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Open Thread: Inhofe’s Green Ambush

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  February 16th, 2011 at 08:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

As reported this afternoon at RedState by diarist russellc, and in light of my earlier post featuring Ann McElhinney, here is Senator Inhofe in a similar green ambush from yesterday, ICYMI:

Nicely done. As a side note, good on the Senator’s staff for having the good sense to take their own recording so there would be an unedited version available. Take note, hill staffers.

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  • alvin691

    Calm, professional, and just reply with facts. The truth shall set you free.

    • hungarianfalcon

      What a stark contrast to some of the blowhards like Franken, Schumer, etc. How the press can depit Inhofe the way they do but give those clowns a pass on their conduct is pretty pathetic.

      HF

      • gpclaw

        Well done senator. I think the reporter thought he was going to get a fight; but Inhofe completely controlled the tenor of the conversation and brought the reporter up to his level. It’s hard to demonise someone who fully understands his argument and delivers in an intelligent and respectful manor.

        And to give credit where credit is due, even though I don’t agree with his views on AGW, I thought the would be ambusher also did a good job of being respectful towards Inhofe.

    • Raven

      Now do it on the floor.

  • rickbull

    who see through the facade of those trying to “do something” about anthropogenic global warming. Cap and trade will do NOTHING about global warming — it will only raise our taxes in the form of higher utility bills, higher cost of goods, higher cost of doing business.

    98% is a fictional number, and the only reason that these libs target Inhofe is because Oklahoma is one of the largest methane producing states, and because he has been so vocal in his opposition to cap and trade.

    The people of his state would suffer more than those in most of the rest of the country because their wages and cost of living are among the lowest in the nation. Cap and trade would hit them doubly hard.

    Signed
    a former Okie living in Tennessee
    RickBull

  • throwback59

    (pun intended). His inquistor was also polite until the end when he got frustrated and asked the Senator to apologize to his kids. The girl was a snotty brat.
    I wonder if she is aware the S. Korea just had its worst snow storm in 100 years, 2.5 ft in 24 hrs. But that is just weather, not climate, right?
    The US, Europe & now Asia are being hit with the coldest winter in decades. When does it stop being “weather” and starts becoming climate?
    In the summer, I suppose.

    • rickbull

      of contradictory evidence growing daily.

      Of course, the latest scientific frontier on climate and weather is that Earth’s magnetic field is reversing over the next billion years or so. Let’s see what crazy scheme they can come up with to reverse THAT trend.

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        collectivism. No wonder the same Idiots endorse it.

    • Next93

      Anyone care to make a bet as to whether either of the young women in this video would know the difference between positive and negative feedback, could solve a differential equation, or understand the difference between continuous and piecewise integration in a computer simulation?

      • rickbull

        That would fall into the same category as “I don’t bet on any game where the ball bounces funny.”

        I’ll go one further: I’d be willing to bet that not a one of them there (except for Sen. Inhofe) could tell me what radiative property of CO2 it is that causes it to be a greenhouse gas, and what prevalent gas in the atmosphere shares the same property, but would bring about the extinction of life on the planet were it to be eliminated. Yes, you got it: good old dihydrogen monoxide, otherwise known as WATER!

      • tankertodd

        The little girl playing the part of Tiny Tim seemed to be nothing but a prop. They wanted to get the mean old man stomping on the cute little child. Didn’t work out that way. Love it.

        Best line: “What if YOU’RE wrong?”

      • Next93

        Sorry for the Kowalski, but I’d also give long odds that neither has ever made a mortgage payment, paid for gasoline with anything other than Daddy’s credit card, paid a utility bill, or experienced a month in which they spent more on energy than on iTunes downloads.

        • voltron

          nt

          • edintexas

            Kowalski is the 2d most common surname in Poland. In the 20th Century the most common. Translates to Blacksmith, or as a surname – Smith (Jan Kowalski = John Smith in English).

            What it means here, I can’t find in a web search.

          • nessa

            From the archives…

            Alex Kowalski is an institution at RedState. He’s been around here longer than most and has taken more leaves of absence than most. RedState would not be RedState without people like Alex Kowalski. He’s given his time, talent, enthusiasm, money, and a heck of a lot more, and we’re better for it.

            Perhaps the most distinguished legacy of Alex at this site is the coining of a phrase. When someone goes “Kowalski” they are replying to themselves in a comment thread. Alex is notorious for this. Long before Krempasky spilled the beans in a comment thread one day, it was routine for the site contributors to note someone “pulling a Kowalski” in a post. Since the day krempasky let slip that this was our in-house term, it has become part of our culture.

  • jonathanmurray

    Harpoon that whale in this clip! His emissions alone must have had the temperature up 10 degrees in that hallway.

    It was nice to see a calm, reasoned conversation grow out of an ambush (with children in tow for effect!).

  • libertyatstake

    And, damn, aren’t the young kool-aid addicted zombies a bad sign for the future of the republic …

    d(^_^)b
    http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
    “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

    • earlgrey

      I saw in the kids at CPAC. When you are just repeating what you have been told it takes a little longer to learn how to be effective.

      LIberals may have a few great leaders and communicaters, but there are far more great thinkers on the conservative side. They have not as much experience developing the communication skills becasue of the biased media, but that is starting to change. Now that conservatives aren’t as scared to speak up, it will be remarkable to watch in the next 5-10 years.

      • thurman

        n/t

      • laughing

        i thought everyone at cpac was a crazy libertarian?

        • rbdwiggins

          70% of the CPAC attendees did not vote for HWSNBN…

          49% of the CPAC attendees were between the ages of 18-25. That means at least 19% of them rejected HWSNBN’s lunacy and can actually claim the ‘conservative’ mantle.

  • earlgrey

    I like how they want America to lead on their silly green tax scheme, but no one is for America leading when it comes to restoring economic sanity into the world economy.

  • trpeacocke

    …especially the expressions on the faces of the dopey young environmentalists who thought they were actually doing something significant when they asked Inhofe to apologize to them, and then Inhofe explained to them, very calmly, as a good grandpa might to a kid having a tantrum, that they were very confused about the issue. Priceless.

  • Tbone

    The Left, the Democrats, the MSM and the Obama administration all hate Jews and Israel. Now Israel is going under the bus. So how long are Jews going to be stupid and vote for these Democrats?

    http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/16/in_major_reversal_us_to_rebuke_israel_in_security_council

    • rickbull

      the party that a person votes for depends on which end of the tax teat that person is situated on.

      Groups vote as individuals, only the pollsters try to lump them all together into a voting block.

      • Tbone

        You can not be this ignorant, can you.

        • rickbull

          My first statement was the qualifier for the one you apparently take issue with:
          “I have found that for any particular group, the party that a person votes for depends on which end of the tax teat that person is situated on.”

          Where a person sits economically has more to do with how they vote than what particular “demographic” they fit into, and there are some large conservative Jewish coalitions in the US. Just because all the liberal ones decided to live in NYC does not make all Jewish folks liberal voters. I personally know many who are not.

          • Tbone

            “I personally know many who are not.”

            Just what page of statistical analysis would that be on?

          • rickbull

            I admit that my perspective on the political world is jaded by my own personal experiences and people I have known, and my analysis may be flawed based this. I have also lived in flyover country my entire life. I have never been to New York or L.A., and have very little desire to visit either (and absolutely NO desire to live in either).

            I have lived in the south (west and east), and, as a result, have been stereotyped as a bigot and a racist my entire life. For this reason, I dislike stereotypes.

            I do not disagree with your original premise, I was simply making the statement that not all Jewish people fit into the neat little package that pollsters like to put them into, just like all southerners aren’t David Dukes, as much as the media would like to make you think that we are.

        • Raven

          It’s the same basic premise. Just not in common parlance…

    • Scope

      That was easy.

    • laughing

      say that these people hate jewish people?

      • rbdwiggins
        • Raven

          Even some of the elected Dems openly call for the elimination of Israel.

  • freemanja1991

    That one girl doesn’t represent me so score 1 for senator Inhofe.

    • rickbull

      Newsweak 1975: The Coming Ice Age.

      I didn’t buy that one either.

      Don’t buy the next one that is due out sometime in the next 5-10 years, when global warming is deemed passe.

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

        That’s the scary thing: Read Chaucer, when the pilgrims talk about how things just don’t grow like they used to anymore.

        That was what it was like when the last little ice age came.

        And the current solar minimum could just be beginning.

        • rickbull

          The ice age that the two hoaxers were promoting in 1975 was not your run-of-the-mill mini ice age, oh no, this one was going to cause global famine and mass migrations–you know–like global warming is supposed to do…

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            … if we don’t continue to improve technology.

            That’s the part the doomsdayers always leave out :)

          • Raven

            We don’t need the technology developed until we need the technology. And, again so long as the economy is intact, we Will develop the technology as soon as we need it.
            That applies to global warming or cooling.

            The key, of course, is an intact economy, which the global warmers want to dismantle.

        • acat

          See, the only dark ages minima I’m recalling is the Maunder minima….(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_minima) so I’m missing the low count in Chaucer’s time.

          That said, http://www.spaceweather.com is indicating more activity these days than there were this time last year… I don’t claim to be an expert – more like an inquisitive newbie – but I think it’ll take another 2-3 years to see whether we’re just at the bottom of an unusually low trough, or whether we’re changing to a longer-term period of reduced activity….

          Mew

          • nessa

            From your wiki link…

            Curiously, the duration of the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) coincides very closely with the reign of King Louis XIV of France (1643-1715), known as the Sun King.

            So now I’m wondering if there was King Louis Derangement Syndrome to go along with their medieval climate change?

          • acat

            .. to a statement that the peasants had no bread.

            I figure we’re a crop failure or two away.

            Mew

      • Next93

        Have you heard of “nuclear winter”? A hoax aided by no less than Carl Sagan, based entirely on whored-up computer models and enthusiastically embraced by scientists who should have known better, but didn’t want to be seen as “pro-war”.

        It eventually fell apart because it didn’t include a mechanism for the politically well-connected to further enrich themselves, or for power-obsessed politicians to gain more control over people.

        Apparently, the people pushing “climate disruption” have learned from their predecessors mistakes.

  • fpete13527

    My KUDOS to him on this ambush.

  • conservativemusician

    Great video. Loved his responses to the liberal dunces who were trying to trip him up and make him apologize for his reasoned and well-thought out arguments. This is a guy who knows the global warming movement is a scam and is not afraid to say so publicly. He also sticks to his principles and holds his ground in the face of overwhelming liberal stupidity. It is a very presidential quality, don’t you think? Way to go Senator Inhofe.

    • acat

      Why is it that when we find a politician who says something good, he (or she) is automatically presidential timber?

      Seriously, the same thing happened with Scott Brown, Chris Christie, John Thune, Jim DeMint … and while they have each, at various times, said or done great things, they are still politicians, and we still desperately need all of them right where they are.

      Why make it harder for the GOP to take the Senate when there’s plenty of potential presidents who aren’t Senators?

      Can we say “I like this person” without saying “This person should be president” ?

      Mew

      • conservativemusician

        I don’t really care if Inhofe runs or not and I’m certainly not going to start a petition to get him to run either. I like his ideas and the way he handles himself. If he runs for president, great. If not, great. I would just like to see someone with his conservative credentials be our standard bearer instead of settling for 2nd best as we did back in 2008. I really don’t have a preference for our nominee right now as I’m content to see how this all plays out and then will support whoever is selected.

        • acat

          I hope to, in 2012, cast my ballot for a presidential candidate i *like* instead of one who I think is the less bad choice. Doesn’t seem likely, given history, but .. it could happen.

          John McCain was the less bad choice.
          George W. Bush was the less bad choice – twice.
          Bob Dole was the less bad choice.
          George HW Bush was the less bad choice – twice.

          Ronald Reagan is the last GOP candidate I *liked*.

          2012 is also going to be a crowded field – on the GOP side – in crowded fields Conservatives don’t make the kind of “I’ll drop out and support you” deals that establishment types do, so the conservative vote splinters and the RINO gets the nom…. We need to work to prevent this from happening in 2012.

          Mew

  • bobmontgomery

    Obama’s guy now wants AGW, which morphed into Climate Change, to be called Global Climate Disruption. When something doesn’t work, change the name of it.
    These words have absolutely no meaning: Anthropogenic Global Warming, Diversity, sustainability, multiculturalism, social justice, ‘green’ ______ (fill in the blank), The Environment. They are just meaningless slogans; babblle; pseudo intelligence. They are everything and nothing. They absolve their mouthers of any responsibility for anything they do and , in their minds, justify anything that they take which doesn’t belong to them. When they finally begin to be discredited and displaced, if they are, they will resort to mindless violence and exhortations to violence. That will be the next wave.

    • Next93

      As the Obamassiah himself said, “words are important”

      AGW: scam to enrich the politically well-connected and empower politicians
      sustainability: overpriced crappy goods at high prices fobbed off on the gullable.
      Diversity: provide excuses for the non-productive “victims” of the world
      multiculturalism: cultural suicide
      social justice: communism with a smiley face
      green _______: government subsidized
      The Environment: totalitarianism with a smiley face

      • bobmontgomery
  • bobbymike

    member, one of the first members and was very prominent in the organization when he quit, to paraphrase, “the environmental movement has been hijacked by the Marxists who had to find a new cause to try and control people with.”

    Obviously this is a rhetorical question but why is every solution a big government/world government solution combined with a loss in liberty for mankind?

  • ohiohistorian

    who argued about “mongrelization” of the species and that eugenics was required to save us, and that the universe was not created by a sudden incident (laughingly called the “Big Bang” by all of these knowledgable charlatans). They believe that evolution is a fact when all of the elements to prove it that Charles Darwin put on it have not been satisfied. I’ll bet that their parents were out there in the 60′s crying about global cooling.

    Scientific Luddites every one of them. Economic Luddites to believe in the fol-de-rol of Keynesian economics. They cannot accept scientific arguments and have a scientific discussion. If you note, every time this reporter lost a scientific argument, he tried the good old “what do you say to your children” and even brought in the cute young lady to say “what do you say to MY generation”. Emotional arguments are no substitute for scientific fact and discussion.

    Excellent job, Mr. Imhofe. You represent the people of the US well.

  • johnt

    A dead give away to the closed mind of the fanatic. No interest whatsoever in the senator’s responses, typical.

  • blooch

    “I’m sorry your dad’s a braying Jackass, hon’.”

  • Common_Cents

    Except for that male ambusher looked old, he should know better.

    Why do all these ambushers seem so desperate? They look like brainwashed zombies to me.

  • bobmontgomery

    Millions and millions of them, and their daughters, in pain. That’s why the government has to legalize “medical marijuana”, cause there are so many people in so much pain. By forcing themto use oil and gas instead of allowing them to build a windmill, Inhofe has aggravated their pain, so if he is not going to apologize to the man’s daughter, at least he could legalize pot so they can get stoned and ease their pain.

  • runner12

    as disrespectful and completely out of their league. They were an embarassment to my generation, not to mention to the female gender. Girls, from one sister to another, READ history and think for yourselves. You came across as indoctrinated robots.

    I think what surprised them the most is how calm Sen. Inhofe remained. He made them look foolish and uninformed on the very topic they claimed to represent.

    Way to go Senator!

  • Doc Holliday

    Will someone tell FOX NOISE to get this right? Feel free to write a diary I don’t have time right now.

    Here is the list of Federal Holidays http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2011.asp

    Americans do not have Federal Holidays anyway, we have holidays for federal workers. We go by state holidays, that is what closed schools, libraries etc. I know my state is celebrating George Washington’s Birthday, not president’s day. A few northern states do have a presidents day but that is just to take away from George Washington and prop up Lincoln, and I guess Clinton and Obama.

    But again, unless you life in a few Yankee states, this is George Washington’s Birthday! holiday.