"We're associated with being anti-everything," Bush said. "Way too many people believe that Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker. Many voters are simply unwilling to choose our candidates because those voters feel unloved, unwanted, and unwelcome in our party."
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Jeb Bush:
Republicans can't be seen as "anti-everything" -- CBS News, March 16,
2013
That was then, when Jeb Bush tried to be the "voice of Reason" at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference).
This is NOW -- as Jeb has apparently decided he wants to be the "voice of the Anti-Science" mobs ...
“For the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you,” he reportedly said. “It’s this intellectual arrogance that now you can’t have a conversation about it, even.”
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Jeb Bush Says People Who Accept Climate Science Are ‘Really Arrogant’ -- thinkprogress.org, May 21, 2015
Fortunately for The New-Bush, he doesn't have to look far to see that Anti-Science mob-mentality in action.
He just has to stop by the Republican-led Congress, where "really arrogant" takes on its most elemental of meanings ...
Republicans Pass Anti-Science Bill Undermining the American Research Enterprise and Abandoning the Legacy of COMPETES
Press Release Source: House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology -- May 20, 2015
spaceref.com
(Washington, DC) Today the House passed H.R. 1806, the Republicans' America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, a COMPETES Act in name only. The COMPETES Act of 2007 and its 2010 reauthorization, provided important tools, policy direction, and sufficient resources to keep our nation competitive well into the future. H.R. 1806 abandoned the goals of the first two COMPETES bills and instead embraced a partisan, anti-science agenda.
The bill passed out of Committee along party lines and also passed the House by a vote of 217 to 205, with every Democrat and 23 Republicans voting against the bill.
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Republicans don't need No Science; they don't need No R&D; they don't need No Progress either.
They got the American People buffaloed, and that's all they really need.
God forbid, that American Exceptionalism, actually be based on anything "exceptional" -- isn't that right, Jeb?
And most of all Republicans don't need No Earth Science -- and they don't need No "socialist" Climate Science, either.
And guess what, they do control the power of the purse the 'National Credit Card' at the moment ... so Look Out Progress -- The GOP is in charge!
After 2-year battle, House passes COMPETES Act on mostly party-line vote
by Jeffrey Mervis, sciencemag.org -- 20 May 2015
The America COMPETES Act (H.R. 1806) has been the subject of a 2-year battle between Republican lawmakers in the House and the research community (see previous coverage, below). It would take research at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) in dangerous directions, say Democrats who sarcastically dubbed the bill the America Concedes Act or the America Can’t Compete Act. It authorizes a shift in spending away from the geosciences and climate science, two areas that Republicans feel the Obama administration has indulged. It would tighten the strings on NSF’s grantsmaking process in ways that Republicans say are simply meant to serve the national interest but that most scientists consider too restrictive. It also cuts authorized spending levels at the National Institute of Standards and Technology far below what the White House has requested.
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The bill now moves to the Senate. Although the Senate has not drafted a counterpart, a bipartisan group of seven senators today introduced a bill focused on a subset relating to DOE research programs.
The White House has already issued a threat to veto the House bill. On Monday it said that the bill “undermines key investments in science, technology, and innovation and imposes unnecessary and damaging requirements.”
America COMPETES Act of 2007
wikipedia.org
The provisions of The America COMPETES Act of 2007 covered a wide range of activities of a great number of federal agencies and offices including the Office of Science and Technology Policy (Title I), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Title II), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Title III), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, Title IV), the Department of Energy (Title V), and the National Science Foundation (Title VII). In many places, the Act mandates that each agency cooperate with its partner agencies and offices, and it calls attention to the importance of high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need.
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But ... Republicans don't need No Science; they don't need No R&D; they don't need No Progress either.
Afterall they got their God on speed-dial, and that's all they really need.
And their God laughs at the 'intellectual strivings' of us pitiful humans -- isn't that right, Jeb?
Can't wait to hear his "enlightened" answer to that church-state question ... 'foolishness', has nothing over 'arrogance' -- now does it New-Bush?