"Disdainful Asshole"

Following up on our post yesterday, we notice some interesting facts about Texas Rethug Rep. Joe "Not A Smart 'Un" Barton:

-- he's collected some $1.4 million in contributions from the oil and gas industry during his career
-- he's the #1 recipient of oil and gas money in the House
-- before his election to Congress, he was an executive at ARCO, a company that was later bought out by (drum roll, please) BP.

Jon Stewart did a segment on Barton last night that's a classic. Let's not forget, however, that Barton was only echoing the sentiments of other wingnuts like hate radio's Limpballs, and his House colleague crazy Michele "The Commie Hunter" Bachmann had expressed just a day earlier. It's also worth noting Rethug John "Boner" Boehner's gaffe earlier in the week where he suggested that the government should share cleanup costs with BP. See the pattern? When the Rethugs speak candidly, they defend big oil, Wall Street financiers, and the health insurance industry. In fact, that's whose interests they represent, and it's only when their game is exposed are they forced to issue false "apologies."

UPDATE: The DNC is out with its "Stop Apologizing" ad (hee-hee):


(photo: The disdainful asshole himself)