relief wells so if it happens it can be capped rapidly. a purely campaign question. considering the republicans again today blocked an attempt to raise the liability cap on bp, do you think mr. barton handed every last democrat in this country a campaign ad with that sound bite? can you run with the idea of the gobp? well, i can just tell you that i don t think anybody thought those words were going to come out of anybody s mouth today on the republican side, least of all the republican leadership. i know they re not happy with what happened today. i think the american public saw something too. indeed they did. congressman mike doyle of pennsylvania. great. thanks for sticking around for us. let s bring in msnbc an last howard fineman. let me ask you this. nobody said boo when the committee chet miller is on,
white house a, quote, shakedown. how come miller was one of the people calling when barton called it a shakedown, this biblical disaster. was it the apology that made the difference? no. i think it s the difference between being an idealogue and devil delving into the post reagan part in the abstract and seeing it on camera. the barton thing was politically hideous. the instant people saw if, they recoiled, including john boehner and everybody in the republican party practically. it s one thing to be theory. it s another to put that out there in the middle of the hearing. i disagree a little bit with the premise of one of your earlier questions, this was somehow robbing tony hayward of an opportunity to be in the sunshine. based on what i saw of hayward s performance today, he ought to be glad we re all focusing on barton.
can be capped rapidly. a purely campaign question. considering the republicans again today blocked an attempt to raise the liability cap on bp, do you think mr. barton handed every last democrat in this country a campaign ad with that sound bite? can you run with the idea of the gobp? well, i can just tell you that i don t think anybody thought those words were going to come out of anybody s mouth today on the republican side, least of all the republican leadership. i know they re not happy with what happened today. i think the american public saw something too. indeed they did. congressman mike doyle of pennsylvania. great. thanks for sticking around for us. let s bring in msnbc analyst howard fineman. let me ask you this. nobody said boo when the committee chet miller is on, put out a statement yesterday that called what happened at the
called what happened at the white house yesterday was a, quote, shakedown. how come miller was one of the people when barton called it a shakedown, was it the apology that made the difference? no. i think it s the difference between being an idealogue and the post reagan part in the abstract and seeing it on camera. the barton thing was politically hideous. the instant people saw if, they recoiled, including john boehner and everybody in the republican party practically. it s one thing to be theory. it s another to put that out there in the hearing. i disagree a little bit with the premise of one of your earlier questions, this was somehow robbing tony hayward of an opportunity to be in the sunshine. based on what i saw of hayward s performance today, he ought to be glad we re all focusing on