If people can't see how scarily fast America is moving into a Corporate-ocracy, then let this be your watershed moment.
A corporation responsible FOUR HUNDRED safety violations, shitty equipment, no viable contingency, the worst environmental disaster in two decades, and the death of 11 people on its hands... and here, a governmental representative apologizes to THEM?!
Say nothing of the disastrous Citizens United and AT&T cases, recently byt he SCOTUS. Unbelievable.
Shakedown, of course it is. What did BP do that was wrong anyway, you know besides ruin an ecosystem, pollute a gigantic body of water, destroy the tourism industry for a city that desperately needed tourism money, destroy the shrimp fishing industry, and pretty much get away with it. What did BP really do?
This is not about conservative vs liberal: the facts are there -- we have a set of corporations that didn't make sure it's oil rig had proper safety measures installed, and became complacent that such a thing would never happen. They are completely responsible.
What an asshole! I hate this fuck!!!! He doesn't care about the 11 people that DIED in the oil disaster, the economic surrounding the oil spill, the environment, and the animals that died because of this careless company!!!!!
I HATE THIS GUY AND HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Farton Joe Barton apologizes to Tony Hayward a dyfuncted ceo asked to step down. Hey Joe, I hope it was worth it to you to apologize to a guy on his way out. Now you not only look like a pansy who had to take back you apology - you now look like a sad-sack pansy to stupid to see the writing on the wall.
This idiot is accusing the President of the United States of extortion for asking BP to voluntarily create a fund to transparently pay for damages for an environmental disaster that it caused.
I guess we know which lobbyists have been supporting Barton's political career now.
L O L It's funny how you people have no idea how this country was formed or as to what the Constitution stands for. Trying reading it. Mr. Barton is absolutely correct and to say that he is for a foreign corporation can't be further from the truth. In 10 years he only received $22,000 in campaign contributions from BP. His point is this there is something that makes this country great and it is called the rule of law. To force a private entity to pay a pennalty without a trial isVERY scary..
@acidicreverie But BP isn't a private entity, it's a corporation...a "personhood". And just like you and I can be fined without trial for breaking laws, so can BP. They accepted it even tho they could have said no.
btw, I didn't see any of you nitwits standing up for the Rule of Law when Bush and Cheney were pissing all over the Constitution. Why is that?
They don't get it. Liberal Dems have told them that big corporations are the boogy-man and they believe it. They also don't understand that there is no going back. Once the government takes power it doesn't have they'll do that again and again and again.
I am glad to say this man represents me. The President overthrew the rule of law that was meant to protect all Americans and limit th epower of a dictator in chief so he can not confiscate property of business owners. Now the has pushed the envelope and what is to stop him from shaking down and confiscating target, little ceasars, Exon, Kmart, Walmart. You!!! this is horribly frightening that a President can do this.
Im sorry to say that HE REPRESENTS ME IN TEXAS!!!!? WHAT AN IDIOT .... DUMB ARSE...STAY HOME BARTON....I didn't even vote for Obama....but the 20 billion escrow took balls by Obama to attain....Im sure Bush would NEVER have done this...For my first time to Obama cudos! Bp is the guilty party here...make them pay for it! shut up BARTON
Remember Joe Barton is a multinational oil corporation lobbyist. He take the office which is supposedly representing to represent BP.
Same psychopath and speech about money is everything. How long, how much resource and how much determination this oil spill will cost us to restore the natural lives and beautiful environments of the coasts and oceans? In November, people have to vote Joe Barton out of the office. Money is not everything.
Hayward deserved the slap in the face. 20 billion dollars is nothing in comparison to the catastrophe in all life form. President Obama should have told the CEO that he would take the correct measures in the clean up and made the CEO pay for it, period. That's exactly what the CEO was using as a defense "shakedown."
He slapped Hayward's lying bleeding eyes out of the ball park.
Obama/Rev. Wright?Saul Alinsky/Al Sharpton/Bill Ayers terrorist/Jessie Jackson/Louis Farikahn Calipso Louie/Mayor Dailey/Chicago thug/incompetent affirmative action THUG THUG THUG THUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Why did this guy appologize? Obambi should apologize for the rest of his life.
Why does the word "shakedown" roll off Rep. Barton's tongue so easily, and 3 times in a minute? Think about it. Could it be that he knows full well that the $1.4 million he has received from the oil industry is his own personal shakedown, and he's mad as hell to see anyone else muscle in on his shakedown?
@nikonyurij You are an idiot that doesn't have his facts. Next time you type your uneducated letters try reading or getting someone to read the facts for you. he has only gotten $22,000 over 20 years. The least of ANY congressman.
@acidicreverie Um, Barton's received $27,000 from BP since he took office in 1985 (that's 25 years, not 20, or 10 as you told me).
He's the #1 recipient of campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry in the House, and #5 in Congress overall, having received $1.4 million (not including PACs).
Wiki: "His largest corporate contributor, Anadarko Petroleum, owns a 25 percent share in the Macondo Prospect, the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill."
Center for Responsive Politics analysis shows that Barton's candidate committee and leadership PAC combined have received $1.67 million from the oil and gas industry since the 1990 election cycle.
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 I believe Obama received huge campaign funds from BP as well.
This is a tragedy and also an accident. BP claimed responsibility for it over a month ago and have already paid 25,000 claims to Businesses. All the White House and Congressional hearing ,is a dog and pony show. Yes BP is to blame and will be held accountable. Rep. Barton is correct in the fact that under our Constitution there are laws that should be followed. Read the fourth amendment.
@quizerry Obama took same money but proves that money is not influencing his decision to make BP pay- theres the differenece- Barton is clearly showing hes been bought- many take lobbyist money but they dont always go along- they are happy to get money when they can get it! Bottom line is barton just proved the sterotype that republicans are pro-profit and anti-main street- corporations over communities!
@quizerry An "accident"? Are you privy to the results of the investigation into this disaster even before it's concluded? Do you have any interest in the facts at all? Or are you just another stupid Tea Bagger who thinks the families who lost loved ones when the rig blew and the Americans who have lost their livelihoods as a result should have to wait for recompense while BP's expensive lawyers issue continuances for decades?
@quizerry And btw, on the topic of campaign funds, did you protest the SCOTUS decision in January of this year to allow corporations to donate as much as they like to campaign funds, even if the money comes from overseas? Or were you too busy carrying around a sign calling Obama a "socialist fascist"?
@ismeme BUT is a socialist. lol Look there is another player in the works here that stands to make a SHIT load of money. Check out Mr. George Soroswho stands to make BILLIONS from Brazillian oil with this whole debacle. HMMMmmm and who does he support? Obama. And who supportshim. Obama. This is all about money folks. I would not doubt that this whole danm rig explosion was a set up.
Oh indeed. The timing was just too perfect - right after Obama (supposedly reluctantly) said that there could be more drilling in the Gulf. I've been reading about the spills and leaks that happen all the time and near Nigeria, vandalism of the rigs - causing spills/leaks - happens all the time.
@GrandArchitect3D Yeah it's a shakedown alright! Joe Barton and the GOP taking everything they can get from the American public and handing it to Corporations in a brown paper bag.
This guy should go back and read the bible. If I am not very mistaken, it says clearly, that in the beginning God created heaven and earth and all animals and living things.
So when BP - through negligence, carelessness, greed or whatever - chooses to destroy Gods creation, the attitude of a Christian should NOT be to apologize to those, who have, obviously, danced around the golden calf.
@victor190779 So you think it is OK for the Government to accuse you of a crime take your property and all your money without due process? Read the Fourth Amendment. If you don't believe in it move to Cuba.
@quizerry So you think it's okay for the gov't to treat corporations as people?
As you yourself pointed out, BP has a lot of pull in the gov't through lobbyists and campaign donations. Its lawyers didn't have to agree to the escrow fund. They were in a position to tell Obama to fuck off. They didn't. Maybe you should look more closely at why not.
They're not listening. They don't seem to understand that once the government takes power it doesn't have, it can do the same thing again and again and again.
Does this environmental disaster have a precedent in corporate ineptitude, environmental contamination, and physical harm? Perhaps the biggest disaster enacted by a non-war motivated organization?
Seriously..How ignorant do you have to be to see that Republicans are only about BIG BUSINESS and not the American People? Sympathy for Health care Overhaul to help curtail the #1 cause of bankruptcy for Americans...NO EFFING WAY!!! SYMPATHY for an oil giant who could go bankrupt for creating the largest man made natural disaster in America's history...HELL YEAH!!!!!!
Hey..Hey....You guys remember when we elected that oil guy from Texas for president? Oh man was that a good one.
Hey..Hey...Remember when oil prices stayed under $20 a barrel for nearly the entire 8 years the last time a Dem was president. Oh..Oh,,Remember how oil went from $27 a barrel in 2000 to nearly $150 a barrel in 2008 just before that oil guy from Texas left office? MAN...was he good.
When I was a kid, I used to look up at our flag and think, "Wow, our country is amazing." But now I look up and think, "It's a really good thing our Founders don't see what we are now." I finally saw that this country has become something that I can no longer look at in pride and happiness. Yeah this WAS the greatest country in the world. Now, we are no better than all the rest. So God bless America for what it was, what it is, and what it is becoming. I have a feeling we're going to need it.
Joe Barton is completely disgusting. He received more money from oil companies than any other congressman since 1990. His family should be ashamed, he should be ashamed, and the transparency of his corruption just reached new heights.
Tony Hayward I also apologize on behalf of my country. God Bless the ones who died and I hope with all my heart that they were not lost but just think about this people. He is one man. ONE man. Oil drilling is DANGEROUS. There is always a risk that something can happen. People die on oil rigs quite often. Yeah he is the head of the company and yeah he is respondsible for it. But acting like it is all his fault just shows us how hypocritical we really are.
@hisneverendinglove1 Have you watched the above video? Think about what's actually happening on here. Of course Tony Hayward isn't the only one to blame. What's happening in this video is that this congressman, who received a record amount of money from the oil industry, doesn't think BP should've been forced to pay out money. He's apologizing to BP because they owe ruined lives and families compensation. Does that make any sense? Just trying to get you to see why people are revolted by this.
the family of the 11 dead should get to line up and shin kick you to death. Day after day politicians make me ashamed of the USA that our young troops are dying to defend!!!!
,funny that he chooses to defend BP and not the victims who will suffer for BP's misconduct. this is what happens when you pass legislation allowing unlimited campaign donations so corporations can sacrfice safety & the environment to increase record profits, Congress is quick to bail out banks, but not citizens who need unemployment extended, while corporate exec's and congress use our tax $ to give themselves huge bonuses and family vacations pretending they are looking to help environment
If people can't see how scarily fast America is moving into a Corporate-ocracy, then let this be your watershed moment.
A corporation responsible FOUR HUNDRED safety violations, shitty equipment, no viable contingency, the worst environmental disaster in two decades, and the death of 11 people on its hands... and here, a governmental representative apologizes to THEM?!
Say nothing of the disastrous Citizens United and AT&T cases, recently byt he SCOTUS. Unbelievable.
ImmortalSynn 10 months ago
Shakedown, of course it is. What did BP do that was wrong anyway, you know besides ruin an ecosystem, pollute a gigantic body of water, destroy the tourism industry for a city that desperately needed tourism money, destroy the shrimp fishing industry, and pretty much get away with it. What did BP really do?
arouska 11 months ago
This is not about conservative vs liberal: the facts are there -- we have a set of corporations that didn't make sure it's oil rig had proper safety measures installed, and became complacent that such a thing would never happen. They are completely responsible.
adi87tya 1 year ago
This asshat will be the new chairman of the energy committee in the House.
ashevillejax 1 year ago
COCHINO
ch1aka2 1 year ago
What an asshole! I hate this fuck!!!! He doesn't care about the 11 people that DIED in the oil disaster, the economic surrounding the oil spill, the environment, and the animals that died because of this careless company!!!!!
I HATE THIS GUY AND HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cibaenos 1 year ago
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Farton Joe Barton apologizes to Tony Hayward a dyfuncted ceo asked to step down. Hey Joe, I hope it was worth it to you to apologize to a guy on his way out. Now you not only look like a pansy who had to take back you apology - you now look like a sad-sack pansy to stupid to see the writing on the wall.
ChicagoJoe57 1 year ago
Republicans = Evil
ch1aka2 1 year ago
Barton sucks BP's cock, mmmm good!
loonmaniac 1 year ago
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spacecadet1968 1 year ago
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@richmaloon What is Unconstitutional?
spacecadet1968 1 year ago
@richmaloon how is this Unconstitutional?
spacecadet1968 1 year ago
he keeps making other noises with his mouth when he talks-like he is hocking up spit to moisten his mouth. then, he breaths hard as hell. gross.
JacRab25 1 year ago
This idiot is accusing the President of the United States of extortion for asking BP to voluntarily create a fund to transparently pay for damages for an environmental disaster that it caused.
I guess we know which lobbyists have been supporting Barton's political career now.
majesticlizard 1 year ago
L O L It's funny how you people have no idea how this country was formed or as to what the Constitution stands for. Trying reading it. Mr. Barton is absolutely correct and to say that he is for a foreign corporation can't be further from the truth. In 10 years he only received $22,000 in campaign contributions from BP. His point is this there is something that makes this country great and it is called the rule of law. To force a private entity to pay a pennalty without a trial isVERY scary..
acidicreverie 1 year ago
@acidicreverie But BP isn't a private entity, it's a corporation...a "personhood". And just like you and I can be fined without trial for breaking laws, so can BP. They accepted it even tho they could have said no.
btw, I didn't see any of you nitwits standing up for the Rule of Law when Bush and Cheney were pissing all over the Constitution. Why is that?
ismeme 1 year ago
@acidicreverie
They don't get it. Liberal Dems have told them that big corporations are the boogy-man and they believe it. They also don't understand that there is no going back. Once the government takes power it doesn't have they'll do that again and again and again.
kenzie45230 1 year ago
I am glad to say this man represents me. The President overthrew the rule of law that was meant to protect all Americans and limit th epower of a dictator in chief so he can not confiscate property of business owners. Now the has pushed the envelope and what is to stop him from shaking down and confiscating target, little ceasars, Exon, Kmart, Walmart. You!!! this is horribly frightening that a President can do this.
pandabead 1 year ago
@pandabead Exactly which law did he overthrow?
spacecadet1968 1 year ago
Im sorry to say that HE REPRESENTS ME IN TEXAS!!!!? WHAT AN IDIOT .... DUMB ARSE...STAY HOME BARTON....I didn't even vote for Obama....but the 20 billion escrow took balls by Obama to attain....Im sure Bush would NEVER have done this...For my first time to Obama cudos! Bp is the guilty party here...make them pay for it! shut up BARTON
Crusader4ever1 1 year ago
How about this you corporate ass lick. Go fuck yourself. You are doomed in the next election.
dickretro 1 year ago
so just skip the courts and go for the grab, I like it..Government Mafia
gollyanamegame 1 year ago
Remember Joe Barton is a multinational oil corporation lobbyist. He take the office which is supposedly representing to represent BP.
Same psychopath and speech about money is everything. How long, how much resource and how much determination this oil spill will cost us to restore the natural lives and beautiful environments of the coasts and oceans? In November, people have to vote Joe Barton out of the office. Money is not everything.
beancube2010 1 year ago
smh
fredlockful 1 year ago
Hayward deserved the slap in the face. 20 billion dollars is nothing in comparison to the catastrophe in all life form. President Obama should have told the CEO that he would take the correct measures in the clean up and made the CEO pay for it, period. That's exactly what the CEO was using as a defense "shakedown."
He slapped Hayward's lying bleeding eyes out of the ball park.
dimi11bos 1 year ago
It's hard to argue that taking money away from asshole oil billionaires can possibly be a bad thing.
Mesarphelous 1 year ago
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THIS IS REPUBLICANS AND FOX NEWS FOR YOU! DEFENDING BP. HE REALLY FEEL SORRY FOR THIS GUY INSTEAD OF THE PEOPLE AFFECTED
mattr159 1 year ago
Obama/Rev. Wright?Saul Alinsky/Al Sharpton/Bill Ayers terrorist/Jessie Jackson/Louis Farikahn Calipso Louie/Mayor Dailey/Chicago thug/incompetent affirmative action THUG THUG THUG THUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Why did this guy appologize? Obambi should apologize for the rest of his life.
recompa2 1 year ago
@recompa2 THIS IS REPUBLICANS AND FOX NEWS FOR YOU! DEFENDING BP. HE REALLY FEEL SORRY FOR THIS GUY INSTEAD OF THE PEOPLE AFFECTED
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Why does the word "shakedown" roll off Rep. Barton's tongue so easily, and 3 times in a minute? Think about it. Could it be that he knows full well that the $1.4 million he has received from the oil industry is his own personal shakedown, and he's mad as hell to see anyone else muscle in on his shakedown?
nikonyurij 1 year ago
@nikonyurij You are an idiot that doesn't have his facts. Next time you type your uneducated letters try reading or getting someone to read the facts for you. he has only gotten $22,000 over 20 years. The least of ANY congressman.
acidicreverie 1 year ago
@acidicreverie Um, Barton's received $27,000 from BP since he took office in 1985 (that's 25 years, not 20, or 10 as you told me).
He's the #1 recipient of campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry in the House, and #5 in Congress overall, having received $1.4 million (not including PACs).
Wiki: "His largest corporate contributor, Anadarko Petroleum, owns a 25 percent share in the Macondo Prospect, the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill."
What a surprise.
ismeme 1 year ago
Suck Hayward's cock, Joe, suck it real good, mmmmm mmm good, Joe likes oil executive cock!
loonmaniac 1 year ago
@You sound like an expert on sucking cock.
NotEasilyRegimented 1 year ago
@NotEasilyRegimented No, that's your mom.
loonmaniac 1 year ago
What a retarded crook...who elect him to be representative any way...
If he is ashame to live in America...he need to be deported if not leave immidiately.
Chillbrozzz 1 year ago
Center for Responsive Politics analysis shows that Barton's candidate committee and leadership PAC combined have received $1.67 million from the oil and gas industry since the 1990 election cycle.
madest 1 year ago
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Chillbrozzz 1 year ago
You spoke for me as well, Rep. Barton. You were the only one with any sense - from either party.
kenzie45230 1 year ago
@kenzie45230 I think everyone on here needs to read the Fourth Amendment.
quizerry 1 year ago
@quizerry
And how exactly does the Fourth Amendment apply to this?
machine134 1 year ago
Set a precident of making industry clean their messes up? Who would have thought. I'm a proud Texan, but I'm ashamed of this idiot.
captainvideojw 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
@videobookoftruth I believe Obama received huge campaign funds from BP as well.
This is a tragedy and also an accident. BP claimed responsibility for it over a month ago and have already paid 25,000 claims to Businesses. All the White House and Congressional hearing ,is a dog and pony show. Yes BP is to blame and will be held accountable. Rep. Barton is correct in the fact that under our Constitution there are laws that should be followed. Read the fourth amendment.
quizerry 1 year ago
@quizerry Obama took same money but proves that money is not influencing his decision to make BP pay- theres the differenece- Barton is clearly showing hes been bought- many take lobbyist money but they dont always go along- they are happy to get money when they can get it! Bottom line is barton just proved the sterotype that republicans are pro-profit and anti-main street- corporations over communities!
salvadory 1 year ago
@quizerry An "accident"? Are you privy to the results of the investigation into this disaster even before it's concluded? Do you have any interest in the facts at all? Or are you just another stupid Tea Bagger who thinks the families who lost loved ones when the rig blew and the Americans who have lost their livelihoods as a result should have to wait for recompense while BP's expensive lawyers issue continuances for decades?
ismeme 1 year ago
@quizerry And btw, on the topic of campaign funds, did you protest the SCOTUS decision in January of this year to allow corporations to donate as much as they like to campaign funds, even if the money comes from overseas? Or were you too busy carrying around a sign calling Obama a "socialist fascist"?
ismeme 1 year ago
@ismeme BUT is a socialist. lol Look there is another player in the works here that stands to make a SHIT load of money. Check out Mr. George Soroswho stands to make BILLIONS from Brazillian oil with this whole debacle. HMMMmmm and who does he support? Obama. And who supportshim. Obama. This is all about money folks. I would not doubt that this whole danm rig explosion was a set up.
acidicreverie 1 year ago
@acidicreverie
Oh indeed. The timing was just too perfect - right after Obama (supposedly reluctantly) said that there could be more drilling in the Gulf. I've been reading about the spills and leaks that happen all the time and near Nigeria, vandalism of the rigs - causing spills/leaks - happens all the time.
kenzie45230 1 year ago
what an idiot
dreamcatcher1960 1 year ago 3
it is a shakedown.
GrandArchitect3D 1 year ago
@GrandArchitect3D Yeah it's a shakedown alright! Joe Barton and the GOP taking everything they can get from the American public and handing it to Corporations in a brown paper bag.
tubeinaredcircle 1 year ago
This guy should go back and read the bible. If I am not very mistaken, it says clearly, that in the beginning God created heaven and earth and all animals and living things.
So when BP - through negligence, carelessness, greed or whatever - chooses to destroy Gods creation, the attitude of a Christian should NOT be to apologize to those, who have, obviously, danced around the golden calf.
It IS that simple.
victor190779 1 year ago
@victor190779 So you think it is OK for the Government to accuse you of a crime take your property and all your money without due process? Read the Fourth Amendment. If you don't believe in it move to Cuba.
quizerry 1 year ago 2
@quizerry So you think it's okay for the gov't to treat corporations as people?
As you yourself pointed out, BP has a lot of pull in the gov't through lobbyists and campaign donations. Its lawyers didn't have to agree to the escrow fund. They were in a position to tell Obama to fuck off. They didn't. Maybe you should look more closely at why not.
ismeme 1 year ago
@quizerry
They're not listening. They don't seem to understand that once the government takes power it doesn't have, it can do the same thing again and again and again.
kenzie45230 1 year ago
Does this environmental disaster have a precedent in corporate ineptitude, environmental contamination, and physical harm? Perhaps the biggest disaster enacted by a non-war motivated organization?
stubbornVN 1 year ago
this prick gets the most money from the oil industry. " if i called you into my office, I'd suck your dick"
shEvoDEevolution 1 year ago
We can't hear you Barton, you have a big corporate cock shoved in your mouth!
waterdamnaged 1 year ago
lol, the hillarity of the republicans lol!!!!!
Tinils 1 year ago
The modern-day conservative movement (1980 - present)
Ask NOT what you can do for your country.
A$k what YOU can do for your (foreign) corporation.
RonPaulGeorgeRingo 1 year ago 15
Barton you are an ass.
agitcam 1 year ago
Suck corporate ass! Screw you Barton. 500 billion can't repay this horror.
satinbarbi 1 year ago
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Seriously..How ignorant do you have to be to see that Republicans are only about BIG BUSINESS and not the American People? Sympathy for Health care Overhaul to help curtail the #1 cause of bankruptcy for Americans...NO EFFING WAY!!! SYMPATHY for an oil giant who could go bankrupt for creating the largest man made natural disaster in America's history...HELL YEAH!!!!!!
Hey..Hey....You guys remember when we elected that oil guy from Texas for president? Oh man was that a good one.
chapro77 1 year ago
@chapro77
Hey..Hey...Remember when oil prices stayed under $20 a barrel for nearly the entire 8 years the last time a Dem was president. Oh..Oh,,Remember how oil went from $27 a barrel in 2000 to nearly $150 a barrel in 2008 just before that oil guy from Texas left office? MAN...was he good.
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1growup 1 year ago
When I was a kid, I used to look up at our flag and think, "Wow, our country is amazing." But now I look up and think, "It's a really good thing our Founders don't see what we are now." I finally saw that this country has become something that I can no longer look at in pride and happiness. Yeah this WAS the greatest country in the world. Now, we are no better than all the rest. So God bless America for what it was, what it is, and what it is becoming. I have a feeling we're going to need it.
hisneverendinglove1 1 year ago
Joe Barton is completely disgusting. He received more money from oil companies than any other congressman since 1990. His family should be ashamed, he should be ashamed, and the transparency of his corruption just reached new heights.
jaggerlags 1 year ago
Gop has him on the board overseing energy. And he defends them. He is obously biased. He should be kicked off the energy board.
stever197037 1 year ago
i cant rate this...this guy is a complete moron and he needs to find himself on the unemployment line....stfu please...
xsnut1 1 year ago
what happens when the money is spent and that shit is still in the water you dumbass!
thegorilla69 1 year ago
Barton speaks for We The Corporate. Everyone in Texas needs to vote this fucker OUT of We The People's House of Representatives.
Back2WeThePeople 1 year ago
Yes Mr. Barton, how about we look at how much money you have accepted from lobbying oil companies. Fucking crooks, they are all fucking crooks.
xonoma 1 year ago
Tony Hayward I also apologize on behalf of my country. God Bless the ones who died and I hope with all my heart that they were not lost but just think about this people. He is one man. ONE man. Oil drilling is DANGEROUS. There is always a risk that something can happen. People die on oil rigs quite often. Yeah he is the head of the company and yeah he is respondsible for it. But acting like it is all his fault just shows us how hypocritical we really are.
hisneverendinglove1 1 year ago
@hisneverendinglove1 Have you watched the above video? Think about what's actually happening on here. Of course Tony Hayward isn't the only one to blame. What's happening in this video is that this congressman, who received a record amount of money from the oil industry, doesn't think BP should've been forced to pay out money. He's apologizing to BP because they owe ruined lives and families compensation. Does that make any sense? Just trying to get you to see why people are revolted by this.
jaggerlags 1 year ago
This is what a crooked ass-wipe looks like....
beckpod1 1 year ago 17
the family of the 11 dead should get to line up and shin kick you to death. Day after day politicians make me ashamed of the USA that our young troops are dying to defend!!!!
tlh235 1 year ago
1:35 "BP, Made Decisions, that, objective people THINK compromised safety"
Is that what he said?
Surely that's not what he said...
everythingeco 1 year ago
,funny that he chooses to defend BP and not the victims who will suffer for BP's misconduct. this is what happens when you pass legislation allowing unlimited campaign donations so corporations can sacrfice safety & the environment to increase record profits, Congress is quick to bail out banks, but not citizens who need unemployment extended, while corporate exec's and congress use our tax $ to give themselves huge bonuses and family vacations pretending they are looking to help environment
youngplayag 1 year ago
oh lord! what an jackass! someone plug his hole!
101books 1 year ago
Shameful, but then again I didn't get $1.4 million from oil donations for my campaign.
ciaobeau 1 year ago
@ciaobeau That would be $20 million over the years!
AJJL4041 1 year ago