[Assam] A Joe Barton of Our Own?

[Ram Sarangapani]

*****Did our distinguished netter KJD of Texas do a Joe Barton in the last
couple of days, right here in assamnet
by making the following two statements, one shortly after the other?


       "All these drivels  ( sic) with respect to human/humanity/humanism
are nothing but hackneyed
       slogans. "

Followed by:

       "As a normal human being,who DEEPLY BELIEVES IN HUMANITY ,my heart
goes out to the family of the victim of this terrible tragedy."


You decide :-).************

I am thinking he's being more 'Bushed' than Barton :-------thrown under the
bus (like "heckva job Brownie").

I saw it in a different light (not surprising:-)), but will let KJD have a
go at it first.

--Ram



On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Words of extraordinary significance, duplicity, retraction etc. often finds
> its
> way into the American lexicon as phrases on their own, namely:
>
> *** To be Borked  came from Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork who
> was rejected
> by the Senate after a highly charged hearing.
>
> *** To be doing a Cheney came from exaggerated fear-mongering to political
> ends.
>
> *** So on and so forth.
>
>
> Yesterday,  Congressman Joe Barton ( R-Tex) , an ex Oil Co. Executive and
> the one Congressman
> who has received the highest amount of money ( campaign donations) from oil
> companies,
> who was the ranking minority representative in the Congressional hearing
> that took testimony from
> BP CEO, Tony Howard made an unprecedented apology to BP, for his perceived
> crime of the US Govt.
> and President Obama in 'shaking down BP' ( in his words) for the $ 20
> Billion to be kept aside in trust
> for compensation to people and companies who are hurt by the oil spill.
> Among other things he said that
> he does not want to live in a country that does such things.
>
> The same Joe Barton made a complete about face, later in the day, after a
> national outcry and having
> been taken to task by his own party leaders and apologized to the American
> people for his apology
> to BP earlier in the day.
>
> This has the potential to find a way into the American lexicon as well, as
> "To do a Joe Barton", meaning doing an
> ignominious about face shortly after making a seriously controversial
> statement.
>
> Did our distinguished netter KJD of Texas do a Joe Barton in the last
> couple of days, right here in assamnet
> by making the following two statements, one shortly after the other?
>
>
>        "All these drivels  ( sic) with respect to human/humanity/humanism
> are nothing but hackneyed
>        slogans. "
>
> Followed by:
>
>        "As a normal human being,who DEEPLY BELIEVES IN HUMANITY ,my heart
> goes out to the family of the victim of this terrible tragedy."
>
>
> You decide :-).
>
>
> **** Personally, I  never taunt people who change their minds after seeing
> reason. It is a sign of maturity
> to correct oneself, even after making a spectacular blunder.  If that was
> so in KJD's case, instead of making him a target
> of public ridicule, I would commend him for his courage to stand corrected.
>
> Was it?
>
>
> cm
>
>
>
>
>
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