Tea Party:"Reject Gay Rights, let God handle climate change"

SS109 wrote: It really would be cheaper in the long term to build a super wall to defend the border.

Yes, that solution worked so well for the USSR in Germany...and the Chinese...

I don't dispute that we have a problem with people getting into, and working in, this country illegally, but building a wall ain't gonna solve the problem.

Whatevergreen wrote: it’s the questions outlining the group’s priorities that provide a hearty serving of insight:

Now let’s hear those 15 questions.
2. The regulation of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere should be left to God and not government and I oppose all measures of Cap and Trade as well as the teaching of global warming theory in our schools.

This right here is my biggest problem with the Tea Party. It's all well and good to want a smaller, more efficient, non-corrupt government that provides for us without interfering in our personal lives, but when they're unwilling to listen to, and try to understand, and to accept what thousands of scientists who have been studying this issue are telling them, and it's a problem that will require an international scale, government-led solution to mitigate it, then they are not qualified to lead a government for which I will vote and support. The excess of CO2 in our atmosphere hasn't been put there by God, it's been put there by Man, and as such should be extracted by Man. Cap and Trade is the most useless, inefficient, corporate friendly, loophole-ridden means with which to solve global warming, but as it's the only one that's been discussed, I'd guess that they'd oppose fee and dividend or any other measure as well without giving rational thought as to why. If they're going to oppose the teachings of global warming, then they might as well oppose the teachings of all science. And while they are at it, avoid anything science created - all technology, antibiotics, vaccines, diagnostic tests, chemotherapy, pain killers, any life-saving surgeries, etc. No, I am not saying to blindly accept everything scientific out there, but there comes a time when, after 40+ years of saying the same thing, and a 97% consensus by the specialty most qualified to study it, that it's time to stop arguing and get moving on the solution. The Democrats have been no better than any other party in moving forward on this issue which was a big reason why I left the party. But it's a documented fact that Republicans and Tea Party members are the even more opposed to science as a whole, and global warming, especially, and they will not get any consideration from me unless it's a specific candidate that breaks with party line or the parties as a whole stop catering to industry and corporate interests that push agendas detrimental to our health and livelihoods.