Tonight's J. Danforth Quayle Award For Republican Stupidity goes to SEN. JAMES INHOFE

[MrScorpio]

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive
positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

J. Danforth Quayle
Vice-President of the United States
1989-1993

Inhofe Trashes Military Generals Who Advocate For Clean Energy Legislation: They Crave ‘The Limelight’

In testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn articulated a national security argument for passing clean energy legislation. “Continued over reliance on fossil fuels, or small, incremental steps, simply will not create the kind of future security and prosperity that the American people and our great Nation deserve,” McGinn warned.

In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking member of the Senate environment committee, argued that McGinn and other generals who are advocating for clean energy reform (like Wesley Clark, Stephen Cheney, Brent Scowcroft, etc) are simply doing so because they crave “the limelight”:

NYT: Senator Boxer is chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee,on which you are the ranking Republican. She and her fellow Democrats have lately suggested that global warming could be a threat to national security by destabilizing developing countries.

INHOFE: That’s the most ludicrous thing. They looked around and they found, I think, five generals to testify before the committee. Well, that’s 5 generals out of 4,000 retired generals that say that. There are a lot of generals who don’t like to be out of the limelight. They’d like to get back in.

The rest http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/29/inhofe-trashes-generals/

The only once seeking "limelight" is this idiot, Inhofe.

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1. Inhofe isn't seeking the limelight.

He's just legislating on behalf of his moneyed interests, the planet be damned. Craving attention would be far more forgiveable.

[niyad]

2. I think this award ought to go to the morans in OK who keep voting for this idiot.

[onager]

3. How did this asshole get on an environmental commitee?

Inhofe is a fundamentalist dimbulb who thinks the Rapture is coming day after tomorrow, so we don't NEED to worry about the environment.

As one of his constituents wrote:

Inhofe is one of the least effective senators ever. All he does is spout vitriolic fundamentalist rhetoric, vote the far-right party line, and tour military bases at US expense.

He brags about having run in 1994 on a platform of "God, guns, and gays", and ran the most negative campaigns in Oklahoma's history (and believe me, we are not a shy state).

http://friends.macjournals.com/mattd/inhofedangerousidiot