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Ahhh yes. A man after my own hard, cold heart!

By: mbecker908 (Diary)  |  November 30th, 2010 at 10:33 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Congressman Joe Barton

Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) is the recipient of the first of what hopefully will be many awards of the 908 Straight St Know Your Enemy Award.

I’ve been harping for a long time that elected Democrats are NOT just honorable people who view the world differently than I do. They are the enemy of the American Dream and they are far more dangerous to our national security than Al Qaeda could or ever will be. It’s about time we – and especially our elected Republican representatives – started treating them that way. I am beyond sick to death of hearing people like Orrin Hatch and John McCain talk about “…my friend – and he IS my friend – Senator Kennedy [or any other elected Dem]…” Note to Republican House Members and Senators: if you’ve “friends” on the other side of the aisle, either get new friends or find a new job.

Anyway, with respect to Congressman Barton, he is the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He will, hopefully, be the Chairman of that committee in the new Congress. He’s drawing a very nice line in the sand with what appears to be a pretty big backhoe according to the Washington Post.

If the Obama administration was hoping to see hints of bipartisanship from the Hill, it might want to skip over the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The committee’s ranking Republican, Rep. Joe L. Barton (Tex.), has a slide presentation that he’s e-mailing to colleagues, pledging to do for the administration what Gen. George Patton and company did for Germany.

I love the guy. In a manly sort of way of course. And he goes on to lay out the organization for the Congress that really appeals to me…

“Speaker Boehner is our Dwight Eisenhower in the battle against the Obama Administration. Majority Leader Cantor is our Omar Bradley. I want to be George Patton – put anything in my scope and I will shoot it.”

Call John Boehner today and support Joe Barton for Chairman of Energy and Commerce at (202) 225-6205 or send him a fax at (202) 225-0704.

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  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    He fights the professional “Scientists” of the Left. His heart has been hardened through his repeated fights against snake-oil salesmen and charlatans.

  • chbroussard

    Am proud that Texans continue to send Joe Barton to DC. Definitely one of the good guys. Hopefully in some small way it helps negate the embarrassment that some of my fellow Texans also continue to send Sheila Jackson Lee to DC.

  • luciusacius

    I’m thinking that Rep. Darrell Issa is in the running for that one as well.

    • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

      in 1946 if we’d had TWO Pattons. Of course you’d also have had to reduce the general count by one Ike. :-)

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    …and we all know who should be Joe’s lead consultant.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    My favorite (of many) Barton story is this one:

    In July 2009, the Dems were desperate to jam the health steal bill through committee, get it on the floor and voted on before the August recesses, knowing the Dems would get killed at home by an enraged and unwilling citizenry.

    Enter Joe Barton. Ranking member has few rights, especially when Dems are in the majority, and the Dems had a 35-23 member advantage. But Barton got 300 amendments introduced, and 50-ish actually debated. The Dems were so frustrated they took a 10-day recess to try to cope with the delays. They finally got it through COMMITTEE (not even introduced to the House floor) the Friday night before the August recesses started.

    And you know how those August recesses went.

    In professional wrestling parlance, it was a tag team match. Barton held them tied up in the ropes until he could tag….the America people.

    More of that please,