found online by Raymond
From Frances Langum:
If a constituent asks you to work on a bill that will diminish violence against women, and you wind up telling another constituent during your answer to “shut up”….
…then you are Congressman Joe Barton of Texas.
You might recall that Joe Barton is the one who apologized to the CEO of BP during a congressional hearing into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Because of how impolite people were being!
And yes, Barton’s year, and probably his congressional career, ended with some nude photos of him surfacing like an asphyxiated porpoise onto the public stage.