How *bad* do you have to screw up for lockstep Republicans to actually, quickly turn on you?

[underpants]

Bush? Nope
"Macacca"? Nope
Eric "Magic bullet" Cantor? Nope
Joe "you lie" Wilson? Nope
Vitter? Nope
"wide stance"? Nope
A man named "Scooter"? Nope
Oxycontin and little blue pills? Nope
1/2 term Governor? Nope




















YES!!!!! and within an afternoon

[The Magistrate]

1. And Even So, Sir, He Has Set the Campaign Theme For Sharp Democrats

You cannot un-ring a bell....

[underpants]

2. GO(B)P

as Keith Olbermann had on a graphic tonight

[ZombieHorde]

3. I missed a bit news I guess. Who is that and what was his "crime?" nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thank you for asking...

I too am wondering.

[babylonsister]

9. Do a DU search in GD or GD/P. Joe Barton, the biggest

rethug clown of the moment. He apologized to bp because this admin was mean to them. {The Dems are besides themselves because he's redirected the conversation.}

I kid you not.

Hell, you don't even need to search!

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Thanks for the illumination!

:hi:

[napi21]

7. Rep. Barton- R-TX. Today, in his opening remarks at the

hearing where BP CEO testified, Barton appologized to BP for what happened at the WH yesterday. He said it was strongarm tactics to demand BP deposit $20 Billion in that escrow fund, and he was ashamed of what the WH did.

[ZombieHorde]

10. And the Republicans are mad at him? Good. nt

[patrice]

12. Rep. Barton, Torry-TX

[JHB]

14. I believe the word "shakedown" was used...

...plus you know what hay the teabaggers make about apologizing to foreigners.

The Republicans have plenty of experts on what pushes their base's hot buttons, and they smelled Barton as being on the wrong side of it. 1...2...3...overboard he goes!

[underpants]

16. Joe Barton (R-Tx) largest collector of oil/gas contributions in the House apologized to BP today

in the committee hearing

He called the $20 Billion escrow account a "shakedown" (later apologizing for that word when Boehner and the rest called HIM into a special meeting) which was the RW talking point all morning.

[theoldman]

4. He was just speaking his mind.

It is on par with the people who voted for him.

[napi21]

5. Even the Pubbies know that public sentiment is totally against BP!

They're loyal, but they aren't quite THAT Stupid! Turn not only the Dems against you but the Indys too, and YOU LOSE!

[JohnnyLib2]

8. If only the guns would aim at Limbaugh.......

Well, a fellow can hope.

[Still Sensible]

13. He broke rethug rule number 1, the blowjobs-

for=oil-barons initiative is supposed to be carried out behind closed doors.

[tekisui]

15. I think he was just supposed to be the first to say it.

I think it was to be the repuke frame, possibly until November. He was going to have a moment in the spotlight.

It backfired on him and the repukes called it off. The $20 billion has been hailed by damn near everyone as, finally, some action in this whole mess. People are cheering, people on the Gulf and in the rest of the country. Even BP was happy about the deal. The stockholders where happy.

It was a stupid angle to take, but the repukes would have picked it up and ran had it not been hammered by everyone.

[Kind of Blue]

17. Now, that makes a lot of sense.

Thanks!

[zbdent]

18. isn't Sanford still in office, and Foley got the "Look, a Dem did it, too!"

treatment ...

[awoke_in_2003]

19. they won't turn on this dude...

they will blindly follow their party candidates. Now, I a republican came out for the repeal of DADT they would drop him in a minute. Of course, a snowball has a better chance.