Encouraging Responsibility (Yours, Not Mine)
All you displaced poor folks, listen up! Ol’ Joe Barton, Representative in Washington for those proud Texans hailing from Arlington, which is just barely a smidge to the west of Dallas, has a word for you. Actually, several words. But first a note or two of intro.
Joe is the demolition expert behind the wrecking of Medicaid for all you Gulf Coast unfortunates, along with every other poor person in the country, including a whole bunch of your retired parents and grandparents. Joe Barton got himself so worked-up with the need to protect tax incentives for Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and the Waltons (not the John-Boy Waltons, the Wal-Mart family) that he lost all perspective. Turned legislation into a moral lesson. Christmas and New Year is the time for moral lessons, as the Grand Juries are all on holiday.
Joe Barton knows about moral lessons, because he studied at the feet of Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff. (Tom and Jack, the Indictment Brothers, one in Texas and the other in Florida) I don't…