Ethics

The Economist Slams Joe Barton

By Ed Brayton

You remember Joe Barton, right? He's the Congressman from Texas who really thought he'd nailed Steven Chu by asking him where oil comes from. He's also one of those slack-jawed morons who thinks that global warming is impossible because God is in charge of the weather - and if God decides to warm up the Earth, there's nothing we can do to stop him. He recently said:

You can't regulate God. Not even the Democratic majority in the US Congress can regulate God.

Here's a Youtube video of some of his dumber statements on global warming:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 25, 2009 (boomark / email).