With would be GOP presidential candidates jockeying for position with the party base, things seem to have descended into a contest of who can be the bigger pandering, tawdry whore in terms of selling one's soul to the hideously ugly elements of the GOP base. Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio seem to be signally that each of them will prostitute themselves to whatever extent needed. In the case of Rubio, he is now firmly claiming that climate changes doesn't exist and/or is not effected by human behavior. With Jindal, he appeared at the always foul and more or less insane Liberty University for its commencement ceremonies where he fanned the flames of the myth of Christian persecution. Since neither Jindal nor Rubio are stupid, one can only assume that they have no morals and certainly no honor or integrity.
Huffington Post looks at Rubio's sell out to the knuckle dragging, drool stained climate change deniers of the GOP base. Here are excerpts:
Of all the states that stand to suffer from climate change, Florida is facing potentially the bleakest consequences. A New York Times report
noted last week that global warming was already having an effect on
everyday life, like leading to flooding on streets that never used to
flood.
Meanwhile, a National Climate Assessment has named Miami as the city most vulnerable to damage from rising sea levels.
On Sunday, one of the state's U.S. senators, Marco Rubio (R), was
pressed about the general subject of climate change, and despite the
warnings outlined above, he argued that there was nothing lawmakers
could or should do to reverse the climate trends (whose origins he also
questioned).
"I do not believe that human activity is causing
these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are
portraying it," Rubio said, according to excerpts released by ABC "This Week," "and I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy."
The transcript does not indicate what Rubio's "mitigation activity"
would consist of, but his assessment that the laws currently being
proposed to address climate change won't help, and will only hurt the
economy, is at odds with his own history as a politician.
As the
leader of the Florida House in 2008, Rubio helped pass a law directing
the state Department of Environmental Protection to develop a carbon
emissions capping system. He has since distanced himself from that vote,
arguing that he never supported cap and trade, only the idea that the
state should look into such a system. And when the system ultimately did
not pass, he cheered its failure.
Not to be outdone by Rubio, Jindal did all he could to give the politico equivalent to felatio to Christofascists at Liberty University.
LGBTQ Nation looks at Jindal's obscene pandering. Here are highlights:
Speaking at the commencement for Liberty University, the private Christian college founded by Jerry Falwell, Jindal expressed concern
for what he called “the war on religious liberties,” and cited David
and Jason Benham, hosts of the HGTV show cancelled last week, as well as
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, who was suspended by A&E late last year after making racist and anti-gay remarks in a GQ magazine interview.
“Make no mistake: the war over religious liberty is the
war over free speech, and without the first there is no such thing as
the second.
[...]
“There was a time when liberals in this country believed in debate.
But that is increasingly not the case for the modern Left in America.
No, the modern Left in America has grown tired of debate. Their new
strategy is simply to try to silence their critics.
[...]
“And the same thing happened again just this week, with another
demonstration of intolerance from the entertainment industry. HGTV was
working on a new show featuring the Benham brothers, twin brothers who
graduated from right here at Liberty University in 1998.
“But HGTV cancelled the show this week, allegedly because they
learned that one of the brothers protested at the Democrat Party
Convention, and the other had protested at an abortion clinic. Think
about that for a minute. If these guys had protested at the Republican
Party Convention, instead of canceling their show, HGTV would probably
have given them a raise.”
Jindal’s speech also included words of support for Hobby Lobby, a family-owned company which argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in March, seeking religious exemptions from the Affordable Care Act to for-profit corporations.
The Benham brothers, who themselves are 1998 graduates of Liberty
University, were seated in the front row for Jindal’s keynote speech.
Both Rubio and Jindal need to go to the nearest tattoo parlour and ave "I'm a pandering whore" tattooed across their foreheads.
