As TPM pointed out here, the House GOP Republican Study Committee used the “Chicago-style shakedown” language yesterday in a release. This is not Barton wandering off the reservation and shooting from the hip, this is a broad conservative GOP tact and he just got caught on camera first by going to the apology. Shakedown is theme 2, theme 1 is that Obama is exploiting the disaster to push “his liberal agenda,” which is what Palin said yesterday and Bachman & company are saying today. Man, look for some of this stuff to be appearing in commercials come fall.