we could save money by shutting down fire stations

[realthog]

The headline of this Climate Progress piece tells the story, although the article itself is worth reading for the details. Step back Bobby Jindal, whose mockery of volcano monitoring occurred, you'll recall, just scant weeks before Mt St Helens blew its top with what would inevitably have been, without volcano monitoring, heavy casualties.

At the time it was easy to paint Jindal as a lone bonehead on the fringes of the GOP. Not so easy this time 'round. Here's the headline:

Tornado forecasting saved countless lives this week. Too bad Congress, including Alabama’s entire delegation, voted against maintaining forecast quality

Of course, this is the party that thinks the way to tackle global warming is to pretend that it's not happening, and that anyone who says otherwise is part of a grand, DC Comics-style conspiracy by the international climatological community.