Climate skeptic Steve McIntyre recently tsk-tsked that AGW blogs “spend much of their energy persecuting infidels, agnostics and perceived heretics on even minor creeds, the latter attracting particular venom.”

Immediately thereafter, many of McIntyre’s readers reflexively jumped on him when he condemned VA AG Cuccinelli’s McCarthyist witch hunt against Michael Mann.

Unhappy though I am with Obama, I worry that a restored Republican Congress would look for any pretext to stage a sequel to the Clinton impeachment.