Daily Hate V: Special GOP Edition

Today's Daily Hate is dedicated to recent concerted efforts by the Grand Old Party to undermine scientific thinking, destroy the economy, and undermine the quality of life for disabled citizens.

• A Tennessee bill to protect teachers who question established scientific facts - the bill specifically mentions global warming and evolutionary theory - has passed the Tennessee House Education Committee and will now go before the House itself. Although the bill, as worded, sounds like a good idea (who wouldn't want to promote critical thinking?), it's pretty clear how it would be used - to protect individual teachers pushing dangerous agendas. Otherwise, it wouldn't be necessary.
• A proposed Constitutional amendment, limiting government spending to 18% of the GDP, seems too irresponsible to be true.
• Florida Governor Rick Scott (you know, the one who defrauded the government out of millions as CEO of a chain of for-profit hospitals) has cut the spending power of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities by 15%. The agency helps some 30,000 Floridians survive with such debilitating conditions as cerebral palsy.