Dunbest Republican Congressman ever

[Jumping John]

Here is Ted Poe spewing a lie that the 4000 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are currently in drilling mode. Gee how dumb can he be. My research shows that there are currently 819 that are drilling. Gee if there were 4000 then why would there even be a "drill baby drill" cry from him and Palin? I guess he did not think about that or think about getting his facts straight.


the quote and video:

"Mr. Speaker, this chart right here shows the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, and on this chart, out in the Gulf of Mexico, there are about 4,000 offshore rigs. These 4,000 rigs will not be allowed to drill, based upon the administration's moratorium, for the next 6 months. All of these yellow dots represent a drilling rig that is offshore, and they go about 75 to 150 miles off the Texas-Louisiana coast, not counting those off of Mississippi and Alabama."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYVDck4uEn0

[sonias]

1. Now wait a minute

There are lots of dumb Republican Congressman competing for that title. Ted Poe has to stand in line with every other Republican Congressman from Texas. And that is just the way it is. :P

Yes he is Mr. Stupid but but he could only claim that title for a day. Just yesterday that title belonged to John Culberson.
John Culberson: Gulf Oil Spill Is A 'Statistical Anomaly,' Texas Congressman Says
Just saying it's hard to keep up with the stupid in Texas Republicans. :shrug:

So pick any of these idiots below and you'll be able to find something profoundly stupid they've done on any given day of their career in Congress.


Joe Barton
Kevin Brady
Michael Burgess
John Carter
Mike Conaway
John Culberson
Louie Gohmert
Kay Granger
Ralph Hall
Jeb Hensarling
Sam Johnson
Kenny Marchant
Michael McCaul
Randy Neugebauer
Pete Olson
Ron Paul
Ted Poe
Pete Sessions
Lamar Smith
Mac Thornberry

Woe is Texas! :(

[hobbit709]

2. And then they get outdone in stupid by Sen. Cornpone.

Or Gov. Goodhair. Every time one of these clowns hits a new level of stoopid, the others get jealous and try to outdo him.

[sonias]

3. We are a state rich in Republican stupid

Oh if we could only find a way to sell it. :rofl:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Ted Poe used to be a felony court judge. Grandstanding, publicity seeking bastard.

And yes we have lots of candidates for the major league stupid.

Unfortunately, my congressidiot is Joe Barton. And to the north in Tyler we got Louie Goomer the Tumor.

[sonias]

5. It is really hard to crown one of them as "king of stupid"

Each one of them has been an embarrassment to Texas in the past couple of years - bar none. There isn't a sane one among them. I was once represented by Lamar Smith who I called "Lamer"

The Texas Republican congressional delegation can be considered one collective body of stupid - they really don't deviate much from their talking points. Even Ron Paul makes the rest of them look crazy, and Paul is a loon in his own right.

The dictionary could place any one of their pictures with the definition:

dumb, dumber, dumb·est

Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid: dumb officials; a dumb decision.

So when the country gets to vote for dumbest Congressman, we in Texas have an advantage since the whole R delegation can be considered one pool of Texas sized stupid.

:shrug:

[sonias]

6. New contestant - Rep. Joe Barton , R-Arlington

DMN 6/17/10
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton apologizes to BP CEO for '$20 billion shakedown'

WASHINGTON – Rep. Joe Barton , R-Arlington, apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward on Thursday morning for the "political pressure" his company is facing.

Barton condemned the White House's handling of a meeting Wednesday with BP officials, in which President Barack Obama pushed the company to create a $20 billion escrow account for damage claims from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The congressman called the account a "slush fund."

The statement drew a rare and forceful denunciation from the White House.

Barton made the remarks at a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing that is ongoing. Hayward is before the committee to testify about his company’s handling of spill.

"I am ashamed of what happened at the White House yesterday," said Barton, the top Republican on the committee. "It is a tragedy in the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown – in this case a $20 billion shakedown."

See dumb ass idiot Smokey Joe is defending his constituency - big oil over the rights of hard working people in the gulf coast who just want to get paid for their pain, suffering and loss of income.

Joe Barton is today's Dumbest Texas Congressman! :mad:

[derby378]

7. If David Cozad doesn't seize the moment and capitalize on this...

...he deserves to lose the election. End of story.

There is blood in the water, and David needs to turn "great white" on Smokey Joe.

[sonias]

8. Video of stupid ass smokey joe

Texas GOPer apologizes to BP, criticizes White House "shakedown", creation of "slush fund"

Is Oil and Gas a big employer in this district? I agree that Cozad has been handed an opportunity he should use it.

[white cloud]

9. Barton has to be the mouth piece for

his $1.3 million from BP.

[sonias]

10. Him and a bunch of others

Houston Chronicle 6/17/10
Texans in Congress hold deep financial ties to energy sector

WASHINGTON -- Texas lawmakers from the nation's Oil Belt are among dozens of members of Congress who have reported personal financial holdings in the nation's energy sector — even as they prepare possible punitive legislation following BP's Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Dallas, and two Houston-area House members held personal energy sector financial holdings worth at least $317,000, almost all of it belonging to Hutchison, at the end of 2009, according to annual personal financial disclosure statements released by the Senate and the House on Wednesday.

Records show Hutchison has interests in CenterPoint Energy, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Chevron and Halliburton, valued at between $315,000 and $750,000.

Reps. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson, reported holdings between $2,000 and $7,000 at the end of 2009.

Two others, Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, arranged extensions to file their 2009 reports, but both had energy interests in 2008.

McCaul's report from 2008 showed energy financial interests totaling between $564,039 and $1.8 million - part of 560 personal assets that totaled between $38.1 million and $101.2 million, making him the fifth wealthiest House member in 2008.

[tammywammy]

16. He's got a statement on his webpage

"Things were not looking so good, until my opponent said something that triggered me into looking for how was Joe Barton connected to the British Petroleum disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It turns out Joe Barton is up to his nose in this disaster. I am producing a number of videos for national distribution to educate the American people in all aspects of this disaster. The disaster is not just oil rolling up on the beaches of the Gulf or all the animals dying. It will effect the use of energy in this nation. It will effect national security. It will effect the national economy. It will effect this country’s future in a big way. More on this later."

http://www.cozadforcongress.com/

[onestepforward]

11. After this remark, he has definitely earned "first place."

Check out this t-shirt:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8581956

[sonias]

13. That was quick

Not just the t-shirt but Smokey Joe's apology/retraction.

You gotta know his own GOP put him on the racks for that stupid remark!

:spank:

[sonias]

15. Tripping Through the Barton-o-sphere

Talking Points Memo 6/17/10
Tripping Through the Barton-o-sphere

(snip)
So in honor of the day we've put together a list of top Barton video moments from the last year. Feast your eyes.

Barton's greatest hits video

[sonias]

25. Gillman: Republicans have another mess to clean up

DMN 6/18/10
Gillman: Republicans have another mess to clean up

WASHINGTON – When the toxic goo is splashing, there's only one thing to do: Deploy the containment booms and backpedal, hard.

Ask congressional Republicans. They were doing that all day after Rep. Joe Barton's tone-deaf apology Thursday to BP spattered them with just the sort of gunk it's hard to wash off from your nice election-year power suit.

This wasn't some innocent victim: This was BP, the multinational oil company whose errors, bad luck and lack of contingency plans befouled the Gulf of Mexico, killing pelicans, fisheries and the livelihood of thousands of Americans. BP's own leaders have embarked on an apology tour to save their jobs and the company's future.

Yet Barton, R-Arlington, called it a "tragedy" that BP's chief executive was called to the White House and pressured into setting aside a $20 billion compensation fund.

For Democrats, Barton's gusher was Texas tea.

Instead of all the corrosive talk about Barack Obama's inability to knock heads and turn off the nasty spigot, the storyline instantly turned into this: Just how far in the pockets of Big Oil are those guys?

Well I guess we should be thanking Joe Barton for sticking his fat foot in his fat mouth. :shrug:

[Loki]

12. I called Ted Poe's office today

because he is my asshole Republican representative and told the girl who answered, I expect a call from him regarding his stand on what Mr. Barton said in the hearing today and how appalled I was that someone would take the side of a corporation over American citizens. All of you in Texas, let your reps hear from you and let them hear your anger.

[sonias]

14. Good for you Loki!

:applause:
:yourock:

[tammywammy]

17. My comments sent to Barton today

Representative Barton,

Your remarks today apologizing to BP is beyond appalling. It's a disgrace that you're my so called "representative" in Congress. To apologize to the company that has cause unknown grave damage to the Gulf of Mexico, as well as those that live there is flat out disgusting.

Thank you for solidifying my vote for your opponent in November.

tammywammy


Okay the last line is a slight lie, I was already going to vote for Cozad, but thought this was a nice end kicker.

[sonias]

18. Good job!

Way to go Tammy!

:yourock:

[tammywammy]

19. It didn't go through

"Command output: Mail quota exceeded."

That's what my undeliverable email said. I will try again tomorrow. :)

[tammywammy]

20. Okay I tried again this morning.

Hopefully it goes through this time. Fuck that Barton piece of trash. I'm thankful I can say I've never voted for that fucker.

[white cloud]

21. Thanks Joe Petro Barton

I am sending him letter also. He needs to resign. He does not rep the people whom voted him in office.

A BP letter
http://zenarchery.com/?p=1410

[white cloud]

22. An open letter to BP’s PR department

An open letter to BP’s PR department
By admin | Published: June 4, 2010
Dear BP’s PR department:

First of all, let’s get one thing very, very clear before we go any further: your company has fucked up. Not “made a regrettable error” or “inadvertently” anything. You have caused a massive unnatural disaster. Right now, pretty much everybody on the planet hates your guts. There are guys in caves in Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden, sitting around a radio playing the BBC World Service, going “Dude, seriously, fuck BP.”

I can’t imagine there’s anybody who doesn’t actually sit on your board of directors who doesn’t want to kick your asses right now. And by “you”, I mean “everybody who works for BP, including the PR department, the receptionists and probably the janitorial staff”.

So, now that we’ve got that out of the way….

I understand that it is your job to try and make BP’s relations with the public as optimal as possible. You want the public to love your company, to want to consume your products and make everybody a lot of money. You do this, by and large, by figuring out ways to make BP look like the coolest, most environmentally-conscious company in the world. This is a very difficult thing to do when you’re dumping gazillions of gallons of death sauce into the Gulf of Mexico. So you’re probably very busy right now.

One thing you might want to do, however, is to recognize that you’re going to have to ignore one of the basic tenets of public relations: what I mean is, you have to admit you’re wrong. Really, really wrong. Like, the only thing you could have done that was worse was to basically just light the fucking planet on fire while raping babies.

You also need to admit that you were completely careless and ignored your own engineers, who told you this was probably going to happen. You also ignored the fact that your oil well starting actually falling apart like Lindsey Lohan on a mescaline margarita in March, which might have alerted you to a problem.

We know why you did. You’re a corporation. Your job is to make money. And you were afraid you were going to not make as much money if you stopped and actually built an oil well that could actually do the job it was intended for. Let me underline that: there was never, ever any chance you’d lose money on this. You just might have made less money in the short term.

Look: you sell petroleum. You sell the one thing that every nation on the planet is willing to go to war to possess. You’re like Nino Brown in New Jack City, if the entire world was Chris Rock. You’re our momma, you’re our daddy, you’re our nigga in the alley. You’re our pusherman.

The worst that might have happened was that you spent a few million dollars shoring up the Deepwater Horizon, and then you would have gone on making lots more money because it wouldn’t have blown the fuck up. As far as the world is concerned, the only good thing about this spill is that every barrel of that oil is one less barrel you can make a profit on. You’re losing billions of dollars here.

Not that anybody feels sorry for you on that account, so don’t try that tack. It won’t work. In fact, there’s only really one strategy that will be at all effective in saving your company from a planet-wide boycott and bad press the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since Adolf and Eva did their William Tell routine in the bunker in 1945.

It’s very simple. It will work. Nobody will like you, but at least they won’t hate you to the point where they might actually pressure their governments into hounding you into bankruptcy and madness.

[sonias]

24. "admit that you were completely careless and ignored your own engineers"

Oh that will be the day. Oh they can fake an apology but take responsibility for being greedy and careless - not a chance in hell.

On the other hand the "hounding you into bankruptcy and madness" is probably the way this is going to play out. BP will cease to exist but our Gulf Coast will still be screwed. I'm grateful to Obama for getting them to set aside 20B for immediate damages. It's franking going to take a lot more.

[sonias]

23. Ha ha - his mail box was swamped

Too bad we couldn't send him some oil in his mail box to cuddle up to.