More Joe Barton: Rand sympathizes, Stewart destroys, GOP looks to him to lead

Rand Paul decided to stick his foot in his mouth. Again.

He offered support to Rep. Joe Barton of Texas who publicly apologized to BP yesterday for the "shakedown" where the White House tried to force them to accept financial responsibility for the disaster they created in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Tea Party darling offered his sympathies for the Texas Republican, noting that he too understands what it's like to be at the bottom of a political pile-on. And in a re-airing of a critique he made weeks earlier, he accused the White House of taking too tough a tone with the oil giant.

Then comes a reminder from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about the stakes of the November election.



Finally, Jon Stewart sums it up, calling Barton a "disdainful asshole".