Illinois Representative John Shimkus explains to the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment why regulating environmental protection is just silly, and how God is perfect and awesome and totally hot, and he/she (just kidding! HE!) will end the world when He feels like it, not because we totally screwed it up.
Here’s Rep. Shimkus chatting in the same hearing with a British global-warming denier about how reducing carbon-dioxide would be taking away food from plants.
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Anybody know what the carbon footprint is of BATSHIT? Anyone…? Anyone…?
These people are incapable of feeling shame. He might as well have pulled down his pants and taken a dump on the table for all the credit he gave to himself and his constituents.
Yes, @2. When you carry around the trump card, “But God Says So,” nobody can argue with you logically.
I love the look on the girl’s face when Congressman Crazybrains starts reading Genesis.
This makes me want to curl into a ball in the corner. Or run for office.
Holy shit, I like that this guy rocks the infallible word of gawd and follows it up immediately with a statement about the condition of the Earth while dinosaurs roamed. Creation as defined in Genesis, not so true, the rest however, we should totally use it to model our environmental policy.
Hey dickwit — what if god decides to end the earth using man as his tool?
I love religion. It let’s you call any old belief (esp. ones that either can’t be proven, or have been disproved) the truth.
Scary that one so uneducated and deluded can attain such a lofty position in the making of public policy.
Illinois really does have the most amazing political spectrum — Lincoln and Obama at one end and Blagojavich, Daly and this schmo at the other.
They are nothing if not a source of great entertainment!
@5 – Julie, you’ve got a lot of sensibility and knowledge in your comments. I think you’re a better candidate for the latter option. 🙂
@4,
No doubt! She’s smirking through practically the whole first video, occasionally glancing up at the guy as if to say “you’re joking, right?” and in the second video, right at the end, she almost looks like she’s about to break out laughing.
Awesome.
The phrase “I beleive” is almost always followed by some form of stupidity which the person is demanding be respected despite its blatant stupidity.
I beleive the bible is the infallible word of god, I beleive in Jesus, I believe if I only eat peanuts for a week I’ll live for ever, ect.
Thanks, MEC. The corner has been looking more and more attractive lately, however. :>
John Shimkus is a grade A idiot, and I don’t need to this video to tell you that. Seriously, one of the top 435 members of the House.
This is a helpful reminder for everyone claming Science Is Back in government and the Religious Right is dead. Thank, er, god, we at least have a rational thinker in the Executive Branch…
As long as fundamentalist Christians vote, we will have to suffer morons like this in the halls of government.
@17. Hmm. You might be onto something. How do we convince them that God thinks it’s a sin to vote?
@18 Man, I wish I knew.
Although, watching these clips reminded me of the Religious Right’s penchant for all things “End Times”. Maybe we can just convince them that the rapture is so imminent that there’s no point in voting because they won’t be here to see the results?
If he really had such deep faith in God, he wouldn’t bother trying to influence the divinely-ordained path of future history by running for office. Why bother trying to legislate happy outcomes when God will take care of everything? Seriously, religious folks: Stop voting. It shows a lack of faith.
The witness from (as Dick Cheney would say) perfidious Albion recites testimony relating to the Cambrian era. Congressman, remind us, was that before or after the birth of Christ?
Has this man been checking the Rapture Ready website a bit too often?
Wait, if he truly believes in “the infallible word of God”, then how can he also believe in the existence of dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago? Doesn’t God’s Word say the earth was created a mere 6,000 years ago?
This guy is so full of shit, I’ll bet it comes out his nose whenever he sneezes…
This guy is EXACTLY the reason why I keep my spirituality between myself and God. I refuse to be persecuted because of morons like this elected official.
@19: I like that. Convince them that it’s their Christian duty to vote for Democrats, Greens, and Socialists to help speed up the Rapture.
@7: I suppose his answer would be that we must all serve God’s will.
#9 – I think it’s a requirement…
What many hope is imminent is that all readers will imminently read “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty” on the worldwide “Powered by Christ Ministries” website. Slim