All Aboard the Gravy Train! (via Annatopia)
MMmmmmm…. I love the smell of corruption in the morning! Congressman Joe Barton embarks today on what his re-election staff has dubbed “Joe Barton’s 2006 Texas Train Ride”. We prefer to call it what it is: a Gravy Train.
For the low, low price of $2000, individual donors can hobnob with Chairman Barton (as the invitation flyer emphasises) for several hours. Entertainment includes a Saturday brunch, an “after hours tour of the Alamo”, “cocktails”, and an old GOP favorite: gambling (quick, someone call Jack Ambramoff!). The invitation promises that “During the ride, we’ll have lots of time to talk”. Even better, if you’re a PAC representative, all this access can be yours for the bargain bin price of $5000.
For those of you who can’t recognize that smell emanating from north Texas, that would be the distinctive scent of Congressman (and former DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener) Joe Barton selling his votes and influence for the proverbial thirty pieces of silver…’cept in this case, there’s a whole lot more silver being traded than thirty pieces.
Yep, that would be Joe Barton, the one who was determined the save the BCS from itself. Yep, now that terrorism is under control, poverty has been conquered, and all Americans are guaranteed quality, universal health care, what’s a good, God-fearing public servant to do? There must be something a Texas Republican Congressman (albeit one with the IQ and PR sense of rice pudding) can do for you these days…and all it will cost you is $5000 to tell him what’s on your mind!
Call now…operators are standing by! Remember, post-Abramoff, there might not be many opportunities left for good, God-fearing Americans to buy quality legislation. Act now, before those pussy Democrats have their way and this opportunity is gone for good!
