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chunga1 -- nice to see your folks taking this so well:

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Inhofe On Franken: "We Are Going To Get The Clown"



The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner
First Posted: 07- 1-09 11:56 AM | Updated: 07- 1-09 12:12 PM

In an interview with Tulsa World, Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe said confidently that a climate change bill wouldn't pass the Senate [ http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=298&articleid=20090630_298_0_WASHIN285450 ].

Democrats wouldn't be able to hustle up 60 votes to stop a filibuster, the Republican said. "I'll tell you what a lot of people are thinking, and that is it looks like things are going to be over and we are going to get the clown from Minnesota ... They are not going to get more than 35 votes."

Asked if he was referring to Al Franken, Inhofe confirmed that he was. "I didn't mean to be disrespectful. I don't know the guy, but ... for a living he is a clown. That's what he does for a living."

Inhofe has previously compared people who believe in global warming to Hitler's Third Reich [ http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/24/inhofe-third-reich/ ] and called "An Inconvenient Truth" a "science fiction" movie [ http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/03/inhofe-everything-in-gores-science-fiction-movie-has-been-refuted/ ].

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/inhofe-on-franken-we-are_n_223981.html [with comments]

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http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907010017

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[also at/more: http://mediamatters.org/research/200907010008 ]

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