This is the terrifying legacy house Republicans are leaving us with

[orogenicman]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politic...n-research

House Republicans Pass Bill Forbidding Scientists from Advising EPA on Their OWN Research

"We get it, you don't like science. Especially when it interferes with your corporate clients."

They don't even try to hide it any more.

[FatAndFaithless]

Booting out scientists from advising on the EPA, possibly putting in a climate-change denier at the head of an environmental board... way to be, GOP.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Hopefully Obama has the spine to follow through on his threat to veto.

[Minimalist]

Hopefully.


No one does "stupid" better than republicunts.

Expect some of our resident shitballs to show up and explain how this is all about "freedom" or some such other bullshit.

[Anomalocaris]

Hopefully.


No one does "stupid" better than republicunts.

Expect some of our resident shitballs to show up and explain how this is all about "freedom" or some such other bullshit.

But no one does "spineless" better than democrats.

[Minimalist]

Would you prefer two parties which simply shout "no" and refuse to even attempt to govern?

[Anomalocaris]

Would you prefer two parties which simply shout "no" and refuse to even attempt to govern?

You can only make a charade of governing when your partner is the Republican Party of after 1994. Democrats reflexively assume the Republican Party is an immutable fact of American governance and whatever antics the republicans is up to, governance is better with them than without. Republican Party post 1994 makes no similar assumptions about the democrats, and they have worked singlemindedly, if clumsily and with uneven success, to turn this nation into a kleptocratic single party dictatorship.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hopefully.


No one does "stupid" better than republicunts.

Expect some of our resident shitballs to show up and explain how this is all about "freedom" or some such other bullshit.

Some one should perhaps explain to them that 'science' isn't a democratic process - you don't get to vote on what the facts are.

Boru

[Ryantology]

But, both parties are the same and just as bad!

Except, you don't see Democrats doing things like this for some reason, nor do you see them pushing for voter suppression ID or fighting gay marriage or trying to keep as many people as possible from having health care or fighting hard to suppress science to make sure their corporate puppetmasters can continue to wreck the planet we live on, or ...

Democrats have their problems, but Republicans are completely awful people doing completely awful things. To refuse to vote because there isn't a perfect side is stupid. We have two parties, and one of them is clearly insane and destructive. The other is kind of wimpy and has members that probably belong in the other party, but give me a choice between a party with mostly good intentions and a party who takes glee in making life worse for everybody but themselves, and it's not a hard decision to make

[Minimalist]

Would you prefer two parties which simply shout "no" and refuse to even attempt to govern?

You can only make a charade of governing when your partner is the Republican Party of after 1994. Democrats reflexively assume the Republican Party is an immutable fact of American governance and whatever antics the republicans is up to, governance is better with them than without. Republican Party post 1994 makes no similar assumptions about the democrats, and they have worked singlemindedly, if clumsily and with uneven success, to turn this nation into a kleptocratic single party dictatorship.

Agreed but irrelevant. The democrats do not have the votes to enact legislation on their own. Neither did the republicunts when Bush wanted to do immigration reform.