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.

More Bullshit From Fox News and Hannity

On Nov 5, Sean Hannity covered the rally on Capitol Hill against Health Care reform. He showed footage of the event several times, exclaiming how large the crowd was and how excited the organizers were about the crowd of up to 45,000, although the WASH POST pegged it at less than 10,000. Trouble is the footage was from Glenn Beck's Sept. 12 rally in DC, which WAS attented by a huge crowd. Hannity used Beck's footage to make people think there was a HUGE rally against Health Care reform, which was a lie.

GO TO Rawstory.com for full story and video.

In other Glenn Beck is a moron news, the Cryer has lost a WIPO battle for a Web domain which asked whether Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
Isaac Eiland-Hall, the sites creator, was shaming the host for assaulting the First Amendment.

Again, Rawstory.com has the full story, read it.