so, no, i think shimkus is about as extreme as you'd get. and as you say, he sort of mixed his metaphors. i don't know how you believe in dinosaurs and the bible. they don't -- you know, dinosaurs are like hundreds of millions of years ago and the bible is like 6,000-year-old planet. so you get these people who are beyond rational. they just sort of grasp at whatever little anecdote or argument they've heard to justify their extreme, you know, pro-pollution policies. >> and the theology doesn't even hold up, because if god said is that he wouldn't cause anymore floods, that covered a lot of other possibilities for floods, other than ones caused by a deity. but lastly, fast forward two years. whoever gets this, unless there's some fourth candidate who has like a fully functioning brain, does republican control of this committee mean legislatively and in terms of where we are, as a nation on climate change, does it mean we're not anywhere on climate change? >> yeah, i mean, the house, obviously, this committee passed out a climate and clean en

to illinois congressman john shimkus who is a candidate to chair the energy and commerce committee so it seems that the republican congressman is not too concerned with the whole climate change issue here on earth take a listen to his statement about why we don't need to worry about it. and only when god declares it's time to be over. man will not destroy this earth this earth will not be destroyed by a flood. so god promised no of it he'll never again destroy the world well i guess that means there is no such thing as human damage to the planet right so forget about recycling doing your part for mother earth because the bible says that everything will be chill god promised but you guys find it a little odd but god only speaks to republicans i mean what is up with that. this is going to listen to the world. it is not that would destroy the world but you. please a. hole that you believe you will be suited to but. hey god thanks for the info now it's nice to know that he speaks to us mere mortal liberals to make the law man stay in touch and now back to congressman john shimkus you are

we've heard candidates by shimkus, but didn't, leaving to veterans affairs. any other host of names including walden who was once on the committee and gave up his spot. do you think those candidates -- i know you can't speak to the individual is he just said, but do you think those candidates represent different -- very strikingly different views on issues we talked about or do you see them all being in a similar camp so much so it's safe to say no matter which one of them does take up a subcommittee will see a slightly different role for the subcommittee, like as he said leasing the fcc, tiki barber vaccinate. >> host: just to further tony's question, does it matter if productiveness chair or joe barton or cliff stearns? >> guest: well, i think they all are going to be focused on broadband reclassification and spectrum. and you know, given the noise on privacy, it's tough not to see how they'd be focused on privacy. i think those are going to be the committee priorities. frankly, they're the committee priorities for the republicans are in charge or democrats

from the judicial building in montgomery this is almost as good as the republican congressman john shimkus who could potentially leave the energy committee saying that god promises there's going to be no flood so we're all good in the whole climate change thing now as we mentioned a few lawmakers didn't sign the brief one said that we don't really depend on god for our physical security and you know what he's right unfortunately having the big guy on our side isn't going to do much in the way of protecting the homeland from the threats of terrorism if it did the why do we even need the homeland security department why do we even need a little military for that matter so that's why tonight's tool time award is being given to the lawmakers of kentucky who are not doing their jobs and instead just trying to create a theocracy. now whether you are for or against it there's a lot of buzz out there going on around the new t.s.a. pat downs whoopi goldberg made a comment over the weekend saying that personally she's ok with it but several others are very much against the hands on approach people l

we've heard a number of candidates from shimkus to upton if full committee doesn't lay out that stearns may be leaving to go to veterans affairs, including walden who was once on the committee and gave up his spot. do you think those candidates -- i mean, i know you can't speak to the individual as you just said, but do you think those candidates, like, represent different, very, very strikingly different views on some of the issues that we talked about, or do you see them being in a similar camp so much so that it's safe to say no matter which one takes up the subcommittee, we're going to take a different role, policing the fcc, oversight role -- >> host: and just to further tony's question, does it matter if fred upton is chair of the energy and commerce committee or joe barton or cliff stearns? >> guest: well, i think that they all are going to be focused on broadband reclassification and spectrum. and, you know, again, given the noise on privacy, it's tough not to see how they'd be focused on privacy. i mean, i think those are going to be the committee priorities. frankly, i think t

he's either been a drastic change quickly for a number of candidates from shimkus to opt-in. at the full committee doesn't work out for stearns he may leave to go to veterans affairs and any other host of new and including walden who was on the committee gave up his spot. do you think those candidates -- and he can't speak to the individual that he said, do you think those candidates represent very strikingly different views on some of the issues we talked about? or do you see them all kind of been in similar camps, so much so that it is safe to say no matter which one of them takes up the subcommittee were going to see a slightly different role or the subcommittee. like as you said, policing the fcc, which had oversight role. >> host: just to further tony's question, does it matter if fred upton is chair of the energy commerce committee or joe barton or cliff stearns? >> guest: well, i think they all are going to be focused on broadband reclassification and spectrum. and you know, again, giving the noise on privacy, it's tough not to see how they'd be focused on privacy. i t