Conservatives to Obama: Leave BP alone! - Joe Barton says it is "a tragedy of the first proportion" that BP agreed to Obama's request to set up a $20 billion fund to compensate Americans -- and then he apologizes to BP CEO Hayward!

At first it was only fringe libertarians who defended BP (see ).  But the dam broke yesterday when the mainstream conservatives of the Republican Study Committee labeled the $20 billion BP escrow account for victims of the tragedy a "Chicago-style political shakedown."

Today, in a must-see video from the House hearing, Joe Global Warming 'Is A Net Benefit To Mankind' Barton (R-TX) called the fund a "tragedy" and then apologized to BP ...