The Crazy Things The GOP Are Saying

You know, the GOP isn't just legislating crazy, stupid things. They're also saying them too. Here's the latest gems.

• House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton says his legislation blocking the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases will "stop rising gas prices." If this sounds stupid to you, it's because it is. The regulation of greenhouse gases isn't what's driving up our gas prices, fears about supply from speculators is. All this garbage regulation will do is allow companies emitting these gases to go the cheap route, and simply dump them into our air.
• Congresswoman Virginia Foxx: The tragedy in Japan is a sign that "God is still in charge." On the surface, this isn't that crazy, as I believe all things are God's work. The problem with people who talk about this is, this is their way of saying "let's do nothing about it." Foxx and her ilk are basically living in wait for the apocalypse. It's pretty nuts.
• This one's amazing. I bet money Corbett doesn't fire this goon.

  This jerk is one of "The Naked Guv"'s chief "regulators" of the oil-and-gas industry, and he seems to have confused one kind of "Gasland" for a very different kind. His words would be even outrageous even if the "Gasland" filmmaker Josh Fox were not the descendent of Holocaust surviviors, which is he is:
  
  Borawski, who has been involved with oil drilling on the Gulf Coast, was asked about the recent documentary "Gasland," an Academy Award-nominated documentary made partially in Pennsylvania that portrays drilling as harmful to the environment and residents.
  
  "Joseph Goebbels would have been proud," Borawski replied. "He would have given him the Nazi Award. That, in my opinion, was a beautiful piece of propaganda."

• Kansas State Representative Virgil Peck takes the cake, I think. He says we should just have a hunt for, and shoot, illegal immigrants. He compared it to our efforts to control feral hogs in the United States. This is so disgusting, there's not much to say to it.
• But wait, he might not even be the worst. New Hampshire State Representative Martin Harty suggested we send the mentally ill, retarded, and drug addicts to Siberia to die. He called them "defective people." He finally resigned. The Speaker of that House, who didn't push him too hard up to now, accepted his resignation.

Oy vey! These people are nuts!