{"id":3998,"date":"2010-05-17T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2010-05-17T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:01:56","slug":"kleiman-the-party-of-knowledge-vs-the-party-of-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/05\/17\/kleiman-the-party-of-knowledge-vs-the-party-of-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kleiman-The Party of Knowledge vs. the Party of Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 May 2010, UCLA Public Policy Professor Mark Kleiman posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samefacts.com\/2010\/05\/science-and-its-methods\/the-party-of-knowledge-vs-the-party-of-ignorance\/\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">The Party of Knowledge vs. the Party of Ignorance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not only do the conservative movement and the Republican Party hate new knowledge, they hate the people who produce it. The latest maneuver in the House \u2013 where the Republicans used <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/97787-anti-porn-provision-sinks-dem-jobs-bill\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">an obscene little trick<\/a> to kill a bill to provide more funding for research and for science education \u2013 illustrates the point.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was ready to pass the House when the Republicans offered a \u201cmotion to recommit with instructions.\u201d The minority is allowed one such motion per bill. So the Republicans offered a motion that would have gutted the bill by freezing all the increased funding until the Twelfth of Nev \u2013 until the Federal budget was balanced. Easy to defeat, no? Not when the Republicans also included a change to fire federal civil servants who view porn \u201cincluding child pornography\u201d \u2013 at work. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the GOP didn\u2019t want to debate science funding on its merits, so they resorted to a dirty trick. And none of the folks involved seems to want to talk to the press about it. The Democrats pulled the bill, and will try to regroup next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 May 2010, UCLA Public Policy Professor Mark Kleiman posted The Party of Knowledge vs. the Party of Ignorance. Not only do the conservative movement and the Republican Party hate new knowledge, they hate the people who produce it. The latest maneuver in the House \u2013 where the Republicans used an obscene little trick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}