Here is the eighteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) for spreading an insane conspiracy theory regarding climate change, and for pandering to racial fear in support of that theory.
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a senior member of the House Science Committee, used a portion of his time at a town hall this week to launch into a rant about global warming, which he described as a plot by liberals to “create global government to control our lives.”
The congressman prefaced his remarks by noting that he wanted to respond to comments from Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who said recently that ongoing wildfires in Southern California have been exacerbated by a dry season that is the result of climate change. Rohrabacher, speaking Thursday afternoon before the Newport Mesa Tea Party, then launched into a discussion about how the science of global warming has been promulgated by a cabal of scientists, liberal politicians and United Nation “global government” types. These forces, who would like to usurp American liberty, could even be from Nigeria, he warned…
…Rohrabacher also argued that government-funded scientists have received “so much money” for research that “they have used it to intimidate people who disagree with their attempt to frighten all of us into changing our lives and giving up our freedoms to make choices.” The conspiracy to destroy freedom is apparently very vast… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <The Nation>
Here’s the video:
Rohrabacker may well be the most dangerous of the Republicans on Parade to date. Unlike the norm, screaming rants, he comes across gentle and low key, but the content of his statement is every bit as hateful and racist as that of the most rabid Republican Klansman.
11 Responses to “Republicans on Parade–8/11/2013”
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Who elected this lip-diddling loon?
Super-rich Californians.
Lordy, where do they find these people? And can we please take them back?
They brew them in a TEA pot.
Pleeeeeaaaaase!!
Another alumnus from the Flat Earth Society! Where do they find these nincompoops? The Republicanus/Teabaggers specialise in nincompoopery (new word I learned while doing a spell check)!
At least the flat head society! 😉
If he doesn't believe in climate change, let's send him to the North Pole for a while so he can watch the glaciers melt. We heard the same cries in the seventies when scientists warned us about the ozone layer, and the out cry when we were told the gases used in our aerosol cans were contributing to it. The American people listened and that has improved. There hasn't been an aerosol can in our house since we learned that.
Send that Bagger to the North Pole, and he'll introudce a bill to use the remaining ice to manufacture ice cubes for country clubs.
You are probably right.
Sad, but true. 🙁
Rohrabacker, "I endorsed Arnold Schwarzenegger." 🙂