All Hail the Tea Party

[kent_allard_jr]

Via Jonathan Chait, our new overlords on climate science:

“This so-called climate science is just ridiculous,” said Kelly Khuri, founder of the Clark County Tea Party Patriots. “I think it’s all cyclical.”

“Carbon regulation, cap and trade, it’s all just a money-control avenue,” Ms. Khuri added. “Some people say I’m extreme, but they said the John Birch Society was extreme, too.”

It's going to be a long two years.

Comments

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Nothing scares me more than the thought that 2012-2020 will be a hundred times worse than 2000-2008.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's no telling how far things will go, is there? Waterboarding poodles, subpoenas in Cracker Jack boxes, talking frogs on Fox News, Muslims impaled by Ronald McDonald, the level of crazy escalates to the point that the Singularity seems to be upon us.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I find it bitterly amusing that cap and trade was originally a conservative idea, and was regarded as one until recently.

[avram]

Same with ObamaCare.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when you try to compromise with conservatives. They always, always, always move the goalposts.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

I sent that exact quote to J this morning when I saw it. Sigh.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

That quote is pretty hardcore. William F. Buckley probably returned from the dead just to die again over it.

I do think you can make a reasonable separation between climate science and proposed solutions to the problem (as many climate scientists do). A lot of climate proposals, like paying off China and India to not develop their infrastructure until we can develop clean-energy alternatives to sell to them, are quite silly.

This is in the nature of proposals of any kind, obviously, but the current form of the GOP will never pass up an opportunity to deny a problem exists because the solution created to deal with it is not optimal. The healthcare bill made that clear.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Kochland!

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

There are people who don't think the JBS is extreme?

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Yep, and in fact they're prominent in the tea party (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz). These guys are dangerously nuts.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

These are also the people that called Phyllis Schafly feminist. It just astounds me.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

And Ike Eisenhower a secret communist agent.

Ike. Eisenhower.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, he helped Stalin beat the Nazis. And since Nazis hate Commies, he must be a Commie-lover.

That's why he put all the fluoride in our water. It was a secret plot to control our minds and make us vulnerable to takeover. Not at all the same as putting radioactive wastes in our water and air. That's for our own good.