Finally… Republicans Confront Obama Administration on Junk Science Misconduct

Finally, Republicans in Congress challenged the Obama Administration over their junk science misconduct.
The lawmakers claim there are repeat incidents of “scientific misconduct” among federal agencies that are guiding radical Obama policy.

The GOP lawmakers highlighted the scolding a federal judge gave the Fish and Wildlife Service last month over testimony in defense of a plan to protect a tiny fish called delta smelt by diverting water in California away from farmland.

GOP reps confronted the Obama Administraion over their junk science misconduct in an official letter.

FOX News reported:

Several Republican lawmakers are challenging the Obama administration’s science czar over what they claim are repeat incidents of “scientific misconduct” among agencies, questioning whether officials who deal with everything from endangered species to nuclear waste are using “sound science.”

The letter sent Wednesday to John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, cited four specific controversies in recent years where scientific findings were questioned. Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., rattled off a slew of questions on what they called “the apparent collapse in the quality of scientific work being conducted at our federal agencies.”

“Specifically, we are concerned with data quality, integrity of methodologies and collection of information, agencies misrepresenting publicly the weight of scientific ‘facts,’ indefensible representations of scientific conclusions before our federal court system, and our fundamental notions of ‘sound’ science,” they wrote. “We identify in this letter important examples of agency scientific misconduct.”

Inhofe spokesman Matt Dempsey told FoxNews.com the issues in the letter had been on Republicans’ radar screen “for some time.” But he said the lawmakers decided to compile them and confront the administration about it out of concern that a “trend” was developing.

“The concern is there’s a lot more there,” he said.

White House representatives so far have not returned requests for comment on the letter.

Then there’s my personal favorite… The Obama EPA claiming their job-killing policies will prevent 17,000 premature deaths - without a shred of evidence to back them up.

#1 October 20, 2011 at 6:38 am
Obama Nation commented:

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#2 October 20, 2011 at 6:54 am
BensonII commented:

It’s about frickin time!!!!!!!!!!!
#3 October 20, 2011 at 6:54 am
KR commented:

The California Central Valley has been farmed for decades. Why has the Delta Smelt survived this long if it was so important to shut the water source off a year or so ago?
#4 October 20, 2011 at 7:01 am
vagabond a-z trader III commented:

Can’t say the Rs are not on the ball, nothing gets by them huh?///
#5 October 20, 2011 at 7:11 am
Obama Nation commented:

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#6 October 20, 2011 at 7:12 am
KLD commented:

Divert water for smelt, and laund…er… divert funds with it?
#7 October 20, 2011 at 7:33 am
Ipso Facto commented:

It’s interesting that there are certain predictable types of scientific findings that appeal to only one political orientation. We always hear about them from NPR don’t we?

The question is – how can that possibly be?

The answer – because the liberals have been trying to use junk science as a means to gain control. Since few of their positions have any merit unto themselves, they have been trying to co-opt junk science to rationalize their nutty ideas because up until recently, few lay people would ever say that some scientist was wrong. Now we know full well that the “scientists” are simply liberals from academe and they all obtain their funding from the government and thus their findings always coincide with the liberal’s point of view.

No more! The people are now wise to this scam.
#8 October 20, 2011 at 7:36 am
Justamom commented:

Survival of the fittest?
Hypocrite libs.
Just another example of how theory and practice differ.
Nature, human nature.
#9 October 20, 2011 at 7:40 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

all well and good however nothing will ever happen to this crooked administration…unfortunately they will have “lost” key emails, paperwork etc….the mooslum is nothing but pond scum
#11 October 20, 2011 at 7:43 am
Obama Nation commented:

Back Door Amnesty Alert!

Napolitano: DHS Authorizing Illegal Aliens to Work in U.S.

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#13 October 20, 2011 at 7:59 am
Larkin commented:

This is a little like closing the barn door after all of the livestock has escaped.

The San Joaquin valley, once the breadbasket of the west is now a desert, with tens of thousands of farmers out of business, and untold acreage of orchards and groves turned to kindling.

Where were the grownups six or seven years ago?
#14 October 20, 2011 at 8:03 am
JPeden commented:

Given the existence of the biggest pseudoscientific hoax in history, “CO2 = Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming” [CO2 = CAGW], which is directed at looting and controlling as much of the World’s people and wealth as possible, and the U.S. Federal Gov’t's critical role in perpetrating it through its granting process which funds its “science”, no Federal Gov’t funded science at all should be believed until it is independently confirmed using the principles and practices of real science.

The EPA should simply be abolished and the Endangered Species Act repealed. Any Federal funding of the National Academy of Science should be stopped and anything it says considered uncredible.

Destroy the pre-Enlightenment Political Science Propaganda Machine masquerading as real science!
#15 October 20, 2011 at 8:07 am
kansas commented:

I don’t suppose anyone has noticed that the “science” is settled right up until the time it’s not. And then suddenly it’s “settled” again only this time with a different result.
#16 October 20, 2011 at 8:31 am
bobdog commented:

What’s the point?

Obama will simply unionize the smelt and give them an enormous loan for “green research”.
#17 October 20, 2011 at 8:33 am
JoyO commented:

Every time I hear about John Holdren and his scientific “projects”, I remember him on the special TV program in the 1970′s about the coming glacier age and what we had to do to avoid it… sounded pretty much like the global warming mantra of today. He later expanded his need to control to environment to sterilzation of the masses. Hopefully, he hasn’t “progressed” to mind control. Oops, I forgot, Progressives have always been into mind control. Look at the “Group Think” in Occupy Wall Street.
#18 October 20, 2011 at 8:35 am
the real wow commented:

#13 October 20, 2011 at 7:59 am
Larkin commented:

It wasn’t politically expedient to address this matter then.
#19 October 20, 2011 at 8:35 am
Tom63010 commented:

I’m with Sarah Palin, that is bait!
#20 October 20, 2011 at 8:50 am
Lisa Kinney Wildemann commented:

As usual the regulations imposed are about control, and it’s quite past the time something should have been done about the out of control EPA& other agencies that have encroached upon the rights&freedoms of the people. Along witht this is the CLIMATE-GATE scandal. Al Gore not only has a following of idiots but the worst is the fact that scientists were willing to besmirch the profession by falsifying and fudging info and numbers to make their case. Sad as I’m sure they were probably good people before their association with him. We see what he’s doing now. It was all about control and power. Sad.
#21 October 20, 2011 at 8:53 am
Nelle commented:

The Delta Smelt Saga is a good thing to remind the public of right up to the election. Ruined farmers, most of them immigrants, a lost food supply in a time of inflation, a stupid minnow…easy to understand and disgusting. I hope to see a lot more about this, and light bulbs, and Gulf coast oil workers, and northeastern fishermen, and failed solar companies in the coming year. Obama’s environmental idiocy deserves to be exposed for the job-destroying, slush fund generator that it is.
#22 October 20, 2011 at 9:01 am
notasheeple commented:

I have been waiting and waiting for this topic to be discussed in the debates. I don’t think Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich are knowledgeable about Climategate or any of the junk science controversies. I am really concerned about Mitt Romney’s consulting Holdren on scientific matters when he was governor.
#24 October 20, 2011 at 9:11 am
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#25 October 20, 2011 at 9:14 am
Noovuss commented:

You mean that we can’t Kollectivize the farms in the Peoples Repubik of Kalifornia?
Fish before people, fish of the world unite……………………………..
#26 October 20, 2011 at 9:30 am
carmen commented:

Control the food supply, control the people – the smelt is just a ruse for dhimmis to get to the ends: power over who lives and who dies.
#27 October 20, 2011 at 9:43 am
Obama Nation commented:

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#29 October 20, 2011 at 9:48 am
arnonerik commented:

They are just “making” the science agree with their agenda. I sure there was a consensus that the “science” was settled with no tolerance for deniers.
#31 October 20, 2011 at 10:20 am
Radegunda commented:

Noovuss said: “Fish before people, fish of the world unite……………………………..”

Remember the idiotic Clinton-Gore campaign slogan “Putting People First”? It was a joke then, and even more so now, with what Gore and the Dems are doing.
#32 October 20, 2011 at 10:32 am
Patty commented:

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/pelosi-boxer-finstien–please-please-consider-humans-above-minnows/blog-346399/

Pelosi, Boxer, Finstien- please, please consider humans above minnows

U.S. Senate to California Farmers: Drop Dead

Demonstrating once again the moonbat priorities of the Democratic Senate majority, the Senate has voted to screw over hundreds of thousands of farmers and endanger our national food supply for the sake of a two-inch fish that probably isn’t endangered anyway.

Because of the ruling of Moonbat Judge Oliver Wanger, millions of gallons of freshwater that could be growing crops and providing livelihoods to hundreds of thousands of people are washing uselessly into the sea. Farmers are facing bankruptcy and tens of thousands are out of work.

California’s dingbat senators Dianne Feinstein and Babs “Ma’am” Boxer stood by and did nothing to correct this insanity. It took a Republican from South Carolina, Jim DeMint, to try and rescue California’s farmers by proposing an amendment to restore water to the farmers in the San Joaquin valley. Guess what? Senate Demoncrats… including both dingbat senators from California… voted it down. And Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has interfered to keep the water turned off several times before.

Update: Senior Dingbat Dianne Feinstein compares supplying Farmers with water to “Pearl Harbor.”

The question needs to be WHY?? Why is our own government shutting off the water to the most fertile areas in California if not all of America?

This is what they do in countries like Venezuela… Iran… or the old Soviet Union, countries run by Obama’s friends!!! Putting the Delta Smelt before people? Creating food shortages so we are more dependent on foreign supplies to push their global agenda or New World Order? Creating an emergency to impose even more control, cut more freedoms and grab more power?

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Feds shut off water to California farms in controversial effort to help threatened species

By NewsWax | Aug 12, 2009

A farming town in California claims that it may disappear due to the United States federal government shutting off water pumps, though the government states the actions are necessary to save several marine species.

In July 2009, action by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation to protect threatened fish stopped irrigation pumping to parts of the California Central Valley causing canals leading into Huron, California and the surrounding areas and the farms that rely on them to lose their primary irrigation source. Unemployment has reached 40% in some areas as the farms have dried up.
#33 October 20, 2011 at 10:34 am
P. Aaron commented:

Isn’t that John Holdren fellow Mitt Romney’s global warming consultant?
#34 October 20, 2011 at 10:40 am
BridgetGB commented:

This is California in a nutshell. Arrogant, elitist Leftists social engineering the state into the dust. This is exactly what happened in the former bread basket of California. Why the hell morons keep voting for these Marxist Dems is beyond comprehension.

They dare to talk about job creation?! This delta smelt scam did nothing but destroy jobs, farms & lives.

God help us out here in Cali – between the non-resident illegal voters registered by Democrats & the horde of anti-semite, leftist hypocrites this state is toast.

So many of us are stuck – we can’t sell our homes or businesses and are just trying to hang on in an economy that rivals Detroit.
#36 October 20, 2011 at 11:34 am
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

…a tiny fish called delta smelt…

Looks like it would make good bait for catching larger fish…
#37 October 20, 2011 at 11:38 am
mg4us commented:

Great Picture Jim. . always knew something was “fishy” with their science and math!

FYI. . Gov’t spending by Federal Gov’t up 33% from 5 years ago!! 33%!!!!! Do people understand how how perverse this is?
#38 October 20, 2011 at 12:06 pm
gosh! commented:

#20 bing……………….this is all about control …………when you control food sources and water ways,electric grid, and work places under{UNION } you are then able to control the people………….
#39 October 20, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Stuart commented:

What’s wrong with you people?
Don’t you know that the science is settled ?
How do I know?
Saint Albert of Gore told me so!
Al Gore said so.
I believe it.
That settles it.
#40 October 20, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Rose commented:

Why does the GOP always wait til the worst of the damage is done, then use it for campaign purposes, THEN WHEN THEY GET BACK IN OFFICE, REFUSE TO UNDO THE DAMAGE!

Old worn-out cycle!
#41 October 20, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Molon Labe commented:

So the GOP will do? Will anyone lose his job? Go to jail? Will the EPA be reduced in size? Will any action be taken against it?

I’d like to see this question asked at a debate.

You can bet Romney, Perry and Paul will augment the EPA. The RINOs suck. No wonder these frauds are doing so badly.
#42 October 20, 2011 at 6:14 pm
mg4us commented:

The Government Elitists and Crooks not only use laws and beauracracy to destroy our Country . .now they are selling out our country to foreigners with cash

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/senators-draft-bill-to-give-visas-to-foreigners-buying-pricey-homes/#ixzz1bLKnlK00

Disgusting

Need to sweep them all out. .

Wish Palin would change her mind and run. . .we need an outsider

Run Sarah Run
#43 October 20, 2011 at 6:53 pm
MustComment commented:

My uncle (in-law), living in S.F., has been working on the delta smelt debacle since I was married into the family (17 years now). He gets paid BIG BUCKS via the federal government and nothing has ever been resolved regarding this tiny fish. Just another example of tax dollars being wasted and California farmers being negatively affected. I would be chuckling under my breath if this smelt research “farce” was shut down! Finally.