House GOP Leadership: Barton Was 'Wrong' On BP Apology -- And Spill Is A 'Natural Disaster'

Anything that happens to nature is "natural". Anything that happens in nature is "unnatural". It is not that hard, hippies.

So when someone gets shot in the heart, he dies of natural causes 'cuz naturally a heart can't work with a bullet in it. Right?

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BP upgraded to Force of Nature.

The extortion is BP paying 20¢ on the dollar ON TIME . . . I wish I could get those credit terms.

Heckuva job, Mr. President.

Did they slap Cornyn, too, by any chance? I'm praying for Ensign to mouth off similarly, but by now I suppose the word is out and he'll limit such comments to the golf course and other places he likes to hang out in his private life.

Pence is a member of the Republican Study Committee who issued a press release yesterday virtually identical to Barton's remarks today.

Pence's office refuses to tell me whether Pence was at the meeting yesterday at which RSC membership approved issuance of the press release.

In effect, the only problem Pence has with Barton's remarks today is that they were not well received.

For the record, Reps Fleming (LA), Mack (FL) and Posey (FL) are also members of the RSC but "take no position" on the RSC press release. Mack and Posey were at the meeting, Fleming's office says he was not.

Here's the press release.

OK, I think I got it. The spill was 'natural', but since Obama hasn't stopped it, that is unnatural. Or a natural result of having a Democrat as President. After all, this spill in the Gulf didn't happen when a Republican was President.

After all, what could be more natural then a gusher of oil coming out of a metal pipe on the bottom of the ocean. I mean, it is not as if people had anything to do with that.

"Natural Disaster'

Good God. These clowns are apparently incapable of speaking in a straightforward, truthful fashion about anything.

If that's a natural disaster, I suppose 9/11 was an act of God. Idiots.

Didn't Mike Pence say the same thing yesterday? As did Price, Bachmann, Cornyn, and Boehner.

Hit them with their comments repeatedly as soon as election season takes off.

Of course it was a NATURAL disaster!
It was NATURAL that the Minerals Management Agency became the bed- and party-partner of the biggest oil companies when oilmen ran the government.
It was NATURAL that in the absence of enforcement BP should feel comfortable ignoring the most basic safety measures.
It was NATURAL that Hayward and his cronies should put profit ahead of every other consideration, including the potential for disaster.
It is NATURAL for the GOP to violate even their own basic principles about small government and private/individual responsibility in their rabid desperation to attack Obama.
It is NATURAL for the GOP to want to privatize profits while shoving costs on taxpayers. After all, those senators are millionaires. Only little people, like those living on the Gulf, pay taxes.

The GOP is a Natural Disaster! I just told my sister that from here on out they should be referred to as the The Loonapalooza Party!

They continue to talk out of all 4 cheeks. They release this statement yesterday calling the Escrow Fund "a Chicago Style Shakedown" and Barton comes out today and repeats it word for word before upping the crazy by apologizing to BP. Now, they expect us to forget about their own connection to that statement, not to mention Bachmann and Barbour. This story isn't going away nearly as quickly as the GOP would like it to. Can't wait until Sunday!

It's simple.

1. The oil leak is Obama's fault. Or the failed efforts to stem it are. Or something like that, it doesn't matter what really.
2. Obama, even though he is black and was born in Kenya, is human.
3. Humans, like all creatures on Earth, were created by God 6,000 years ago and are therefore natural.
4. QED, the oil leak is a natural disaster.

The funny thing is Republicans usually classify as "unnatural" anything that involves that much lube.

-- MrJM

I think it is really impressive how they not only completely lie out of their ass calling this a "natural disaster" but they continue to take pot shots at the President while they can't even get their own viewpoints straight. They were quick to attack the President yesterday and when it turned out that people didn't like it, they quickly acted like it never happened, took down the page, and denounced one guy who they can make the fall guy for their disgusting attempt at politicizing this disaster. Weren't they just saying a couple of days ago that the President was somehow politicizing the disaster? They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites I have ever seen in my entire life. But if you repeat a lie 3 times it becomes the truth. Integrity is a word that does not exist in their vocabulary.

If natural disasters are God's way of punishing the wicked (per Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell etc.) then the GOBP'ers are laying this one off on God, too. She's going to get really pissed if they keep this up.

It's natural in the sense that Nature is teaching humans a lesson.

Uhhh.... I am not sure Boehner knows what "natural" means.