President Obama is now openly mocking the Republicans. And really, who can blame him?

Courtesy of Politico:  

President Barack Obama is letting his inner Don Rickles run free, mocking climate deniers as the crowd who used to think the moon was made out of cheese or spineless dopes who can’t or won’t listen to science even though the science is all overwhelmingly pointing in one direction. Their heads are in the sand. They are members of the Flat Earth Society. 

“It’s pretty rare that you encounter people who say that the problem of carbon pollution is not a problem,” Obama said. “In most communities and workplaces, they may not know how big a problem it is, they may not know exactly how it works, they may doubt they can do something about it. Generally they don’t just say, ‘No I don’t believe anything scientists say.’ Except, where?” he said, waiting for the more than accommodating crowd to call back, “Congress!” 

Obama smiled — not his big toothy self-satisfied grin, but his stick-it-in-the-ribs smirk. 

“In Congress,” he said. “Folks will tell you climate change is hoax or a fad or a plot. A liberal plot.” 

Then, Obama said, there are the people who duck the question. “They say, hey, I’m not a scientist, which really translates into, I accept that man-made climate change is real, but if I say so out loud, I will be run out of town by a bunch of fringe elements that thinks climate science is a liberal plot so I’m going to just pretend like, I don’t know, I can’t read,” Obama said. 

“I mean, I’m not a scientist either, but I’ve got this guy, John Holdren, he’s a scientist,” Obama added to laughter. “I’ve got a bunch of scientists at NASA and I’ve got a bunch of scientists at EPA.” 

“I’m not a doctor either, but if a bunch of doctors tell me that tobacco can cause lung cancer, then I’ll say, okay. Right? I mean, it’s not that hard.”

You know since many Americans, especially young Americans, now get their news from the Daily show, and the Colbert Report did a better job of teaching us about SuperPAC's than the networks, I totally support the President's mocking of the Republicans, and his attempt to use humor to illustrate the ridiculousness of their anti-science arguments.