Michelle Bachmann: Damn right we’re concerned about a slush fund!

Michelle Bachmann: Damn right we're concerned about a slush fund!

Michelle Bachmann: Damn right we’re concerned about a slush fund!

It takes a woman!… Meanwhile Pence, Cantor, and Boehner run for the hills…

Let's see where the money goes!

[The Hill] — Lawmakers’ concerns that a $20 billion relief fund could be used for the Obama administration’s political purposes are legitimate concerns, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Friday.

A day after a top Republican, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), apologized to the CEO of BP for the government’s efforts to force the company to create a fund to pay out claims to victims of the Gulf oil spil, Bachmann defended worries that the account could turn into — in Barton’s words — a “slush fund.”

“I think that part of the concern that many members of Congress had are that the $20 billion fund not become political, because we have very recent evidence that it could be. We have another oil spill fund that the Democrats just a few weeks ago tried to tap to use to pay unemployment benefits,” Bachmann said during an appearance on Fox News. “So it’s certainly reasonable and legitimate for members of Congress to be concerned that an oil spill fund goes specifically, 100 percent to make the victims of this environmental tragedy whole.”

Bachmann said that Barton’s remarks were only on his own behalf and that she thought that his subsequent apologies for his original remarks made clear that BP was responsible for the spill and making its victims whole.