GOP Rep Franks: Obama’s treatment of BP was ‘arrogant’

Here's another one that Dems will jump on to continue making the case that Joe Barton's apology to BP represents a commonly held view among Republicans...

TheGrio Staff

Jun 22, 2010

From Washington Post:

Here’s another one that Dems will jump on to continue making the case that Joe Barton’s apology to BP represents a commonly held view among Republicans.

GOP Rep Trent Franks, in a quote buried in a Politico piece, appeared to say that Obama was “arrogant” in demanding the $20 billion escrow fund from BP:

“It’s my opinion that Mr. Barton and Mr. Price’s comments were more of a reaction to the arrogance in President Obama’s speech, where he said he was going to ‘inform’ BP that they would set aside this separate compensation fund to be controlled by a third party,” said Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.). “Under our laws and Constitution, the president does not possess the power or authority to make such an arrogant command to a private company.”

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