Jerkass Congressman Thinks He Stumped Energy Secretary Chu

Oh, the joys of Twitter – especially now that Republicans have seized onto it to prove that they’re ‘hip’ and ‘with it’.  We all know how Republicans say the darndest things and Twitter provides a platform like no other for them to make asses of themselves.

Representative Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, thinks he managed to “baffle” Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and told all of his Twitter followers so with the following message:

“I seemed [sic] to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question – Where does oil come from?”

Gee, could it be that Barton was just doing what he could to make Chu look bad given that such a question takes much longer to answer than the few seconds he had left would allow? Heavens no! Republicans would never pull suck trickery.

This guy is almost giving Michele Bachmann a run for her money.

Link [TPM]

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