House Republicans kill global warming committee

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

House Republicans plan to eliminate a global warming committee created by Democrats despite an attempt by the panel's top Republican to preserve it.

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, in line to be speaker in the new Congress, said disbanding the panel is part of the Republican pledge to cut waste in government.

"The global warming committee doesn't need to be a separate committee," Boehner said. "We believe the Science Committee is more than capable of handling this issue, and in the process we'll save several million dollars."

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican who was in line to become chairman, announced the committee's fate at a hearing Wednesday. Sensenbrenner had urged the committee's preservation so Republicans could use it to rein in the Obama administration's efforts to curb global warming.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/01/national/w144841S80.DTL&tsp=1

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The whole place is like a George Romero film in real life.

[Parker CA]

2. Fucking neanderthals. nt

[KeepItReal]

6. +1

No better way to describe 'em

[Grassy Knoll]

3. Here we fucking go.......

another 2 years of Shrub shit has begun.

[Archae]

4. And where does that money "saved" go?

To Darrell Issa's "investigations" of Obama, including investigating his basketball games. :eyes:

[glinda]

9. To their oil and fracking friends.

[sakabatou]

5. Marching proudly backwards...

[onehandle]

7. President Boehner.

Basically. For the next two years.

[Greybnk48]

8. Anything that takes power out of Sensenbrenner's

grasp can't be completely bad.

[petronius]

10. Does it really cost several million dollars to run a committee? That seems like a lot

But overall I see this as a good move - better to kill the committee than let dishonest anti-science republicans use it as a bully pulpit...

[ixion]

11. Yeah, if it isn't about feeding the war machine or enriching their cronies, it's just waste

:sarcasm:

And people wonder why things are so screwed up.

[Frank Booth]

12. This is like living under some crazed African dictator

who cares about nothing but enriching himself. Mugabe has nothing on the Republicans.

They are only capable of thinking monolithically, and are intent on destroying this country (and the world) for their own benefit. American democracy has become a complete farce.