Are All of the Executives of BP Tone-Deaf Imbeciles?

I have to wonder about that. I'll bet this quote goes over well:

[The chairman of BP, Carl-Henric] Svanberg said that it was clear from the meeting Wednesday at the White House that the president was “frustrated because he cares about the small people,” he said. “And we care about the small people. I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don’t care. But that is not the case indeed. We care about the small people.”

On a substantive note, BP has agreed to set up a $20 billion dollar fund to pay for damages and costs from their little disaster and to help fund that, they are not paying dividends.

Let's see how many Republicans that I can find who are decrying the fact that BP, rather than the government or the "small people" are bearing the burden of BP's fuckup. Staring the clock.. now.

Michele Bachmann, for one. That figures. It's everyone else's fault that they were trying to make a living by fishing in or having tourism businesses along the same body of water that she apparently thinks that the oil companies have a G-d-given right to pollute.

Haley Barbour also has BP's back; it's a damn shame in his eyes that BP will have to set aside money to cover the costs of its spill.

Six minutes to find two predictable nutjobs on this. I must be slipping.

UPDATE: Add Congressman Joe Barton to the list of Loyal Defenders of British Petroleum. Barton doesn't want to live in a country that forces corporations to cough up cash to compensate the victims of their acts. He can follow the other Loyalists and leave, then.