The Senate Majority Project brings our attention to the latest nonsense from one of the Senate’s most embarrassing members: Oklahoma Republican James [tag]Inhofe[/tag].
Contrary to most reports, Inhofe said, many Iraqis are pleased about the U.S. intervention. “[tag]Iraq[/tag]i security forces now number 275,000 trained and equipped,” he said. “The commanders in the field and the Iraqis say when this reaches 325,000, that would equal 10 divisions, and that’s what we need to take care of our own security.”
Inhofe has visited Iraq 11 times.
“What’s happened there is nothing short of a miracle,” he said.
A “[tag]miracle[/tag].” He did not appear to be kidding.
Indeed, Inhofe was on quite a roll in his interview with the Tulsa World. He went on to defend the “bridge to nowhere,” the $320 million project in Alaska that Inhofe’s Oklahoma colleague Tom Coburn tried to kill.
The span connecting Ketchikan, Alaska, to an island with 50 inhabitants has been cited by critics across the political spectrum as an example of government waste, but Inhofe called it an example of “one of the few things in Washington that works.”
Given this guy’s recent history, I guess none of this should come as a surprise.
In just the past few months, Inhofe has:
* compared those who are worried about global warming to Nazis;
* announced on the Senate floor that he’s “proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we’ve never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.”
* tried to make English the “official” language;
* held a hearing on “the role of science in environmental policy making,” and called novelist Michael Crichton as an expert witness.
If we held a competition for most embarrassing senator, and we narrowed the list down to Inhofe, Burns, Santorum, Roberts, and Stevens, it’d be a really tough call, wouldn’t it?