Rain again this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, feels like it’s getting wet all over the world.

Especially among the fringe-first, not-so-subtle Republican party, or as GOP underlings say: “I mean, you’ve got to be on Mars to come up with some of this stuff.”

No, but apparently being an asshole does help, though.

(Illustration found here).

Anti-asshole advice from Bob Dole, who near 90 looks and sounds like a real-old person, claimed last weekend the GOP should hit the pause button: I think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says closed for repairs until New Year’s Day next year and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas.
But one must remember assholes don’t have ears.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus tossed off a walk-around cookie: “We’ve spent almost the first half of this year talking to 52,000 people about what we can do better…We’ve got to hold the House and win the Senate, so closing in his [Dole’s] mind means doing some reflection, making some big time improvement and getting better at presidential elections, but in the midterms I expect us to do very well.”
Yeah, right.

A New York Times editorial catches the reality:

The difference between the current crop of Tea Party lawmakers and Mr. Dole’s generation is not simply one of ideology.
While the Tea Partiers are undoubtedly more extreme, Mr. Dole spent years pushing big tax cuts, railing at regulations and blocking international treaties.
His party actively courted the religious right in the 1980s and relied on racial innuendo to win elections.
But when the time came to actually govern, Republicans used to set aside their grandstanding, recognize that a two-party system requires compromise and make deals to keep the government working on the people’s behalf.
The current generation refuses to do that.
Its members want to dismantle government, using whatever crowbar happens to be handy, and they don’t particularly care what traditions of mutual respect get smashed at the same time.
“I’m not all that interested in the way things have always been done around here,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida told The Times last week.
This corrosive mentality has been standard procedure in the House since 2011, but now it has seeped over to the Senate.
Mr. Rubio is one of several senators who have blocked a basic function of government: a conference committee to work out budget differences between the House and Senate so that Congress can start passing appropriations bills.
They say they are afraid the committee will agree to raise the debt ceiling without extorting the spending cuts they seek.
One of them, Ted Cruz of Texas, admitted that he didn’t even trust House Republicans to practice blackmail properly.
They have been backed by Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, who wants extremist credentials for his re-election.

And this nasty, self-centered and indifferent attitude stretches over a wide field of ugly — these assholes are doing Americans, and eventually the entire planet, a great, great disservice.
Fer instance: Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma — one huge, humongous asshole.
Inhofe, one of the great climate change deniers, blubbered fourth at Nutcase.com or Newsmax that whoever tries to connect climate change and the recent tornadoes in his state are doing people “a great disservice:”

In an exclusive interview, the senior senator from the Sooner State took time from his family’s Memorial Weekend picnic to voice anger with those who claim the tornado that devastated part of his state was somehow due to climate change.
As Inhofe put it, “The liberal media is trying to exploit a tragedy to advance and expand its own agenda.
And, believe me, the victims all know this.”
…
Newsmax spoke to Inhofe just two days after he delivered the Republican response to the president’s weekly radio address.
He said that when asked by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to make the response, “I told him, yes, and I intended to thank the school teachers, police officers, and other citizens of Oklahoma who helped the victims of the tragedy.
But I made clear I was not going to use the name ‘Barack Obama’ in any way.”
In explaining why he wouldn’t mention the president, Inhofe recalled how, after New Jersey’s Republican governor embraced Obama during Hurricane Sandy relief last year helped the Democrats in the presidential race, “I was not going to let the White House pull a ‘Chris Christie’ on me.”

Or a Bob Dole, maybe?

Assholes have a great mental-rectal problem.