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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 12:43 PM Nov 2014

Guess Who Will Now Be The Most Powerful Environmental Senator?

Mr. Jim "Climate Change Is A Hoax" Inhofe.

Congratulations, Voters. You Just Made This Climate Denier the Most Powerful Senator on the Environment.

In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy. Their votes also put the Senate's environment and climate policy into the hands of the worst science-denier in national politics: Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who is almost certainly the next chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Inhofe claimed in 2003 that global warming might help humanity. “It's also important to question whether global warming is even a problem for human existence. Thus far no one has seriously demonstrated any scientific proof that increased global temperatures would lead to the catastrophes predicted by alarmists. In fact, it appears that just the opposite is true: that increases in global temperatures may have a beneficial effect on how we live our lives.”

In that same speech, he argued that an international body of climate change scientists “resembled a Soviet-style trial, in which the facts are predetermined, and ideological purity trumps technical and scientific rigor.”

The rest: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120134/climate-change-denier-james-inhofe-lead-environment-committee

Jesus Harold Christ....The Koch Bros and other major polluters must be popping the champagne.

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Guess Who Will Now Be The Most Powerful Environmental Senator? (Original Post) JaneyVee Nov 2014 OP
I know..you just want to sit down and Peacetrain Nov 2014 #1
I'm going to bring you more bad news - John McCain will now be the head of the Armed Services Cmte. jillan Nov 2014 #2
Stop blaming voters. Marr Nov 2014 #3
The racists are now in charge! Major Hogwash Nov 2014 #4

Peacetrain

(22,875 posts)
1. I know..you just want to sit down and
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 12:46 PM
Nov 2014

cry.. we have the Fox in Hen house now.. with this character heading up the committee..

jillan

(39,451 posts)
2. I'm going to bring you more bad news - John McCain will now be the head of the Armed Services Cmte.
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 12:50 PM
Nov 2014

Bombs away!

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
3. Stop blaming voters.
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 12:53 PM
Nov 2014

If you lose an election, you employed a losing strategy. If all you do is blame the public for not buying your product, you don't see the problem with your product and should probably let someone else work on it.

As long as the party is run by the Third Way/Center Right faction, it's going to keep on playing a game of 'how little can we get away with doing for you', and it's going to keep on losing. They don't need to leave the party-- their support is still welcome. But they shouldn't be running it.

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