HuffPo - "Rand Paul Offers Sympathy For Joe Barton: I Know What A Pile-On Feels Like"

[TomCADem]

Well, hey. I guess Rand Paul can be open minded. He says that we should not rush to assume that BP is at fault for the Gulf oil disaster.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/rand-paul-offers-sympathy_n_617197.html

Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul declined to endorse Rep. Joe Barton's position that the Obama administration shook down executives at BP by forcing them to set up a $20 billion escrow account for victims of the oil spill they caused.

But the Tea Party darling offered his sympathies for the Texas Republican, noting that he too understands what it's like to be at the bottom of a political pile-on. And in a re-airing of a critique he made weeks earlier, he accused the White House of taking too tough a tone with the oil giant.

"I don't know about that," Paul said, when asked about Barton's statement during an appearance on WVLK-AM radio on Friday. "I don't want to pile on him... I know what that feels like. What I will say is I have never liked the tone of the president when he said things or his administration says things like he is going to put the boot on the throat of BP... If we put BP out of business, they can't pay for the cleanup."

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"Lets not convict them before we give them a chance to figure out where the problem came from," Paul said.

[tabatha]

1. These people who are relentless in trashing Democrats

cannot take the heat. Whine, whine, whine.

[Botany]

2. "If we put BP out of business, they can't pay for the cleanup."

BP has the contract for 1/4 of all the oil from Iraq ..... the company might be gone but
the money will be there.

[smaug]

3. That's correct

These things (corporations) have more lives than Voldemort has horcruxes. Don't ever forget that one of BP's prior incarnations is the backgrounder on why we have been in confrontation with Iran since 1979. Look up Mosaddegh sometime. He was the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1953.

Follow the money. Always. Corporations are simply whores for money, with interchangeable human parts. Like a horrible science fiction story; I wonder how our descendants will regard our era from 1880-20??

[miscsoc]

4. He's basically sympathising with his fellow politically tone deaf idiot

[CTyankee]

5. Does this guy EVER stop whining about is poor, widdle self?

All we seem to hear from him is how put-upon he is all the time.

Who in their right mind would vote for someone who is so self absorbed he can't think of anything but his hurt feelings ALL THE TIME!

geez...