Warning: This piece is snarky even by liberal op-ed standards. It begins:

Someone ought to study the Republican Party. I am not referring to yet another political scientist but to a mental health professional, preferably a specialist in the power of fixations, obsessions and the like. The GOP needs an intervention. It has become a cult.

Cohen then goes on to cite many in the GOP’s stance on global warming as evidence of its fanaticism. I hate to break it to Mr. Cohen, but while I agree that there’s a lot of disturbing, cult-like thought and behavior surrounding the climate change issue, it’s usually not from the skeptical side of the debate:

Cohen concludes:

This intellectual rigidity has produced a GOP presidential field that’s a virtual political Jonestown. The Grand Old Party, so named when it really did evoke America, has so narrowed its base that it has become a political cult. It is a redoubt of certainty over reason and in itself significantly responsible for the government deficit that matters most: leadership. That we can’t borrow from China.

Why does one suspect that when he writes of our “leadership” deficit, he’s not referring to the fact that the Democrats still haven’t passed a budget after all this time?