Posted on 03/07/2011 11:02:12 AM PST by Justaham
The Republican Party is the party of science deniers, a top House Democrat said Monday.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), an ardent proponent of climate-change legislation, criticized Republicans for their attempts to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas emissions during a speech at the Center for American Progress Monday.
Ive never been in a Congress where there was such an overwhelming disconnect between science and policy, Waxman, the former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said.
Republicans in Congress have become the party of science deniers, and that is profoundly dangerous, he said.
Waxman lamented the growing divide between liberal Democrats and Republicans on climate change, accusing the GOP of ignoring the consensus among scientists that human activity is contributing to warming.
The gulf between what science tells us and what the governing party in the House believes makes it difficult to find common ground, he said, adding later, The Republican party is increasingly the anti-environment party.
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> Dem: GOP the ‘party of science deniers’
I think that should be “GOP the ‘party of JUNK science deniers’”
I make it a point to never trust nor listen to anyone who has a 2 CAR GARAGE STRAPPED TO THIER FACE.
I’ll put my science degree and background up against yours anytime you National Socialist Democrat POS. The Nazis and the Leninists framed their arguments in exactly the same way. The only acceptable science, art, medicine, philosophy was NAZI science, art, medicine and philosophy. This is not new; Waxman is just keeping alive the National Socialist approach to their enemies.
FUBO & FAD
What the dems have these days is exactly what was referred to in 1 Tim 6:20 “...science, falsely so called”.
It’s just another bullying tactic from a bunch of people whose primary motivation is power over others.
The name 'Lysenko' comes to mind ...
What the hell does Flaring Nostrils know about science?
“Dims, the party of science scams”
Whenever the left accuses us of being “anti-science” we need to ask them why they deny numerous studies that show crime increases where firearms ownership is restricted.
Yeah but when it came for dems to use science in response to BP oil spill they did not, you can look it up.
At least the Phantom of the Opera was a musical and compositional genius, albeit a lil’ twisted.
Or how about their continued insistence on implementing socialism despite empirical and historical evidence that it never works?
Oh, yeah, I forgot - what they support ISN’T socialism (according to them).
Can imagine someone sitting next to him in chambers...
Now where did I put that danged cell phone???
Without a doubt. Global warming is the new age of Trofim Lysenko science except it is environmental science instead of genetics/biology.
And the ‘rats are the party of Tinker Belle “science”. Just close your eyes and wish real hard, and presto ! It’s true !
Imagine the start Mrs Waxman would receive later that night by the Animato ringtone eminating from her husband’s cavernous facial embrasures.
You answer it, I ain’t answering it...
Strangely the Dems have been science deniers in their push for their “global warming” taxes.
They also seem to have a tough time with endangered species, except of course when they wanted THEIR bridge.
Continually reducing NASA funding and blocking cheap, clean energy, seems like science denial as well.
Oh,please. From the time of Eratosthenes (276 BC - 194 BC), every educated person in Europe knew not only that the earth was round, but how big it was. That people once believed the earth was flat is a modern myth, dating back less than 200 years. The book Inventing the Flat Earth, by Jeffrey Russell, gives a history of this myth: who invented it; who propagated it; and why.
Decry Waxman all you want; I agree with you. But let's get the history straight.
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