Whose Side Are Republicans On Anyway?

I couldn't believe my ears the other day when Republican Texas Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP. He said " I'm speaking totally for myself, I'm not speaking for the Republican party, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday," Barton said "He deemed it a tragedy of the first proportion, that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, a $20 billion shakedown."

Under pressure no doubt from his cronies and constituents, Rep. Barton tried to put the toothpaste back into the tube with an apology. "I apologize for using the term shakedown with regard to yesterday's actions at the White House in my opening statements this morning, and I retract my apology to BP, " said Barton. Well I thought to myself, poor BP, it's a good thing they have Rep. Barton to defend them against the Big Bad White House.

Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia said "BP's reported willingness to go along with the White House's new fund suggests that the Obama Administration is hard at work exerting it's brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics," Shakedown politics Rep. Price? The same type of politics BP used to corrupt the MMS, Rep. Price? The same politics that allowed BP to lobby against any type of energy bill Rep. Price?

Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota put her two cents in and called the $20 billion escrow fund a "redistribution-of-wealth fund."

Since President Obama managed to secure an escrow account that willl pay out $20 billion in funds from BP to fishermen and businesses hurt financially from the oil spill, Republicans are crawling out of the woodwork defending BP. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh called the fund a "slush fund." The BP Gulf Oil Spill no doubt is one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. Americans want politicians to put their politics aside, defend Americans and America. What would you call a politician that defends a corporation over Americans and America? Un-American? Whose side are Republicans on anyway?