I am Shocked, Shocked, to Learn That

the decisions on the protection of endangered species were made based on politics, rather than science.

This one doesn't even budge the needle on the Surprise-o-Meter. Anyone who has paid the minutest bit of attention to the way that the Quarter-Bright Prince ran his government would know that he knows nothing and cares nothing about science.

George Bush probably believes that evolution is false, that the planet is really flat, that the Earth was indeed created in six days, that Jesus rode a brontosaurus and that the entire universe is only 6,000 years old.