Inhofe and Boxer Butt Heads over Gore
EmailABC News’ Paul Fidalgo Reports: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., butted parliamentary heads with Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chair Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. over his questioning of former Vice President Al Gore, who testified before the committee Wednesday.
Inhofe, who considers the crisis of global warming "the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," presented Gore with what he considered to be simple "yes-or-no" questions, and tried to get Gore to commit to a pledge to have his own residence use no more energy than the "average American" home within one year. When Gore took issue with some of Sen. Inhofe’s phrasing, Inhofe was quick to try and curb the former Vice President’s responses.
Boxer then put a stop to the exchange, and chastising Inhofe for not allowing Gore to respond in full, declared, "elections have consequences," a line made famous by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., when explaining senatorial acquiescence to President Bush’s Supreme Court appointments.
"I’d love to have breakfast with you sometime," Gore said to Inhofe, "and talk to you without the cameras and without the lights about why I feel so strongly about this."
"Well, you did in your opening statement," said Inhofe, who continued his questioning in like fashion.
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HATS OFF TO BARBERA BOXER
Posted by: O,MALLEY | March 21, 2007, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm
Let me get this right, Barbara Boxer is a hero for clamping down on someone who’s only allowed 15 minutes to ask hard-hitting questions to Al Gore, who typically takes 30 minutes to answer a yes or no question? Puh-leez! Abuse of power comes as no real surprise
Posted by: Al Bennett | March 22, 2007, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
Barbara Boxed chastising Inhofe for his questioning when she was so rude to the Secretary of State Rice . . . . oh, please. the lady is probably the rudest of all Senators next to Schumer and Leahy.
Posted by: joseph | March 22, 2007, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
Al Bennett says it right on the money. “Algore” thinks he’s special, and above his own wacko-earth-worship theories.
Global-Warming is a HOAX by pathetic libs…I mean, “Progressives” who make feel-good religions out of their nut-causes. Algore is just another lying hypocrite, too, like president and mrs. bubba…
Thank GOD he didn’t steal the election in 2000! We’d probably have peace meetings/conferences with Osama and Saddam today…led by the Gores, Madonna, Barbara Streisand, and the Clintons, among others.
Posted by: BlanSoldier | March 22, 2007, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
even if global warming is not caused by human-generated pollutants, why would anyone object to curbing the amount of crap being spewed into the air? 40 years ago, no one imagined we would have to be careful how much tuna we eat — now it’s an issue. it makes sense to be on the safe side.
Posted by: nicholas | March 22, 2007, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm
Well, it is precisely because Bush ‘stole’ the election that more than 3,000 patriotic Americans have un-necessarily died in Iraq.
As we know know now, the ‘data’ to support the war was distorted to fit the Bush agenda. The truth is that the sanctions were working and within 12 months Sadam Hussein would have fallen anyway and there could have been a *true* coaliation of nations to re-build the nation.
Instead, the Bush decisions created a hot-bed of terrorist insurgency where none existed before the invasion.
That same denial of reality lead Bush to step away from the Kyota accords. That same denial of reality will lead to the destruction of us all unless we can all wake up to the truth that Gore speaks about the things *we* *can* *do* now to correct the production of the green house gasses that are warming the planet.
Posted by: OldNavyGuy | March 22, 2007, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm