When Wrong Just Gets Wronger

If you've paid the slightest bit of attention today to Republican Rep. Joe Barton's apparent case of foot-in-mouth disease, you also might have caught the Republican House Leadership's statement trying to distance itself from Barton's apology to BP.

Here's the first two sentences from that statement:

The oil spill in the Gulf is this nation's largest natural disaster and stopping the leak and cleaning up the region is our top priority. Congressman Barton's statements this morning were wrong.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.  IT IS NOT A NATURAL DISASTER.  IT IS A MAN-MADE DISASTER THAT IS COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE.  A NATURAL DISASTER IS SOMETHING THAT CANNOT BE CONTROLLED BY MANKIND.  EVERY INSTANCE OF THIS CATASTROPHE IS COMPLETELY CONTROLLED BY HUMANS.

There is something genetically wrong with anyone that calls this a "natural disaster."  Judging from GOP leadership, Joe Barton is the least of the GOP's problems.