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Do you guys remember Joe Barton the congressman from Texas ?

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Do you guys remember Joe Barton the congressman from Texas who had it in for Los Alamos? He was the guy who kept saying close the place down. Below is just a typical example of some stuff he would say but there are dozens more. "But when Montano and his fellow auditors wrote up an account of the fishy deals, the report was buried. Montano was kept idle without work for nine months, he claims. Obviously, this burying of whistleblowers has become a habit over at Los Alamos. And Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX), who heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, seems to be getting pretty tired of it. Attkisson asked Barton how could Los Alamos finally be cleaned up. And Barton answered, “One thing we could do is just shut the entire complex down.” 

 https://www.defensetech.org/2005/03/20/more-los-alamos-shenanigans/

  Well, well well, it looks like Joe Barton is the one that is going to get shut down, with his latest scandal of him sending some rather wild videos of himself if you know

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Anonymous said…
Well go ahead and shoot the messenger, he deserves what he gets.
However, the message is clear. The complex should be shut down. It has been compromised by the deep state political establishment and sold to Bechtel for pennys on the dollar. You can thank Diane Feinstein and her neighbor Riley Bechtel for all the carnage of what once was a thriving National resource that has been turned into a K street contractor money machine, providing payoffs and quid pro quo jobs to politicians family members promised with lifetime benefits and secure futures. To bad the average main street middle class tax payers get screwed by this model. Drain the swamp and lock her up.
11/28/2017 4:12 PM
Anonymous said…


4:12 PM

To be clear there is some truth to what you are saying about the labs being sold out, but Joe Barton only said what he said to get money for his stuff and is one of the biggest deep state establishment guys as they come. I am no fan of Feinstein but Barton is as much as a swamp creature as she is.
11/28/2017 5:40 PM
Anonymous said…
You guys clearly don't know what the "deep state" refers to. The Deep State is the alleged group of Government employees who coordinate policy and Government actions without regard to the democratically elected leadership. Since the Federal Government is now entirely controlled by Republicans, a Republican who follows Republican policies cannot, by definition, be part of the Deep State. Right now, Feinstein could be Deep State, Barton can't.

There are certainly isolated examples of the Deep State like in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau where Obama-era staffers are desperately trying to maintain control but there just isn't a pervasive Deep State. Both Parties are a bunch of incompetent Keystone Cops - they can't coordinate themselves let alone coordinate a huge group of Government employees and keep it secret.
11/28/2017 8:07 PM
Anonymous said…
When BP had the huge oil spill in the Gulf, it was ol' Joe Barton who had the audacity to apologize to BP in Congress. Of course, the vast campaign funds from his sweetheart corporate partners helps to buy his words in the House.

Good news is that ol' Joe can finally spend some quality time at home pumping his shriveled, old meat stick rather than doing it on the taxpayers' dime in his Congressional office.
11/28/2017 10:58 PM
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