Inhofe Messes with the Future

By S. T., on November 23rd, 2009

Today started out with my happy dog getting several vaccinations and later, a very sad and sick dog having nasty reactions to those vaccinations. Hives, swelling, vomiting, wobbling, and then a quick rush to the vet, some steroids and medication and now worry for another 12 hours. It was not something I wanted to deal with for all kinds of reasons. That’s how Barbara Boxer (D-CA) must feel just about every day her Environment and Public Works committee meets, except the sick dog is the minority member, Sen. Inhofe, (R-OK). Sen. Boxer must be a little annoyed that she has to deal with Inhofe spouting up his nonsense all over the place, and it’s obvious the man has problems. Why would anyone be that disruptive, that rude, that stubbornly ignorant of the facts, in public senate hearings, unless he had ‘problems’? Below is just one example of what people are up against in the Senate and the Congress when it comes to sane climate legislation.

I wish I could say Inhofe is some type of anomaly, or at least unexpected, but he now represents many of the right-wingers of his party. His views are shared by my Minnesota Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann. They all celebrate skepticism, as a means to an end and even just as an end. It’s blatant obstructionism. This is what we are up against in the fight for serious climate legislation.

Inhofe is actually going to go to Copenhagen (with a “team” of Congressional climate deniers) so he can disrupt the proceedings there, too. (If he drags Bachmann along I hope he’s prepared for some hallucinatory prayer meetings and anti-science talk.) Disrupting proceedings in the Senate isn’t enough for him, he has to do an international job of it.

In a lengthy speech on the Senate Floor, Inhofe said, “I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard.”

My dog is probably going to be OK, but Senator Inhofe’s condition continues to deteriorate. How do we fight such influential and powerful people when they decide to lie to the world?