Dana Rohrabacher

[[File:Danarohrabacher105th.jpg|thumb|left|165px|1997 official photo.]]
[[File:DanaRohrabacher.jpg|thumb|right|165px|2009 official photo. Shoulda kept the beard, man.]]
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{{cquote|There's two people I think [[Putin]] pays: Rohrabacher and [[Trump]]. Swear to God.|||[[Kevin McCarthy]] to a group of fellow Republicans, June 15, 2016.<ref>[https://www.nydailynews.com/2017/05/17/republican-leader-said-on-tape-he-thinks-putin-pays-trump-during-campaign-season/ Republican leader said on tape he thinks Putin pays Trump during campaign season] by Christopher Brennan (Published May 17, 2017 at 7:21 p.m.; Updted April 7, 2018 at 10:02 p.m.) ''New York Daily News''.</ref>}}
'''Dana Rohrabacher''' {{lived|1947}} was a long-term [[California]] [[Republican]] Congressional Representative who finally lost an election in 2018. He is a long-haired [[hippie]] who dresses in black jeans and turtlenecks to symbolize [[anarchy]], burns [[Conscription|draft cards]] at YAF conventions, travels around the [[U.S.]] west coast singing [[radical]] folk songs about ''[[laissez-faire]]'' and smashing the [[state]], lives in an anarcho-village of [[science fiction]] fans and [[underground]] economy advocates, doesn't vote, and spreads the anarcho-[[pacifist]] gospel of Bob Lefevre.

Or so we still wish.  What a sellout.

Obviously, an old [[libertarian]] like that would ''never'' run for [[Congress]] as a Republican, formulate the [[Reagan]] Doctrine, play second fiddle only to [[Tom Tancredo]] as an anti-[[illegal immigration]] hardliner, or campaign against [[gay marriage]].  

What a sellout.

However, he is not a doctrinaire Republican. He supports [[medical marijuana]] and voting rights for [[DC]] (though with a bizarre plan to make them part of [[Maryland]]). 

He's also been connected to [[Jack Abramoff]] and was one of the few Congresspeople to publicly defend him.

==Republic of Vemerana==
Before he became a US Representative, Dana Rohrabacher visited the New Hebrides in the 1970s and was likely connected to the Phoenix Foundation. At this time, the Phoenix Foundation was attempting to prevent the New Hebrides from decolonizing and becoming the independent state of Vanuatu. Instead, the Phoenix Foundation was trying to [[Coup d'état|create]] the libertarian [[Libertarian paradise#Vanuatu|Republic of Vemerana]] via a [[mercenary]] army.<ref>[https://newint.org/features/1981/07/01/phoenix Ashes To Ashes] by Mike Parsons (Jul 01, 1981) ''New Internationalist''.</ref><ref>''Melanesian Politics: Stael Blong Vanuatu'' by Howard Van Trease (1995) Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. ISBN 9820201195. p. 420.</ref>

==Scholarly observations on global warming==
Rohrabacher has made some [[Not even wrong|astute observations]] on climate science:
*[[Dinosaur]] [[Fun:Fart|flatulence]] caused previous warming<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL3h5MiNjQA Rohrbacher blames Dino farts 4 Global Warming] (Feb 10, 2007) ''YouTube''.</ref>
*Rohrabacher unleashes a [[PRATT]] tornado on Richard Alley<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2m9SNzxJJA&feature=relmfu Alley and Rohrabacher: Brain vs Blowhard] (Dec 2, 2010) ''YouTube''.</ref>
*Global warming is "liberal claptrap"<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/02/marburger_on_the_ropes_liberal.php "Liberal Claptrap" Redux; and Much More] by Chris C. Mooney (February 15, 2006 7:43 PM) ''Marburger on the Ropes'' (archived from October 21, 2011).</ref> (Channeling someone perhaps?)

==Trolling Sirhan Sirhan==
Rohrabacher claimed to have been in the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, at the time that [[Robert F. Kennedy]] was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.<ref name=kozlowski>[https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2008/09/25/a-tale-of-two-sirhans/ A tale of two Sirhans] by Carl Kozlowski (Sep 25, 2008) ''Pasadena Weekly''.</ref> Rohrabacher is a believer in the [[conspiracy theory]] that others were involved in the assassination, and he went so far as to visit Sirhan in prison while dressed as a woman and badgered him about the assassination.<ref name=kozlowski/>

==Supporting ISIS==
Rohrabacher has actually suggested that the United States should support [[ISIS]] when they attack other terrorist groups after they attacked the shrine of [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] (of [[Iran]], which supports [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] terrorists [[Hezbollah]]).

*"GOP lawmaker: Wasn't ISIS terror attack in Iran 'a good thing'"<ref>[http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/337274-gop-lawmaker-wasnt-isis-terror-attack-in-iran-a-good-thing GOP lawmaker: Wasn't ISIS terror attack in Iran 'a good thing'] by Jacqueline Thomsen (06/10/17 07:58 PM EDT) ''The Hill''.</ref>

==Return of the mercenary==
In 2018, 
American warlord
 [[Erik Prince]], co-owner of Blackwater, announced that he would host a fundraiser for his longtime friend Rohrabacher.<ref name=berg>[https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/erik-prince-fundraiser/index.html Amid renewed scrutiny, Erik Prince to host fundraiser for Russia-friendly congressman] by Rebecca Berg (Updated 9:16 AM ET, Thu March 8, 2018) ''CNN''.</ref> At the time, Prince had been under investigation by the [[FBI]] over whether he tried to establish an illegal backchannel of communication between [[Russia]] and the [[Donald Trump|Trump]] transition team.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-gathers-evidence-that-2016-seychelles-meeting-was-effort-to-establish-back-channel-to-kremlin/2018/03/07/b6a5fb8c-224b-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin] by Sari Horwitz & Devlin Barrett (March 7, 2018 at 7:53 PM) ''The Washington Post''.</ref> As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rohrabacher was an unusually robust supporter of Russia and [[Wikileaks]].<ref name=berg/> Rohrabacher has also been tied to Robert [[Trump-Russia connection|Mueller's FBI investigation]] when [[Rick Gates]] admitted to lying about a meeting between Rohrabacher, [[Paul Manafort]] and a [[lobbyist]] on [[Ukraine]].<ref name=hagen>[http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/377302-rohrabacher-under-fire-over-russia-ties Rohrabacher under fire over Russia ties] by Lisa Hagen (03/08/18 06:00 AM EST) ''The Hill''.</ref> In 2016, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy "told other Republicans that he thought Rohrabacher and President Trump were on the Russian payroll."<ref name=hagen/>

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