Joe Barton (R-idjit): 'I want to be George Patton' in battle against W.H.

[babylonsister]

Barton: 'I want to be George Patton' in battle against W.H.


From NBC's Shawna Thomas and Luke Russert


When Rep. Joe Barton, R-Calif., speaks before the GOP Steering Committee later this week to make his case for leading the House Energy and Commerce panel, he will present himself as the General Patton to Presumptive Speaker Boehner's Eisenhower -- ready to do battle against the Obama administration.

Barton's nine-slide PowerPoint presentation, sent to NBC by a Democratic aide and confirmed by Barton's office, reads like a laundry list of accomplishments and GOP priorities -- that is, until the last slide.

That slide, titled "What's in Store for the Obama Administration, states that "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."

With those parallels, Barton aligns himself and congressional Republicans with American military heroes of the Second World War. By that comparison, he could be perceived as likening opponents of congressional Republicans to Germany's Nazi regime.

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While two senior GOP aides see this as a "tone deaf" move by Barton, Republican House leadership declined to comment on the matter on the record.

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[rfranklin]

1. Again, framing Obama as not American, even as a Nazi...

Who did Patton fight against?

If this had been a Dem talking about Bush we would have seen screaming headlines this morning and a "scandal" that would run for days, resulting in the Dem making a contrite apology.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Wow. He sounds like a real idiot.

Watch his colleagues distance themselves from him.

[AlinPA]

3. I doubt they will distance themselves from him. He is speaking the republican teabagger line. That

is what makes the base happy.

[ananda]

4. Funny, because...

... the WH isn't fighting back.

[Renew Deal]

5. The "what's the difference" crowd should read and re-read this.

:kick:

[July]

6. Lemme guess . . . chickenhawks all?

Who love imaginary combat, not to mention the outfits?

[July]

8. Okay, I had to go and check.

According to Wikipedia, Boehner enlisted in the Navy during the Vietnam War and was honorably discharged after eight weeks of training because of a bad back.

Nothing mentioned about military service for Barton, who is Boehner's age, or Cantor, who is 49.

[Mimosa]

7. A Repig who lives in fantasies derived from MOVIES? n/t

[Hawkowl]

9. As long as he slaps Private Palin . nt