Your durned science can't control the baby Jesus

Rep. “Smokey Joe” Barton (R-TX), seeing himself lagging behind Michelle Bachmann in the 2009 Dumbest Elected Representative contest, has decided to throw his hat in the ring and opine on global warming. Oh he's not traversing the same old paths of "the scientific consensus isn't in" or "it doesn't exist" or even the highly scientific "It's cold out, so how can the globe be warming? Huh? Tell that to your precious Al Gore and see if it blows his mind." He's decided to blaze a whole new trail.

“I would also point out that CO2, carbon dioxide, is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term. … I am creating it as I talk to you. It’s in your Coca-Cola, you’re Dr. Pepper, your Perrier water. It is necessary for human life. It is odorless, colorless, tasteless, does not cause cancer, does not cause asthma.”

“And something that the Democrat sponsors do not point out, a lot of the CO2 that is created in the United States is naturally created. You can’t regulate God. Not even the Democratic majority in the US Congress can regulate God.”

CO2 is natural, or do you just hate God so much that you don't realize that? Click the link for his thoughts on "theory vs. fact" and the how smaller and more fuel efficient cars will shank the American Dream and leave its body in a shallow river bed.