Jesus Christ...The Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, ladies and gentlemen...

[Gravitycollapse]

http://washingtonindependent.com/60035/bartons-greatest-hits-wind-power-might-mess-up-global-wind-patterns-and-make-the-earth-warmer



You can't make this shit up. Honestly, I wish it was made up.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Wind is that thing that blows

in to Barton's left ear and out his right one without meeting any obstruction.

Thanks for the thread, Gravitycollapse.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. It speeds up...

due to Venturi effect.

[Ron Green]

2. As long as I can remember, this guy has represented the oil and gas business

and pretty much nobody else.

[Recursion]

3. Jesus. He even gets how wind works backwards

Wind is cold air moving in to displace warm air that's getting less dense.

[NickB79]

5. How dare you bring science into this!

We're talking about God's plan to move heat around, not some unproven egghead theory of yours.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. I'm sure he knows. His district sucks.

[2naSalit]

4. !!!

[awoke_in_2003]

7. This is stupid on multiple levels. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Is that hand gesture to indicate the size of the doobie he smoked to come up with that shit?

[glowing]

10. I guess vectors and coriolis effect would be beyond this idiots ability to understand anything!

Not to mention deep water currents and their interaction with the basics of life. Or dying coral or polluted waterways or carbon increases in the water, or dead zones, or ok the list just goes on and on...

Maybe in a political scenario he might understand how one item of a budget cut or stupid legislation could cause ripples that add up to a tsunami... Let's see, we take away basic common core decency standards like helping people who are poor to eat and maintain shelter, at the same time, we pass legislation to create free (slave) trade markets, and then deregulate the banks and big business... And then it blows up... Gues who you blame, the poor people for being poor and not getting a job you shipped off... Couldn't have anything to do with your policies of your party over the last 50 or 60 yrs... bTW, how is that horrible socialist evil plot Medicare working or Social Security, I hear you keep trying to take it away because you hate it (and with the later, y'all keep stealing it for war adventures). nah, he doesn't understand, they just shut down the govt... Why should he even understand the basics of a functioning planet in environmental terms and the long term effects of people upon it... He is, after all, a politician in bed with the oil co's and other big biz just like most of our pols are.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. No no no. Wind is god's way of redistributing bullshit from places where it's plentiful

Like between dude's ears.

[Enthusiast]

12. Mental giant.

Reminds me of Palin or Bachman.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Joe Barton is breaking wind (nt)

[LAGC]

14. It should be a crime to be that stupid.

And these people are our leaders.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Always remember, though, these "leaders" didn't just fall from the sky.

They were elected by even stupider people, all conveniently corralled into their districts via gerrymandering.

My faith in the "inherent wisdom" of the American Electorate falls a little more every day.

[janlyn]

16. Awesomely Stupid!

Bookmarked to share on facebook later this morning. To early here for my friends to be up and about. But I definitely want to start their day right !!

[spanone]

17. a stump has more cognitive thinking than this asshat

[Oilwellian]

18. And when the wind blows from God's lips...

he accidentally spits, and that's how it rains.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. "Wind is just God's way of farting. Which is why it doesn't smell." nt

[Coyotl]

20. Were there a metaphysical, all-powerful diety that created "man", people would not be this ignorant.

How can the electorate be so clueless that they elect this ignoramus? That is what is wrong in the USA, the abject ignorance of the people.

[City Lights]

21. Sounds like he's trying to give Miss South Carolina a run for her money!