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.