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THE CRACKZOT CAUCUS
New York Times ^ | 8/23/12 | Timothy Egan

Posted on 08/27/2012 8:13:02 AM PDT by Inconvenient Truthteller

Take a look around key committees of the House and you'll find a governing body stocked with crackpots whose views on major issues are as removed from reality as Missour's Representative Todd Akin's take on the sperm-killing powers of a woman who's been raped.

On matters of basic science and peer-reviewed knowledge, from evolution to climate change to elementary fiscal math, many Republicans in power cling to a level of ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom. Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers.

Let's take a quick tour of the crazies in the House. Their war on critical thinking explains a lot about why the United States is laughed at on the global stage, and why no real solutions to our problems emerge from that broken legislative body.

We're currently experiencing the worst drought in 60 years, a siege of wildfires, and the hottest temperatures since records were kept. But to Republicans in Congress, it's all a big hoax....

Jack Kingston of Georgia, a 20-year veteran of the House, is an evolution denier, apparently because he can't see the indent where his ancestors' monkey tail used to be....

A handful of Republicans have tried to fight the know-nothings. "I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming," said Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor, during his ill-fated run for his party's presidential nomination. "Call me crazy."

And in an on-air plea for sanity, Joe Scarborough, the former G.O.P. congressman and MSNBC host, said, "I'm just tired of the Republican Party being the stupid party." I feel for him. But don't expect the reality chorus to grow. For if intelligence were contagious, his party would be giving out vaccines for it.

(Excerpt) Read more at opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: akin; birthers; gop; junkscience; zotworthy
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Akin is only the tip of the stupidity iceberg -- now even the Presidential candidate is introducing Birther twaddle....
1 posted on 08/27/2012 8:13:16 AM PDT by Inconvenient Truthteller
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller

Moderator! We have a troll!!

What an idiot. Go back to Dummies Underground where you belong.


2 posted on 08/27/2012 8:16:05 AM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country., Really! NOW!!!)
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller
Well, Okie Dokie then.

Have a nice ZOT.

3 posted on 08/27/2012 8:16:04 AM PDT by red-dawg (If muslims are exempt from Obamacare, then my name is Mohammed Suks.)
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller

IBTZ


4 posted on 08/27/2012 8:16:17 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller

IBTZ!


5 posted on 08/27/2012 8:18:40 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Obama hates Mexicans (Fast and Furious))
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To: RightOnTheBorder

IBTZ?


6 posted on 08/27/2012 8:19:31 AM PDT by Inconvenient Truthteller (www.RomneyPlan.org)
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller
Die.

No, seriously, die.

Actually, don't. I want you alive so that you can watch me eat your children.

I shall sup on your young, and you shall watch, your mouth gaping open in a silent scream, as every fiber of your being cries out in pure, crystalline anguish.


7 posted on 08/27/2012 8:19:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Funny but creepy!)
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller

In your case, IBYZ - In before YOUR zot.


8 posted on 08/27/2012 8:21:10 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: dirtymac

This actually is hilarious because the dims had a card carrying KKK leader in the Senate for decades. Nothing on the R side comes close to The Swimmer or Kleagle Byrd. Nothing.


9 posted on 08/27/2012 8:21:35 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller

It means “in before the zot”. You have been zotted and in only 6 minutes, troll!


10 posted on 08/27/2012 8:21:37 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller

“many Republicans in power cling to a level of ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom.
Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers.”

If you disagree with liberals all you get is a lower level of discourse from these zealots.


11 posted on 08/27/2012 8:21:48 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller

Welcome to Free Republic

Since 2012-08-15

Are you the tip of the troll iceberg???


12 posted on 08/27/2012 8:22:31 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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13 posted on 08/27/2012 8:23:24 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Obama hates Mexicans (Fast and Furious))
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Which means he is not on to read your post.


14 posted on 08/27/2012 8:23:39 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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To: Inconvenient Truthteller
I have taken a very special interest in you. I have appropriated your IP address, and have a good sense of your geological location. I also have the email account you registered with. Further, from capturing your previous websites visited, I have a very solid sense of your actual identity. Finally, there is the matter of your MAC id, which I have also captured, that uniquely identifies your machine.

I am coming for your children.

15 posted on 08/27/2012 8:23:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Funny but creepy!)
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IATZ


16 posted on 08/27/2012 8:24:14 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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buh bye now


17 posted on 08/27/2012 8:24:27 AM PDT by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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18 posted on 08/27/2012 8:24:45 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does....)
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19 posted on 08/27/2012 8:25:22 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Obama hates Mexicans (Fast and Furious))
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"We're currently experiencing the worst drought in 60 years, a siege of wildfires, and the hottest temperatures since records were kept."

Yet with regard to recent record cold winters we are told that has nothing to do with climate change and is just weather not climate. And we're supposed to take this kind of "science" seriously.

20 posted on 08/27/2012 8:25:50 AM PDT by circlecity
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