Todd Akin is on the Committee of Science, Space and Technology

[phantom power]

ponder that, and weep.

http://firedoglake.com/2012/08/20/your-fierce-advocate-of-not-giving-a-damn/#comment-2551788

[coalition_unwilling]

1. You just can't make this shit up! - n/t

[Care Acutely]

2. But of course he is.

[Rain Mcloud]

3. I would hope

that this is about to change.
Uncle Karl Rove was on Fox News earlier to frame the debate and change the subject to a more important topic,like the GOP is out fundraising the Democrats,oddly Fox credited Uncle Karl's involvement with the Bush and Reagan administrations and let slip that he was
also in the Nixon administration and heads Crossroads GPS which has invested over $80,000 dollars backing Akin this year.

Generally the GOP gives these chairs to pedants of the Reagan ideology and who can command air time for the dispersal of the daily talking points,look at Sen. Jim Inhoffe-R-OK the leading waterboy for the US petro-chemical industries who just so happens to sit on the same committee and yet is the leading climate change denier and opponent of state funded abortion.

It would be a mistake to equate intelligence or impartiality with the requirements of being in these committee's,all that it appears to qualify is to stand up and spew Karl Roves Jive with a straight face while trying not to picture Karl exercising his proclivities with "W"
in the Lincoln Bedroom with Pretzels and Pickles.

[Kali]

4. how else are they going to get bibles into biology?

shameful ignorance is the conservative way!

[Marrah_G]

5. Just imagine for a moment, the look on the NASA scientists faces when hearing this...

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[rock]

6. Of course he is!

No other conservative comes close to his scientific grasp of principles. (Yeah, sarcasm)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. He was actually talking about women who got raped by dinosaurs

a few hundred years ago when they co-existed with humans. Aikin has clarified his statement confirming he meant that a rape by a male dinosaur cannot get a human female pregnant.

[Sheepshank]

8. that's it...there is no hope n/t

[surrealAmerican]

9. Well, yeah ...

... you mustn't unfairly stack the committee with people who "believe in" (or understand) science.

[spanone]

10. well, bachmann is on the 'intelligence committee'