And Don’t Break Any Mirrors!
Y’all have heard me talk about Texas Republican Congressman Smokey Joe Barton a couple dozen times. His seat tray is not in the full, upright, and locked position.
He’s called Smokey Joe because he’s in the hip pocket of the petroleum industry.
He’s also a details man.
Barton on Wednesday successfully changed the bill number for his legislation repealing a decades-old ban on crude oil exports from 666, a figure frequently tied to the antichrist and Satanism, to the more anodyne 702.
“It quickly became clear that the original bill number carried many different negative connotations,” Barton spokesman Sean Brown said in an email. “We decided it was best to change it so people will focus on the content of the legislation, not the bill number.”
Yeah, because repealing the ban on exports of crude oil is evil enough with announcing Armageddon.
Thanks to Jan for the heads up.
Slightly off topic. U.S. Highway 666 used to run north from Gallup New Mexico. They changed it to another number because the Christians were afraid to drive on it.
1OK, so just to make sure I have this correct, Old 666 Barton denies science, yet feels he is competent to write legislation regarding oil.
Oops silly me. Of course he didn’t write the bill. He was merely submitting his Koch masters work as his own.
Plagiarizing from the Kochs should be enough to boot him out of the House. His 666 problem should be enough to earn him special housing in a Jim Jones style summer camp.
2There ain’t no 13th floor in any hotel Joe stays at either.
3So there have been 666 bills introduced in the House of Koch, but have ANY passed?
4So, how many letters were there in Ronald Wilson Reagan’s name? Speaking of the devil. . . .
5Hey, I remember him. He apologized to some damn Wall Street Banker who was in real voodoo with the government for the way the government was treating him. What a twinkie!
6Dear Congressman Barton,
RE: 666
It’s an f’ing number, just like 702. Don’t let it frighten you.
7Speaking of Ronald R., in 1989 when he and Nancy moved to Bel-Air, their new street address was 666 St. Cloud Road. It was soon changed to 668 St. Cloud Road.
8Certain numbers frighten him? Obviously facts do too. Maybe he should go home and hide in a closet for a while. Quite a long while. Until someone with sense is elected. (And that could take a *real* long while.)
9The evil isn’t in the number–it’s in the bill.
10Who could ever forget Oily Joe apologizing to BP head honcho Tony Hayward, for causing the BP oil leak in the Gulf?
The brown nosing starts about 1:30 into the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv0siXm2cpc
11Just another one of those crazy Republicans from that crazy state of Texas who is afraid to antagonize the crazy tea baggers who make up his base. And this is the twenty-first century.
12There are 666 reasons to hate rightwing nutjobs like Joe Barton. Actually there are more than that but I like the connotation of 666.
13This guy could break a mirror by looking at it.
14If you haven’t already done so… Google Fred Koch…. father of the infamous Koch Brothers… he was a founder of the John Birch Society. What you wanna bet Smokey Joe is a card carrying member, too?
15If you waved $666 at Smokey Joe would it get his attention?
16Seems like I recall some religikooks freaked about San Marcos’s zip code of 78666 awhile back. It’s a flippin’ epistolary epidemic.
17I shall be forever indebted to UmptyDump for linking me to “Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian.” I’ll have to go see what she has to say about 666. I don’t know if Texas republican politicians are really nuttier than the others or if you just have more of ’em.
18Isn’t 702 the area code for Vegas?
19There’s not enough drinking water in the world.
There’s not enough food in the world.
There’s not enough medicine, clothing or shelter in the world.
And if you want to say “screw the world” these things are also true for people in America. For people in Texas. For people in Barton’s home town of Waco.
The poverty level in Waco is 30%.
The only people worried about being tagged with 666 are the ones working for Satan.
20It was a bad bill, no matter the number.
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