Alan’s Kiloblog

We know the Joe Barton reported to work yesterday, ready serve his special interests, to read the conservative think-tank talking points emailed to him overnight into the record, and struggled all day to understand that he had done wrong.

The ridiculous political theater, not only of apologizing the the most reviled man ever to use a British accent in an American television commercial, but the kicking back with the Investor’s Business Daily in a petulant display of disdain. Someone pulled him aside at the recess and told him, we’re not doing that today, and he returns to attempt to issue the non-apology to those that might misconstrue his words, “I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown. ”

In my anger with the man, I imagine him a spaniel, doing what it has been trained to do, expecting belly rubs, but instead squatting and piddling all throughout the day as everyone scolds him. At no point did he exhibit an ability to think for himself.