Republicans want YOU! To Pay for the clean up in the Gulf

This is unbelievable. Republican Congressman Joe Barton personally apologized to BP in a congressional hearing this week.

Earlier this week Minnesota Republican Michelle Bachman called the $20 Billion BP escrow fund that will be used to pay for the oil clean up and damages to residents a "redistribution-of-wealth fund" and that BP was being "fleeced" by the government and the people of the Gulf who can no longer fish, serve seafood in restaurants, fill hotel rooms, and get tourists to come to the Gulf in the summertime and are therefore going out of business.
AND even worse, on his June 10 radio address, GOP Leader John Boehner said that Taxpayers Should help Pay For This BP Oil Mess.

Also, the Republican-supporting US Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue said he opposes efforts to stick BP, a member of the Chamber, with the bill.

Donohue said "Everybody is going to contribute to this clean up. We are all going to have to do it. We are going to have to get the money from the government (taxpayers) and from the companies and we will figure out a way to do that."

While Congress and President Obama are working hard to ensure that BP provides relief to the victims in the Gulf region -- and that the oil giant is held accountable for the damage it's done -- Republicans are saying they're sorry. A committee of 114 Republicans in the House even called the $20 billion victims' relief fund a "shakedown."

These apologies are offensive -- and they need to stop.

Join me in telling Republicans that the American people support holding BP accountable -- and we're not going to apologize for it!

http://my.barackobama.com/NoApologies-auto

Thanks.

Americans DO Want the Public Option!!

Recent (October 2009) CBS News Polls have shown that a majority of Americans consistently support the Public Option.

Although support has dropped from 72 approval in June, in the post town hall and death panel bullshit 62 percent still want the Public Option, while just half as many, 31 percent, oppose the Public Option.

Other recent polls by other organizations also prove that MOST Americans favor the Public Option.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll released in late October found 57 percent supported the government creating "a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans."

So every day, when Boehner or some other lying Republican gets in front of a TV camera and says that "Americans oppose the Public Option", those Republicans are doing what they do best, lie. Flat out lies.