Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/23/2009 4:27:10 PM PDT by Delacon
The Oklahoman predicts that he probably will not be welcomed with open arms. Inhofe, as you may remember, led a similar group of conservative legislators in 2003, during the U.N.’s climate-change negotiations in Milan, Italy. “I was the outcast at that time,” recalls Inhofe. “Now, I want to make sure that those attending the Copenhagen conference know what is really happening in the United States Senate. Some people, like Senator Barbara Boxer, will tell the conference, with Waxman-Markey having passed in the House, that they can anticipate that some kind of bill will pass EPW.” Such statements, Inhofe says, deserve a bold response. “Look,” he says, “there is no bill that is bad enough to not pass out of our committee. There may be enough votes to get a bill out of EPW, but there is far from enough support in the Senate. The Democrats don’t have the votes. There are too many newly-elected Democrats in the Senate who don’t want to go home and tell voters that they just voted for the largest tax increase in American history.”
Six years ago, when Inhofe was in Milan, global-warming activists were so infuriated by his mere presence that they papered “Wanted” posters with his picture across the conference center, emblazoned with his famous quote about global warming: “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” That was the “first time the environmentalists have ever quoted me accurately,” he quipped at that time.
Inhofe adds that watching President Obama’s climate-change speech at the U.N. on Tuesday only made him more convinced that flying across the pond this winter to speak up was necessary. Obama, he says, was too vague and short on substance. “I don’t know what he’s going to do. It’s clear that he doesn’t know what he’s going to do, either,” says Inhofe. “What is clear is that the far Left is also upset with Obama.” (Bloomberg has more about Obama and his green discontents here.)
Who else will be joining Inhofe on his European crusade? The senator is mum for now. “I’ll see who’s willing to come,” he says. As the Danish say: Held og lykke.
UPDATE: The Hill has additional coverage, with video, of Senator Inhofe’s announcement that he will be attending the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
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Ping.
Love this guy
I’ll go, I’ll go.
Inhofe: The Joe Wilson of climate change.
I’ll elevate him above that. The Paul Revere of ‘climate change’
go inhofe
I’m always proud to call him my Senator, very proud.
So few of us have that luxury to call our senators anything other than numbskulls.
“So few of us have that luxury to call our senators anything other than numbskulls”.
Amen!
You’re lucky. I’ve Mikulski. *sigh*
My Senator, too! We have the best pair of Senators in the USA. I hope Montana retires the idiot Baucus before we move up there.
“Love this guy”
I’m repeating myself I’m sure, but I used to say there were only 2 politicians I would back whole heartedly if they ever ran for president. Jim Inhofe was one. Duncan Hunter was the other.
I gotta add DeMint to that. At least what I know of him
“Who else will be joining Inhofe on his European crusade? The senator is mum for now. “I’ll see who’s willing to come,” he says.”
I have a suggestion! :<)
I heard that he had Christopher Monckton with him.
He’s got alot of big guns to choose from. I’d take the Czech president too.
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