Yesterday, I thought about going on my local Tea Party website and spoofing “Joe Barton was right, this *was* a Chicago-style shakedown and we all do owe Tony Hayward an apology”. But it turns out a lot of winger are already seriously saying this. We can’t be more than three or four days from the official “Joe Barton was right” opinion piece in the Washington Post, to be written by some AEI/Heritage bigwig.
Nevertheless, standing with Tony Hayward against Obama seems an increasingly foolish political move:
BP chief executive Tony Hayward, often criticized for being tone-deaf to U.S. concerns about the worst oil spill in American history, took time off Saturday to attend a glitzy yacht race off England’s Isle of Wight.