FLASHBACK: In Bush era, Inhofe decried ‘chilling effect’ of probing White House ‘regardless of administration.’
FLASHBACK: In Bush era, Inhofe decried ‘chilling effect’ of probing White House ‘regardless of administration.’
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), who attacked investigations into the political interference on global warming regulation by the Bush White House, is now calling for probes into Obama’s “Presidential czars” who are taking action to crack down on greenhouse pollution. Yesterday, Inhofe sent a letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson demanding “all correspondence and records” from “all meetings, discussions and conversations between EPA and Carol Browner,” the White House Coordinator of Climate and Energy Policy whom Inhofe calls a “czar.” This new champion of transparency, however, attacked investigations into the White House’s interference with the EPA last year, saying that “regardless of Administration, the President acting through the entire executive branch is fully entitled to express his policy judgments to the EPA Administrator”:
It is my view that regardless of Administration, the President acting through the entire executive branch is fully entitled to express his policy judgments to the EPA Administrator, and to expect his subordinate to carry out the judgment of what the law requires and permits. . . . I cannot support any investigations that could have a chilling effect within the deliberative process of the Administration, and cause future career and political employees from refraining from an open and honest dialogue.
By some strange miracle, Inhofe has had a complete change of heart on the inviolability of the “unitary executive” during the Obama presidency. In June, Inhofe even supported a criminal investigation into whether the EPA was “suppressing science” when its officials did not support the report of an EPA economist who had plagiarized blog posts from global warming deniers.
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We know Inhofe, double-standards is SOP for Repiggies.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:14 pmIOKIYAR.
Right?
It appears this man has a serious memory dysfunction. Might be time to require complete medical evaluations of all MOCs and retire the ones needing Aricept.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:21 pmwhat an awesomely accurate representative of Oklahomo
October 8th, 2009 at 4:21 pmOklahoma.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:22 pmExpecting logic and consistency from Inhofe is like expecting the sun to rise in the west.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:24 pmnot to offend bitter, old lesbians but inhofe looks like he belongs on the website “25 men who look like old lesbians”
October 8th, 2009 at 4:26 pmInhofe and Broun — dueling banjos.
These idiots are busy playing “can you top this”. Let’s see how this plays out. Perhaps one of them will finally be forced to imolate themself on the steps of Congress.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:26 pmDespicable. If there were another political party the Republicans could never get away with such childish performance.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:27 pmthe Republican party must go! – the same way the communist party and the libertarians went. The Republican party is chock full of fascists – sorry, no room left for even a single decent person.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:31 pmGinflower:
That’s how the progressives finally drove Bush/Cheney/Rove from the White House.
Actually they were voted out. Don’t get out much, do you?
October 8th, 2009 at 4:34 pmhey idiot@ #10,
October 8th, 2009 at 4:34 pman election drove bush/cheney/rove from the white house since there’s term limits. do you need a few bucks to enroll in a civics class at your local adult ed?
Al Franken should bring a mannequin dressed in a suit with a TV for a head onto the senate floor, then when one of these raging hipocrties says someting completely opposite what they were saying when bush was in charge, he should press a tape player attached to the tv and play their own words back to them ..that would be a spectactle and attract some well needed attnetion to thier hipocracies!
October 8th, 2009 at 4:37 pmActually they were voted out. Don’t get out much, do you?
In truth though Barfly, they hit their term limits.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:37 pmginslinger thinks Bush/Cheney/Rove should have their sealed indictments opened and they should be incarcerated?
I’d vote that one up.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:39 pmginslinger says:
LOL>>>>>>>> next sounds you hear will be ginslinger pulling it`s head out of its 4th point of contact…..
you and the rest of your untamed trolls are good at nothing.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:45 pmOkay Jim, I say we put your new-found support for White House investigations to the test.
I say we BRING BACK those criminal investigations into the Bush White House politicizing the EPA and editing EPA Climate Change reports.
Let’s see how you REALLY feel about investigating the White House.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:46 pmMy mama always said, “stupid is as stupid looks” and that would mean you Mr. Inhofe. Head on back to C-Street now, ya hea?
October 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pmMinutes from the weekly meeting of Republicans:
“Ok, on Monday, a couple of you make some stupid claim and make sure its pompous enough. Tuesday, we’ll get Lyndsey to pick on Beck a little, just to throw the Dems off. Wednesday, Gohmert you let fly with that screwing dead animals bit of yours. Don’t worry, Tuesday isn’t light. If Steele doesn’t come up with something dumb enough on his own we’ll have somebody write something up. Mysoginism seems like a good one to rattle them. Thursday, Inhofe, its your turn to take one for the team. Ok, quit whining, we’ll get Broun to back you up.
Shelly, well, you just keep doing what you do.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:49 pmWhat a surprise that Republicans are flip flopping on all these issues.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pmgumjobber@21,
October 8th, 2009 at 4:51 pmyou do realise your idiot-king hero 43 constitutionally could not run again, right?
When a troll speaks of relative intelligence do they mean their sister is smart enough not to date them?
Just asking.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pmI’m convinced this guy is too stupid to remember what he has said in the past.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pmHow did that clown Imhofe ever graduate from college?
Did he cheat?
What a moron…
October 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pmHoodathunk says:
Wednesday, Gohmert you let fly with that screwing dead animals bit of yours.
you know he sounded just like kadafy (spelling) did at the UN he kinda just rambles on and on.
it be nice if they actually would read what it is they say. Not get the thumbs up from the rest of there no nothing party.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:58 pmAnd for Bush we took impeachment off the table.
But they want to impeach Obama, just because. And that is just fine.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:09 pmUnbelievably enough, the Oklahoma University has a world class collection of Darwin paraphinalia and has just launched a lavish exhibit of the same.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:10 pmWow. Talk about irony.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:22 pmPerhaps with luck Inhofe’s plane will be lost in an extension of the Bermuda Triangle as it makes its way to the climate conference in Copenhagen.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:22 pmGO HERE to tell Inhofe what YOU think:
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/
October 8th, 2009 at 5:23 pmBy some strange miracle, Inhofe has had a complete change of heart on the inviolability of the “unitary executive” during the Obama presidency.
With all due respect to TP’s snark, there was no strange miracle.
There was simply the voice of the people putting Democrats in power and tossing republicans on their butts. That’s all it took for Inhofe to remember his duty to investigate the Executive branch.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:24 pmInhofe and Coburn appear to be competing
October 8th, 2009 at 5:39 pmfor a hypocrisy merit badge for their C-Street cult.
These Republicans are nothing if not consistently hypocritical.
October 8th, 2009 at 11:14 pmHe continues to be a strong model for perpetuation of sc-mbags.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:31 amThey are just doing this because OUR president is black, if it was a white guy doing the exact same thing(see GWB 2000-2008) they would not have a problem with it.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:53 amBottom line, the GOP has a problem having to answer to a black man.
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:30 amAmericans learned of a chilling new report detailing the scope of the global threat. yüz estetigi
October 15th, 2009 at 4:51 am