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Inhofe may return to Senate environment panel.

E&E reports, “Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) dropped his bid yesterday for the ranking member spot on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, leaving the door open for Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.) to claim the position without opposition.” The position will give Inhofe a platform to continue claiming global warming is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”



39 Responses to “Inhofe may return to Senate environment panel.”

  1. Bluedog49 says:

    How many times will Boxer cut off debate just before Inhofe has a chance to bloviate before Inhofe has a melt-down? I’m guessing two or three times.


  2. impeachcheneythenbush says:

    My understanding is that Inhofe would have remained on that committee anyway even though he wouldn’t have been the minority ranking member. He needs to be defeated in 2008!


  3. RantingTommy says:

    Inhofe thinks there isn’t enough evidence to support climate change theory but believes 100% that some magic man in the sky made everything, controls everything, and punishes each individual that doesn’t live to honor him with eternal torture by flame, but he loves us.


  4. War4Sale says:

    Give Inhofe some more rope. He’s a few rants away from hanging himself.


  5. geoman77 says:

    RantingTommy:
    Unfortunately for we rational creatures, he has a lot of company.


  6. Kevin says:

  7. Bluedog49 says:

    Kevin: “it is a hoax”

    Explain that to the Inuits and the polar bears.


  8. Bob says:

  9. dlet says:

    it is a hoax

    Comment by Kevin

    Inhofe is not really returning to the Environmental Committee? Weird hoax but thank the stars he isn’t.


  10. hogweed says:

    Inhofe is right, of course, it is a big media hoax. Haven’t all of you seen the pictures of liberal journalists using blow torches to melt arctic icesheets? Or using campfires and blowdryers to melt the glaciers in Patagonia? Man, you lefty-science-believing hippies are so gullible! You probably even think that people set foot on the moon!


  11. dlet says:

    Inhofe must have received an anonymous envelope on his doorstep with a nice wad of greenbacks and a note with new instructions.


  12. Zooey says:

    Admin, thanks for fixing the headline, my hair was standing on end…


  13. clb72 says:

    He should give his “hoax” speech on top of a melting glacier. Near the edge.


  14. Zooey says:

    I want Inhofe on this committee as much as I want Santorum to get the job with FOX —- very, very much. :)


  15. New Yorker says:

    Inhofe is a hoax of a senator.

    He is also bought and paid for by the oil and gas industry and their lobbyists.


  16. Raven says:

    Warner must have one big smelly skeleton in his closet… he dropped all considerations he might run for President some month or so ago, now he’s dropping off of a ranking position on this committee…………


  17. ForTruth says:

    Why? Can’t the majority party be in control of this situation?


  18. Zooey says:

    Why? Can’t the majority party be in control of this situation?
    Comment by ForTruth

    Barbara Boxer will be in control of this committee. This is simply the Repubs deciding who their ranking member will be — still a minority position. I’m looking forward to Boxer smacking down Inhofe, and the inevitable temper tantrum. :)


  19. ForTruth says:

    Thanks Zooey for clearing that up for me. See I told you that you were helpful. Yeah, I am so interested in how this will play out for the Inbread Oky, James “No gays in my family” Inhofe.


  20. ForTruth says:

    This just in:

    Sen. James Inhofe caught with a tranny hooker, he said he was helping out he less advantaged, more at 10.


  21. dlet says:

    I am so interested in how this will play out for the Inbread Oky, James “No gays in my family” Inhofe.

    Comment by ForTruth

    No gays…but ‘tards a dozen


  22. Zooey says:

    *sniff* That Sen Inhofe is so generous to disadvantaged trannies.


  23. dlet says:

    Bush at Rumsfeld’s goobye party: “We’ve been through war together,” the president said. “We have shared some of the most challenging moments in our nation’s history.”

    What a slap in the face to all the servicemen that actually participate in war, not just desk jockey them.


  24. ForTruth says:

    No, no wait, Sen. Inhofe caught performing necrophilic-beastiality, with roadkill. Ewwww.


  25. ForTruth says:

    Can you tell how much I like the good Senator?


  26. Zooey says:

    Ewwww.
    Comment by ForTruth

    OMFG, that is so hilariously sick…


  27. ForTruth says:

    Thank you very much, I’ll be here through next week…


  28. Zooey says:

    Keep it up, you’ll get deleted. :)


  29. ForTruth says:

    Keep it up, you’ll get deleted. :)

    Comment by Zooey

    Coming from you, that’s a real possibility now isn’t it? :)


  30. Raven says:

    Next summer, visit The James Inhofe Memorial Underwater Preserve.. only 500 (nautical) miles due east of Denver!


  31. Blackacre says:

    I thought the greatest hoax was making people believe Bush was a cowboy.


  32. Flaco says:

    Al Gore the savior of the world.
    Help us out of this quagmire. Oh enlightened one save us before it is too late. Our doomsday has arrived, we are hopeless. The future of the universe depends on Al Gore.
    I have prayed and fasted that the chosen one would come.

    Superhero Al Gore has already saved the planet once when he was vice president.
    “Can’t you guys keep this planet CO2 free for 10 minutes? I feel like the maid.”
    He must return as President to clean up the world again.


  33. Sharon Cox says:

    No the greatest hoax is bull shit bush is human….I think he is realy a poorly programed robot…..Cheney’s manufactured son.. ..Blessings


  34. Snowball says:

    Warner must not have been willing to go all the way for Exxon-Mobil and damage his own credibility. Some big money players were operating behind the scenes to get him to back down you can be sure of that.


  35. dlet says:

    Flaco is drunk again.


  36. Mugsy says:

    Who decides who sits on these boards? I think someone that gets his “facts” from a science-fiction writer has no business being on a scientific review panel.

    Lets we appoint Tom Cruise and John Travolta to Bush’s “Faith Based Clinical Depression Research Group”.


  37. Douglas G. says:

    Good.

    Dial 1-800-cry-baby, ext WAA


  38. upside00 says:

    PULEEEZE!!!

    Can’t the good sheeple of Oklahoma find anyone with a triple digit IQ and their nose out of the oil industries ass to vote for? At least try your best in ‘08, will you?


  39. Think Progress » Bush and Inhofe’s Home States Scorched By Wildfires And Droughts says:

    [...] Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the outgoing chairman of the Senate environment committee, calls climate change “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” But the facts about global warming are clear, and as ClimateProgress notes, the evidence is right in Inhofe’s backyard. [...]



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