Les Beastiables ("Les Bez"): Beasties say the darnedest things!
Today's Beastiable is Senator Lindsey Giraffe. He is of course a parody of Senator Lindsey Graham, who announced this week that he is running for President. He has said plenty of beastly things in his time, thus earning his turn as one of Les Beastiables.
NOTE: This series features a new Les Beastiables cartoon every Wednesday about 1:30-1:45 PM Eastern. We indulge in a little Franglish because the French are tres classy. But I digresse.
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In March of this year, Senator Graham addressed the Council for Foreign Relations. Part of his address was in answer to a question on bipartisanship in solving climate change. Here is my transcript of that answer:
When it comes to climate change being real, people in my party are all over the board, there were several resolutions. I did the trifecta, and I said that it's real, that man has contributed to it in a substantial way, but the problem is Al Gore has turned this thing into a religion. Climate change is not a religious problem for me, it is an economic, it is an environmental problem. So I think the Republican party has to do some soul searching. Before we can be bipartisan, we have got to figure out where we are as a party. What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either, so I'd like to come up with one. I'd like to have a debate within the party. Can you say that climate change is a scientifically sound phenomenon, but can you reject the idea that you have to destroy the economy to solve the problem, is sort of where I'll be taking this debate.
Of course, as
The New Civil Rights Movement points out:
In fact, the Republican Party's actual official platform mentions climate change only in an attempt to attack the Obama Administration.
"The current Administration’s...strategy subordinates our national security interests to environmental, energy, and international health issues, and elevates 'climate change' to the level of a 'severe threat' equivalent to foreign aggression."
That is the extent of the GOP's attempt to deal with climate change.
Please join me in my mission to expose the stupid and ugly in our public figures. Beastliness remembered is beastliness held accountable. We will never forget. But we will have some laughs along the way. You may find other sayings by the same public figures equally as bad or worse compared to the beastly sayings I've chosen. In other words, your cringeage may vary. Please feel free to discuss.
As promised, just for fun is a photo of giraffes of the cute type:
Mother and baby much cuter than politicians
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