Under intense pressure from the spineless Republican leadership, all of whom deserve to lose in November, Sen. Joe Burton has retracted his apology to BP for the president’s total disregard for the rule of law in shaking BP down for $20 billion. Picture this, the leadership of BP sitting a room with the President and the Attorney General, who is threatening them with criminal charges that could land them in jail, “asking” these BP leaders to fork over $20 billion dollars of their shareholders money to the US government. No, that’s not a shakedown, just ask Tony Soprano.