Polianiac

I really could not believe what I was hearing. In the Republican response to Obama’s address, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was running through his litany of alleged “wasteful spending” consistently mischaracterized by Republicans in the recent Stimulus/Rescue/Survival Bill: “It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a ‘magnetic levitation’ line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring’…”

Something called ‘volcano monitoring’? Like monitoring volcanoes in the Cascades, Alaska, and Hawaiian Island chain that could potentially impact millions of U.S. citizens, not to mention U.S. commercial interests? Holy God! Holy God in Heaven, are they really questioning the wisdom of volcano monitoring?

Is this really the message the Republican Party wishes to send? Well if so, I will meet you half way on this: Governor Jindal, Governor Rick Perry of Texas, Gov. Barber of Mississippi and Governor Christ, Florida: Why don’t we just cut funding for the National Hurricane Center also? That way we can say we marginalized all sciences equally.