Inhofe in Copenhagen: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, But Speak Lots of It

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-taylormiesle/inhofe-in-copenhagen-hear_b_397376.html

Heather Taylor-Miesle

Director of the NRDC Action Fund
Posted: December 18, 2009 02:28 PM

Inhofe in Copenhagen: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, But Speak Lots of It

Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma flew to Denmark to attend the climate talks for three hours. Why did this notorious climate-denier even bother to make the trip? So he could proclaim to the international community that the U.S. Congress would never pass climate legislation. Oh, and that global warming does not exist.

In other words, just as 192 nations are working towards an agreement to address the biggest crisis of our time and help the world's most vulnerable people cope with climate change, Inhofe traveled to Copenhagen to be the voice of isolation, refusal, and doom.

His theatrics would be merely pitiful if they didn't signal a profoundly dangerous position--one that couple put hundreds of thousands of American soldiers in harm's way.

You see, a few weeks ago, Inhofe http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29fob-q4-t.html?_r=1">said that calling global warming a threat to national security "is the most ludicrous thing."

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Why is a senator (or any other elected official outside the WH) allowed to stick his nose into this?

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. What gives the demonstrators any right to be there?

As for Imhofe, as you point out, he’s a US Senator, and (presumably) a treaty is being negotiated.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html#2.2

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(The President) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; …

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. I would assume "advice and consent of the Senate" means...

...the Senate as a body, and from the Senate chamber, consents to the President executing treaty negotiation, not that they would send members along with the President to the negotiations so they might continue the advising and consenting.

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Which brings me back to the demonstrators

Do they have a right to assemble and voice their opinions? (If so, why? Because we agree with them?)

[pscot]

5. A reporter from Der Spiegel

told Inhofe he was ridiculous. I wonder what gave him that idea.