The Republicans just stormed through the midterm elections, so the party obviously means serious, serious business. According to Talking Points Memo, one pressing and essential issue for Rep. Joe Barton, of Texas, is to deal with those newfangled "little, squiggly, pig-tailed" energy-saving light bulbs. Apparently, the "traditional incandescent light bulb" needs protection because of its intertwining relationship with those good ol', traditional American family values. (Barton, the former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, just happens to be the same guy who infamously apologized to BP after the Gulf spill.) Despite the incandescent bulb's obvious environmental drawbacks, defending it from dangerous government regulators is apparently just as important as fighting Obamacare, the EPA, net neutrality and radical environmentalists.
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