JOE Barton is not alone. The Texas congressman's lavish sympathy for BP -- which he sees not as perpetrator of a preventable disaster, but as victim of a White House "shakedown" -- is actually what ...

You’ve heard that old fable — favored by Orson Welles, among others — about a frog whom a scorpion asks for a ride across a stream. The frog reasons that the scorpion won’t sting him while they’re ...

Until this week, things were going remarkably well for the Republicans. The media were giving them a free pass on the BP Oil Disaster, ignoring GOP cluelessness and complicity in favor of scrutinizing ...

When Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP chairman Tony Hayward for the White House's demand for $20 billion from the company for oil spill clean-up and recovery, he provoked a firestorm of criticism.

Barton — the ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee — apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward in June over White House pressure on the company to create a $20 billion claims fund for oil ...

Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Jon Ward reports on The Daily Caller that Representative Joe Barton was told by House Republican leaders that “he would be stripped of his ranking member status ...

Rep. Joe Barton's fellow Republicans quickly denounced his apology to BP, forcing Barton to retract the controversial statement, but the political damage has been done. Democrats, eager to move ...

BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg attempted an earnest apology Wednesday for the worst environmental accident http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/climate ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democrats stepped up their attacks on Republicans as friends of the oil industry on Tuesday, hoping to make Republican Joe Barton's apology to BP a turning point in the ...

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Sunday ratcheted up the Democrats' effort to turn a House Republican's apology to BP into a political pivot point, saying last week's comments by Rep. Joe L.

Writing in his CERA Week blog, reporter Casey Wooten found that one part of an apology given Tuesday by BP Plc CEO Robert Dudley for the Deepwater Horizon disaster seemed oddly familiar, hearkening ...