Take a Deep Breath
Republicans are naming committee heads.
The U.S. Senate today officially ratified U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) as chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee for the 114thCongress. Following this action, Thune announced that the Commerce Committee will have six subcommittees and that the following colleagues will serve as subcommittee chairmen once the full committee approves panels at the first official meeting:
Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.)
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
A guy from the 50th in education state for communication, technology, internet, innovation; a gal from a very small state with no international airport (bases don’t count) for aviation safety, security and operations; someone from NEBRASKA for merchant marine infrastructure, safety and security; and my very own Ted Cruz for Space, Science and Competitiveness. Don’t get me started on Rubio for Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, etc etc. I suppose the fact that his state is surrounded on 3 sides for water qualifies him.
Holy cow, y’all.
Thanks to Fenway Fran for the heads up.
This could be a very dark period in American history. I am filled with dread that every bit of progress made in this country over the last 20 years will be wiped out.
1Oy vey, the irony! Ayotte the Airhead from NH doing the air thing committee matched with Marco the Water Boy from FL doing the water ways. Marco is almost a good choice; he brings his own bottle, and when the oceans rise, he can drink his way through the dilemma. Daffy Cruz, Jr. is perfect for space; he and Daddy Daffy can rapture away.
Merchant Marine and Nebraska speaks for itself, unless Marco fails to hold the water line at Florida.
2If Inhofe, the chief Senate advocate for the “climate change is a hoax” idiocy, can be in charge of the Science, Environment, and Energy committee, there’s hope for every ape in Africa.
Well, no, there’s less hope for the apes, and pretty much every other species on Earth that’s comfortable where it’s evolved to be, because the changes already underway are going to speed up and get a lot more erratic, and we’re doing pretty much diddlysquat to reverse or even slow down the damage we’re doing.
Inhofe thinks that Jesus will protect us. I’m betting he also thinks that all those passenger pigeons are just hiding out someplace.
3PKM< it would be a lot funnier if it weren't real.
4MERCY!
5It only took a few centuries for the Luddites to make a comeback as Tea Party Republicans. I can’t wait, maybe in a month or two they’ll dial the Way-back Machine even earlier and announce the earth is flat again.
6Rick, at Koch Kontrol Kentral, Kansas, the world is flat and the economy is flat-lined. But if only women and the gays would find Dog, all would be right in their world. They will continue gambling on the Sky Puppy, until Kansas in an uninhabitable island.
As Rhea says, “it would be a lot funnier if it weren’t real.” and “Inhofe thinks that Jesus will protect us. I’m betting he also thinks that all those passenger pigeons are just hiding out someplace.”
Other than vote and mock the jeebus out of the right wing lunacy, am open to more and better suggestions on how to medicate the right wing nuts and find them bed space. Maybe Sheriff Joe Arpaio has tent space.
7And so the Republican Demolition of the United States begins.
8Teh Gerg, “begins”? Was there an interruption in GOP destruction post Eisenhower?
Or, more historically accurate, has the GOP done anything positive post New Deal?
9OY VEY is right! I am so scared. But I declare here and for everyone, I will go out standing!
10“Don’t Mourn — Organize!”
11I foresee in my downmarket crystal ball a lot of posturing, word salad and nothing of any credibility achieved. Wanna guess how many of these people never make a meeting? And the excuse they give? Oh, well, they can’t trust Obama!
12maggie, the GOP response to the 8 failed years of Dubya was “Clinton did it.” Now that they’ve conveniently forgotten Dubya, their new game is “Obama. He did or didn’t do it.”
If President Obama wasn’t such a decent man, he’d invite Mitch and Boehner to a veto party, then jab each of them with a veto pen.
13Elections have consequences. Poor voter turnout = severe consequences.
14Rhea, the one hope for the apes is that they can evolve. Unlike right-wing Republicans.
15What angers me about this BS is that I VOTE. Every primary, every general, every year. Why are so many of my fellow Americans so G.d. lazy that they can’t bother to get to the polls? Infuriating.
16As I noted this morning on the WaPo concerning Ted Cruz:
“Since the only space he believes in is between his ears, the only science he accepts is that the universe revolves around him, and the only competition he wants is for the Presidency, he’s almost certain to make our space program and our science research into a laughingstock. May all the odd gods of the galaxy help us as no one else is going to… ”
And Marco Rubio, climate-change denier in charge of NOAA? God help those folks, they’re going to need it as well.
17“Thune is just a empty suit”
http://www.argusleader.com/story/opinion/readers/2014/09/02/letter-senator-thune-just-hollow-suit/15002337/
18Most often, the only response that comes to me to some of this stuff is this: SWEET JESUS!!
It is a total nightmare as to what these embicile’s are gonna do to this country, to all of us and, quite possibly, inflict on the entire World. Yes, it is frightening!!
19http://madvilletimes.com/2015/01/senator-thune-stacks-commerce-committee-with-unqualified-sub-cmte-chairs/
I shared JJs story with Madville Times(South Dakota’s best blog)
20@PCM: Republicans have been a$$es since Eisenhower’s time, but they’ve never had this mixture of power, egotism, and outright insanity. In the past, they’ve been ignorant, dishonest, and greedy, but the defining characteristic now is a level of denial of reality and responsibility that I’ve seen nowhere in my memory. People used to joke about the lunatics running the asylum. We currently have a minimum of two years of it being reality.
21IIRC, when they did away with seniority in the House, the chair jobs went out for bids. Give enough money to the GOP and you get to be a committee chair. The Dems started doing it, too.
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