Inhofe, or possibly "Inhoffe"
Senator James Inhofe is losing his final grasp on reality. He needs a full medical examination. He flew into Copenhagen, held a tiny press conference denying the existence of global warming, announced no legislation would pass, and left. No one knew who he was or why he was there. He made a complete ass of himself, and as our country’s chief political climate change Denier, that’s fitting.
However, his state’s voters should question whether or not he is medically and mentally healthy enough to be releected. He probably isn’t. He attended the world’s largest climate change conference ever as a nut who claims global warming is a “hoax”. That’s like an illiterate man crashing a writers convention to say words don’t really exist. He probably wondered why everyone was rolling their eyes and avoiding him.
Inhofe, a right-wing Republican, had no business being in a place where he didn’t understand the basics of why the convention was being held if he wasn’t going to stick around long enough to be educated. Not even Michele Bachmann would attempt such a stunt. This sets a new record as to how far Republicans will go to deny reality and obstruct action on something important.
Here’s the tragic and sad story from Politico:
“COPENHAGEN — Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and — on little sleep — braved the snow, the cold and the dark to deliver his skeptical message at the international climate conference. What he found when he got here: a few aides and a single reporter. “I think he’s going to be a little disappointed,” one of his aides remarked.
Inhofe was at least impatient. The ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hoped to spread two messages in Copenhagen: Global warming is a hoax, and there’s no way the Senate is going to pass a cap-and-trade bill.
But it was early morning when he arrived at the Bella Center, and the halls were still half-deserted. He walked quickly, brushing off an aide who suggested that he slow down and take a breath.
“I don’t want to breathe — I want to get something done,” he said.
The senator didn’t have any meetings scheduled in Copenhagen, and he did not see chief U.S. negotiator Todd Stern or the members of the House delegation, who were not scheduled to fly in until later in the afternoon.
But Inhofe’s aides eventually rustled up a group of reporters, and the Oklahoman — wearing black snakeskin cowboy boots — held forth from the top of a flight of stairs in the conference media center.
“We in the United States owe it to the 191 countries to be well-informed and know what the intentions of the United States are. The United States is not going to pass a cap and trade,” he said. “It’s just not going to happen.”
A reporter asked: “If there’s a hoax, then who’s putting on this hoax, and what’s the motive?”
“It started in the United Nations,” Inhofe said, “and the ones in the United States who really grab ahold of this is the Hollywood elite.”
One reporter asked Inhofe if he was referring to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Another reporter — this one from Der Spiegel — told the senator: “You’re ridiculous.”
Inhofe ignored the jab, fielded a few more questions, then raced to the airport for the nine-hour flight back to Washington.
After Inhofe left, some reporters were still a bit confused about what had happened and who he was.
“His name is Inhofe,” a German journalist told a Japanese reporter, “but I don’t know if it’s one or two f’s.”
It’s just one F — for F**ked up Senator from Oklahoma.
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