Yeah, Smokey Joe Really Said That
Smokey Joe Barton (he’s been bought by the oil bidness) is a Texas congressidiot who gleefully admitted that all those times the GOP voted to repeal Obamacare was a waste of time, my money, and everybody’s intelligence.
Smokey Joe makes the newspapers:
Reporters asked why, after Republicans held dozens of nearly-unanimous votes to repeal Obamacare under President Obama, they were getting cold feet now that they control the levers of power.
“Sometimes you’re playing Fantasy Football and sometimes you’re in the real game,” he said. “We knew the president, if we could get a repeal bill to his desk, would almost certainly veto it. This time we knew if it got to the president’s desk it would be signed.”
So Joe and the Republicans spent eight damn years in a Fantasy game?
Nice of him to admit it.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
You know, a firing squad is too effen good for that fat waste of oxygen!
1Smokey Schmuck and the rest of the alleged “fiscal conservatives” need to own their ‘contributions’ to the cost of government starting with their Benghazi witch hunts x10 or so and symbolically ridiculous votes to repeal the ACA x60. When the snacilbupeR aren’t wasting money, we can count on them to waste time.
Math and cost is not their forte, to say the least. Math and history are not on their side, while reality continues to go over their pointy little heads.
Donnie and the clowns went over the cliff with Lyin’ Ryan on the repeal/replace cliff.
As said by Smokey Joe without a clue to what he said: “Sometimes you’re playing Fantasy Football and sometimes you’re in the real game,” he said. “We knew the president, if we could get a repeal bill to his desk, would almost certainly veto it. This time we knew if it got to the president’s desk it would be signed.”
D’oh Joe, you couldn’t get that crap past your own snacilbupeR owned House.
snacilbupeR reality, such as reality is in their world, demands now that we suspend reality. Meh. They couldn’t hold their snbacilbupeR fantasy together.
They want to strip mental health services from the ACA, while at the same time pandering to the NRA and claiming that guns are not the problem, mental health is. Same dimwitted fools that voted to allow those with diminished capacity to own guns. http://thehill.com/regulation/317634-house-republicans-block-obama-era-gun-rule
St00pid, deliberately disingenuous, or felony greedy
2We know how to work with pretend facts, and pretend to be able to work with facts…
3He may as well admit it was a fantasy game; the rest of us knew it all along.
For a party that claims to care about the government wasting money, they sure waste a huge pile of our money.
4All those votes to repeal ACA.
5All those questions to Republicans concerning what they would replace it with.
In the end, like Nixon’s 1968 Secret Plan to End the War in Vietnam, the American people voted for invisible nothing.
I can’t decide whether old Smokey was just arrogant enough to believe that admitting that was okay, due to his belief that repugnantcans are in permanent control, or he’s just STUPID enough to be oblivious to how bad it makes them look to anyone with half a brain. What it really illustrates to me is how, even though repugnantcans always talk tough, democrats have the real courage to do the hard work, knowing it’s gonna piss off a lot of people. Even a lot of folks who are gonna be directly benefited by their labor. Repugnantcans politicians are cowards when the chips are down. Say that reminds me. I think Ted Poe started his 2020 presidential campaign yesterday. Based on a story on Politico about him quitting the Freedom Caucus.
6Wow!
7Not to mention the 27 billion or so they wasted on the government shutdown. These idiots are the scourge of democracy. They are destroying the environment, the economy and our government. God help us.
8All those votes to repeal ACA cost $87,000,000.00 in taxpayer dollars. Those dollars could have been used to feed hungry children (3,000,000 approx in the US), heat the houses of old people who can’t afford heat (don’t have that number, but its high). The list goes on, poor schools, clean water etc. I want those evil idiots in GOP land to pay ever cent back to the U S treasury from their own pockets. Then I will send a bill for Benghazi.
9Anyone else f**king mad?
Less fantasy, more delusion.
10Look out, Austin: the Palin clan and their captive MOH holder, Duhkotah are planning to move to Austin very soon. You lucky people get to deal with Extra-Added Stupid, although it’s tough to get worse than Gohmert, PJ Kid, Abbott, Perry, et al.
Constant Vigilance!!!
11Well, Smokey, don’t expect any astonishment from out here! What you all were doing was as obvious as a continuous fireworks display! Now, crawl back in your damn hole and zip it up after your sorry self!
12@Old Fart#3- You described Republicans in general.They solved their problem of not being able to deal with reality by not trying. Everything is approached from the perspective of their ideomythology, which has no basis in reality. It’s what Newt the toot was talking about the other day.
13@L’Angelomisterioso#13: Funny you should say that. I had come to the conclusion that Congress has gone down the scat-hole ever since Mega-babyhead came upon the scene. The end of collegial relations across the aisle seemed to be pronounced with it’s arrival.
14And then it got worse…