Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee for Senate in Nevada against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has very quickly reversed herself on comments she made on a radio show yesterday, in which she slammed the $20 billion escrow account that BP negotiated with the Obama administration to pay damage claims resulting from the Gulf oil spill. Angle’s reversal — she now says her description of the account as a “slush fund” was “incorrect” — provides a further data point that while bashing the fund may play well with some on the right, it is also politically untouchable with the wider electorate.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=124239