Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Joe Barton (RepubliWhiner-TX): Don't call them Big Oil

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU
 
Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:32 PM
Original message
Joe Barton (RepubliWhiner-TX): Don't call them Big Oil
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54850.html

Joe Barton doesn’t like labels. At least not when it comes to “Big Oil.”

“I don’t think it should be a pejorative,” the Texas Republican said Thursday during a C-SPAN interview. “We’ve got this mentality on the liberal side of our political debate: Big Oil, Big Insurance, big this, big that.”

...

“The biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, is only the fifth-largest oil company overall because the other four are run by governments,” Barton said. “So it should be something of a badge of honor that we still have companies that can compete internationally, and so it’s a little upsetting that we try to at the very beginning make it a pejorative.”

He also took umbrage with Senate Democrats’ efforts to strip those tax incentives.



Cry me a fucking river!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:35 PM
Response to Original message
1. Oh? And who coined the pejorative "Big Government," Joe?
Care to tell us?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kysrsoze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Big Asshole. Is this jackass a Congressman, or a spokesperson for Exxon and Chevron?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 03:45 PM
Response to Reply #2
12. Barton Boy (R) gets his skids greazed the way the other RepubliCorp Cronies do...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Oh thats different a Republican god said it so its true if a Democrat had said it the it isn't true
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:43 PM
Response to Original message
4. Good...the labeling is effective.
Edited on Thu May-12-11 02:44 PM by Old and In the Way
Too bad Dan isn't as interested in defending the people he represents as he is in protecting the tax subsidiaries of Big Oil. They should report it as Joe Barton(R-Texas - Big Oil/Big Gas political contributions to date: $1.67MM since 1990)


Now we know why this Big Oil apologist demanded Obama apologize for the GOM environmental disaster:

Barton's biggest single corporate contributor, Anadarko Petroleum, is a 25 percent stakeholder in the Macondo Prospect, site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Individuals and PACs associated with Anadarko have given Barton's campaigns $146,500 since the 1990 election cycle.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/06/barton-likes-bp-and-they-like-him-b-1.html
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:46 PM
Response to Original message
5. OK how about we call them "Big Motherfuckers" then?
Sounds about right to me.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 03:41 PM
Response to Reply #5
11. heh heh
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:47 PM
Response to Original message
6. Isn't this the asshat that apologized to BP during the house hearings after the spill?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:51 PM
Response to Original message
7. who coined 'Obamacare?"
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:52 PM
Response to Original message
8. How do you like liar and leach Joe?
Cause that's what a couple of callers into CSPAN said you were.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Andy823 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:56 PM
Response to Original message
9. How about
Low down dirty rotten scum sucking GREEDY bastards Joe? Sounds much better to me!:evilgrin:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 03:03 PM
Response to Original message
10. Isn't he the one who apologized to BP for having to put money
in an account up front for some of the damages they did to the Gulf of Mexico?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 03:47 PM
Response to Original message
13. Not surprising from the butt-boy of BIG Oil. He gets lots of $$$ from them.
Also the healthcare industry including BIG Pharma.

We have a corrupt government, the dems are bad enough, but the repukes are totally corrupt.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Wounded Bear Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 03:50 PM
Response to Original message
14. I suppose we could switch to "Big Contributors." nt
:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May 11th 2024, 02:41 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC