this week in tennessee the state senate passed sb 893 requiring public schools to teach the quote controversy over evolution, global warming and human cloning. the bill is being referred to as the monkey bill, a call-back to tennessee s famous scopes monkey trial in 1925 when a teacher was convicted for teaching evolution in the classroom. the bill says teachers must find effective ways to present science curriculum as it addresses scientific controversies. the tennessee members of the national academy of sciences expressed their opposition of the bill and its companion bill in the house, hb 368 with a letter to the tennessee house committee on education. these bills encourage teachers to emphasize what are misdescribed as the scientific weaknesses of evolution.
that s why rove keeps chipping away at rick perry? rove attacked rick perry because he knows rick perry doesn t have the smarts to pull this off. more importantly, he knows what rick perry said before rick perry came out on the national scene. the short list is, he wanted to ban social security, ban medicare, he wanted to ban teaching evolution in schools. interestingly enough he wanted to ban america. he wanted texas to secede from the united states. he never said it. mike it s not true. let me finish what i m saying. he didn t say it. he said in part, because he did he didn t have the intellect to understand what a shallow simple ton proclamation that was, and you re worried about it, because you know that s going to come up in this
teaching evolution in schools. interestingly enough he wanted to ban america. he wanted texas to secede from the united states. he never said it. mike it s not true. let me finish what i m saying. he didn t say it. he said in part, because he did he didn t have the intellect to understand what a shallow simple ton proclamation that was, and you re worried about it, because you know that s going to come up in this campaign. and you have to defend this simple ton shallow statement. more importantly, michael, this is a guy who said, we should abandon the 16th and 17th amendment to the u.s. constitution. and you know when you go on your radio show, you have to tell your listeners the front-runner candidate, perry, your guy, is the guy who said, we need to abandon the 16th and 17th amendment. we can t have a standing army in the united states. i will agree with you about this. i think that the biggest problem for republicans right now is
republicans. a game of russian roulette. i m sure we have some members who believe that. they re new. many of them have never served in public office before. congress is also feeling the heat. obviously, i m not qualified to speak on behalf of the marks and what they will or will not do. republicans in congress are driving us towards the edge of a cliff. but facts and republicans parted ways a long time ago. a war on math. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. your issue is not the debt limit. texas is back on the debate over teaching evolution in public schools. and the heat index, manufactured by government. senate republicans still want their chance to vote on the latest symbolic vote. cut, cap, and balance. we haven t have won world war ii if we had had a cut, cap, and balance on the table then. every reasonable voice in america has warned us time is of the essence. we are running out of time. and the media has finally
cliff. but facts and republicans parted ways a long time ago. a war on math. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. your issue is not the debt limit. texas is back on the debate over teaching evolution in public schools. and the heat index, manufactured by government. senate republicans still want their chance to vote on the latest symbolic vote. cut, cap, and balance. we haven t have won world war ii if we had had a cut, cap, and balance on the table then. every reasonable voice in america has warned us time is of the essence. we are running out of time. and the media has finally caught up with grover norquist, the most powerful man in republican politics. who made grover norquist king? the people have made this commitment not to raise taxes. if you raise tax rates, that is violating a tax pledge. 232 of the 240 have signed the no tax increase pledge. americans for tax reform