Earth Matters: Dems rip GOP climate cuts at Senate budget hearing; USPS's new EV vans are delayed
It’s no surprise a U.S. senator with an appalling lifetime score of 6% from the League of Conservation Voters for his environmental votes and a history of rejecting climate science would ridicule Democratic actions to address the impacts of the global warming crisis. At a debt ceiling hearing of the Senate Budget Committee Thursday, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas attacked Democratic green policies generally and remarked, “Jupiter is the Roman god of climate and weather. Indra was the Hindu god; Horus the Egyptian god of climate and weather; Zeus, the Greek mythology god. I ask you: Who is America’s climate god. Is it John Kerry? Is it Al Gore? Why do we get this religious experience with climate rather than using common sense?”
If your gag reflex gets triggered any time a Republican talks about somebody’s lack of common sense, you’re not alone. Notice that Marshall didn’t mention Koalemos, the Greek god of stupidity.