Joe Barton, GOP back off BP apology — but Rightbloggers insist: Defeat or Death!

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You’ve heard that old fable — favored by Orson Welles, among others — about a frog whom a

scorpion asks for a ride across a stream.

The frog reasons that the scorpion won’t sting him while they’re both in

the water, because then they would both drown. So he consents. But the

scorpion stings him anyway, explaining as they both sink, “I can’t help

it. It’s my character.”

That pretty much tells the story of rightbloggers and the Joe Barton BP

debacle.