Rep. Joe Barton has a shaky fundraising background to be delivering such a shocking defense of BP (via Slate <http://slate.com/> twitter). The Texas Republican received $1.5 million in donations last year from big oil, according to Open Secrets<http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00005656&cycle=Career> .
Barton's biggest donor is Anadarko Petroleum --at $146,500 -- a company that drills heavily in the deepwater Gulf and has suffered from the drilling moratorium<http://www.businessinsider.com/25-companies-default-bp-2010-6#anadarko-petroleum-corp-25> . But nevermind, Barton is in a Republican safe seat. WaPo<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/joe_bartons_apology_and_a_pote.html> : Barton, who holds a safe seat in Texas, is saying what the leading edge of tea partyers and conservatives are saying -- no matter whether it's good politics, his first worry about the response to the disaster is that it will empower the federal government. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said this to me on Tuesday<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/bachmann_to_bp_dont_be_chumps.html>, and Dick Armey said it to me yesterday when I told him about the $20 billion compromise. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-who-accused-obama-of-bp-shakedown-got-15-million-from-big-oil-2010-6#ixzz0r93Udy2O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321451 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
