Poor, Poor British Petroleum

Sit­ting U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Joe Bar­ton (R-TX) today apol­o­gized to BP, appar­ently on behalf of him­self, for the $20 bil­lion dol­lar escrow account that the Admin­is­tra­tion has just set up for Gulf Coast dam­ages and recov­ery. In a con­gres­sional tes­ti­mony with BP exec­u­tives he said: I’m not speak­ing for any­body in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives but myself. […]