{"id":10837,"date":"2013-08-11T00:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T07:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2013-08-11T00:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T07:57:02","slug":"republicans-on-parade8112013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/11\/republicans-on-parade8112013\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade&ndash;8\/11\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RepublicansOnParade\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"RepublicansOnParade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RepublicansOnParade.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the eighteenth article in our <em>Republicans on Parade<\/em> series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) for spreading an insane conspiracy theory regarding climate change, and for pandering to racial fear in support of that theory.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"11EarthDay2\" style=\"float: left; display: inline\" alt=\"11EarthDay2\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/11EarthDay2.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"211\" \/>Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a <a href=\"http:\/\/science.house.gov\/about\/membership\" target=\"_blank\">senior member<\/a> of the House Science Committee, used a portion of his time at a town hall this week to launch into a rant about global warming, which he described as <strong>a plot by liberals to \u201ccreate global government to control our lives<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congressman prefaced his remarks by noting that he wanted to respond to comments from Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who said recently that ongoing wildfires in Southern California have been exacerbated by a <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2013\/08\/08\/sen-boxer-severe-fire-season-in-southland-evidence-of-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">dry season<\/a> that is the result of climate change. Rohrabacher, speaking Thursday afternoon before the Newport Mesa Tea Party, then launched into a discussion about how the science of global warming has been promulgated by a cabal of scientists, liberal politicians and United Nation \u201cglobal government\u201d types. <strong>These forces, who would like to usurp American liberty, could even be from Nigeria, he warned<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Rohrabacher also argued that government-funded scientists have received \u201cso much money\u201d for research that \u201cthey have used it to intimidate people who disagree with their attempt to frighten all of us into changing our lives and giving up our freedoms to make choices.\u201d The conspiracy to destroy freedom is apparently very vast&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/175697\/science-committee-congressman-global-warming-fraud-create-global-government#\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0Dqi5tX-SY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rohrabacker may well be the most dangerous of the Republicans on Parade to date.&#160; Unlike the norm, screaming rants, he comes across gentle and low key, but the content of his statement is every bit as hateful and racist as that of the most rabid Republican Klansman.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the eighteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) for spreading an insane conspiracy theory regarding climate change, and for pandering to racial fear in support of that theory. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a senior <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/11\/republicans-on-parade8112013\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}