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Joe Barton...

Yeah, the hypocrisy is staggering. And since I fell most politicians are hypocrites, it takes a lot of hypocrisy for me to say that.
If Barton is Geary, then who will be Michael Corleone?
 
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It's been so long since I saw The Godfather II, I can't remember who Senator Geary was. Is he the one who woke up to find his favorite horse's head under his bedsheets?

Barton apologizes for his apology

WASHINGTON — Representative Joe L. Barton had to be truly sorry by the time he apologized for his apology on Thursday.

In the four hours between his televised apology to BP — for what he called a $20 billion “shakedown” by President Obama for loss claims in the gulf oil spill — and his apology for that apology, Mr. Barton, a Republican from Texas, had been pummeled in the blogosphere, assailed by Democratic Party operatives and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and, in the blow that landed, threatened by Republican leaders with being yanked from the party’s top seat on the powerful House energy committee.

By day’s end, the Barton sideshow had become the main show in Congress, eclipsing the much-anticipated grilling of BP’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, by members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, and Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Republican whip, summoned Mr. Barton and he “was told to apologize, immediately, or he would lose his spot, immediately,” a senior aide said. “We’ll see what happens going forward.”
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"We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked." That's what this reminds me of.

Michael
 
Was he sitting underneath Hayward's table when he said it? Did he sound muffled?
 
Puppycow said:
It's been so long since I saw The Godfather II, I can't remember who Senator Geary was. Is he the one who woke up to find his favorite horse's head under his bedsheets?

Barton apologizes for his apology



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No, he is a Senator from Nevada who is portrayed as a total hypocrite,who takes money and favors from the Corleones, while privately calling Michael a "dirty greaseball who is ruining the clean air of Nevada",and pushing what we now call Family values. Michael takes visable pleasure,when he makes the Senator a offer he can't refuse when the Senator is caught in bed with a dead Prostitute in a Corleone owned house of Prostitution....
 
You have to give Joe credit for one thing: he has become both the most widely despised Congressman in America and a National Laughing Stock in just a couple of days....
 
It just seemed to fit. Sometime last week, Stewart did a bit likening Haley Barbour to the mayor in Jaws... the Barton/Geary analogy just seemed to yell to me.
 
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