Bashir asks Joe Barton-R, TX (natch) if he supports Meals on Wheels (photo op) while voting to cut

[XanaDUer]

it:

http://theangriestliberal.com/2012/05/08/joe-barton-recipients-of-meals-on-wheels-should-be-looking-for-work/

"Joe Barton, he sticks to Republican talking points even when it doesn’t make sense! Today in daily Republican speak Joe Barton insists that people who benefit from Food Stamps and Meals on Wheels should go to work, (scroll up to the 5:20 point) that is the goal of Republicans to put everyone to work. Bashir reminds Barton who are the recipients of Meals on Wheels, Joe Barton looks like a complete ass."

PS- As Bashir confronts Barton on his BS, Barton's face grows

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Barton is vile. And not unique in his party. Ass.

[bloomington-lib]

2. 8:05 shows how empty their knowledge of the bible is that they love to use for justification

Reminds me of a friend who loves to preach morals using the bible, but when I ask for details, she's tripping over herself. She didn't really know the bible she supposedly lived her life by. She memorized some talking points she heard in church.

[salin]

5. I just looked it up - its from Poor Richard's Almanac!

Isn't his knowledge of the bible precious...

[bloomington-lib]

6. That's how it should be framed: Proud Christian Republican Joe Barton confuses bible with PRA

Or "Joe Barton quotes Benjamin Franklin from the Bible"

[salin]

8. Absolutely!

Don't know if we are posting from the same Bloomington - but if we are, and you just heard a loud peel of laughter - that was me!

[bakpakr]

3. I am just waiting;

until one of the people that are doing the interview when the politician answers the question by beating around the bush and not giving a straight answer. Stops them and makes them give a straight yes or no answer to the question.

[XanaDUer]

7. Bashir did a good job with this one nt

[appleannie1]

4. If someone cannot even cook their own meals, just what job do the thugs want them to do? Most

recipients of Meals on Wheels are the elderly and the handicapped, neither of which can work. So, are the Rethugs saying they should just starve to death because they are a drain on society? What if one of them was the parent of a Rethug? Would they starve their own parent? Sure seems like it.

[salin]

9. He tried to back peddle at first when Bashir pointed out that getting a job

to get prosperous didn't make sense of 80 and 90 year olds. Congressman first back peddles - and then astonishingly - doubles down. Not on the "get a job" but that cuts have to be made (then he tried to claim that the cuts would be too small to effect services) - in order for the economy to improve and in order not to dump all of this debt on future generations (which was never a concern when W was in office.)

[CTyankee]

10. Loved the shot of him getting out of his white limousine carrying his little provision

of meagre amounts of food to the poor recipients in the house.

I am appalled.

[Vinca]

11. Republicans gleefully increase the defense budget while ending food aid for the poor.

Then they have the nerve to sit in the front pew on Sunday and beat their breasts. It makes me ill.