O.K...So Sheldon Whitehouse schooled the idiot (Jim Inhofe)...

[busterbrown]

on climate change yesterday on the floor of the House...I like Senator Whitehouse, however, It was such a typical Democratic type speech and even though all the facts were there to remind the world what an imbecile Inhofe is, the speech lacked emotion,
passion and fury.. I realize that Sen Whitehouse style is not to display an array of emotions.. But man do I wish for a time when we we’ll have a group of elected Dems. who when given an opportunity to chide Republican idiocy will come out swinging and just tear into the opposition and their love for their hatred of science.. We have a few, but far too few,,

And please Dem. Congressmen, stop fumbling around when you are on the podium and let the world understand the stupidity of the Republican Party as we know it today.. with directness, clarity, passion..and with sort of a Roosevelt like anger..

many will probably disagree with me and tell me that its about the message and not the style and I understand this.
I’m only here wishing..

[elleng]

1. Teddy R, THAT's what we need!

I WISH repugs hadn't usurped info sources as they have, resulting in need for what you've sought. It IS about the message, but the style has become even MORE important. Their LIES go over SO WELL!

[DFW]

2. You'd appreciate a quote I used on a title page of my book

It's from Trevanian's Nicholai Hel from his book "Shibumi:"

"Most people....fail to realize that style and form are everything, and substance a passing myth."

Unfortunately, many Republicans take this to be gospel, and are good at it. Style and form got Reagan into the White House twice, with very little in the way of substance to offer.

[dhill926]

5. that, is a fantastic quote….

and sadly, too true...

[shraby]

3. Sheldon Whitehouse tends to tell it like it is. Matter of factly and with

authority. I'd like to see him run for president!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. So would I!

He is one smart cookie!

[swilton]

4. Share your dilemma

we need more Democrats with what do they say? 'fire in their belly'
Having said that, some would argue that debates getting too emotional lose their audiences.

Inhofe is a dunce plain and simple. Sadly he reflects the ignorant American exceptionalism that I find so repugnant. I recall some words of some political philosopher that (in my own words) only in America can you find people who are proud of their ignorance.

This change will require a cultural change/upheaval....and I don't see the big catastrophe saving us or coming in time to save us. Such an obstacle for cultural change/upheaval is as equally overwhelming as the debate on gun control - and imho a source of social disfunction within our society that is directly related to our obsession with militarism and making the world in the image (?whatever that is?) of the US.