ANOTHER Republican defends BP: says Obama "arrogant" for asking for escrow fund!

[Bluebear]

Here's another one that Dems will jump on to continue making the case that Joe Barton's apology to BP represents a commonly held view among Republicans.

GOP Rep Trent Franks, in a quote buried in a Politico piece, appeared to say that Obama was "arrogant" in demanding the $20 billion escrow fund from BP:

"It's my opinion that Mr. Barton and Mr. Price's comments were more of a reaction to the arrogance in President Obama's speech, where he said he was going to 'inform' BP that they would set aside this separate compensation fund to be controlled by a third party," said Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.). "Under our laws and Constitution, the president does not possess the power or authority to make such an arrogant command to a private company."

Franks is going further here than merely refusing to condemn Barton's apology. He's basically offering a justification for it: Obama's "arrogance" in using the White House to leverage BP in order to hold it accountable for the disaster.

As the number of Republicans condemning Obama's rough treatment of BP mounts, the easier it gets for Dems to argue that this represents a widely-held position within the GOP.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/gop_rep_franks_obamas_treatmen.html

[Rex]

1. Repukes are unqualified to make those kind of decisions.

Trents last Great Leader was 'arrogant' enough to start a war with Iraq based on LIES! BP needs to pay a hell of a lot more then a mere 20 billion!

[Scuba]

3. A big plus on each of your points.

[skipos]

2. "Damn that uppity Obama" nt

[stevedeshazer]

4. Right. "Arrogant" is the new "uppity".

+1

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Funny how many synonyms of uppity have entered the right wing vocabulary.

Isn't it?

[gratuitous]

13. They musta all got Thesauruses for Christmas

"I know, Cletus. They won't let us call him 'uppity' no more. We need another word or two."

[Bluebear]

10. That is an exact translation!

[depakid]

5. They just can't help themselves...

[jaxx]

6. Arrogance...

Is that as good as elitism?

GoBama!

[spanone]

7. keep it up dumbasses...you are making it very easy for dems...

[caledesi]

9. BP - boo hoo! nt

[Poboy]

11. Yes

"As the number of Republicans condemning Obama's rough treatment of BP mounts, the easier it gets for Dems to argue that this represents a widely-held position within the GOP."

I agree. Keep it up, show yourselves!
Bastards.

[marmar]

12. Arrogant? More coded dog-whistles from the Grand Dragon Party.

nt

[Bluebear]

15. You said it marmar . . . and the code isn't hard to decipher. nt

[lpbk2713]

14. Probably another avid Limbaugh listener.

They like to parrot what their party's leader has to say on his hatemonger radio show.

[blondeatlast]

16. Would they prefer he were insecure? On second thought, I know the answer.

Fuck the country if it scores points for the ReBPublican Party. :mad:

And yes, as stated above--Franks wishes he could have said "uppity."

[tsuki]

17. The Republicons that I know on the Gulf Coast want to seize all of

BP's assets. They claim 20 billion over 4 years is not enough.

[blondeatlast]

18. Yet another ReBPublican family value: fucking the country to score

dirty money points.