AND SO, THE VEIL IS LIFTED

CHECK-IT-OUT:  The Dallas Morning News

“I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday,” said Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) during a hearing on Thursday morning with BP’s CEO Tony Hayward.  “I think it is a tragedy in the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown — in this case a $20 billion shakedown … I’m only speaking for myself. I’m not speaking for anyone else, but I apologize,”  Barton added, “I do not want to live in a county where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong, [it is] subject to some sort of political pressure that, again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown.”

Okay?!?  So … it’s a tragedy that BP is being made to pay for the damages they’ve inflicted on our courntry?

We learn from Wikipedia that, Texas “Congressman Joe Barton has taken $1.4 million in campaign contributions from the oil industry since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.  And we’re also informed that Joe Barton’s biggest contributor is Texas oil company, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, which is one quarter owner in the Deep Water Horizon rig!

And, “Barton has actively obstructed implementation of clean air standards, work that has earned him huge pay-offs from companies such as Texas Industries which operated a cement kiln in Midlothian, Texas and burns hazardous waste for fuel with insufficient technology to prevent the resulting air pollution throughout North Texas.” 

At last, the masquerade mask is being removed — and we are beginning to see the real face of the Conservative movement.  The true constituency of the righties is international corporations, NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.  PERIOD.