re: #19 okonkolo

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.

Beck and Limbaugh have been using the same language for the past few days too. I think some in the GOP establishment started to see the damage they werre doing to themselves. Idiots.