After Promising To Have Waxman ‘By The Nuts,’ Joe Barton Whines About Getting Beat ‘Time After Time’
After Promising To Have Waxman ‘By The Nuts,’ Joe Barton Whines About Getting Beat ‘Time After Time’
A week ago, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, bet he would have committee chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) “by the nuts” during the markup of landmark climate and energy legislation by the committee:
He has got a chance to get the votes. If you are familiar with Texas Hold ‘Em poker, he doesn’t have the nuts. It is not a done deal. Nor do I. … We will see which has the other by the nuts next week.
“This is not going to be one of those gentlemanly, pro forma markups,” Barton swaggered, while circulating a list of hundreds of poison-pill amendments. “We’re prepared for it to take weeks or months.”
Instead, business and industry joined President Obama and environmentalists to support the bill, leaving Barton’s fellow global warming deniers to anonymously snipe at each other. Waxman didn’t blink at Barton’s bluster, even hiring a speedreader to negate Barton’s threat to delay the process by forcing the reading in full of the 937-page legislation and every amendment.
As Waxman steered the markup and Obama announced groundbreaking limits on global warming pollution from automobiles, Barton talked about the CO2 in Dr. Pepper. Republicans were left flailing, accusing Democrats of engineering economic catastrophe one moment and of being the party of big business the next. As his defeat became certain, Barton whined about being “beat time after time after time after time”:
It’s easy on the majority to keep up a good-faith attitude because you’re winning. . . . It’s not a lot of fun, as you well know, having been in the minority yourself for twelve years, to work very hard and put just as much effort and put just as much focus, and get beat time after time after time after time 36 to 22, 31 to 20, whatever it is.
Watch it:
The final vote in favor of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) was 35 to 23. Barton’s dirty-energy alternative failed 19 to 35, with two Republicans abstaining.
In the showdown between Waxman and Barton, it turned out to be the Texan who was all hat and no cattle.
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Trolls also like to get beat time after time…I wonder if Smokey Joe likes it as much as our trolls
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:04 pmHey Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), HOLD THESE YOU OBSTRUCTIONIST REGRESSIVE SOON TO SECEDE MUTHER FCUKER!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 pmBarton: …he doesn’t have the nuts. It is not a done deal. Nor do I. . . We will see which has the other by the nuts next week.
– - Barton is too inept to handle a two-house paper route.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:10 pmI don’t know what kind of poker Joe Barton is playing, but I’m pretty sure “by the nuts” is a reference to grabbing another guy’s scrotum.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 pmSomebody get Barton off of capitol hill. Win, lose, texas hold em, hold the nuts. This man is treating our legislature as if it were playpoker.com!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:14 pmfletc3her Says:
I don’t know what kind of poker Joe Barton is playing, but I’m pretty sure “by the nuts” is a reference to grabbing another guy’s scrotum.
Well, he is a teabagger…maybe he means to gently suckle his friend’s scrotum in his mouth…CFP, a little clarification please?
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 pmWhat we have here is another Republican whining again.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pmSmoky Joe Barton: WATB
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pmSpeaking of nuts, Joe Barton is another one of the growing number of nuts on the right.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 pmFantasy nutbags
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 pmSoftly plopping from the sky
In Joe Barton’s dreams
Nuts!, get your nuts here, hot fresh nuts!
Freshly dipped in a liveley Smokey saliva tea sauce!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pmAnd its a duplex…
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:20 pmHey Barton why don’t you give your BFF a hand picking up dog shit over the Memorial Weekend break as that’s about all you’re good for!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pmIt’s nice to have some evolution and movement in our government and legislation.
Of course it’s not a perfect world and not everyone is going to satisfied with new legislation. It will be too much for some and not enough for others, but it’s great to be moving forward instead of stagnating while the rest of the world moves into the 21st Century.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 pmWhat in the Sam-heck is wrong with the voters of Texas, that they elect such D-bags to represent them?
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:27 pmRepublicans have a disconcerting obsession with the genitals of Democrats.
Da Banksta
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 pmWow. What a bunch of wimps. Now the RNC is retooling the imfamous ‘Daisy’ ad of the 70s. What a progressive, original idea!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:32 pmGOP: The Pity Party.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:35 pmTo quote Molly Ivins-
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 pmIf you put this guy’s brain in a bumblebee, it would fly backwards.
The Republican Party’s new mantra..”Don’t Look Back” …because you may realize that the past is where we get ALL of our fresh new ideas!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:43 pmtime to call whine wun wun
yet another right winger needs a waaambulance
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:47 pmThreaten and strut, then whine and throw hissy fits.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 pmThat’s the republican way of doing the business of congress.
What he didn’t explain about “by the nuts” was that he was talking “teabaging” his nuts…
…what is it with these Republic Fascist Party guys and perverted sex stuff…
…is that all they think about?
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:59 pmI guess it’s no surprise that Barton represents one of the most energy polluting states in America.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:00 pmWhen Harry Reid gets through capitulating we’ll need 70 votes to pass anything.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:08 pmLooks like Barton was waxed.
Hiring a speedreader was a nice touch.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:15 pmIt’s always about the genitals with the Rushpublicans, ain’t it? Mark Foley, Larry Craig, David Vitter…
Just sayin’…
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:31 pmThe GOP is so devoid of talent that this (idiotic, whiny) man is the ranking Republican on the committee.
Bwwwahhahaha!
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 pmThis just sounds like representative democracy to me. That’s the core of our governmental system.
Too bad, there, eh Rep Barton?
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 pmBut… but… but… this isn’t American democracy — American democracy is letting the republic fascist party strut like a peacock, growl like a guard dog, and then just give them their way like an entitled brat.
However, I suppose that the whiney tempertantrum and perpetual victim, “Oh woe is me”’s is in character with the party of small minded bullies.
Why are you morons allowed NEAR our governmental offices? Why do you conservatives have no respect whatsoever for American law, government, or morals?
Please, don’t go away angry… just go away….
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 pmAnd maybe you “lose” (as if this is some game, you f#cking idiots) time and again because you have no realistic ideas that work — just the same old shit that got us in this mess in the first place.
The republic fascist party wants to regain relevance? First they need to drop everything fascist, and second they need to focus entirely on what is good for the country and the GENERAL populace, not just the rich and corporate.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:02 pmOh, and… GET AWAY FROM MY NUTS, YOU PSYCHO DERANGED SEXUAL PERVERT!!!!
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:24 pmIs this clown up for de-election in 2010. I hope so! To hell with the advantages of a strong 2 party system. Now when there are nothing but nut jobs like this guy on the other side. Bury them all and give Obama a super majority!
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pmWas the Congress controlled by Democrats during the Bush I presidency? And both of Clinton’s terms? Where do those 12 years in the minority come from?
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:21 pmCal Malenky says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 pmI miss Molly Ivins! God that was a funny quote. And apropo.
Back in the late ’50’s thru the mid ’60’s there was a popular college circuit group called Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. Part of their theme song went something like:
“Nuts, Hot Nuts, you get ‘em from the Peanut Man.
Nuts, Hot Nuts, you get ‘em any way you can…”
This story, for some reason, has dragged that memory from deep within my brain, much to my enjoyment.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 pmAhhhhh, Henry Waxman OWNED that smug little barstid Barton!!
*APPLAUSE*
WE NEED MORE LIKE HENRY WAXMAN!!
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 amI have been following this charade for the past week and it appears that Waxman and Barton are both bozos in the same clown unit in the government circus. It’s clear to me that they are simply playing good cop – bad cop with both of them having the same opinion. The American people need to start taking notice of what is going on in Washington and look to the internet for the real news. The so called media on the nightly news is just pandering to the Washington group. Most of the time what the media is reporting is just a smoke screen to cover up what is really happening behind the scenes. I urge all American citizens to email their congressmen and senators and let them know that they should vote “NO” on HR-2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Maurice Strong of the UN are behind this global warming, CO2 scam to take trillions of dollars from the American public and turn it over to the UN for our ultimate demise. Big business is just getting behind this very bad energy bill so they can be first in line to get the 85% free points should this bill pass. Again, I ask every American citizen that does not want our jobs to continue going overseas, and your hard earned money to go towards higher energy bills for generations to come to contact your representatives in Congress and let them know you want them to vote “NO” on HR-2454, the American Energy and Security Act. Do it right now, before it is too late?
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:07 pmUncle Joe must really be into counting ‘mansack’ wrinkles.
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:28 pmLOL, Waxman totally served Barton.
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:28 pm