And the shocker is that these GOP claptrap assholes appear not to give a shit anymore and will say the first mean-spirited thing that apparently comes to mind, like that Kansas state representative who claimed illegal immigrants should be hunted down and shot like feral hogs.
(Illustration found here).

One thing, however, is that these guys are monstrously naive and stupid about the general public — people will take this shit for so long — like that Kansas asshole, for instance.
Democratic leaders in the Kansas state legislature reported Friday they will offer up a resolution condemning Virgil Peck (the asshole): “Although Rep. Peck has the right to free speech … that right does not include the advocacy of gratuitous, deadly violence against other human beings,” the resolution states.
Peck squeezed his shriveled nut-sack a bit and blubbered out what was put forth as an apology, that he’d made “an inappropriate comment,” but the offering didn’t impress anyone and didn’t “display the remorse that is necessary to remedy this wrong.”
The unrepentant Peck ain’t the only turd coming under the stern, hot light of reality.

David A. (“visit to the woodshed“) Stockman in Sunday’s New York Times:

Trapped between the religion of low taxes and the reality of huge deficits, the Ryan plan appears to be an attack on the poor in order to coddle the rich.
To the Democrats’ invitation to class war, the Republicans have seemingly sent an R.S.V.P.

The backlash is flaring up amongst common folk against GOP mean-spirited political bullshit in nasty, town hall confrontations, and even some Republicans, like Stockman, pointing out just how “cold, cruel and irresponsible” are these people with their antics.

The above utterance of ‘cold, cruel‘ came from the lips of GOP flak Alex Castellanos,  who let it slip out Sunday morning on NBC‘s Meet The Press, and although he tried to back-peddle a bit, the words betrayed truly the vicious, uncaring sentiment seeping from the right onto everything they do. (h/t and good look at Castellanos’ TV appearance at Crooks and Liars).
In fact, the ‘cold, cruel‘ attitude has so scared GOPers, especially those in the US House who voted on that Paul Ryan bullshit earlier this month (which included a sweeping overhaul of Medicare): House leaders have scheduled a Tuesday conference call in which members are expected in part to discuss strategies for defending the vote they took this month on a budget that would transform the popular entitlement program as part of a plan to cut trillions in federal spending.
Anything helpful to the poor is government waste.

Prime fat-ass example: New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christy’s attempt to slash $820 million in state aid to schools was found last month by a state court to be in direct contradiction to state law because the cuts were slanted too heavily towards poor districts.
Christy, however, claimed Friday he just may defy the court order.
From newjersey.com:

Paul Tractenberg, a Rutgers law professor and founder of the Education Law Center, which filed the lawsuit challenging the cuts, said Christie’s comments go far beyond the usual grumbling about the court’s decisions.
“I don’t think governors have ever said flat-out they were thinking of ignoring a court order,” he said. “We’d be in uncharted terrain … We essentially convert government into a dictatorship.”

And in Tennessee on Friday, legislation prohibiting teachers from discussing homosexuality, even saying the word “gay” in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms was approved by a key committee in the state senate.
Via Raw Story:

The bill’s sponsor, Republican State Senator Sen. Stacey Campfield, said he was not homophobic, but the progressive blog ThinkProgress recently dug up a 2009 radio interview in which he compares homosexuality to bestiality.
“You teach about the Civil Rights Movement,” the state senator was asked. “Why not teach about the Gay Rights Movement?”
“Because they’re different types of movements,” Campfield responded. “If I want to talk about the bestiality movement, do you think we should be teaching that?”

Is the current GOP the party of Eisenhower, or even freakin’ Dick Nixon?
Hard to say, but they are indeed cold, cruel and irresponsible.

From NPR (including the highlighted sentence above), a piece on a research team’s two-week outing earlier this summer on Puncak Jaya Glacier in Papua, Indonesia, and unusual the expedition — it rained every day.
The leader of the group, Lonnie Thompson, an experienced field researcher and earth sciences professor at Ohio State University: “Rain is probably the most effective way to … cause the ice to melt,” Thompson says. “So this was the first time you could see the surface actually lowering around you.”
And just during the team’s brief stay, the glacier dropped 12 inches, a rate that would cause the glacier to disappear in less than five years.

Although, as Thompson told NPR, Puncak Jaya would not seriously impact the local environment, the ice melting would devastate the indigenous peoples: “For the tribes that live in that area, the glaciers are the head of the skull of the god and the mountains are the arms and the legs,” he says. “If they lose the glaciers then they’re going to lose part of their soul.”
And the melting ice is a laboratory for climate change, becoming the old, “canary in a coal mine.”

“When we look at what’s happening to the ice on the planet, we use satellites.
The problem with the satellite or aerial photography is you don’t see the vertical thinning that’s taking place,” Thompson says.
“Consequently there’ll come a year in the future that there’ll appear to be a glacier but it will disappear the next year because of the thinning from the top down.
And to me, that’s very sobering.”
…
“Part of our mission was to collect the record before it disappears so that we have a history from that part of the world,” he says. “We store part of those cores in our cold room here at Ohio State because we know that 20 years from now there’ll be new technologies and a better understanding of the climate system — but there’s not going to be any ice to drill.”

In a similar vein, just this morning via ClimateProgress, and how climate-change deniers/MSM are not only way behind the curve, but muddling the waters.
William R. Freudenburg of UC Santa Barbara discussed his research on the Asymmetry of Scientific Challenge:

There are lessons both for scientists and for the mass media.
Scientists need to be more openly skeptical toward supposed “good news” on global warming.
Reporters need to learn that, if they wish to discuss “both sides” of the climate issue, the scientifically legitimate “other side” is that, if anything, global climate disruption is likely to be significantly worse than has been suggested in scientific consensus estimates to date.

And does all this actually mean shit?

One for-instance problem: Proposition 23 on California’s November ballot.
Prop 23 — if passed would delay implementation of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, which is scheduled to come on line in 2011, until unemployment drops to 5.5% — insane if not worse.
And the backers of Prop 23?
According to the LA Times: Texas oil giants Valero and Tesoro, the state’s biggest polluters, along with the infamous oil billionaires Charles and David Koch.
From the Koch brothers link at The New Yorker — Charles Lewis,  founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group: “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”

Do any of these nasty, hard-hearted sonofabitches — the two Koch boys, Sen. Jim Inhofe, or any of these assholes — have children or grandchildren?
Despite all the money, all the blubbering denial, climate change will most-indeed seriously touch everyone of us — maybe not the older dip-shits like myself (I’m near 62), but it sure as shit will command a focused attention from younger people — they will inherit a living, moving nightmare.
And that canary will way-long be dead.

A big problem, however, might lie in some kind of lie.
Sharp-eyed blogger Eric Metze might have uncovered a glitch:

I’ve used a web service called Splicd to highlight these five seconds of the original two minute piece from Inside Edition.
In this clip, you will see/hear a glitch in the video.
This glitch causes the narrator to say, “Doctors say what happened to Desire should [glitch] discourage people from getting a flu shot.”
Now listen to this longer clip so you can hear the glitch in context.
It’s obvious that the doctors say that even though this happened to the young woman, people should not be discouraged from getting the flu shot.
But considering how that clip is edited, it’s not exactly clear what they mean unless you happen to catch it.
…
What does this mean? It means that someone took the original Inside Edition article, chopped out the word “not”, and provided physical copies for people to upload. There are dozens (hundreds?) of people actively spreading an obvious propaganda virus that was edited by an anonymous person and injected into the veins of the internet.

Another Fox News moment — Run with a falsehood no matter the facts.