Joe Barton, the gift to Democrats that keeps on giving...

[WeDidIt]

Barton does it again
by Jed Lewison

Wed Jun 23, 2010 at 01:18:04 PM PDT

Earlier today, Joe Barton once again apologized to BP, Tweeting an article defending his apology under the header "Joe Barton was right." And just like last time, he swiftly retracted the apology, deleting the Tweet and retracting the reapology. This time, Barton's spokesman is taking the blame, telling Greg Sargent that the office never meant to publicly promote the article on Twitter.

Without thinking about it much, I added a headline from one of the daily news clips to a website that is, in turn, linked to the congressman's Twitter account. I won't be doing that again.

The site in question is http://repjoebarton.amplify.com/, a public website that promotes Joe Barton and his policy views. So even if Barton's office never intended to push the article defending his apology on Twitter, it's obvious they were publicly promoting it at on Barton's amplify.com site. And just like last time, now that it's gotten attention, Barton's office is trying to control the political damage.

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Poor Joe, he can't help it. That foot is mighty tasty to him!

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "We apologize for FAILure to grovel while apologizing" - Joe the Barton & Republicon Cronies

"We are working on our grovel technique to be even more pleasing for BP and our other, um, generous, Corporate Overlords (R)

- Joe the Barton & Republicon Cronies

[Scurrilous]

2. LOL

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[SpiralHawk]

3. Too true to be really funny

sigh