Funny story from Dana Milbank's Washington Post sketchbook on Sen. Inhofe, whose rants against global warming now seem so utterly dated and Bushian:
"It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther.
Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, committed climate-change denier, found
himself in just such a position Tuesday morning as the Senate
environment committee, on which he is the ranking Republican, took up
legislation on global warming. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was in
talks with Democrats over a compromise bill — the traitor! And as
Inhofe listened, fellow Republicans on the committee — turncoats! —
made it clear that they no longer share, if they ever did, Inhofe's
view that man-made global warming is the "greatest hoax ever
perpetrated on the American people.""Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate
change is real; humans have caused most of the recent warming,"
admitted Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). "If fire chiefs of the same
reputation told me my house was about to burn down, I'd buy some fire
insurance.'"
Craziness.
Kit Stolz 