Well, I guess there "was" at least one decent Pubbie last session.

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This link is to a video of Bob Inglis (R-SC) making what he termed his swan song at the ast meeting on climate change. The video is about 1/2 way down the page and underneath it is the written text of his speech.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/18/bob-inglis-climate-change-denial_n_785404.html

Just a little clip:

INGLIS: I'm very excited to be here Mr. Chairman, because this is on the record. And it's a wonderful thing about Congressional hearings -- they're on the record. Kim Beasley (SP?) who's Australia's ambassador to the United States tells me that when he runs into a climate skeptic, he says to them, "Make sure to say that very publicly, because I want our grandchildren to read what you said and what I said. And so, we're on the record, and our grandchildren, or great-grandchildren, are going to read. And so some are here suggesting to those children that here's a deal: Your child is sick -- this is what Tom Friedman gave me this great analogy yesterday -- Your child is sick. 98 doctors say treat him this way. Two say no, this other way is the way to go. I'll go with the two. You're taking a big risk with those kids. Because 98 of the doctors say, "Do this thing," two say, "Do the other." So, it's on the record.

And we're here with important decision to be made. And I would also suggest to my Free Enterprise colleagues -- especially conservatives here -- whether you think it's all a bunch of hooey, what we've talked about in this committee, the Chinese don't. And they plan on eating our lunch in this next century. They plan on innovating around these problems, and selling to us, and the rest of the world, the technology that'll lead the 21st century. So we may just press the pause button here for several years, but China is pressing the fast-forward button. And as a result, if we wake up in several years and we say, "geez, this didn't work very well for us. The two doctors didn't turn out to be so right. 98 might have been the ones to listen to." then what we'll find is we're way behind those Chinese folks. 'Cuz you know, if you got a certain number of geniuses in the population -- if you're one in a million in China, there's 1300 of you. And you know what?

I can't say that I heard uch from Inglis while he was in office, but this speech makes me feel sad that he's gone. YES< even though he's a Republican!

[subterranean]

1. I guess this sort of blasphemy is the reason he got booted out

by the enlightened citizens of South Carolina. :sarcasm:

He was replaced, of course, with someone who believes global climate change is a hoax.

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2. K&R

... because I think that if there's going to be any hope of the Republican Party's becoming less batpoop crazy, intelligent Republicans should be given credit where credit is due. Not that a thumbs up from DU is going to make the tiniest bit of difference. But still.