OMG! Tea partiers are going to destroy the world, everyone panic!
Via Newsbusters:
On Monday’s All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes fretted that “climate denialism” by the Republican party’s “right-wing base” is preventing “meaningful climate policy” from being enacted.
After showing clips of California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher at a Tea Party event mocking global warming alarmists, Hayes described the conservative gathering as “the future of the earth in peril,” and “the belly of the beast.” Hayes:
But the fear of a Tea Party primary challenge is endemic in the Republican party right now. And it’s making meaningful climate policy, among other things, completely unachievable in Washington. So what you’re seeing in this room at the Newport Mesa Tea Party Patriots monthly meeting is the future of the earth in peril. In this room, this, this right here, this is the belly of the beast. […]
And Congressman Rohrabacher’s own proud climate change denialism, well, that is the big applause line, because if you’re a Republican, climate change denialism is a quick and easy way to demonstrate your conservative authenticity. It has a real visceral resonance as a cultural war issue. It’s not just some big policy plank. It’s “liberals are lying to you about this.” It’s in their gut.