A Conference Of Dunces

News from the Republican Leadership Conference this weekend in New Orleans is pretty grim if you think reason and logic will prevail in the 2012 GOP nominee for the White House.  Via BooMan, we find as President, Michele Bachmann would basically take the Department of Education out of the picture, give states block grants and let them teach whatever they want, but she wants schools to teach intelligent design.

"I support intelligent design," Bachmann told reporters in New Orleans following her speech to the Republican Leadership Conference. "What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide. I don't think it's a good idea for government to come down on one side of scientific issue or another, when there is reasonable doubt on both sides."


Intelligent design suggests that the complexity of the universe cannot be explained by evolution alone, and must also be attributed to a creator or supernatural being.

"I would prefer that students have the ability to learn all aspects of an issue," Bachmann said. "And that's why I believe the federal government should not be involved in local education to the most minimal possible process."

So she wants minimal federal government involvement in schools, but wants to force schools to teach evolution and intelligent design because they're two "competing theories" and the government "shouldn't take sides" by saying evolution is OK.  That makes logical sense, right?  We should have the government make schools teach alternatives to other "unproven scientific theories" like gravity.

Meanwhile, this conference is where the GOP hired an Obama impersonator to tell some pretty offensive jokes.



Aren't Republicans great?