Repug to Gore "You're not just off a little, you're totally wrong."

[brettdale]

http://edition.cnn.com/

Skeptics cool on warming warning


Former Vice President Al Gore -- who won an Oscar for his documentary on climate change -- warned U.S. lawmakers Wednesday if they did not act on global warming there would be a "true planetary emergency."

But he got a chilly reception off some Republicans, including Texas lawmaker Joe Barton, who told him: "You're not just off a little, you're totally wrong."

[brettdale]

1. Contact info for Joe barton

http://joebarton.house.gov/FormCheck.asp?CaptchaForm=1

[brettdale]

4. Joe Barton contact

To contact Joe's office, please fill out the online form below and submit.

Washington Office
2109 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
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[phone] fax Arlington Office
6001 West I-20, Suite 200
Arlington, Texas 76017
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Ennis Office
2106 A W. Ennis Ave.
Ennis, Texas 75119
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Crockett Office
303 N. 6th St.
Crockett, TX 75835
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[Terri S]

14. he's a slime...

According to opensecrets.org, a watchdog group that monitors monetary contributions to politicians, Barton alone has received close to $2 million in campaign contributions from energy companies and their political action committees since he has been in office. The oil and gas industry has been the top industry contributor to his campaign. This does not include contributions from individuals who work for petrochemical companies, though. Last year, employees from Anadarko Petroleum alone, contributed $50,000, opensecrets.org reports.

The New Republic magazine has called Barton a "Big Oil lackey." According to TNR writer Michael Crowley, "Barton champions a pro-industry agenda with no apparent concern for appearances. Just two months after , he exploited concerns over energy supplies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to jam through still more energy subsidies, ease environmental regulations on refineries, and press for more offshore oil and gas drilling."

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Barton was one of only 11 House members to vote against the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Relief bill passed by Congress and signed by President Bush on September 8, 2005. This came one day after he told Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour that "Whatever you need from the federal government... we'll do everything we can to make it happen sooner rather than later and bigger rather than smaller."

one of his quotes---
"As long as I am chairman, is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that." — Congressional hearing entitled, "National Energy Policy: Coal" Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (March 14, 2001)

yeah, he's a peach alright!

[Rose Siding]

2. Barton's the one who held everything up because all his pals didn't fit at the dias

He was a clown.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. And the ice caps and glaciers aren't melting.

[InvisibleTouch]

5. I would say to this idiot:

"You're not just a little nearsighted, you are totally blind."

[donco6]

6. And what, a little angel revealed this to him?

What an a-hole.

[northzax]

11. he looks a bit like this:

[Shakespeare]

7. Barton is owned 100% by the oil lobby.

And he's grown more and more corrupt the longer he's been in congress. I covered his first run for Congress in 1984, and got to know him fairly well as a reporter. Back then, even though I vehemently disagreed with his politics, I found him honorable and earnest.

That was a very, very long time ago. All I can do is shake my head at the despicable individual he's become.

And Joe, if this ever gets back to you--and it well may--Robin Black says shame on you. I remember I time when you knew better.

[JuniperLea]

8. I never understood the denial!

This isn't a new subject! We've been hearing about this for decades! That's why California has such strong anti-pollution laws!

Damn! I remember hearing about this in my Weekly Reader in 3rd grade, FCOL!!!

[yardwork]

18. The denial is bought and paid for by the oil and gas companies

and they own almost everything. Pick up a Newsweek or Time. Tune into any TV station. Oil and gas and coal and the other extraction industies own the world!

That's why w is sitting in the White House next to Dick Cheney. Oil and gas.

[WI_DEM]

9. and how long has Barton been studying this issue? other than press releases from oil companies.

[northzax]

10. someone call Norway

and tell them that a random congressman from Texas has scientifically debunked Climate Change. I mean if that doesn't merit a Nobel Prize, then I don't know what does. In fact, I think he should get all of the prizes (well, not sure how to get medicine invoked, but surely there is a way)

[Me.]

12. Tell You Who To Contact Re: Barton - Imus

Imus hates, loathes and despises the little puke. Emails to him will do doubt trigger one of his rants about Barton.

[e-mail]

[mduffy31]

17. Who can blame him

after the shit that he pulled with the combating autism act, playing politics with our children's lives.

[sam sarrha]

13. There is a new fancy slick lie fest Video out.. accusing profiteering on warming lie

[heatstreak]

15. Sigh.....of course it would be a moron like Barton.

[ncteechur]

16. Of course he said that--he's an ARCO dickhead.