Joe Barton Reveals That He’s an Idiot
Given the opportunity to ask important policy questions of Dr. Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate who’s our new Energy Secretary, Rep. Joe Barton instead decided to ask some “tricky” questions in what appears to be an attempt to make a point about global warming. Dr. Chu gave a fairly reasonable response, which apparently contained too many elementary science principles for Rep. Barton to understand resulting in Rep. Barton claiming to have “stumped” the Energy Secretary.
Rep. Barton, apparently lacking any staffers competent enough to recognize the representative’s mistake, then posted a video of the affair on his YouTube page under the headline “Energy Secretary puzzled by simple question.” Here’s the video so that you can be the judge of who was puzzled:
bahaha what a retard, barton. so it just floated up there?