Sen.-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) is not backing down from his claim that President Obama was too hard on BP back during this summer’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On the campaign trail in March, Paul took heat for his statement that Obama’s rhetoric toward the energy giant in the wake of the disaster off the Louisiana coast was “un-American.” In what appear to be his first public comments about the spill since being handily elected Kentucky’s new Senator, Paul took a similar line to the one he did as a candidate.
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