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Rep. Joe Barton loses bid to lead House Energy and Commerce Committee
The Dallas Morning News ^ | 12/07/10 | Dave Michaels

Posted on 12/07/2010 3:58:37 PM PST by Rastus

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So Ron Paul can't lead Banking, even though he is senior but Upton must lead Commerce because he is senior. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. This is the same path Gingrich went down that emasculated what could have been a reduction in government.
21 posted on 12/07/2010 4:21:01 PM PST by ricmc2175
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE; cripplecreek

Agree with you both. Upton has no business chairing that committee with his moderate track record and Boehner should know it, he probably does know it but his four votes went to Upton.


22 posted on 12/07/2010 4:31:01 PM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., won a vote of the GOP Steering Committee, a panel composed of party leaders. The appointment must be ratified by the full Republican conference on Wednesday.

Is that the steering committee than has us in a ditch? Might as well be. Time for a vote of NO confidence.

23 posted on 12/07/2010 4:32:16 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
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To: Rastus

Upton?

WTF!!!!


24 posted on 12/07/2010 4:37:43 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: NonValueAdded

All, politicians who have imbibed in the WDC honey & money need to be tossed on the funeral pyre of liberalism. They just don’t get it. Most never will.


25 posted on 12/07/2010 4:38:04 PM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: OrioleFan

Don’t be so sure. Republican primary voters are wholly uninformed cycle after cycle. All they know to do is renominate the “friendly incumbents” in most cases. I also believe Robert Bennett would have won a UT primary but he failed in a convention that he expected the bosses to control.


26 posted on 12/07/2010 4:39:58 PM PST by Theodore R. (Rush was right when he said America may survive Obama but not the Obama supporters.)
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To: Rastus

Grow some balls, Barton, your country needs you to FIGHT!


27 posted on 12/07/2010 5:29:29 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: cripplecreek; freekitty; hal ogen

Posted this thread on Joe Barton. He needs to fight back on this one too.

RINOs & insulated, comatose GOP power-mongers are oblivious to the fact that if they are successful in thwarting Constitution-loving conservatives, they will be kings of a dung pile and go down in history as enablers of the premeditated destruction of America.
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FCC push to regulate news draws fire
Hillicon Valley (The Hill) ^ | 12-06-10 | Sara Jerome

Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:47:59 PM by thouworm

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) pushed back on Monday against a contention by a Democratic FCC commissioner that the government should create new regulations to promote diversity in news programming.

Barton was reacting to a proposal made last week by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who in a speech suggested that broadcasters be subject to a new “public values test” every four years.

“I hope … that you do not mean to suggest that it is the job of the federal government, through the [FCC], to determine the content that is available for Americans to consume,” Barton wrote Monday in a letter to Copps.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2638902/posts?page=1


28 posted on 12/07/2010 8:42:45 PM PST by thouworm
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To: Theodore R.

The Tea Party needs to stay energized.


29 posted on 12/07/2010 9:31:25 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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