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Continuing their War on America, the incoming Republican House leadership have announced they're going to abolish the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which accordingly held its last meeting yesterday. Stephanie Vallejo has the story here.

This is, obviously, both imbecilic and extraordinarily destructive to the national interest. The Republican reasoning, if such it can be called, appears to be that, since the Committee was created by Nancy Pelosi, they should abolish it to piss off both her and President Obama -- the fate of the nation, and indeed of the world, be damned.

It's like something out of South Park, isn't it?

Comments

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Ah, but it will discourage *thinking*. That has to be good, doesn't it...

Idiots.

[chalcedony.livejournal.com]

I'm going to bed. Wake me in two years.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Anything to oppose common sense and energy independence.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I've just finished reading the proofs of a forthcoming book review in International Development Planning Review: Here's the first sentence: "Over the past few years, it has been hard to avoid climate change as a subject of political debate, with climate change 'sceptics' loudly declaring that the subject is not settled, or radio chat show hosts in the United States pontificating about it, usually with rather less knowledge of climate science and its likely economic and social effects than a geography first former."