Republicans Claim They Know How To Govern

I. Climate Change Deniers

Senator Coburn of Oklahoma brought a snowball to the Senate floor to "prove" there is no climate change. Senator Whitehouse replied: "rips senator snowball"

What I wonder is if the climate change deniers understand mathematical averaging. Do they realize that 95 and 31 do not average to 31, but to a higher number than 94 and 31? Climate change is slow and the highs may become higher and the lows lower with the average climbing very slowly: 97 + 28 may average the same as 95 + 30, but the higher highs and lower lows bring us dramatically worse weather.

If we have to bring a math teacher to these deniers it would be helpful to the world. But then, we know they aren't stupid -- they're just pretending to be on television.


2. Stealth Legislating

Republicans who have an agenda that's not actually appealing to the public have sometimes campaigned without admitting to their real goals. In Congress there has always been pork-barrel legislating where spending for the home district is snuck into someone else's legislation. Now they stuff the legislation with stealth agenda items. Republicans slip anti-abortion language into an EDUCATION bill.

3. Who's In Charge, John Boehner or the TEA partiers?

Steve Scalise was treated roughly in the recent race for House Speaker and he may be in the mood for some revenge. Did Steve Scalise just screw John Boehner?

4. What's Behind Republican Politics?

There has always been a race for campaign contributions, but now there are a few super rich individuals who are backing campaigns. The Koch brothers are but two. GOP race starts in lavish haunts of rich donors!

So, this is governing? I don't think they're doing a very good job of it. Is this what the public wants? No, they've said repeatedly they want everyone to work together to get important things done.

And, I'm not even bringing up the delay in funding for the Department of Homeland Security.