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The Orange Man is Eisenhower reincarnate!

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 1:38 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Betcha didn't know that!
Quote:

If the Obama administration was hoping to see hints of bipartisanship from the Hill, it might want to skip over the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The committee's ranking Republican, Rep. Joe L. Barton (Tex.), has a slide presentation that he's e-mailing to colleagues, pledging to do for the administration what Gen. George Patton and company did for Germany. The first slides are standard campaign material, with Barton asking to be elected by the new House Republican majority to be chairman of the committee.

He naturally touts his conservative credentials, saying, "I know the ropes and can hit the ground running immediately." He especially appeals to the newly elected members, saying he would make sure they are represented on the powerful committee.

Then comes the money slide, titled: "What's in Store for the Obama Administration," with photos of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Generals Omar Bradley and George Patton in uniform.



"Speaker Boehner is our Dwight Eisenhower in the battle against the Obama Administration. Majority Leader Cantor is our Omar Bradley. I want to be George Patton - put anything in my scope and I will shoot it."

http://celebrifi.com/gossip/In-slideshow-Rep-Joe-Barton-declares-war-o
n-the-Obama-administration-4147385.html
Quote:

Congressman Joe Barton, the infamous BP apologist and lightbulb warrior, is vying for the powerful Energy and Commerce committee chairmanship. And his vision, as detailed in a children's PowerPoint presentation, is to role-play as a WWII general and shoot liberals.

Barton apparently doesn't trust his sweet siren's voice enough to merely explain to his colleagues, in spoken form, why he should chair this committee, which oversees more or less everything important. He needs to make a cute nine-slide PowerPoint presentation too.

Some people are getting all up in arms over [the above] image, claiming that Barton is either threatening to assassinate the president or likening his opponents to Nazis, which is Offensive. Too nitpicky! We just think Barton is 12 years old, and feel sorry for whichever assistant communications aide had to update culled slides from an old 7th grade U.S. History report to appease the boss on his latest sugar high.

http://gawker.com/5702460/congressman-outlines-war-fantasy-with-fancy-
powerpoint


I do love his "bullet points" (or should that be "bullshit points"?) in the presentation; they say it all:
Quote:

"My vision:
1. Focus on Key Priorities:
* Repeal Obamacare and replace with pro-market reforms
* Communicate clearly to promote successes of our members"

"Who is Joe Barton?
* Led Republican resistance to Obamacare in committee:
- Forced markup in committee to take more than 17 days
* Led fight against Cap-and-Trade
- Forced Democrats to endure 4-day markup, with 300 prepared amendments and 47 offered amendments"

The full the slides at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/11/29/GA2010
112904227.html#photo=10


Man, that is SOME resume and goals, I'm impressed...aren't you? To hell with the American people, I'm working for OBSTRUCTIONISM all the way! Vote for me! Yay!

Oh, yeah...it's gonna be a great two years, a time of compromise and bipartisanship to end all (...of US). Ain't politics FUN tho'? Especially now that "the adults" [sic] are in charge!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off





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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:11 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


We need another Patton right about now.




" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:12 PM

BLUEHANDEDMENACE


Wait, the guys ACCOMPLISHMENTS are that he made stuff take longer in committee and on the floor?

HuhWhat? I dun get it....

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:54 PM

KANEMAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Betcha didn't know that!
Quote:

If the Obama administration was hoping to see hints of bipartisanship from the Hill, it might want to skip over the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The committee's ranking Republican, Rep. Joe L. Barton (Tex.), has a slide presentation that he's e-mailing to colleagues, pledging to do for the administration what Gen. George Patton and company did for Germany. The first slides are standard campaign material, with Barton asking to be elected by the new House Republican majority to be chairman of the committee.

He naturally touts his conservative credentials, saying, "I know the ropes and can hit the ground running immediately." He especially appeals to the newly elected members, saying he would make sure they are represented on the powerful committee.

Then comes the money slide, titled: "What's in Store for the Obama Administration," with photos of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Generals Omar Bradley and George Patton in uniform.



"Speaker Boehner is our Dwight Eisenhower in the battle against the Obama Administration. Majority Leader Cantor is our Omar Bradley. I want to be George Patton - put anything in my scope and I will shoot it."

http://celebrifi.com/gossip/In-slideshow-Rep-Joe-Barton-declares-war-o
n-the-Obama-administration-4147385.html
Quote:

Congressman Joe Barton, the infamous BP apologist and lightbulb warrior, is vying for the powerful Energy and Commerce committee chairmanship. And his vision, as detailed in a children's PowerPoint presentation, is to role-play as a WWII general and shoot liberals.

Barton apparently doesn't trust his sweet siren's voice enough to merely explain to his colleagues, in spoken form, why he should chair this committee, which oversees more or less everything important. He needs to make a cute nine-slide PowerPoint presentation too.

Some people are getting all up in arms over [the above] image, claiming that Barton is either threatening to assassinate the president or likening his opponents to Nazis, which is Offensive. Too nitpicky! We just think Barton is 12 years old, and feel sorry for whichever assistant communications aide had to update culled slides from an old 7th grade U.S. History report to appease the boss on his latest sugar high.

http://gawker.com/5702460/congressman-outlines-war-fantasy-with-fancy-
powerpoint


I do love his "bullet points" (or should that be "bullshit points"?) in the presentation; they say it all:
Quote:

"My vision:
1. Focus on Key Priorities:
* Repeal Obamacare and replace with pro-market reforms
* Communicate clearly to promote successes of our members"

"Who is Joe Barton?
* Led Republican resistance to Obamacare in committee:
- Forced markup in committee to take more than 17 days
* Led fight against Cap-and-Trade
- Forced Democrats to endure 4-day markup, with 300 prepared amendments and 47 offered amendments"

The full the slides at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/11/29/GA2010
112904227.html#photo=10


Man, that is SOME resume and goals, I'm impressed...aren't you? To hell with the American people, I'm working for OBSTRUCTIONISM all the way! Vote for me! Yay!

Oh, yeah...it's gonna be a great two years, a time of compromise and bipartisanship to end all (...of US). Ain't politics FUN tho'? Especially now that "the adults" [sic] are in charge!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off










Let me let you in on a little secret....that is what America voted for. I love that guy.

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:44 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Bah, he couldn't tie Ike's SHOES, much less compare himself.

I still say we oughta clone Eisenhower - THAT was a Conservative I could respect.

-F

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Thursday, December 2, 2010 5:52 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yeah, Blue, you caught that, didn't you? That's why I posted those excerpts, because bragging about THAT just blew my mind. Essentially, "Elect me; look at what a great job I did of obstructing everything!"

It shouldn't by now, tho'...the Party of No has stated quite clearly they intend to be obstructionists to the end and their entire goal is not to help the American people in any way, just to take Obama down.

Given this ass is "running" for the Energy and Commerce committee chairmanship, it makes sense to THEM...they WANT chairmen who can bog things down, so he’s appealing to the right-wing legislature, not the American people. Nonetheless, unless he’s totally stupid, he had to know it would end up going public. Which of course indicates, as we all know, that they don’t give a flying fuck what the public thinks of them.

They keep yattering about this “mandate” they got from the people, which is pure bullshit. Doesn’t matter to them, of course; hell, death panels and Obama as a Nazi sells just find, why wouldn’t any other lie? Fact that every midterm loses seats and that people voted out of fear this time around are things they’ve effectively buried. Gotta give ‘em points for being really good at what they do!

I was wondering a while back if the Republicans WANTED America to get worse, ‘cuz it would make them look good in 2012. At the time I thought that was a pretty “out there” theory, surely they wouldn’t... But now I know better. I'm convinced that’s precisely what they’ve been doing and are doing, and it makes me want to spit nails.

In other words, Americans can go to hell, all they want is power. Okay, so that's not unusual, but to DRIVE the country to hell, as much as they are...wow. I know, silly me; but to damage the country to this extent JUST so they can get back in power still kinda blows me away. We don’t matter shit, obviously, and I don’t think I’d ever vote for a party willing to do that to this extent! Dems certainly suck in their own way, but I refuse to believe they’d go on a blanket “jihad” to make things WORSE for us like this.

And yes, Frem, comparing ANY of them to Ike is a huge joke. Probably mentioned I met him when he visited Afghanistan...of course, I was too young to have much of a memory of it. But me too, in that THERE is a Republican I could get behind, without a doubt! He is (and so many others are) no doubt rolling in their graves right now.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off




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