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Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming
The Daily Caller ^ | Monday, May 20, 2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 05/20/2013 5:20:12 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters.

“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Oklahoma; US: Oregon; US: Rhode Island; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 113th; alabama; cantfixstupid; climatechange; ditz; douche; duplicate; globalwarming; leftwingnuts; notbreakingnews; oklahoma; oregon; rhodeisland; sheldonwhitehouse; texas
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To: tumblindice
One man, a 35 year old National Guardsman, was found with his 5 year old daughter and infant son in his arms, trying to protect them. They all died. This looks to be worse.

yes ... a demon has been loosed. This one will be worse, if there is such a thing.

101 posted on 05/20/2013 7:31:48 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; mad_as_he$$; MIchaelTArchangel; sportutegrl; lgjhn23; boop; plain talk; manc; ...

This is one of the most single-minded threads that I have seen on FR. It has motivated me to start a ping list.

While you have been pinged (once and only once) you are not on the ping list. If you want to be on the ‘Official Anger Management Ping List’ please reply and I will add you to this list.

(Note of clarification: being on this ping list will not affect your ability to purchase a firearm in the future.)


102 posted on 05/20/2013 7:31:53 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: ConservativeInPA

stay classy, rats.


103 posted on 05/20/2013 7:31:54 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

add...


104 posted on 05/20/2013 7:33:53 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Remember America "The FIsh Rots From the Head Down")
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To: ConservativeInPA

Please add me to the “ Official Anger Management Ping List”

It has a nice ring to it.


105 posted on 05/20/2013 7:34:54 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

They are all narcissistic psychopaths! That is why they all love Obama...he is them!! A perfect mirror to their own darkened souls!


106 posted on 05/20/2013 7:36:12 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I don’t want this anger ‘managed’..we should call it the righteous anger ping list!


107 posted on 05/20/2013 7:38:10 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: ConservativeInPA; penelopesire

no comment, except for agreement with penelopesire.


108 posted on 05/20/2013 7:39:34 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: ConservativeInPA
The only thing that can explain what happened is that the Bush / Cheney / Rove Magical Weather Machine fell into the wrong hands.

Rumor is, it was in a box next to the Indiana Jones Ark of the Covenant in that super secret Government Warehouse.

109 posted on 05/20/2013 7:39:45 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (America has a two Party system, the Tea Party and the Communist Party.)
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To: penelopesire

Agreed: Righteous Anger.


110 posted on 05/20/2013 7:40:06 PM PDT by navymom1
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To: penelopesire

I don’t want this anger ‘managed’..we should call it the righteous anger ping list!


But we are managing it. Liberal scum ought to be glad we have such class and self control. Liberal scum ought also to hope we manage to continue having the same.


111 posted on 05/20/2013 7:40:50 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Dumber than a Box of Barbara Boxers, and that’s saying something.


112 posted on 05/20/2013 7:42:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (America has a two Party system, the Tea Party and the Communist Party.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I really don’t think anger management is the issue here it should be the Official Silence the Idiot Senator on Capital Hill list!
No one in their right mind would not show anger over the content of his dumbass rant! Anger is a natural thing, however the Courts think you should be pleasent when loss of life is used as a back drop for Stupidity!


113 posted on 05/20/2013 7:44:34 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: KittenClaws

Well...I did not do that well...fired off a curse filled tweet to him. Will probably be thrown in twitter gulag for that one.


114 posted on 05/20/2013 7:45:00 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Hmmm. I like it. Add me to your list.

But I prefer “righteous indignation” vs anger.


115 posted on 05/20/2013 7:45:18 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

>”And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing”<

Really? This guy can draw a straight line from the formation of a Tornado to “polluters and deniers”, really?

Thank goodness there were no Natural Disasters before the Industrial Revolution, oh wait...


116 posted on 05/20/2013 7:45:46 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (America has a two Party system, the Tea Party and the Communist Party.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

A D-bag tries to make a specious and malicious point about “global warming”, widely misses and makes an ass of himself.


117 posted on 05/20/2013 7:50:30 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: penelopesire

At least you tweeted him! I don’t have a twitter account. I get way too...outspoken,for such a thing. I don’t dare get on twitter. I’d probably be in the gulag well before you. LOL.

I wonder which days are soup and which are potatoes in the gulag...or would we have to eat hummus?


118 posted on 05/20/2013 7:50:30 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Please add me. Thank you.


119 posted on 05/20/2013 7:50:55 PM PDT by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: redgolum

I don’t wonder. I’ll say it loud and clear, they worship the enemy of God.


120 posted on 05/20/2013 7:52:11 PM PDT by JimSp
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