fault. If you pardon the pun on how it leaked out that they used inferior pieces of material to build the pipeline itself. But the inactions that this administration took to minimize the damage is just as liable as BP is for this mess.
it's like he has is head so far up his ass, he doesn't think the citizen of the United States needs protection. This guy thinks it's ok for BP to pollute and there will be absolutely or should be no consequences because heck rich people shouldn't have to care about these things. This guy is so detached from reality.
Now Joe Barton needs to apologize to the people in the gulf coast whose lives have been put on hold because of BP, who seems to be supported by joe.. How many senators have taken money from BP?
So all you republicans who cheered this guy when he was voting against healthcare, bailouts, stalling all that crazy socialist nazi stuff in congress...what do you think of his intelligence and his ideals now?
BP is a tenant who is leasing the right to exploit OUR property. Wouldn't you want a tenant who trashes your apartment to put down a damage deposit? How is this a shakedown?
To me it is, albeit belated, a prudent business policy. ALL LESSEES of off-shore drilling rights in state or federal waters should be required to post a bond sufficient to cover THE IMMEDIATE costs of recovery from accidental event such as the Deep Water Horizon crisis.
I'm ashamed of what happened in the white house yesterday. It's a tragedy. This little ol oil company cut some corners which caused an accident and released and continues to realize oil into the gulf. This is a shakedown! I do not want to live in a country that puts the interests of citizens. Especially poor ones over corporations and in particular ones that donate to my political campaigns. This amounts to a shakedown. We must continue the shakedown of the people of this country. Joe Barton
lol i love how hayward even gets embarrassed. he starts blinking at the beginning with an omg look, at one point he picks up a pen and pretends to write something but this video doesnt show it.
The largest Oil depot ever found and the BP ass holes messed it up. Oil that could have lasted over 100 years is now gone and destroying the environment.
I bet they did this on purpose to make profit and they will now the prices will go up again. A worker on the oil rigg said they had so old equipment it was from 1950 i mean cmon spend some money and this maybe could have been prevented.
@lolzas yea...they were charged twenty billion dollars, their stock dropped to nothing, and they may have to take a merger deal to keep from going under. they totally did it for profit man. lol what? and the rig was owned by transocean, what does that have to do with BP? uh yea, just keep them thar opinions to yourself
“If the G.O.P. wins back the House, Barton is the guy who could be in charge of regulating the oil industry,” the Democratic National Committee wrote in a fund-raising pitch. “We’re whipping together an ad as fast as possible to make sure voters know exactly whose side Barton and the G.O.P. are on and to demand they stop apologizing to big oil, but we need your help to get it on the air.”
@IdunCareLesSn00b what point would that be? that huge multi-trillion dollar corporations bear no responsibility for their reckless behavior? that american taxpayers should pick up the tab for their recklessness? and yes, it's quite honest and brave to do the bidding for people who donate millions to your campaign. maybe if ted bundy had donated to him, he could have worked out a pardon.
@a7green what i want to know is, who among the GOP actually busted his balls to make him retract. i thought they had purged all the people with common sense.
@tishhead Not sure about always. Look at Eisenhower, the top tax rate under him was 91% and that was during the late fifties and the economy was in good shape! The republicans now, are corporatist collectivists.
@vukodlok1 you're right, i was imprecise. "always" is the contemporary context. look at teddy roosevelt's writings on the dangers of accumulated wealth. if he came on the scene now, they would tea party him out of town.
@vukodlok1 btw your point about eisenhower is excellent. repubs always talk about JFK's tax cut to make pt. that dems have gone so far away from their roots. i always want to ask them, gee, who was president before JFK? must have been some socialist!
It has nothing to do with simply opposing the policies of the Democrats. This is what Republicans believe. We live in a plutocracy and the Republicans want to ensure that the ruling rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer. That is their single driving force. All other policies, like opposing gay rights, opposing immigration reform, making English the official language, banning flag burning are there simply to garner the votes of bigoted, poor whites that are too stupid to know better.
What are you are saying? Let’s Blame Obama hold him responsible for the oil explosion, that he not doing the Job he was put in office for, he should hold a TV conference screaming and hollering at BP, the slush fund is going to be controlled by him and he will use it for him self. O blame him for the depression, War, Job loss, Big banking, big auto, storm that hit the south cost that he did not do as stated when he was a running candidate. To bad you don't pin the blame were it should go.
WTF. honestly?! i understand that republicans typically oppose democrats but to the point where you're OPPOSING that bp should clean up their own mess (literally)?? SERIOUSLY. get over party lines, learn to do what's right. this is BP's fault and they need to deal with the consequences.
he's not the only one, folks. crazy michele bachmann calls the 20 billion fund "redistribution of wealth". someone needs to ask her if she believes (a) the people who are being ruined on the gulf coast deserve no compensation or (b) the taxpayers should pay for it. it's one or the other, crazy lady.
This is what happens when mommy and daddy are also brother and sister.As a Republican I plead to the Republican leadership "KICK THIS DIMWITTED HICK OUT OF ANY COMMITTEE",nobody this stupid can be in any position of decision making.
Barton should be covered in oil and feathered, then he should be marched through each and every city along the Gulf Coast! What a wothless piece of human excrement!
Truth has it if republicans win in November he or another republican who loves the oil company's will run the energy sector in comities and the people may see no relief in fact we will probably pay tax like John Boehner wants less on the oil company that caused the mess and more on our backs as middle class. But fact is for now if republicans win in November this scum bag BP lover will be in charge of energy or one like him!!
"I apologize?" To BP for spilling a trillion barrels of precious oil -into our precious ocean?
You said you dont want to live here, in the USA, where companies are prodded to do the right thing, to pay for messes they make.
So LEASE. You can move to Russia or China or wherever you want, but please- LEAVE the USA so we dont have politicians who apologize to companies who are so wantonly destructive.
good gawd, they don't even try to hide their corporate servitude any more, they think Americans will never rise up, so much so they're comfortable with puckering up and kissing corporate ass right on national tv
it's time to return the real power in this country to the people
corporations, as they exist today, exist to serve one purpose alone: PROFIT
damn the consequences, to the planet, the web of life and the "little people"
@brent81 uh hey genius. just a little heads up. the defenition of a corporation is profit. what, were corporations interested in something else at any other time in human history? how could we return the power to the people, just wondering what your suggestions are
@DonFuego1 : Initially, corporations had a vary narrow legal mandate. They were associations of people chartered by a state to perform some function. Then someone decided a corporation is a legal "person" with all the same rights as a living person. Beyond that, they're not held accountable for most of the harm they do in the world. We need to fix the personhood legal issue,find a way to transfer the momentum of corps from just blind, morally-devoid profit potential maximization....
@brent81 It's all well and good to say things like "short sightedness must end". what, so putting food on the table must end? When there's no profit, why would they invest in "benefiting humanity". Because it's the right thing to do awwwww. Corporations go past survive, oil/banks/defense contractors make cash hand over fist and live the good life. I don't really know what you're talking about, but dude, good for you for having such hope for humanity. Good luck with that
@DonFuego1 : Call me an unrealistic utopian or an idealist, but I see what's POSSIBLE in human activity, not what's probable or what the status quo is. We evolve remarkably quickly in relative terms, and while it's not going to happen overnight, we need to make moves now towards a sustainable future for the planet. We have the tecnology and the resources to move forward, but they're currently being held back by the defenders of the way things are.
@DonFuego1 : ...towards creating products and services that benefit humans and the planet. Profit must take a back seat, short-sightedness must end. I don't know all the answers, but big changes are due in the behavior of the corporation if it is to survive and become sustainable.
highly recommend the documentary "The Corporation".. it's up here on YT: /view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87
@brent81 and there's no currency necessary, so no crime, and no wars, and everyone shares resources and everyone gets a megan fox robot! what you want is a fantasy land with no currency for anything, where the top scientists of the world convene with limitless resources to solve all our problems. but dude without currency, the world would fall into anarchy. and as long as there's currency, there's business, and there's profit. governments let them do what they want because there's a cut.
This man is an embarrassment to our country. Corporations are NOT people & certainly do not deserve the same rights. BP must be held accountable for the devastation it has caused in the Gulf. Because of the fact that it is merely a corporation it deserves more restrictions, more regulations, and much more diligent scrutiny than what it has already received!
No one remembers Obama reversing blocks on oil drilling in the Gulf, Atlantic and Alaska? But our comedians won't even take honest jabs at him, he did hire a truth squad in Missouri here are the links to my info. Good morning.
They keep the game going. And the American people will never fight back. I hope this Oil Spill will raise some questions on how did our country get to this point in the first place.... With extensive study you will head down that rabbit hole.... This is all for Propaganda....
How bout you start apologizing to some of the texas inmates locked up for doing wrongs and/or wicked acts. I know you they won't be able to shove a stack of cash into your fat pompous wind bag mouth like BP, but its only fair. I should suffocate you with the oil you have the nerve to try and defend.
Shakedown?Seriously? The word is ACCOUNTABILITY! The American people want to BP held accountable for their negligence, and environmental and economic destruction it has caused.
i am relatively conservative and i think its stupid that he is apologizing... the economic cost associated with this oil spill will surely exceed $20,000,000 and it is for this reason that i see the governments planned "slush fund' is more of a limitation on how much money those affected can get... i don't think a dime should be paid to people as reparations because it would be put to better use employing people to clean up the oil spill... reparation payments would easily be abused...
C'mon! It's "Smokey" Joe Barton! This is the sort of tripe that spews from his gob on a regular basis. *I'm* ashamed to live in a state that has a representative such as he.
"Anytime a citizen or a corporation (that's wiped out a coastline)"... like they're equivalent.
The BP executives, who have vastly more power than any citizen over the environmental situation, should be counting themselves lucky to not get the guillotine or firing squad.
"I don't want to live in a country where..." Well, none of these House of Rep folks are so poor that they're forced to live in the USA. Barton can go sail away to his Libertarian Fantasy Island.
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Barton needs to be pulled behind a building, and beaten. Then, just as the guys who did it are getting out of prison, hopefully, he will just be coming out of his coma. Then he gets beaten again...
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Barton deserves a coma-inducing buttkicking.
xinecallaw 9 months ago
Barton deserves a coma-inducing asskicking.
xinecallaw 9 months ago
a shakedown?!?!?! No sir, god forbid the world's most powerful government demand a corrupt company to pay for a fuck up to our national wildlife!!?!?! This is liberalism at it's worst, fuck you Barton and go suck BP's oil pump.
viletree 1 year ago
You've just witnessed a congressman suck the cock skin right off an oil executives shaft.
bd1965 1 year ago
@bd1965 What's funny is that after Barton finishes, Tony Hayward tells him in so many words that the fund was the right thing to do and Barton is the one out of line.
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glennjgd 1 year ago
I'm sorry, Mr. Burton, but you failed. :)
jetlagsyndrome 1 year ago
Really? Does that even make any sense Joe Barton. No it doesn't. I can't wait till the baby boomer's are out of congress. Not gonna lie.
joshkund 1 year ago
This is the REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!!! This is all of them!!!!
America does not need anymore Republicans, ever!!!
Vote everyone of these scumbags out of every office.
They no longer represent the middle class. Just the rich and corporations. You see it right here!
You are BLIND if you don't see it.
Vote them out. All of them.
1911arthur 1 year ago
@1911arthur The Republican Party hasn't represented the middle class since T. Roosevelt man.
Omniculler 1 year ago
It's simply a tragedy. Right up there with the Holocaust.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
Capitalism will never work unless the whole world operates honorably and by the same rules. These companies run rampant lobbying or bribing our government to minimize "regulatory barriers".
Everytime these companies are prifitting its OUR money. Then we the public pay for all the by products of their companies pullution, contamination, illness, death. We pay for the bad air days, the spills, and their tax evasion.
Who is paying for the government to use their time? The Nat Guard... taxes.
doesitmatter2you 1 year ago 2
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Go on and die joseph barton those who are responsible must be held liable for their own actions. You are a a joke to everyone except people in wealthiest 99 percentile.
shermski77 1 year ago
Go on and die joseph barton those who are responsible must be held liable for their own actions. You are a a joke to everyone except people in wealthiest 99 percentile.
shermski77 1 year ago
Yeah this guy had no vested interest... oh wait he owned 1/4 of the Horrizon drilling rig. Kind of like the Judge who lifted the moretorium on deep water drilling did not see his stock in transocean, halliburtion, and two other companies heavily vested in BP as a conflict of interest.
StellarTechnology 1 year ago
@StellarTechnology
So what is the moratorium accomplished? Drilling rigs are pulling out of the Gulf, heading for West Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. Other countries' rigs are still drilling. Americans oil workers are idle, and the entire region is suffering not only from an oil leak, but a government imposed work stoppage. 35,000 wells are in the Gulf, and all focus in on this one. Once the well is capped, no one will be able to tell there was even an oil spill in a few years.
dirtbiker1984 1 year ago
Hey here's a great F*ck You BP Video full of information about the Bullsh*t Petroleum! Type this into your youtube search:
Heaven's Sake - by Macarone & WOftGOP (Oil Addiction/BP Oil Spill)
DOPIncRecords 1 year ago
You all should apologize to BP for making them feel bad. They said they were sorry for destroying the Gulf coast, isnt that enough?
God. Lay off the poor fella
Sorry BP, send us the bill for the clean up costs buddy.
snooganz430 1 year ago
Increíblemente y Absurdamente, un miembro del congreso norteamericano pidió disculpas a British Petrolium por el hecho de que el gobierno de E.U.A. obliga, a BP, un pago por daños de USD$20 billones, debido a presiones políticas. Inconcebible que un parlamentario ponga por delante los intereses económicos de una empresa privada (y no de su país) que el de los demás intereses de la población afectada por el peor derrame y desastre ecológico, y de paso, en el futuro, de todo el mundo.
joreng78 1 year ago
BP aren't British they used to be British until they merged and now are multinational but largely owned by the US.
darkstar3x16 1 year ago
I do not want to live in a country where assholes like this can't see the logic in a private company cleaning up their own mess. So I apologize.
ulstermandc 1 year ago
This guy comes from the same mold as the En-ron thieves -- I think it's called the Mo-ron thieves. How stupid does he have to be to see how transparent this pandering is? If he doesn't want to live in this country, I'll GLADLY help him pack his duds and throw his ass on the next flight out!
ppickren 1 year ago
Joe Barton - why educated people can never vote Republican.
KJamesB 1 year ago 3
"Wait, wait Joe". "You have to pretend to stick up for Bp until the check cashes not before". (Ok...now you can slamp them like a good Rep back-stabber)
Whats the matter Joe, did you miss the last Rep meeting?
anconsss 1 year ago
We need to follow Rep. Joe "benedict arnold" Barton own advice,
he said "Where I come from what we'd do about [traitors] would be take 'em out and string 'em up, We wouldn't go through the legalities that we have to because of our due process."
Joe literally sold out his country to the British, sting that mother-ph ucker up
blingbling65943 1 year ago
thats bull. its bp's fault and they need to fix this. obviously u apologizing isnt gonna do shit to help all the animals dieng daily from this oil spill. action needs to be taken by them now. we cant just sit back and be sorry for them. they need to put the around 20 billion they saved for this into action!
mxgdmn123 1 year ago
I apologize for watching this video.
impactclub 1 year ago
What he is simply saying is come election time BP and any other major corporation listening can pay for all of my campaign funding. That is all he is looking for here. What a twat.
SadSmile87 1 year ago
Heres too long comments!
SoapZombi 1 year ago
We must penalize all companies more often so they can pass those costs onto the american people and eventually go bankrupt. We must give Obama what he wants to give us as soon as possible - a country of slaves serving an all powerful government.
showthosearches 1 year ago
His face is so..assed up. He talks like he knew everything.
N0RDEO 1 year ago
It is a shame it was a blatant showcase of the arrogance of congress. The members of congress are no more competent in their job as BP is in their field. No doubt BP was at fault. If you pardon the pun on how it leaked out that they used inferior pieces of material to build the pipeline itself. But the inactions that this administration took to minimize the damage is just as liable as BP is for this mess.
sleepingfury 1 year ago
What a ass kissing corporate suck up
cabl3guy2012 1 year ago
it's like he has is head so far up his ass, he doesn't think the citizen of the United States needs protection. This guy thinks it's ok for BP to pollute and there will be absolutely or should be no consequences because heck rich people shouldn't have to care about these things. This guy is so detached from reality.
michaeluvnikita 1 year ago
THANK YOU JOE BARTON!!
frankly I hope the GOP leadership gets their ASSES kicked for the way they treat you
soicuw 1 year ago
Now Joe Barton needs to apologize to the people in the gulf coast whose lives have been put on hold because of BP, who seems to be supported by joe.. How many senators have taken money from BP?
dontlietoo 1 year ago
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FUCK BP RIGHT IN THE CORNHOLE
FuckBPguy 1 year ago
So all you republicans who cheered this guy when he was voting against healthcare, bailouts, stalling all that crazy socialist nazi stuff in congress...what do you think of his intelligence and his ideals now?
DonFuego1 1 year ago
Fuck these circumcised BASTARDS!
gingowitch 1 year ago
kickbacks...
gvpgroup 1 year ago
stop sucking d^**. theres to much of BP's c^m out of your mouth.
ScapinWitVr 1 year ago
BP is a tenant who is leasing the right to exploit OUR property. Wouldn't you want a tenant who trashes your apartment to put down a damage deposit? How is this a shakedown?
To me it is, albeit belated, a prudent business policy. ALL LESSEES of off-shore drilling rights in state or federal waters should be required to post a bond sufficient to cover THE IMMEDIATE costs of recovery from accidental event such as the Deep Water Horizon crisis.
zero2star 1 year ago
These are the times we need Gary Coleman alive!
"What you talking about Joe Barton?"
kearsesn 1 year ago
I'm ashamed of what happened in the white house yesterday. It's a tragedy. This little ol oil company cut some corners which caused an accident and released and continues to realize oil into the gulf. This is a shakedown! I do not want to live in a country that puts the interests of citizens. Especially poor ones over corporations and in particular ones that donate to my political campaigns. This amounts to a shakedown. We must continue the shakedown of the people of this country. Joe Barton
YourRealtorInPDX 1 year ago
lol i love how hayward even gets embarrassed. he starts blinking at the beginning with an omg look, at one point he picks up a pen and pretends to write something but this video doesnt show it.
KojachBaumherr 1 year ago
BP would be honest, through & through, without political pressure......right?
I mean, we can trust them.....right?
It's not like they nickel & dimed the saftey aspect of drilling, or looped the footage of the oil gushing.....right?
Katfellow 1 year ago
The largest Oil depot ever found and the BP ass holes messed it up. Oil that could have lasted over 100 years is now gone and destroying the environment.
I bet they did this on purpose to make profit and they will now the prices will go up again. A worker on the oil rigg said they had so old equipment it was from 1950 i mean cmon spend some money and this maybe could have been prevented.
lolzas 1 year ago
@lolzas yea...they were charged twenty billion dollars, their stock dropped to nothing, and they may have to take a merger deal to keep from going under. they totally did it for profit man. lol what? and the rig was owned by transocean, what does that have to do with BP? uh yea, just keep them thar opinions to yourself
DonFuego1 1 year ago
Why don't we use him to plug the spill
305Eaglesfan 1 year ago 6
“If the G.O.P. wins back the House, Barton is the guy who could be in charge of regulating the oil industry,” the Democratic National Committee wrote in a fund-raising pitch. “We’re whipping together an ad as fast as possible to make sure voters know exactly whose side Barton and the G.O.P. are on and to demand they stop apologizing to big oil, but we need your help to get it on the air.”
Smackdown2211 1 year ago
we should revocate his Earth planet citizenship
Username000Here 1 year ago 3
Hes got a point, an honest brave man.
IdunCareLesSn00b 1 year ago
@IdunCareLesSn00b what point would that be? that huge multi-trillion dollar corporations bear no responsibility for their reckless behavior? that american taxpayers should pick up the tab for their recklessness? and yes, it's quite honest and brave to do the bidding for people who donate millions to your campaign. maybe if ted bundy had donated to him, he could have worked out a pardon.
tishhead 1 year ago
Joe Barton, if your shame to live this great country, find another place/planet to live.
Galwis 1 year ago
The Rule of Law and due process were married when America was born. This is our legal heritage.
What are we without it?
ouch1972 1 year ago
haha...He told off the people in the Gulf bigtime!
tejaspics 1 year ago
thumbs down!
geezerwasp 1 year ago
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joe barton, you are a complete idiot!!!
DennyAlbert 1 year ago
....... No surprise where his Donations come from, Oil companies.
a7green 1 year ago 2
@a7green what i want to know is, who among the GOP actually busted his balls to make him retract. i thought they had purged all the people with common sense.
tishhead 1 year ago
What a GREAT TWIT! lulz
OhZoneFan 1 year ago
This asshole is a shame even to the Republicans
And the fact that he is a fucking elected representative just makes me lose my faith in the American voter
AdamanceConquers 1 year ago 2
@AdamanceConquers what do you expect from Texas......I mean it did give us W
MrQuan2u 1 year ago
What's he going to do next, curtsy before the Queen? LOL!!!!
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What a fucking tool, I'd like to open hand slap the shit out of that dumbfuck.
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TheLittleadmin 1 year ago
Rep. Joe Barton wants to redistribute BP's loss to the taxpayers? Sounds like he is a good communist.
vukodlok1 1 year ago 2
@vukodlok1 republicans have always been about privatizing profit and making losses public.
tishhead 1 year ago
@tishhead Not sure about always. Look at Eisenhower, the top tax rate under him was 91% and that was during the late fifties and the economy was in good shape! The republicans now, are corporatist collectivists.
vukodlok1 1 year ago
@vukodlok1 you're right, i was imprecise. "always" is the contemporary context. look at teddy roosevelt's writings on the dangers of accumulated wealth. if he came on the scene now, they would tea party him out of town.
tishhead 1 year ago
@vukodlok1 btw your point about eisenhower is excellent. repubs always talk about JFK's tax cut to make pt. that dems have gone so far away from their roots. i always want to ask them, gee, who was president before JFK? must have been some socialist!
tishhead 1 year ago
It has nothing to do with simply opposing the policies of the Democrats. This is what Republicans believe. We live in a plutocracy and the Republicans want to ensure that the ruling rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer. That is their single driving force. All other policies, like opposing gay rights, opposing immigration reform, making English the official language, banning flag burning are there simply to garner the votes of bigoted, poor whites that are too stupid to know better.
elman1952 1 year ago 3
What are you are saying? Let’s Blame Obama hold him responsible for the oil explosion, that he not doing the Job he was put in office for, he should hold a TV conference screaming and hollering at BP, the slush fund is going to be controlled by him and he will use it for him self. O blame him for the depression, War, Job loss, Big banking, big auto, storm that hit the south cost that he did not do as stated when he was a running candidate. To bad you don't pin the blame were it should go.
thepvcbikeguy 1 year ago
WTF. honestly?! i understand that republicans typically oppose democrats but to the point where you're OPPOSING that bp should clean up their own mess (literally)?? SERIOUSLY. get over party lines, learn to do what's right. this is BP's fault and they need to deal with the consequences.
tennismnky93 1 year ago 4
he's not the only one, folks. crazy michele bachmann calls the 20 billion fund "redistribution of wealth". someone needs to ask her if she believes (a) the people who are being ruined on the gulf coast deserve no compensation or (b) the taxpayers should pay for it. it's one or the other, crazy lady.
tishhead 1 year ago
Whats a shake down exactly?
ahamatmabrahman 1 year ago
This is what happens when mommy and daddy are also brother and sister.As a Republican I plead to the Republican leadership "KICK THIS DIMWITTED HICK OUT OF ANY COMMITTEE",nobody this stupid can be in any position of decision making.
alacranmann 1 year ago
Barton should be covered in oil and feathered, then he should be marched through each and every city along the Gulf Coast! What a wothless piece of human excrement!
barbtube01 1 year ago
What a fucking tool. I'd like to open hand slap that idiot.
usernametaken999 1 year ago
You are free to leave this country Mr Barton.Maybe you would like to move to the area that the oil spill is contaminating and do some real work.
EnviroMonster 1 year ago
OMG ! if these guys get back in power we are doomed !! This is so sad !
rugratsfrankie 1 year ago
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Barton's apology is the second most stupid apology in human history.
Cheney shooting a guy in the face and then getting an apology from that guy, still ranks as STUPID # 1.
jjoplin69 1 year ago 2
"legitimately wrong"?.. oh the poor man has no rational faculties, as I don't need to point out...
Johanneslars 1 year ago
Truth has it if republicans win in November he or another republican who loves the oil company's will run the energy sector in comities and the people may see no relief in fact we will probably pay tax like John Boehner wants less on the oil company that caused the mess and more on our backs as middle class. But fact is for now if republicans win in November this scum bag BP lover will be in charge of energy or one like him!!
videobookoftruth 1 year ago
ROFL hahahahahahahahahhaha
sonofthedestroyer 1 year ago
"I apologize?" To BP for spilling a trillion barrels of precious oil -into our precious ocean?
You said you dont want to live here, in the USA, where companies are prodded to do the right thing, to pay for messes they make.
So LEASE. You can move to Russia or China or wherever you want, but please- LEAVE the USA so we dont have politicians who apologize to companies who are so wantonly destructive.
MOVE AWAY
cameraperson 1 year ago
What did he say??? Was he for real?
miecy2miecy 1 year ago
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disgraceful fucking piece of shit
btnheazy03 1 year ago
Rep. Joe Barton is a fucking retard, literally. So fucking dumb.
buriedvoid 1 year ago
Isn't the US apologizing to BP after the oil spill kinda like the guy apologizing to dick cheney for getting shot in the face?
tishhead 1 year ago
@tishhead
Yes it is. Thank you.
cameraperson 1 year ago
GOP: The Grand Oil Party
tishhead 1 year ago 3
ANOTHER DUMB-ASS GOP POLITICIAN....ON BP'S PAYROLL
Darryll1412xx 1 year ago 2
good gawd, they don't even try to hide their corporate servitude any more, they think Americans will never rise up, so much so they're comfortable with puckering up and kissing corporate ass right on national tv
it's time to return the real power in this country to the people
corporations, as they exist today, exist to serve one purpose alone: PROFIT
damn the consequences, to the planet, the web of life and the "little people"
this oil disaster is a warning
and a sign that it is time..to WAKE UP
brent81 1 year ago 36
@brent81 i agree!
seraphtinki 1 year ago
@brent81 Totally agreed. They've done an amazing job with getting people to confuse corporations with free market capitalism.
watercolorsoda 1 year ago
@brent81 uh hey genius. just a little heads up. the defenition of a corporation is profit. what, were corporations interested in something else at any other time in human history? how could we return the power to the people, just wondering what your suggestions are
DonFuego1 1 year ago
@DonFuego1 : Initially, corporations had a vary narrow legal mandate. They were associations of people chartered by a state to perform some function. Then someone decided a corporation is a legal "person" with all the same rights as a living person. Beyond that, they're not held accountable for most of the harm they do in the world. We need to fix the personhood legal issue,find a way to transfer the momentum of corps from just blind, morally-devoid profit potential maximization....
brent81 1 year ago
@brent81 It's all well and good to say things like "short sightedness must end". what, so putting food on the table must end? When there's no profit, why would they invest in "benefiting humanity". Because it's the right thing to do awwwww. Corporations go past survive, oil/banks/defense contractors make cash hand over fist and live the good life. I don't really know what you're talking about, but dude, good for you for having such hope for humanity. Good luck with that
DonFuego1 1 year ago
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brent81 1 year ago
@DonFuego1 : Call me an unrealistic utopian or an idealist, but I see what's POSSIBLE in human activity, not what's probable or what the status quo is. We evolve remarkably quickly in relative terms, and while it's not going to happen overnight, we need to make moves now towards a sustainable future for the planet. We have the tecnology and the resources to move forward, but they're currently being held back by the defenders of the way things are.
brent81 1 year ago
@DonFuego1 : ...towards creating products and services that benefit humans and the planet. Profit must take a back seat, short-sightedness must end. I don't know all the answers, but big changes are due in the behavior of the corporation if it is to survive and become sustainable.
highly recommend the documentary "The Corporation".. it's up here on YT: /view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87
brent81 1 year ago
@brent81 and there's no currency necessary, so no crime, and no wars, and everyone shares resources and everyone gets a megan fox robot! what you want is a fantasy land with no currency for anything, where the top scientists of the world convene with limitless resources to solve all our problems. but dude without currency, the world would fall into anarchy. and as long as there's currency, there's business, and there's profit. governments let them do what they want because there's a cut.
DonFuego1 1 year ago
This man is an embarrassment to our country. Corporations are NOT people & certainly do not deserve the same rights. BP must be held accountable for the devastation it has caused in the Gulf. Because of the fact that it is merely a corporation it deserves more restrictions, more regulations, and much more diligent scrutiny than what it has already received!
pixygiggles 1 year ago 30
Demopublicans and Republicrats.
No one remembers Obama reversing blocks on oil drilling in the Gulf, Atlantic and Alaska? But our comedians won't even take honest jabs at him, he did hire a truth squad in Missouri here are the links to my info. Good morning.
atthehelm 1 year ago
Conservative politics doesn't want any restrictions on corporations. This is pure fascism, Texas style!
SedonaHealthCoach 1 year ago
@SedonaHealthCoach
YEeeeeeEEEEEEEeeEeEEE HAaaaawwww
Now where's my kickback.
And why's everyody mad at me for apologizing to BP? Its not like they ruined the ENTIRE gulf, right?
cameraperson 1 year ago
Big oil must be a big contributor of Barton's campaign....This statement shows where his loyalties lay. He should be voted out of office!
ezjamoca 1 year ago 4
They keep the game going. And the American people will never fight back. I hope this Oil Spill will raise some questions on how did our country get to this point in the first place.... With extensive study you will head down that rabbit hole.... This is all for Propaganda....
ktlee26 1 year ago
Hey Joe! If BP doesn't deserve a shakedown then who in the hell does?
snowmonkey9 1 year ago
Right ON Joe!
jaxco1 1 year ago
I notice he says he doesn't want to live in a country that would do that to a corporation, but I notice he never tendered his resignation
rocketinmypocket 1 year ago
How bout you start apologizing to some of the texas inmates locked up for doing wrongs and/or wicked acts. I know you they won't be able to shove a stack of cash into your fat pompous wind bag mouth like BP, but its only fair. I should suffocate you with the oil you have the nerve to try and defend.
bigtymer9778 1 year ago
Shakedown?Seriously? The word is ACCOUNTABILITY! The American people want to BP held accountable for their negligence, and environmental and economic destruction it has caused.
RWDederick 1 year ago 2
i am relatively conservative and i think its stupid that he is apologizing... the economic cost associated with this oil spill will surely exceed $20,000,000 and it is for this reason that i see the governments planned "slush fund' is more of a limitation on how much money those affected can get... i don't think a dime should be paid to people as reparations because it would be put to better use employing people to clean up the oil spill... reparation payments would easily be abused...
ShaneOryan 1 year ago
He should apologize to MOTHER NATURE, AND TO THE REST OF THE PEOPLE IN OUR PLANET.
Tacsumi 1 year ago
C'mon! It's "Smokey" Joe Barton! This is the sort of tripe that spews from his gob on a regular basis. *I'm* ashamed to live in a state that has a representative such as he.
postmodernguy 1 year ago
@postmodernguy I'm ashamed of being of the same species as this moron...
Musphaq 1 year ago
This devil would cover for Hitler and bin Laden, too, if they paid him enough.
CopperFortunato 1 year ago
This man should be punish for such words
gmanfreeman007 1 year ago
This corporate zombie should go take a swim in the Gulf
ldruide 1 year ago
Can we guess who got a huge check from BP? Barton should be hung in Times Square.
kliff215 1 year ago 2
Damn.
This must be a joke, right?
I wonder if people will ever vote for this guy again.
Because if you do, well, then maybe you deserve it.
Un-fucking-believable!
ruibjr 1 year ago
it's a fucking shame... OMG!!! I can't believe he is saying this shit
biomorfo 1 year ago
Un fucking believable.
"Anytime a citizen or a corporation (that's wiped out a coastline)"... like they're equivalent.
The BP executives, who have vastly more power than any citizen over the environmental situation, should be counting themselves lucky to not get the guillotine or firing squad.
"I don't want to live in a country where..." Well, none of these House of Rep folks are so poor that they're forced to live in the USA. Barton can go sail away to his Libertarian Fantasy Island.
oxygensmith 1 year ago
It's a joke... I'm sure of it... WTF is wrong with this guy?!
On a serious note, it's very sad that I'm not surprised at this.
coffeegirrl09 1 year ago
@coffeegirrl09 yeah. He's a republican, after all.
Welectricity 1 year ago
@Welectricity what an open minded comment -_-
ShaneOryan 1 year ago
@ShaneOryan, sorry... guilty. Some Republicans do have a reputation for coming up with mindless stuff like this, but I guess I shouldn't generalize.
Welectricity 1 year ago
@Welectricity ironic thing is that if you had generalized even more i wouldnt have said anything ie: "yeah. He's a politician, after all."
with that said theres no need to argue about which party has more dumbasses
ShaneOryan 1 year ago
Insane. We may have a disaster of biblical proportions on our hands.
hjarten 1 year ago 3