Barton is a punk

Ranking member Joe Barton of Texas is making a series of parliamentary inquiries to the chairman that seem designed to piss off everybody. I'm sure pissed.

But one particularly funny inquiry was about whether Gore was in violation of committee rules when he failed to submit his testimony a full 48 hours in advance. Apparently he got his testimony to the majority at 1 AM today and to the minority at 7. Barton complained that his caucus didn't have nearly enough time to read the testimony and come up with questions.

Dingell dismissed the concern, noting that he'd decided not to follow the committee rule (go majority prerogative!), and that he was sure his sharp colleagues across the aisle would have no problem formulating questions on such short notice.