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Smokey Joe Barton

By Jay Newton-Small | @JNSmall | June 21, 2010 | +

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  • http://phd9.blogspot.com Paul Dirks

    At each bullet point I found myself thinking “Oh, was that the same guy?”
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    I’d thank you for all your hard work, but I suspect it was actually pretty easy!

  • gysgt213

    “They’ve also defined his gaffes.”
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    Is it a gaffe when someone says what he or she believes? Or is it a gaffe because he or she says it out loud?
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    Might not agree with Joe Barton, but he is coming to the aid and defense of one his major constituents. An International oil company. The fact that he has been showing this type support to big corporations for quite some time now, yet still gets elected to retain his seat every 2 years should tell everyone that the people of his district are aware of who and what he supports and they are fine with it.
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  • 53_3

    “But his discussion of the various shapes — “tall clouds or skinny clouds, short clouds, fat clouds, high clouds, low clouds” — comes off as more Sesame Street than science.”
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    Well researched documentation supporting his hypothesis:

  • http://elvisberg.wordpress.com Elvis Elvisberg

    Right– this is not a “gaffe.” This is what he thinks. That’s why he wrote it down and that’s why he said it. He has always had those views.
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    That’s why he got to chair the Rules Committee back when the GOP controlled the House.
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    He’s not some silly guy saying silly stuff– he’s a guy who has been an integral part of the GOP leadership for at least the past ten years because he is gleefully ignorant.

  • Ivy_B

    Good bullet points, JNS. However I have to agree with gunny and Elvis. This isn’t a gaffe – that was a Repub talking point to try to minimize it. Much like the way they started referring to this as a natural disaster as early as June. Thank you Frank Luntz. See below.

    http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/07/freedomworks-bp-natural-disaster/

  • notfooledbydistractions

    Joe Barton is the walking talking embodiment of why you don’t educate your children in Texas.

  • nflfoghorn

    Miss Prissy Tweeted:
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    “RahmEmanuel= as shallow/narrowminded/political/irresponsible as they come,to falsely claim Barton’s BP comment is ‘GOP philosophy’”
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    The Voice of Authority hath spoken!

  • billiecat

    That’s a nice little piece, JNS, but you use “tact” when you mean “tack.” I noticed another time you used “jive” when you meant “jibe,” I deduce from these errors that you are not a sailor.

  • sevenoaks07

    I don’t discount this man. He is a mainstream “thinker”, and I use that word with care, as far as Texas Republicans go. He does not allow fact to get in the way of his fiction. And he gets re-elected again and again What does that tell you about his con-stituents?

  • hellslittlestangel

    It’s like there’s a secret Republican contest to see who can be the biggest fool.

  • http://milascurtains.wordpress.com milascurtains

    pure ideology.
    Renewed GO-BP expressed their ideology pretty clear
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