Corporate welfare is not free-market capitalism. Those who take money to harm the country are not wise … nor smart.

The bill will die in the Senate but Republicans are putting themselves on record as so far into the pockets of business that any straight-faced attempt to portray themselves as genuine responsible political statesmen is in reality nigh on impossible.
What is happening here is nothing less than the ultimate white-collar crime and has very little to do with patriotism, constitutionalism, or pursuit of the common good. These individuals, having accepted money from corporate welfare lobbyists, have made of themselves high priests of greed…. nothing  more … nothing less.
Who are these heroes in their greasy and stained white hats riding filthy steeds who pass the foulest of gases as they trot along?
Only the polluters are drooling over gutting the EPA regulations that at least partially help preserve our lungs, our hearts and the lives of our children.
Their minds are made up. Do not try to confuse them with facts. These are not smart people.

This morning, top representatives of the scientific community tried in vain to reach fossil-fueled Republicans with the facts about the threat of global warming. In a hearing convened by the energy committee’s subcommittee on energy and power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), climate scientists clearly explained how years of research involving thousands of scientists in dozens of fields of expertise have come to the ineluctable conclusion that fossil-fuel pollution is threatening humanity.
… The response from the majority party was an embarrassment to the institution of Congress and to the American people.

When Rep. Markey suggested directly to them that they were fools, these corporate welfare hatchet men apparently felt that such talk was too complicated for them.

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to a bill that overturns the scientific finding that pollution is harming our people and our planet.
However, I won’t physically rise, because I’m worried that Republicans will overturn the law of gravity, sending us floating about the room.
I won’t call for the sunlight of additional hearings, for fear that Republicans might excommunicate the finding that the Earth revolves around the sun.
Instead, I’ll embody Newton’s third law of motion and be an equal and opposing force against this attack on science and on laws that will reduce America’s importation of foreign oil.
This bill will live in the House while simultaneously being dead in the Senate. It will be a legislative Schrodinger’s cat killed by the quantum mechanics of the legislative process!
Arbitrary rejection of scientific fact will not cause us to rise from our seats today. But with this bill, pollution levels will rise. Oil imports will rise. Temperatures will rise.
And with that, I yield back the balance of my time. That is, unless a rejection of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity is somewhere in the chair’s amendment pile.

After Markey’s remarks, the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), approved the science prevention bill by a voice vote.

 Yes to all you pretend wise conservative patriots whose blathering worship of the constitution does not include any sort of checks and balance between the smarts and the dumbs, this is a partisan post … partisan in support of the people.
We need more of them thinking about what is said and done by politicians dumber than those who voted.