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What do you think about the politician apologizing to BP?
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June 17th, 2010
Representative Joe Barton (R, Texas) apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward during the hearings this morning. He states, “I’m not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown. In this case a $20 billion shakedown… I apologize. I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong, is subject to some sort of political pressure that is, again, in my words — amounts to a shakedown, so I apologize.”
Do you agree, or do you think Rep. Barton is out of line? Should a private corporation be held accountable for its mistakes?
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