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Comment Re:What's next? (Score 1) 496

Are you seriously trying to defend the party of anti-science as being the champions of science? Let's see,we have Louis Gohmert thinking he put on over on Steven Chu on the subject of why oil was placed in Texas and Alaska. Then we have Jim Ihofe, chair the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, a man who when questioned named Barbra Streisand as being behind the climate change myth. How about Lamar Smith (R-TX) who drafted legislation requiring the NSF director to certify that research met a number of new criteria set by congress effectively eliminating peer review by replacing it with regulation. I have to admire someone who keeps pushing that line about how the Republicans are working to make science better. I know it has to be embarrassing to be so profoundly wrong because it makes your team feel right.

Comment Re:What's next? (Score 3, Interesting) 496

"Funding for science under Republic administration's has been historically higher than other Democrats."

Perhaps you don't understand that the Administrations do not set the budget and that Congress controls the purse strings. While the White House can ask for whatever it wants in a budget, Congress gets to do whatever they want and then send it back to the president to sign or veto.

You giving credit to President Bush for things he didn't do while slamming Clinton for things he had almost no say in.

If you wish to educate us all, the least you could do is have a passing knowledge in the subject.

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