Just another normal day in crazyville for the GOP. There's little question at this point that the Republicans are preparing for more corporate pillaging of America.
U.S. Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas), the congressman who ruffled feathers on Capitol Hill last summer by making a public apology to former BP CEO Tony Hayward, is "confident" he will become the next leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee if Republicans win the U.S. House in next week's elections.
"If that happens, the Republican Steering Committee—which I'm a member of—would nominate to the full conference and I am confident that I will be nominated. And I am confident, hopefully, that the conference would confirm me to be chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee," Barton said in an interview with CNBC Thursday.
Barton previously served one term as chairman in 2006. Under current rules, he can served two more terms.
