Getting Down To Business
by digby
For those who think that all the shrill talk coming from lefties like me about the dangers of electing fundamentalist theocrats to govern the country is unseemly, perhaps this will give you pause. The fellow quoted is a climate change denier (as are a large majority of those newly elected to the congress in 2010) and he’s running to become head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Via Andrew Leonard at Salon:
Juan Cole does us the unpleasant service of bringing back to life the comments of John Shimkus, R-Ill., a year and a half ago.
Shimkus starts by quoting Genesis 8, Verses 21 and 22, in which God makes Noah a promise.
Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though all inclinations of his heart are evil from childhood and never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.
Shimkus continues: “I believe that is the infallible word of god, and that’s the way it is going to be for his creation… The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.”
Well that’s a relief. Now let’s get down to business and cut some taxes and shame some women!
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