Republicans thrive on the increasing stupidity
of a few Americans and they have learned exactly how to address their
ignorant base…
John Boehner Stupid and Lying
Regardless of how much affection one has, or wants
to have, for their fellow citizens, it is affection tempered with
disbelief that fundamentally decent people are so mentally challenged to
the point of being downright stupid. A point that often arises during
semi-academic discussions about the dearth of intelligence in the
American population is “thank dog politicians aren’t cognitively
deficient like the people they have to govern.” However, politicians on
the lunatic fringe, specifically Republicans, thrive on the
increasing stupidity of a few Americans and they have learned exactly how
to address their ignorant base; make incredibly stupid remarks and lie
profusely.
Now, regarding the role that anthropogenic climate
change plays in the historically vicious drought plaguing the Western
and Southwestern United States, Boehner
demurs to Koch ideology and claims “I’m not a scientist.”
Fair enough. But not only is Boehner not a scientist, as a decades-long
educator it is safe to say Boehner either never finished the third
grade, or he is a filthy liar. What Boehner is acutely aware of is that
if he really wants to connect with a particularly stupid segment of the
population all he has to do is make a remark that only a four year old
feral child would begin to believe is true.
This week Boehner took a page out of another House
Republican’s (Jeff Denham (CA)) campaign lies, and categorically stated
that President Barack Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency, and
California environmentalists are responsible for California’s historic
drought. Boehner, or Denham for that matter, have not yet blamed the
President, EPA, or California environmentalists for the same drought
plaguing Nevada, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Oregon and other West and
Southwestern states because the Koch brothers are only targeting
California’s environmental regulations; environmental regulations that
have no impact on the amount of rain or snow falling out of the sky. For
the record, any American with a brain bigger than a molecule
understands that a “drought is a prolonged period of abnormally low
atmospheric precipitation and the shortage of water resulting from
this.” For the cognitively challenged, atmospheric precipitation is two
of those big words for rain or snow; something Barack Obama, the E.P.A.,
or California environmentalists have no control over.
According to real scientists, California’s worst
drought in over 1,200 years is not caused by environmentalists, or
Californians struggling to save what little water the state has left.
No, real actual scientists have explained for the duration of the
drought that the only impact man has on the drought is burning fossil
fuels that cause anthropogenic climate change. In fact, climate change
is solely responsible for the “lack of atmospheric precipitation” and
the record high temperatures are exacerbating the drought as well as
“tripled the chances of the current weather pattern (no rain/snow =
drought) continuing indefinitely;
according to the National Science Foundation.
Apparently, what incited Boehner to act stupider
than his base and feign outrage is that Californians are being urged not
to maintain their water-intensive green lawns during the historically
epic drought. On his Facebook page Boehner posted: “If
ever there was a phrase that perfectly encapsulates liberal
environmentalists’ backwards priorities and regressive ideology of
restriction and scarcity, it is the one now displayed on a government
sign in Arcadia, California: “It’s ‘green’ to go brown.” Boehner then provides a link boasting about what “the Koch Congress is doing to end President Obama’s man-made water shortage in the West.”
To beat a dead horse, California’s, and the entire Western and
Southwestern United States’, water shortage is because there is no
precipitation falling from the sky caused by man-made global warming.
Republicans in the House just passed a typically
meaningless Koch bill that blames the Administration’s environmental
policies for causing California’s historic drought, and specifically
lambasted California’s policies conserve water and protect crucial
rivers and endangered fish species. The environmental policies have been
in effect for decades, including during times of severe flooding and
higher-than-normal rain and snow fall. Republicans have regularly
attacked the state’s environmental policies during periods of record
precipitation, so their so-called concern is not about California’s
drought, or Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, or Oregon’s drought; they want the
state’s environmental policies abolished for the Koch brothers.
Republicans claim that if California dams up every
river in the state, regardless there has been no rain or snowfall for
four years, California would be flush with water and the drought would
end. However, the state’s substantial number of current dams,
reservoirs, and lakes are bone dry because there has been four straight
years of inadequate precipitation (snow-pack) in the mountains to melt
in the spring, runoff downhill and fill the reservoirs, lakes, and dams
that have rivers dried up.
As an aside, if Boehner had taken the time to talk
to real “water scientists,” what intelligent Americans call
environmental hydrologists, he would be aware that stopping rivers from
flowing, even in a normal or higher-than-average wet season, allows
salt-laden sea water to flow upstream into California’s prime
agricultural land that would mean game over for the agriculture
industry, permanently. In fact, even without dams, the lack of snowpack
has brought normal river flows to a such a slow trickle that scientists
are frantically building rock walls to hold back sea water that started
going up-river and encroaching on prime agricultural land.
As noted by Joe Romm at Think Progress, “if Boehner
had been Speaker during the 1930s Dust Bowl, he’d have urged Oklahomans
to ignore those science-based conservation efforts pushed by FDR and
just keep watering their lawns.” Neither John Boehner, nor his Koch
cohorts in Congress, care about California’s severe drought and it is
not surprising he would take to social media to assail California’s
efforts to conserve what little water the state has left. Boehner and
Republicans do, however, care about serving the Koch brothers’ crusade
to abolish California’s environmental policies or they would not say
incredibly stupid things like the historic, worse in 1,200 year, drought
is caused by Barack Obama, the E.P.A., California environmentalists, or
condemn the state’s residents’ efforts to save the precious resource as
“backwards priorities and regressive ideology.”
John
Boehner is, indeed, not a scientist and he is not stupid enough to
seriously believe that the lack of precipitation falling on California,
Nevada, Oklahoma, or any drought-stricken state is due to a President or
California’s water conservation efforts. However, he is just smart
enough to comprehend that with a segment of the population struggling to
equal the IQ of dirt, all he has to do is blame the lack of rain and
snow fall in California, Nevada, Oklahoma and likely the Sahara Desert
on California environmentalists, the EPA, and the Black guy in the White
House and they will believe him. No, Boehner is not nearly as stupid as
he wants his supporters to believe, but he is a lying pile of human
waste that does not belong in civilized society, and he had better steer
clear of California civilized society.
