Jim Inhofe

Top GOP Senator Unconcerned By Nugent's Comments

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 04.18.2012

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Wednesday that he didn't understand why some people appeared disturbed by rocker Ted Nugent's recent tirades against Pr...

Alec Baldwin Calls GOP Senator 'Oil Whore'

Posted 03.19.2012

Actor Alec Baldwin took to his Twitter page over the weekend to unload on Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), repeatedly referring to the notorious anti-EPA ...

Matt Sledge

Senate Passes Bipartisan Transportation Bill With Surprising Dig At Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.14.2012

The Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion bipartisan transportation bill in a 74-22 vote Wednesday, handing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signi...

RFK Jr. Calls GOP Senator A 'Call Girl'

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 03.07.2012

Not all the drama on Tuesday night involved Super Tuesday. Robert Kennedy Jr. issued a strong criticism of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) on Twitter. ...

Lucia Graves

Obama Won't Renominate Rebecca Wodder For Interior Job Amid Anti-Environmentalist Senate Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.24.2012

WASHINGTON -- Another presidential pick has fallen victim to the Senate's nomination process. Rebecca Wodder, whose nomination by President Barack...

Senator Talks Bestiality

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.13.2011

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce Monday that the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy did not "legalize be...

Lucia Graves

Climate Change Skeptics Unite At Heartland Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.31.2011

WASHINGTON -- Prominent climate change skeptics gathered at the Heartland Institute's sixth international conference on climate change on Friday to ta...

Dirty Air Extremism in Congress

David Hawkins | Posted 05.25.2011

David Hawkins

Thousands of other scientists have concluded that global warming pollution threatens our health and welfare. And Congress responds, "No it doesn't, and we have the votes to prove it!"

Happy Holidays From the Ho, Ho, Hopelessly Anti-Science GOP

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011

Karl Frisch

When I hear news reports that forecast snowfall, I grimace. Not because I don't love making a good old-fashioned snowman as much as the next guy. It's the absurdity from conservatives that follows, which makes me cringe.

Jason Linkins

Jim Inhofe On Parade Slight: 'Why Do They Always Pick On The Christians?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Christians are so terribly picked on, in America. Next you'll be telling me that Christians aren't allowed to worship in some parts of Lower Manhattan, or something.

Jason Linkins

Jim Inhofe Is Latest Casualty In 'War On Christmas'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

A scheduled holiday parade parade is making Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) have a sad because of the way it reminds him of the existence of other holidays and other people who participate in other religions.

Ken Buck: Inhofe Was Right, Global Warming Is The Greatest Hoax That Has Been Perpetrated'

Posted 05.25.2011

Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck is being criticized following statements he made regarding global warming on Wednesday. The Fort Collin...

Junkets For Jesus: Congressmen Spend Taxpayer Money Traveling The Globe To Preach To Dictators

Mother Jones | Jeff Sharlet | Posted 05.25.2011

Adapted from C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. THE OLDEST AND MOST politically influential Christian conservative organizati...

Inhofe Inception: Your Mind Is the Scene of the Climate (VIDEO)

Miles Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

Miles Grant

Inception got us to thinking -- what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe, Big Oil's MVP?

James Inhofe: John McCain Gets Elected 'Because Of One Thing' Only

The Huffington Post | Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011

Speaking at a political event earlier this week, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said that the only reason fellow Republican Senator John McCain gets re-e...

Lucia Graves

Inhofe Still Insists 'We're In A Cold Spell': Is The Heat Getting To The Senator? (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) reiterated his skepticism of climate change science during an outdoor interview at the Capitol this week, in the midst of th...

We're all "Mom and Pop" Oil Companies Now!

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

Joanne Doroshow

Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) said today that he's gong to make us cry uncle. How do you make a mom and pop cry uncle? Weird. I don't think that's gonna happen.

Jim Inhofe Brings Naked Al Gore Prop To Senate Floor (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) addressed climate change on the Senate floor Monday, bringing along with him an unusual prop -- a naked Al Gore poster. Cli...

Jim Inhofe Opposes Elena Kagan Nomination

The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Arch-conservative Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okl.) has become the first Senator to officially oppose Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. "As wit...

Inhofe: 'I Believe In Racial And Ethnic Profiling"

Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) knows he's not politically correct, but he doesn't care: "I believe in racial and ethnic profiling," the GOP senator annou...

Inhofe: 'I Believe In Racial And Ethnic Profiling"

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Not many senators are willing to own up to this, but here's Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in today's Fort Hood hearing in the Armed Services Committee. ...

Senator Jim Inhofe: I Am The Planet's #1 Worst Enemy

TPM LiveWire | Morgan Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Inhofe suffered his latest indignity at the hands of Rolling Stone, which awarded him the 7th spot on its list of the "planet's worst enemies." Inhof...

James Inhofe "The Last Flat-Earther"

Washington Post | Dana Milbank | Posted 05.25.2011

It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, committed climate-change denier, found himself in just such a posi...

Inhofe To Boxer: 'We Won, You Lost, Get A Life' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. James Inhofe has won the battle against global warming -- or so he thinks. "I proudly declare 2009 as the 'Year of the Skeptic,' the year in whi...

Inhofe: 'We've Had All The Fun We're Going To Have'

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Republican senators have repeatedly denied that they are delaying health care reform for delay's sake, saying the American public wants more time to c...