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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.”

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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: ConservativeInPA

I knew it was our fault somehow. Thanks for politicizing a tragedy while people are still missing, scumbag.


141 posted on 05/20/2013 8:53:09 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: ConservativeInPA

His huffy little lecturette will make him the talk of the lib cocktail circuit for at least 15 minutes.


142 posted on 05/20/2013 8:56:55 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ConservativeInPA; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; Liz; ...

It must have been Climate Change in 1938 when that Tornado took Dorothy to Oz.


143 posted on 05/20/2013 9:02:17 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Thank you for the ping.

Obama going to Moore OK will be his latest scandal Tornadogate because he will take advantage of people's suffering to improve him falling poll numbers and keep all the other scandals off the news.


144 posted on 05/20/2013 9:45:12 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: TexasCajun

One picture says it all. An obvious denier of the laws of GOD and the design of His creation. My other opinion isn’t fit for posting.


145 posted on 05/20/2013 9:59:58 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Monkey Face

I thought the same thing...THE Look ya know..


146 posted on 05/20/2013 10:27:14 PM PDT by caww
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I lived in R. Island...it’s bad there...the arrogance is equally spread throughout New England. Couldn’t stand the mindset there.


147 posted on 05/20/2013 10:29:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: ConservativeInPA

Global warming? Hasn’t been warm in NYC the last 2 weeks. I want my global warming.


148 posted on 05/20/2013 10:32:56 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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Yet another illustrious comment from the Democrat brain trust.

This boy has smoked way too much political crack. Desperately needs rehab and complete dissociation from the Democrat party.


149 posted on 05/20/2013 10:42:57 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Why is it whenever there is a weather event (like this year’s coldest spring on record) we are immediately and huffily told by liberals “THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WEATHER AND CLIMATE!”

But whenever there is a storm anywhere in the world, the same liberals instantly identify Global Warming as the cause. Suddenly there’s no more difference between weather and climate.


150 posted on 05/20/2013 10:50:07 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I’ll warm his global. Seriously, what a contemptible, despicable human being


151 posted on 05/20/2013 11:13:37 PM PDT by Shady (Abolish The IRS and Obamacare...it isn't going to cure anything...)
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To: ConservativeInPA

We need a good divorce lawyer, so we won’t be “in it together” with pond scum like this.


152 posted on 05/20/2013 11:43:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: Shady

A-holes like that have no soul..its that simple..if they had one they wouldn’t be so giddy to start trashing people right after an unspeakable tragedy


153 posted on 05/21/2013 12:25:15 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ConservativeInPA

The modern democratic party is full of scumbags & psychotics.


154 posted on 05/21/2013 12:28:20 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: ConservativeInPA
You can keep me on the ping list although I am not angry about this topic at all. There are lots of clueless idiots on the global warming side of debate and I try to never let them get me angry. There are also completely misinformed people on the other side (e.g. who believe the current CO2 rise is natural) and I try to correct them as often as possible.

Weather is weather and climate is climate, nothing to get stupid or angry over.

155 posted on 05/21/2013 2:10:03 AM PDT by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: denydenydeny
like this year’s coldest spring on record

Not correct. Steve Goddard started that story and he's wrong. Here's the most accurate temperature trace (from satellite): http://www.ssmi.com/msu/msu_time_series.html Just click on Continental US

156 posted on 05/21/2013 2:20:01 AM PDT by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: ConservativeInPA

And this bottom feeder will get praised by the left for being such an asshole. “In a blunt yet powerful speech,....”


157 posted on 05/21/2013 2:40:43 AM PDT by Hacksaw
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To: ConservativeInPA

THANK-YOU in shout-out for posting this instead of me! I would have done a rant about this politico ranting at a time when what is NEEDED for these folks is PRAYER, not RANTING.


158 posted on 05/21/2013 2:48:34 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Carry_Okie

I had seen for a very brief time before having to turn the tv off, the wide area of devestation after the tornado hit Moore, OK. It was just too much to see, and in a special way, in the area of one of the schools. Heartbreaking.


159 posted on 05/21/2013 3:19:44 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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- Boycott Rhode Island and the crooked Whitey Bolger/FBI bunch there

Spend your money (online if possible) in Oklahoma where the strong honest citizens help each other and don’t demand an instant permanent Pigford reparations/redistribution scam like the New Orleans baracks have done

- My liberal sister surprised me years ago when she said New Orleans should be abandoned and turned back into a swamp - building below seal level takes intelligent humans like the Dutch; not sub-human 3rd world cokeheads who have “worked the system” for generations

- Expect Barry Hussein Shiite-Obama Junior to be on TV today faking sympathy for the God fearing gun toting people of Oklahoma

Opansy looks on this as a welcome diversion from Benghazi, IRS-TEA Party, and FBI-UP & FOX

Do not be mislead or diverted - you are already on Opansy’s lists at the DOJ, IRS, FBI, HLS, EPA, and many more now NAZI federal departments

Erika Holdum is watching you and yours

- Be strong

Jesus did not say you should become mats or rugs for Bathhouse Barry’s Muslim cult

He told you to sell your robe and buy a good sharp sword

Peter sliced the ear off of one who threated Jesus

The 2nd Ammendment existed in spirit then and now

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160 posted on 05/21/2013 3:35:33 AM PDT by devolve ( ------- I*ve gotcher magic bullshiite right here 0pansy ---------)
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