And That’s Why They Call Him Smokey Joe
Smoky Joe Barton, congressvarmint from Texas, got his name because he’s a playtoy of big oil and coal.
In the Pruitt hearing today, he felt real sorry for his hero, Scott Pruitt, because Pruitt was a victim of politics. And then Smoky Joe said he’s not for too much clean air. He told Pruitt —
“You got picked to be the EPA administrator because of the service you provided for the great state of Oklahoma in fighting some of the Obama administration radical clean air policies.”
Yeah, too much clean air is a radical idea.
Then poor ole Joe asks this:
“You’ve been attacked for flying first class,” Barton explained. “Is that illegal?”
“That was approved by the travel office and security team at the EPA,” Pruitt replied.
Joe, nobody said it was illegal. It’s wasteful of taxpayer money, cocky, entitled, and incredibly stoopid, but not illegal.
Watch out, Louie Gohmert, somebody is chasing you.
Illegal to fly 1st class? Good question Smokey Joe, you really made a point. And I believed you also showed everyone it’s certainly not illegal to ask stupid questions in Congressional hearings.
Freedom.
1The spaying and neutering of snacilbupeR is failing to remedy the problem. Something more urgent in pest control is needed. Perhaps a gentile version of drawn and quartering.
2I predict that Pruitt has authorized a study to determine if there is a way to charge people for air quality…can’t pay? Screw you — you get asthma and no health care.
3Stupidity is a virtue in wingnut-world.
Even the stupid deserve representation. At last count, it’s about 40% of us that are bona fide idiots. With our effed up electoral college, that’s good enough for a win!
4easttxdem, the war is on between not so ‘intelligent’ design and rational thinking. Or, as Roberto so succinctly stated, “Stupidity is a virtue in wingnut-world.”
The self-proclaimed party of fiscal ‘conservatism’ is a cult of frauds and welfare groupies. They’re not the astute business people they think themselves to be. If they were, they’d have made their move to energy independence in the 70s and created a way to sell the sun to Exxon-Mobil and the other oil cartels. Instead they mask their regressive mint julep sodden fears and attachment to the ‘better’ days of a past when white and economic ‘superiority’ was a guaranteed right. Now they’re aligned with Dotard45 and other oligarchs rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to slant the economic playing field for their very survival. Basically parasites that strive to kill the host without a clue as to how they have become an endangered species through their own st00pid. Freedumb!
Ironic and almost laughable if not for the fact the rest of us are also endangered by their ‘thinking.’ The same idiots who deny science and eschew technology expect science & technology to save them from their st00pidity.
5“Nah, nah, nahyaa, I can’t hear you because I have $43,000 of taxpayer funded bananas in me ear!”
6Isn’t Smokey Joe stepping down after this term and retiring to someplace with green trees and clean air and water ??
7What do you expect from this energy industry lickspittle, the guy who offered a public apology to Exxon/Mobil representatives, due to the tough questioning they were getting from Congress over that massive Gulf oil spill? Barton can’t be gone quick enough to suit me.
8The massive spill caused by BP?
The usual suspects I rely upon to keep me abreast of all things Judge Louie have said nary word lately. Nor have they mentioned Bristol Palin.
Say, come to think of it, has anybody ever seen both of them in the same room?
9Is there a requirement for rethuglican congressvarmints (and senate varments) the provide proof positive of a very low one and one half or low double digit IQ in order to receive the backing of the GOP? Just wondering.
10t has always amazed me that the RWNJs who back bad air and poisonous water think that there is some magic involved between them and that which will actually kill them as fast and as ugly as the “libruls” they scorn.
11Is Minnie the Moocher involved here at all? I could have sworn Smokey Joe was her “gentleman friend.”
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