Profile in Stupidity

With the likes of Pa(lie)n, Lim-bonehead, Darth Cheney and global warming denier Joe Barton (R-TX) leading the pack, no wonder the Repuglican Party is in a freefall.

One of the "money" quotes from Barton:

I'm creating it as I talk to you. It's in your Coca-Cola. your Dr. Pepper and your Perrier water. It's necessary for human life. It's odorless, colorless, tasteless, doesn't cause cancer, doesn't cause asthma. There's nobody that's ever been admitted to a hospital because of CO2 poisoning.

From The Economist...

Please don't get me wrong, it's not simply that Mr Barton is a climate-change sceptic. There are plenty of those and some make decent arguments against moving ahead with measures to control emissions. The problem with Mr Barton is that he is wholly uninterested in the science and statistics of the global warming debate. He is about as curious as a dead cat, as is his colleague in the Senate, James Inhofe. Yet this is who the Republicans have out in front on the issue of global warming. It is well past time some of the party's brighter lights pushed back against this anti-intellectual offensive.