Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow ‘undue influence from her own personal race, gender.’–THINK PROGRESS headline
Of course, we remember Oklahoma senator Inhofe
for other profound statements…
“I’m really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we’ve never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.”–Senator Jim Inhofe, (R-OK)–By The Associated Press, 9/17/2008 8:14 PM
Nor, it appears, has it ever had a genius or
and intellectual relationship with reading.
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Images: C-SPAN & lclark.edu
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“Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’ –THINK Progress, July 23, 2006
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“My wife and I have been married 40 years. I have a thing called the wife test. You go home and when you want to get an opinion that is totally apolitical, you ask your wife. So I went home and I presented the case–as explained so eloquently by the White House lawyers and others–on why we could have a lower standard of conduct for a President than we have for a judge. And I know the argument. And I expressed the argument to my wife in the kitchen. I said, there are a thousand judges, only one President. I went through the whole thing. Then she looked up and said, ‘I thought the President appointed the judges.’ You know, my wife is so dumb, she is always asking me questions I can’t answer.”–Senator Inhofe, portion of closed-door impeachment statement released in Congressional Record on February 12, 1999 and quoted at CNN.com
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Images:(top) C-SPAN & lclark.edu (bottom) Inhofe via emagazine.com; (June Cleaver) Leave it to Beaver via catalogs.com (Inhofe with s.e.g.)via emagazine.com