Will Republican Representative Joe Barton Apologize to the “Small People”?

Joe Barton, completely unable to separate himself from his big oil financiers, having sold his soul to the devil to stay in office, started his grilling of BP CEO Hayward with an apology for  the "shakedown" President Obama was forcing on BP (the largest corporation in the UK). An apology ostensibly from the big oil companies he’s married to, but certainly not from the “small people” who elected him who are dripping in oil and dead fish. Come on Joe, where’s your apology to the “small people”? You know, those little munchkins along the coast who have been eking out a living, proudly maintaining their stewardship of the gulf that gives them life? How about apologizing to them on behalf of the big oil companies that bank roll your election? Bye, bye Joe...

To add further insult, after meeting with the President, BP Chairman Svanberg finds the worst possible word to describe the gulf coast people, then clumsily apologizes, claiming he used a “clumsy” choice of words. Even the word "clumsy" seems to have stumbled out of the mouth of this high born aristocrat. What is missing from his retraction is a clear understanding of what he really meant, because “small people” probably sounds better than “insignificant people”, or “bottom line collateral damage”, or “peasants”, all much closer to what this aristocratic head of the UKs largest corporation was thinking. But at least he had the poise not to be “super clumsy” and say what he really meant about this burr under his saddle that’s causing him to lose sleep, spend endless hours in the New World, and off the polo field.

Hayward and Svanberg will be lucky if they only lose their jobs over this fiasco, and not end up in jail for their culpability in what is certainly America's worst peacetime manmade disaster in history.  Neither will likely come to pass. The “small people” will suffer, but not he “big people” who are paid millions to make profit, and oh yes, prevent disasters that might nibble away into their profit. Justice will be served if they are forced to feed the “small people” and then go out of business in the process.