Just recently, Florida Tea Party Congressman Ted Yoho engaged in the following post-town hall discussion with ThinkProgress with regard to climate change:
Keyes: "Droughts and extreme weather have been on the rise here in Florida. Do you think that's something that's attributable to manmade climate change?"
Yoho: "No. I think it's a natural occurrence. I think we need to be good stewards of the resources we have and we need to get better, which we have, through technology and innovation."
Keyes: "Do you think scientists are right on climate change or are they off-base on it?"
Yoho: "I think there's an agenda-driven science. I can read stuff that says that the information was skewed. It's not right. I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that."
Based on that discussion, I can just see Representative Yahoo, excuse me, Yoho, releasing the following campaign ad in the run-up to an election:
"I'm going to be frank, America - we've got problems in this country. I mean, we've got problems - serious ones. Our problems run deeper than at any time since the Great Anti-Depressants, or whatever that was called. How can we solve these problems? I don't know. I'm not smart enough for that, but vote for me anyway. I promise, even though I won't know what I'm doing, I'll still do the right thing. God bless you all, and God bless the United States of America. Amen."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426668/ted-yoho-climate-denier/
Keyes: "Droughts and extreme weather have been on the rise here in Florida. Do you think that's something that's attributable to manmade climate change?"
Yoho: "No. I think it's a natural occurrence. I think we need to be good stewards of the resources we have and we need to get better, which we have, through technology and innovation."
Keyes: "Do you think scientists are right on climate change or are they off-base on it?"
Yoho: "I think there's an agenda-driven science. I can read stuff that says that the information was skewed. It's not right. I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that."
Based on that discussion, I can just see Representative Yahoo, excuse me, Yoho, releasing the following campaign ad in the run-up to an election:
"I'm going to be frank, America - we've got problems in this country. I mean, we've got problems - serious ones. Our problems run deeper than at any time since the Great Anti-Depressants, or whatever that was called. How can we solve these problems? I don't know. I'm not smart enough for that, but vote for me anyway. I promise, even though I won't know what I'm doing, I'll still do the right thing. God bless you all, and God bless the United States of America. Amen."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426668/ted-yoho-climate-denier/
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