# Finally!!! Somebody Sticks Up For BP!! Hooray Republicans! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 17, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563 "2010-06-17T16:08:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/61 "2010-06-18T19:13:57Z")
The usual suspects are actually afraid that[The money from BP is going to go straight to ACORN](http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_061710/content/01125107.guest.html) > [@](#): > > Where is the money going to go? What unions are gonna get it? What ACORN people are gonna get it? Has anyone told this sack of crap that he and his ilk already destroyed ACORN based on an edited scam job video, even though a congressional committee conceded that the organization had done nothing wrong? I guess they’re counting on their audience being so stupid, that they can scare them with a boogeyman that is not only un-scary, but is also dead. Oh, and apparently this paragon of virtue is NOT defending BP. No, no. He’s > [@](#): > > trying to defend the US Constitution, the American way of life Because I guess there’s a part of the constitution that says that the president is not allowed to help the citizens. Or ask a company to step up and take responsibility for an environmental disaster. I guess the American “way of life” is to simply say “to hell with small business or people affected by disaster - just don’t piss off big multinationals who caused the disaster” ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/62 "2010-06-18T19:52:32Z")
Does he know the definition of the word “escrow”? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/63 "2010-06-18T19:55:33Z")
He doesn’t care, he’s depending on the stupid to not focus on that part. People here are ignoring it and this is a smart board (so I’ve been told repeartedly). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/64 "2010-06-18T22:07:00Z")
> [@Enfant Terrible](#): > > Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Larry Craig? _golf clap_ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/65 "2010-06-18T22:11:34Z")
> [@](#): > > RUSH: Now, imagine, imagine the surprise if you’re BP, I mean how much money have you contributed to Obama for his presidential campaign? So you’ve given at the office, you’ve given to the office. You’re supposed to have bought insurance, and then all of a sudden you get called into the White House, and you get shaken down. You get shaken down, and there’s a slush fund. Imagine their surprise. They thought they had bought insurance against this, … :eek: In Limbaughland campaign contributions are supposed to buy you something, culture of corruption indeed. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/66 "2010-06-18T22:23:06Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > :eek: In Limbaughland campaign contributions are supposed to buy you something, culture of corruption indeed. > > CMC fnord! Jesus! He’s explicitly saying that BP have a **right** to be pissed off because their campaign contributions to Obama did not result in him being bought off. \* “You’re supposed to have bought insurance” \* Why exactly does he have any followers? How can anyone with functioning brain cells approve of this? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/67 "2010-06-18T22:32:23Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Jesus! He’s explicitly saying that BP have a **right** to be pissed off because their campaign contributions to Obama did not result in him being bought off. > \* > “You’re supposed to have bought insurance” \* > > Why exactly does he have any followers? How can anyone with functioning brain cells approve of this? Because without him, the socialist hordes would already have overrun the country. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/68 "2010-06-19T18:09:08Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I try to stay away from the right wing punditry machine as much as possible, so can you link to some examples? I almost don’t want to know… Ben Stein was on CNN saying it over and over. He , like all righties on TV, repeated it over and over and tried to drown out the other speakers. [http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201006170026](http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201006170026) Here’s Rush trying to blame Obama for strong arming the poor defenseless BP. ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/69 "2010-06-21T00:42:00Z")
I’ve only read the OP so it may have been previously stated, but he was forced by REPUBLICANS to refute that statement. You can go home now, ugly 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/70 "2010-06-21T00:52:58Z")
Well, yeah! Dems were busy singing hosannas and hallelujahs for the blessing of Smokin’ Joe Barton! Speak up, there, Joe! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/71 "2010-06-21T01:03:06Z")
Biden was excellent in that video. Limbaugh, is just the usual lying pompous windbag. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/72 "2010-06-21T14:35:42Z")
> [@may\_be\_ignorant](#): > > I’ve only read the OP so it may have been previously stated, but he was forced by REPUBLICANS to refute that statement. The [Republican Study Committee](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/) (still not the whole caucus, but [far more than one member](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/aboutrsc/memberlist.htm)) had [this](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=191125)to say about it: > [@](#): > > “BP’s reported willingness to go along with the White House’s new fund suggests that the Obama Administration is hard at work exerting its brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics. These actions are emblematic of a politicization of our economy that has been borne out of this Administration’s drive for greater power and control. It is the same mentality that believes an economic crisis or an environmental disaster is the best opportunity to pursue a failed liberal agenda. The American people know much better.” The Republicans you’re defending here simply threw Barton under the bus when they learned how badly their position was received by the Merkin Pipple. That’s the highest principle they exercised, apparently the highest one they understand. > [@](#): > > You can go home now, ugly 🙂 There’s quite a few people who need to go home. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/73 "2010-06-21T15:01:35Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > :eek: In Limbaughland campaign contributions are supposed to buy you something, culture of corruption indeed. > > CMC fnord! Guess he never heard the old Texas saying: "If you can’t take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and vote against 'em anyway, you don’t belong in the Legislature.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/74 "2010-06-21T15:07:55Z")
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. " - Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s first Secretary of War. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/75 "2010-06-21T16:40:26Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > **GOP Rep. Jeff Miller calls for Barton to step down from top committee spot over BP comments.** > > > [@](#): > > > > Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), whose Pensacola district is among the most-impacted areas in the Gulf by the oil spill, condemned Barton for apologizing to BP CEO Tony Hayward during a committee meeting on Thursday. > > > > “I condemn Mr. Barton’s statement. Mr. Barton’s remarks are out of touch with this tragedy and I feel his comments call into question his judgment and ability to serve in a leadership on the Energy and Commerce Committee,” Miller said in a statement. “He should step down as Ranking Member of the Committee.” > > \ > > I’m tired of hearing that Republicans want to just pat BP on its little head and ignore it. It just ain’t so, Joe, and I’d like people to stop repeating that bullshit. Yeah, we have idiots in our group, like Barton, and the libs have idiots in their group, and we’ve all got to stop assuming that the idiots speak for the whole group. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The [Republican Study Committee](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/) (still not the whole caucus, but [far more than one member](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/aboutrsc/memberlist.htm)) had [this](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=191125)to say about it: > > > [@](#): > > > > BP’s reported willingness to go along with the White House’s new fund suggests that the Obama Administration is hard at work exerting its brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics. These actions are emblematic of a politicization of our economy that has been borne out of this Administration’s drive for greater power and control. It is the same mentality that believes an economic crisis or an environmental disaster is the best opportunity to pursue a failed liberal agenda. The American people know much better. Turns out that one Jeff Miller (R-FL) is [a member of the Republican Study Committee](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/aboutrsc/memberlist.htm). Oops. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/76 "2010-06-21T17:08:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Oops. :dubious: I’d be willing to be convinced, if all the members of the Republican Study Committee, resigned from office. It’s not even quite two thirds of Republican congressmen who signed onto the ‘Obama shakedown’ rhetoric, so after they’re gone, there would still be some Republicans in the house. Of course, so far no one representing the committee has even issued a retraction, much less apologized for their mischaracterization of the situation, so I’m left to believe that the apology is a lie, and that the vast majority of house Republicans really do support BP over president Obama and all us small Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/77 "2010-06-21T17:11:35Z")
I don’t want a retraction or even an apology, much less a resignation. I’d just like to see a few of them (looking at you, Congressman Miller) say, “I strongly disagree with my fellow committee members on this issue”. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/78 "2010-06-21T17:58:13Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I don’t want a retraction or even an apology, much less a resignation. I’d just like to see a few of them (looking at you, Congressman Miller) say, “I strongly disagree with my fellow committee members on this issue”. But then how could they have their cake and eat it too? This way they can point to the “apology” for everyone who was disgusted by the original comments, and point to the Republican Study Committee for the “base” who need to demonize Obama 24/7. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/79 "2010-06-21T18:29:41Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Turns out that one Jeff Miller (R-FL) is [a member of the Republican Study Committee](http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/aboutrsc/memberlist.htm). > > Oops. :dubious: No, no. It’s only one bad apple. Or maybe a bad bushel of 100. Something like that. Besides, RNATB, you’re forgetting that ol **Humper** is a complete fucking idiot. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563/80 "2010-06-21T18:32:15Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > No, no. It’s only one bad apple. Or maybe a bad bushel of 100. Something like that. > > Besides, RNATB, you’re forgetting that ol **Humper** is a complete fucking idiot. > > -Joe I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt on this one. I was about to offer up a post in praise of Miller, until I happened to glance at the RSC membership list and realized he was on it. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-somebody-sticks-up-for-bp-hooray-republicans/543563.md?page=5)