Joe Barton

On 6/17/2010 BP chief executive Tony Hayward being questioned by Congress received a strange suck-up from Texas Representative Joe Barton; he stuck his foot in his mouth when he referred to the president’s securing of 20 billion dollars damage fund for damages accrued by the oil spill as a “shake down.” In his attempt to attack the president, it left many of us asking which side he is on; the American people or BP’s side? In my opinion, Representative Joe Barton is a disgrace to the Republican Party. He is the epitome of a bitter out of touch republican.