Inhofe's Quadruple Bank Shot: Criticizes Hillary's Apology For America Over Hoax of Global Warming
In an interview with the Washington Times, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) managed to cover a whole lot of territory when he criticized Sec. of State Hillary Clinton on her recent trip to India, and how she said America hadn't done a good job on controlling carbon emissions while she was asking for international cooperation. Check this out:
There are some people out there that still believe in this hoax that man-made gases, anthropogenic gases, CO2, causes global warming. If they're out there, let's keep in mind you would have an increase in the net CO2 into the atmosphere if we were to pass this, because most of our, many of our manufacturing jobs go to places like India and like China, and to have the Secretary -- where they don't have any emissions standards. And in an environment like that, to have our Secretary of State go over to India and apologize for what we, bad old America, has done. I'm so tired of people apologizing for us.
I count four conservative standards in this one quote: 1) Man-made global warming is a hoax; 2) Cutting our carbon emissions won't fix the problem of man-made global warming; 3) Hillary-bashing; and 4) Democrats apologize for America.
This is kind of like those puzzles where you have to count the total number of triangles in a collection of lines, including all the triangles that are formed out of individual smaller triangles. Can you spot any more?
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Conservative Standard No. 5 is the futility of regulation (exemplified here by the claim that carbon cap would cause leakage so vast as to lead to net increases in carbon emissions).
July 22, 2009 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'd add faux concern for the law; 'they don't have any emissions standards,' sounds like exactly what the industrial polluters who back Inhofe have been fighting for since before the Clean Air Act.
July 22, 2009 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Eric, the other triangle I spot is the GOP contradiction that, while Christians supposedly believe mankind is capable of sin, GOP Christian politicians become infallible once in office. i.e. President Bush did not err when he refused to implement his 2000 campaign promise to cut CO2 emissions.
July 22, 2009 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
The amount of apologies is geometrically related to the number of Inhofes.
July 22, 2009 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Also - offshore outsourcing of American jobs.
July 22, 2009 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
6) If they aren't doing it, why should we?
July 22, 2009 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
The U.S. has 5 percent of the world's population, but produces 22 percent of the world's CO2 emissions, more than any other country.
Let's put it in terms that Jerkhofe can understand: You're one of 20 people living in a big house. You produce more trash than any four other people in the house would, on average. You need to clean up your trash and take it out a lot more often than everyone else. If you won't do that, the very least you can do is apologize for being such an inconsiderate jerk.
July 22, 2009 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
July 22, 2009 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can we get an MSM headlien which reads "Inhofe against science" or "Inhofe does not support energy reform"
July 22, 2009 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink