It seems like it's time to whip this one out of the archives: in an April, 2009 hearing, Joe Barton asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu where oil comes from. Chu delivered a brief, accurate explanation grounded in science, but Barton -- presumably because Chu didn't say God created oil on the second day -- thought he'd stumped Chu anyway. So he went on Twitter and started bragging that he'd "baffled" Chu:

If Chu was baffled at anything, it was the fact that Republicans would make a fool like Joe Barton their top person on the energy committee. Indeed, if the GOP wins a majority this November, Joe Barton will be the chairman of the House Energy Committee.

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