Apparently, you have to pretend to be ignorant of science to win a Republican primary these days

UPDATE:  PolitiFact rates this ad “Pants on Fire!”

Perhaps the most embarrassingly anti-scientific ad you’ll ever see for a statewide race in a ‘blue state’ comes from a woman who once ran one of the top science-based companies in the world:

As David Corn writes, “It only took half a minute for Fiorina to demonstrate she is not a responsible adult.”  My Salon piece on this inane ad, “The dumbing down of Carly Fiorina,” is below.

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And yet he steps aside from daily cleanup oversight, gets his old life back: “I don’t work weekends.”¦ And I take all my holidays.”

BP is to hive off its Gulf of Mexico oil spill operation to a separate in-house business to be run by an American in a bid to isolate the “toxic” side of the company and dilute some of the anti-British feeling aimed at chief executive Tony Hayward, the company said today.

The surprise announcement was made during a teleconference with City and Wall Street analysts….

Ah, but the UK’s Guardian says cut-and-run Hayward thinks he is a tough guy –  assuming tough guys actually talk like six-year-olds:

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This week, Attorney General Holder announced the Obama administration had opened criminal and civil investigations into the companies involved in the Gulf oil disaster.  Officials said they were looking into potential violations of the Oil Pollution Act [OPA] of 1990, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

But if Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) had his way, BP and its partners would have been off the hook for violations of all but the weakest of U.S. laws.  TP has the story in this repost.

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