Joe Barton (RepubliWhiner-TX): Don't call them Big Oil

[Roland99]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54850.html

Joe Barton doesn’t like labels. At least not when it comes to “Big Oil.”

“I don’t think it should be a pejorative,” the Texas Republican said Thursday during a C-SPAN interview. “We’ve got this mentality on the liberal side of our political debate: Big Oil, Big Insurance, big this, big that.”

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“The biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, is only the fifth-largest oil company overall because the other four are run by governments,” Barton said. “So it should be something of a badge of honor that we still have companies that can compete internationally, and so it’s a little upsetting that we try to at the very beginning make it a pejorative.”

He also took umbrage with Senate Democrats’ efforts to strip those tax incentives.

Cry me a fucking river!